PHOTOS: No Smoking … no kidding! An oil tanker sits in a Spanish port. B.C. environmentalists don’t want to see scenes like this on their coast. (Photo: Wikipedia Commons) A…
Photo: Kris Andreychuk launches his campaign for city council in Ward 7. We are now 137 days away from the October 2017 municipal elections in Edmonton. Here are some of…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 28, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Diane Cardwell points out how carbon politics are threatening renewable energy just at the point where it would win a fair fight against…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended May 28, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Thursday, June 1, 2017 Kinder Morgan’s risky Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion just got a whole lot riskier, just as the company was taking steps to offload some of that risk…
…and if elections were all about who had the most to spend, Ross Perot and Pete DuPont would’ve been president. But, still. This is extraordinary. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives raised more…
Taking a break in La Fontaine Park.
It’s been kind of a bad year for transportation in Saskatchewan. Aside from the potential Supercharger for Swift Current, there haven’t been many tangible bright spots for Saskatchewan. Premier Wall…
There was quite a giggle when the Great Orange Bloat joined Egyptian thug, Fattah el Sisi and Saudi king Salman to place their hands on the magical glowing orb. Today…
Them’s fighting words, Rachel. According to the Alberta premier, we’re just people who happen to live on the Pacific coast, nothing more. That still gives Alberta some overarching right to…
It’s a sad reality that, when deals are made between politicians, they have to be viewed from the context of what each side gets out of it. Partisan advantage often…
From the National Observer I learned of the name, GreenDP, the next government of British Columbia forged out of an accommodation of the small but grossly under-represented Green Party and…
Is America in a state of undeclared civil war? Maybe more than one? An article from The New Republic suggests that Trump’s conservative backers see the president as their commander…
One of Ottawa and Alberta’s main arguments in defence of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline — that Alberta oil sold to Asian markets will command a higher price —…
That way, you get to say anything that comes into your near-empty head. Recommend this Post
Link here. Story: Former Ontario ombudsman André Marin has been ordered to pay $68,000 in legal costs to the provincial legislature and the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman. The Superior…
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/quebec-missionary-murdered-in-guatemalaI found story above just recently, though I’ve known of the murder it describes for some time, some 34 years. Canadian and American big business have a brutal and murderous…
Folk continually delve into our past, now at https://www.historyjam.ca , attempt to understand what went wrong, what went right, why and where and how. This post YOU WON’T BELIEVE THESE…
The End of the American World: Without Vision there can be no Leadership
America is leaving the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This is, by scientific consensus, a terrible outcome for the planet. But it is also a disaster for American foreign policy…