There Goes the Budget. Does This Mean "Game Over"? Could Be.
You might have heard of it, the Carbon Budget. That is the amount, in tonnes, of the greenhouse gas, CO2, that we can still add to the atmosphere and yet…
February 2018
North Korea is more rational than you think: An interview with Bruce Cumings
With the Olympic Winter Games right around the corner, tension on the Korean Peninsula is again the focal point of international affairs. After months of increasing provocation between North Korean…
Rachel Notley’s war cry against B.C. is an ill-fated strategy
Photo from Public Domain Premier Rachel Notley is clearly frustrated by British Columbia’s new obstacles to the expansion of pipeline capacity for transporting Alberta’s diluted bitumen to the coast and…
Is Ms. Mulroney a lawyer?
She has said in multiple interviews that she is. Fine. But then there’s this: She practiced 13 months, apparently, then stopped. I know that if you don’t pay your fees…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ed Finn reminds us that Canada has ample resources to bring about positive social change – just as long as we start taxing…
The Big Parade
Donald Trump has let it be known that he wants to see a military parade on the streets of Washington. Jonathan Freedland writes: No need for us to deconstruct the…
The Day Andrew Scheer Went Over The Deep End
Andrew Scheer has only been Con leader for about nine months, but already there are signs that he cannot handle the pressure of being Harper Two.And is slowly losing his…
And now there are three.
Even in this shortest of all leadership races, it is too early to produce a morning line on the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party contest. How are you expected to consider…
The Alberta NDP’s Sour Grapes Strategy will only strengthen Coastal B.C.’s nearly universal opposition to pipelines
PHOTOS: Grape vines grow in B.C.’s beautiful Okanagan Valley, one of the prime wine producing regions of the world (Photo: Kelowna Wine & Cuisine Flickr, Creative Commons). Below: Alberta Premier…
BC Wine Ban 2018: Notley picks her Mission Hill to die on
If you are an Albertan who enjoys British Columbia wines, now is the time to rush to your privately-owned and operated liquor store to purchase your favourites before it is…
Jeff Sharpe Is "Focused" on ARC; ARC Collective Yawns
So looks like there's some tension within the Northern Guard. Accusations of backstabbing, egos, and at least on member of the leadership stepping down today. More on that in a…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Aditya Chakrabortty comments on the stunning turnaround experienced by the UK city of Preston after it started making a concerted effort to…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Coiled cats.
New Fisheries Act Reverses Harper-era ‘Gutting’
Canada’s fishery laws are back — well, on the first step to being back, at least. On Tuesday morning, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Dominic LeBlanc officially announced the introduction…
Vice is right
That little fellow at Vice who got mad at me a long time ago – I criticized him for thinking that the torture and murder of Luka Magnotta’s victim was…
The War to End All Wars
That’s the one in which the great, western powers turned on each other in 1914. But it didn’t end all wars. We are still fighting that same war today in…
ALL THE TIMES THAT PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN KIND – TISSUE ALERT!
A couple of years ago I met an amazing doctor. I was speaking at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine conference in Fort Lauderdale and after my…
A Long History
Leaders in the West are appallingly ignorant of Africa and its history. Donald Trump is. But he’s not the only western ignoramus. Gerry Caplan writes: Canadians need to learn this…
The Berlin Wall: Now Down Longer Than it was Up
The Berlin Wall marked a negative time in recent history in which two sides couldn’t communicate well and severed a country, and families, in two. During the Cold War people…