On Hedges’ Veganism Claims
Chris Hedges’ recent article, “Eating Our Way to Disease,” largely just advertises the new doc What the Health: “Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn—whose documentary Cowspiracy, about the environmental impact of…
July 2017
About That Extinction Business.
Like so much of climate science, recent reports that the Earth is already in the throes of a sixth mass extinction event have quickly shifted from science into public relations…
Unwarranted Gloom and Doom: The IMF on Canada and NAFTA
To read the media today, one would think that NAFTA is a keystone of Canadian prosperity and that renegotiation could lead to a national economic disaster. That view has already…
WTF? Hagfish. Who in Hell Eats Hagfish?
They’re the deep ocean’s sanitation department. You may have seen teeming masses of hagfish gorging themselves on the decomposing carcass of a great whale, a process that can take upwards…
How’s This for Optics?
It’s wonderful when photos speak as powerfully as these. Here is the British House of Commons during the debate on raising MPs’ salaries. And here’s the House of Commons for…
Is Steve Bannon Catholic? Why Do You Ask?
It seems Trump strategist, Steve Bannon, has run afoul of Pope Francis. An explosive article written by two close associates of Pope Francis has accused Steve Bannon, the chief White…
All Roads Lead, Well, In Trump’s Direction
With the air in Washington this foul even the smell test is losing its effectiveness. Case in point, that Russian lawyer Trump Jr., Kushner and Manafort met with during the…
This is almost as old as me
Does the past haunt? or catch up with you? This has to be a pretty rare treasure. Glen Mullaly here. Illustrator, occasional comic book artist, pal of Mr Ken Steacy…
While You Were Venting
While many Canadians continue to vent their spleen over the compensation awarded to Omar Khadr, something really important is taking place but is being given little media coverage. It is…
Welcome to the Age of Chronic Inundation
They’ve coined a term for it, “chronic inundation.” That describes flooding when a coastal community’s non-wetland area floods 26 times a year or roughly once every two weeks. The Union…
Deadpan on the University Line
What’s amazing about this isn’t that some guy decided to operate an electronic remote control dog on the subway. What’s amazing (to me, at last) is that not a single…
A National Necessity
On the Right, support for Donald Trump is beginning to falter. When news of Junior’s emails surfaced, David French penned an op-ed in The National Review. What matters, French wrote,…
what i’m reading: pit bull: the battle over an american icon
If you have an opinion about pitbulls, chances are good that it’s based on myth, misinformation, and even disinformation. I know a good deal about dogs, and I thought I…
‘Chuckles’ leads from the rear.
It is embarrassing. ‘Chuckles’ Scheer showed up on television last week from the Calgary Stampede to blast the federal government for its generosity to Omar Kadr. It was a classic…
Jason Kenney’s Conservatives extend their registration deadline for unity vote
PHOTOS: Yo, Jason! Voting so easy, you can phone it in from the Okanagan! Or not. Below: Progressive Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney and PC Referendum Committee Chair Casey DesChamp…
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Conspiracy Theory is Anti-Intellectualism
THE ORIGINAL CULTURE WARS BEGAN IN 1960’S AFTER THE END OF THE MCCARTHYISM WHEN THE RIGHT WING DECLARED UNIVERSITIES AS HOT BEDS OF SOCIALISM AS THEY DO TODAY The Great…
Brexit: How’s this for framing?
Ouch! This is going to hurt PM May’s government, and the opposition framing of the issue is brilliant: Davis himself struck an emollient tone on Thursday, seeking to reassure MPs…
Site C Dam Late for Key Milestones Under BC Liberals, Report Reveals
B.C. Premier Christy Clark made headlines last month when she claimed that even a few months delay in evicting two Peace Valley families from their homes could add $600 million…
Book review: Private Places, Public Spaces: a woman at home in the world, by Lucina Kathmann
This is a collection of 22 non-fiction essays, written over a period of 20 years, some of them previously published. Some of them are based on the author’s long involvement…