If We Could Be as Smart as Frogs
I regularly tell students about our likely future. It’s often met with skepticism, so I provide lots of citations from the IPCC and NASA. Then I sometimes get a lecture…
2017
A Moral Coward
Every so often, I happen upon a news item that, for want of a better word, inflames me; it is usually something so patently outrageous that my capacity for calm…
Pints of Guinness make you strong
St. Patrick’s Day. So. When I was sixteen or something, at Bishop Carroll, Jim Keelaghan and me briefly wanted to join the Irish Republican Army. We’d wear army jackets and…
Not Exactly As They Appear
There was a collective sigh of relief when Geert Wilders did not come out on top in the Netherlands election. But Tom Walkom warns that all is not sweetness and…
Is Trudeau fighting out of his weight class?
The reason why boxing promoters will not allow a lightweight boxer to take on a heavyweight is that the lightweight might not last two minutes. The lightweight might be fast…
The Con Leadership Race Is Now a Stinky Scandal
It's a horrible sight, it sounds bestial. Oinky, oinky, honky honk!!!!And it smells even worse. But who can be surprised?As the never ending Con leadership race heads towards the final…
A Crime Against Humanity
Trump budget director, Mick Mulvaney, announces that the Trump regime will no longer fund action to thwart climate change. It’s a “waste of money.” With Trump already having relieved the…
Despite Opposition demands, Alberta NDP says no to risky conservative ideological experiments in its 2017 budget
PHOTOS: Finance Minister Joe Ceci. Below: Interim Progressive Conservative Ric McIver showing off his Three Stooges tie, the sale of which puts the gross in Gross National Product; Opposition Leader…
On Budgets and Deficits In Alberta
Today was budget day in Alberta. More or less, the NDP government brought in the budget that had been expected. Continued spending on big ticket items that have been put…
If Y(emelin) Should Fall From Grace with Claude (apologies to the Pogues)
If Y Should Fall from Grace with ClaudeAfter being cleanly beatenIf Y’s muscled off the puckAnd his passes fail completelyLet him sit Claude, let him sit ClaudeLet Y sit up…
If Y(emelin) Should Fall From Grace with Claude (apologies to the Pogues)
If Y Should Fall from Grace with ClaudeAfter being cleanly beatenIf Y’s muscled off the puckAnd his passes fail completelyLet him sit Claude, let him sit ClaudeLet Y sit up…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s determination to make work more precarious – and pay and benefits harder to come by – in the public and private sectors alike. For further…
Federal Clean Fuel Plan Could Slash Transport Emissions
A little known federal plan to adopt a clean fuel standard could cut Canada’s emissions by as much as Ontario’s coal phase-out (North America’s single largest emissions reduction initiative) —…
Dividends for dummies
A dividend, as defined by the Business Dictionary, is “A share of the after-tax profit of a company, distributed to its shareholders…” This is reiterated in the description from the…
Trump’s Lethal Budget
Anyone who has worked for a large organization has seen them. They’re the old hands, the keepers of the keys, and you’re likely to find them neither at the very…
Donald Trump and the Disciples of a False Prophet
Well there he was in Nashville yesterday, surrounded by his faithful supporters, and bellowing like a beast.Giving them what they wanted. Another chance to chant "lock her up" four months…
Wilders Fended Off (for now) But the Real Winner Is
Radical right wing populist Geert Wilder’s PVV party failed to achieve the breakthrough win that many had feared. Yet, as he says, the genie is out of the bottle and…
‘Our Salmon Will Not Survive’: Gitxsan Nation Raising Funds to Fight Pacific Northwest LNG in Court
Between the Site C dam, Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and the Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, it’s hard to keep track of all the projects that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Erica Johnson reports that the problem of bank employees being pushed to fleece customers (legality be damned) is common to all of…
Happy meals all around!
Suddenly a certain multinational monolithic megacorp just became a bit more palatable pic.twitter.com/A2JMmZkYeF — Will pander for food (@MikeGormanHFX) March 16, 2017