Trees are Great for Cities
Cleaning the air and keeping areas cool are what trees do best. A new study has looked into how best to use trees from a purely utilitarian standpoint. Essentially they…
Cleaning the air and keeping areas cool are what trees do best. A new study has looked into how best to use trees from a purely utilitarian standpoint. Essentially they…
As we all know, Donald Trump wants us to move on, and forget that his friend Vladimir Putin stands accused of deploying his cyber army to help him win the…
It would be almost unbelievable, if it wasn't happening in Trumpland where madness has replaced reason.U.S. intelligence officials have informed Donald Trump that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to…
Sociologists would probably not include this group among the elites but from a political perspective it is hard to deny them. While the elected at the provincial and federal level…
The four provinces heavily dependent on oil and gas resources took a major hit in jobs in 2016, according to seasonally-adjusted figures released on Friday by the Dominion’s statistics bureau.…
Steele Communications and its subsidiary VOCM made a combined total of $23,600 in contributions to political parties in Newfoundland and Labrador between 1996 and 2009, according to party finance information…
“People need to understand government cannot write a cheque for everything,” said Williams. “We can’t be all things to all people.” “On the other hand, even in poor times, we…
PHOTOS: Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier as he walked through an anti-NDP demonstration in front of the Alberta Legislature shortly before the passage of Bill 6 in December 2015. Below: NDP…
The following article was published in the Calgary Herald on January 7th under my byline. You can read it here, along with comments, or below. A carbon tax allows us…
The following article was published in the Calgary Herald on January 7th under my byline. You can read it here, along with comments, or below. A carbon tax allows us…
Every Canadian Prime Minister should know how to spell "Canadian." Also, they should not be a bigot. pic.twitter.com/z4n4YXsncj — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 8, 2017
Last Friday Ms Soapbox attended the 2017 Milvain Lecture at the U of C Law School. It was given by Marie Henein who recently made headlines by successfully defending CBC…
I’ve been talking a lot about soup on this blog and so, at the urging of a regular reader, I ventured off campus to the food court at World Exchange…
In one of my last posts I thanked Barack Obama for being the best U.S. president I have ever known.And listed some of his remarkable achievements.But somehow I forgot to…
I’ve been talking a lot about soup on this blog and so, at the urging of a regular reader, I ventured off campus to the food court at World Exchange…
Young-adult publishers’ mania for series, with the emphasis on fantasy, has finally ebbed. There are still plenty of fantasy series to go around, but the new crop of youth novels…
It’s hard when we find our heroes as fallible as the rest of us. Boyden, the prize winning indigenous writer found to be not so indigenous, is taking a hit…
It’s hard when we find our heroes as fallible as the rest of us. Boyden, the prize winning indigenous writer found to be not so indigenous, is taking a hit…
Is the crisis of “fake news” just a symptom of neoliberalism’s looming collapse? An excellent essay by Evgeny Morosov in The Guardian looks behind the fake news phenomenon and its…
Here in the Glorious People’s Republic of Alberta, we have begun the process of saving the Earth, 4.5 cents a litre at a time. The NDP government introduced its Climate…