Don Maroc The Cowichan Valley Citizen courteously printed a letter from Mr. Elley severely criticizing the recently elected Alberta NDP and its charismatic leader Rachel Notley. Although Premier Notley’s crew…
Trying some (?) disciplined approach to using the pencil tool in Paper. A strongly featured face is so easy to get close, resemblance-wise, let alone indulge all your own seemingly…
While 61% of Icelanders say they believe in God, according to a recent poll, absolutely none under the age of 25 believe that their personal hairy thunderer created the world:…
This article originally appeared on the Dogwood Initiative blog. With final arguments in the Kinder Morgan pipeline review underway in Burnaby, a top Chinese official is using the moment to…
Here’s a thorny, delicate, controversial subject – but then again, when have I ever been known to shy away from such things? Peoples’ lives and well-being are at stake.…
Richard Saillant, Norbert Cunningham and most of the Irving press staff have consistently warned us that we cannot afford the government spending we are doing. Our public service is way…
And it sounds like Stephen Colbert has missed her. I haven't.Recommend this Post
Technical arguments and sham hearings on the merits and risks of pipelines and tankers miss the point, argues Rafe Mair.The post Reductio ad absurdum: Why we environmentalists are missing the…
Montreal Mayor Denise Coderre announced Thursday the city's formal opposition to TransCanada’s proposed Energy East pipeline. The 4,600-kilometer west-to-east oil pipeline project would see 1,600 kilometres of new pipe built…
Don't get too excited. It won't last.NASA ran its numbers. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, ran its numbers. They showed the same thing - 2015 was the warmest…
Elites and the talking heads in the media are arguing about how to respond to Canada’s soured economic outlook. Who should try to boost the economy, the federal government via…
One option in responding to a precipitous decline in commodity prices which has exposed a province's overreliance on resource extraction is to work on developing an economy which isn't so…
Here, with my take on the factors NDP members should take into account in evaluating Tom Mulcair's leadership.For further reading...- I've written numerous previous posts on the future of Mulcair…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Sirota and Andrew Perez expose Steve Schwarzman's galling complaints that his perceived lessers dare to complain about declining security and stagnating incomes.…
In the fight to curb CO2 emissions and hold back the rate of increasing climate change, researches have mapped out where the emissions are coming from. Unsurprisingly, they have found…
A bane of the neoliberal agenda but salvation to countless Canadians, the vision of a national pharmacare program has made a baby step toward realization. The federal government has joined…
Watching Postmedia bleed red ink is a Canadian pastime on the scale of the vanishing tar sands and those perennial losers, Toronto’s hockey team. The difference is that the tar…
As you know I have been urging Justin Trudeau to demolish Stephen Harper's legacy as soon as possible.Bulldoze it into a smoking heap of rubble.And because patience is not one…
