A Uniquely American Approach to Discussing Sea Level Rise
Americans know the sea is rising. A good many wealthy Americans own rather expensive waterfront abodes. They’ve come to “get” the reality of sea level rise, storm surges and saltwater…
Americans know the sea is rising. A good many wealthy Americans own rather expensive waterfront abodes. They’ve come to “get” the reality of sea level rise, storm surges and saltwater…
That didn’t take long. With Steve Bannon booted from the White House last Friday and back at the helm of Breitbart news the same day, it didn’t take long for…
Our last day we walk up the beach along the North Sea. This is remarkable colour-wise, for drawing on a sunny day outside when the screen is quite hard to…
It arrived by stealth, largely unnoticed. It boils down to the idea that markets are superior to governments and that the political caste should defer to markets wherever possible. It…
I know it’s been a bit quiet on the blog this summer, but that’s in part because I’ve been doing a bunch of writing elsewhere. Here is a quick summary…
Not every Pizza Hut offers the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. But those that do are magnificent. Luckily, the one in Ottawa on Bank Street, south of Walkley is about a 20-minute…
Donald Trump is known for not heeding advice. Those who give him advice are often frustrated when he proceeds to do just the opposite. Take yesterday’s solar eclipse. While Washington…
It turns out when nations of the world get together to try and save the environment they can be really good at it. The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Karri Munn-Venn argues for a federal budget focused on social well-being – not merely on economic productivity. And Tom Hale discusses the…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 22, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. The amount payable to wrongfully dismissed employee depends on length…
From this tragedy large, diverse groups of people organized a movement that grew to transform a nation, not sufficiently but certainly meaningfully. What matters most is what we have and…
Although I had better things to observe, like that amazing solar eclipse, I thought I'd better watch Donald Trump's address to the nation, in case he declared war on North…
There is some disagreement about whether or not Mark Twain actually said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but often it rhymes.” Be that as it may, Geoff Smith writes that these…
A bunch of Kinsellas, two Carrs and one Kirbie. A formidable team to have on your side. Kennebunk, 2015.
We should be worried about what happened in Quebec City the other day. It was not just unseemly. It certainly was not funny. They came for a fight, to create…
When the members of the Worldwide Coalition Against Islam (based primarily in Alberta) and the Cultural Action Party (based almost exclusively in British Columbia) along with the Soldiers of Odin…
PHOTOS: Wildrose-UCP MLA Drew Barnes, who still stands with and by Rebel Media, at a protest on the steps of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton in December 2015. Below: Federal…
It’s a sad day today. I knew Merv had been seriously ill for some time. Four weeks ago, he was hoping that a series of new treatments would be successful…
Photo by Cristian Hernandez As the class struggle heated up in Venezuela this year, fueled by interventionist threats by the pro-US Organization of American States (OAS) bloc, many former supporters…