Photo: Premier Rachel Notley and Calgary-Lougheed NDP candidate Phillip van der Marwe. (Photo from Facebook) I had a chance to chat with New Democratic Party candidate Phillip van der Merwe…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Dec. 3, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Dec. 3, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” – Marc Antony, Julius Caesar, Act III Scene II As I thought about what one should say about Brad Wall, on…
Who knows what the Greeks were thinking when they invited terrible-tempered Turkish despot, Recep Erdogan, to visit Athens. The Ottoman boor wasted no time making the Greek prime minister, Alexis…
This week DeSmog Canada received a 5-star ranking from the international watchdog initiative Transparify for our commitment to donor transparency. We’re excited about our Transparify ranking but even moreso about…
Last evening I presented a workshop on self-care for caregivers in my city of Ottawa, Canada. Going in, I knew that this group had huge challenges at home and that…
Winnipeg, Dec. 6, 2017 – Professor Johnny Márquez, speaking at Winnipeg’s historic Ukrainian Labour Temple on the political and economic situation in Venezuela. Photo: Paul S. Graham When it comes…
The head of the Joint Review Panel on the controversial Site C Dam, Harry Swain, is dispelling the notion that cancelling Site C would somehow harm BC’s credit rating. In…
Roman J. Israel, Esq. Directed by Dan Gilroy Sony Pictures, 2017 Dan Gilroy, writer-director of Nightcrawler (2014)—about a ruthless, amoral crime photographer—and now the legal drama Roman J. Israel, Esq.,…
Photo by Henry Romero When I went to work in Venezuela in 2004, I discovered in the Bolivarian Constitution some elements that I consider to be central to the concept…
Barack Obama appeared at a question & answer session last night at the Economic Club of Chicago. A reporter from Crain’s Chicago Business attended. Obama’s comments came after a series…
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Think of it this way. You may not feel it but you are firmly in the grip of climate change. There’s nothing you can do to make it go away.…
Climate change refugees are on the march and they’re coming not just from Africa or the Middle East or some low-lying atoll in the South Pacific, they’re migrating poleward in…
Shout: “Help, I’m being silenced!” There’s a duplicitous game of sleight-of-hand that is taking place in discussions about freedom of speech in academia and the public square. Here’s how it…
CBC News’ guy, Eric Grenier, has poked through the entrails. His column is here. His chart averaging the main provincial pollsters is below. I like people in politics who say…
We need more from the CBC. And the Canadian Press. “Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Louis C.K. put Vancouver Animators Out of Work” was the initial headline of a Canadian Press…
