Hedges: The Great Flood
It’s said there have been about 3,000 religions in the history of mankind and a gutload of them have some scripture based on some Great Flood event. Is America experiencing…
September 2017
Is Trudeau Quietly Turning His Back On Fixing Canada’s Environmental Laws?
Scientists and environmental groups breathed a sigh of relief when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly followed through on a campaign promise to modernize Canada’s environmental laws. Within a year of…
"One Big Lie"
That’s how Harvard prof and Foreign Policy columnist Stephen Walt describes the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine and sabotage the multi-party nuclear agreement with Iran. The latest round in their…
Our Not So Perma-Frost. Say Goodbye.
Throughout the span of human civilization, permafrost has covered about a quarter of Earth’s land surface. A report out of the University of Exeter claims our grandchildren may witness the…
The Rise and Fall of Syriza: Finding a New Way Forward for Greece’s Radical Left (3/3)
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The Rise and Fall of Syriza: Finding a New Way Forward for Greece’s Radical Left (2/3)
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The Rise and Fall of Syriza: Finding a New Way Forward for Greece’s Radical Left (1/3)
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Why not to run for council
A recent article shared with me on Facebook, titled “Five Terrible Reasons to Run for Municipal Office” lists many – but far from all – of the reasons people should…
International Leaders of Geothermal Energy Agree to Work Together
Geothermal energy is very simple in principal: drill a hole into the hot earth and use the naturally occurring heat to get turbines spinning. In practice it can be very…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday September 12, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. It is very difficult for employers to prove “just cause”…
This Is The Moment
The news coming from North America over the last two weeks has been increasingly dark. Mother Nature is not happy. Bill McKibben writes: That one long screed of news from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Penney Kome raises the question of who will be responsible for the damage wrought by climate change. And Trish Audette-Longo reports that…
Money has its privileges.
They named the provincial Conservative candidate for York-Simcoe the other day. There will be no sweaty contested nomination meeting for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s kid. Caroline Mulroney got a…
Ted Cruz Likes Porn, Literally
So Ted Cruz, how will you remember 9/11? Ted Cruz: pic.twitter.com/TW0psPuBQh — Antony Copland (@SprowstonStud) September 12, 2017 8 months ago, this Twitter user claimed Ted made the same mistake…
Paul Hinman wants to contest UCP leadership! He has till tonight to raise $57,500! I’m not making this up!
PHOTOS: Would-be UCP leadership candidate Paul Hinman, back when he was Wildrose Alliance MLA for Calgary-Glenmore. Below: Preston Manning, Ted Hinman, and Ernest Manning. Paul Hinman? Seriously? Has somebody stumbled…
Fighting for Climate Justice
Photo by Tikanga Toru Youth Commission Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always – sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating…
Un groupe skinhead québécois cause une commotion en France (repost)
Un spectacle de musique et de combats illégaux mettant en vedette un groupe québécois d’extrême droite vient de causer une commotion dans un village du sud-est de la France, où…
Book review: Social policy in Canada (second edition)
Oxford University Press has recently released the second edition of Social Policy in Canada, co-authored by the father-daughter duo of Ernie Lightman and Naomi Lightman. I recommend this book as…
That 9/11 Picture
People who worked at Open City at the time might recall Vladimir doing a lot of work with this image, yea, it was iconic, too real, way out there…because it…