This episode includes analysis from Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman about week 300 of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute (including updates from Ryan, who was behind enemy lines…
I love my wife, my six kids, my Mom, my brothers, Jean Chrétien, punk rock and this. Today, for the first time in 2018, my ‘74 Super is back on…
It’s the 48th Earth Day, and it’s the 20th anniversary of Mann’s hockey stick graph made famous in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. So we’ve known, for sure, that climate…
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
In a world given to self-interest, self-promotion and devastating cruelty, it is heartening to know that there are still giants who remind us of the goodness and principle our species…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Denise Balkissoon writes about the importance of ensuring a just transition for fossil fuel workers – rather than using their jobs as…
I am active on Twitter. I admit it. Some people apparently read me on Twitter, too, and I (mostly) enjoy interacting with them. Here’s what the last week has been…
I’m just back from a truly inspiring conference hosted by the Asset Based Community Development Institute (or ABCD) and their Canadian partner, Deepening Community at the Tamarack Institute. The conference…
I’ve always admired the sensual photographs of fruit and vegetables by Edward Weston. He did a number of lovely photos of nudes and rocks, but nothing quite beats his peppers…
The Liberals held a convention in Halifax this week. Policy ideas — like legalizing sex work — were discussed. But, Susan Delacourt writes, if you want to know what policies…
For almost a year Andrew Scheer has gone after Justin Trudeau like a creature out of Hell.He has attacked him day after day after day, as only a religious fanatic…
Millennials might not be as familiar with the admonition we used to read on our household bills. Before the Internet, our bills were often delivered to us as data processing…
“You have to tend to this garden of democracy, otherwise things can fall apart fairly quickly. And we’ve seen societies where that happens,” Former president Barack Obama And we have…
Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kennedy’s now famous “Canada is broken” Tweet a week ago may turn out to have been the symbolic starting point of the 2019 federal election campaign.…
Canadians are being urged to fight against a push by U.S. President Donald Trump to fast-track drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in the calving…
Looking through the photos taken of the anti-Muslim "Christian freedom" protest at Calgary City Hall from last Saturday, I couldn't help noticing some familiar patches on some of the participants.…
Pope Francis is a neat guy, at least to most of us. He’s a welcome breath of fresh air after his rigid, hard line predecessors. Catholicism has some pretty deep…
…for starting with my local newspaper chain, the Brunswick News. It’s so intellectually and morally corrupt it screams for attention. It also is a prime example of what’s wrong with…
Peterson was on Bill Maher last night. They’re both people that have some clever ideas, but also promote a few questionable notions in a way that’s slick enough to just…
The thought of Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario fills me with horror and disgust, for there is no telling what that political ape might do to degrade our country,…
