Photo from Public Domain “Immigration” has become the dominant issue dividing Europe and the US, yet the most important matter which is driving millions to emigrate is overlooked — wars.…
David Suzuki has a plan to save the world. Boiled down, it’s rather simple. All we need do is reverse our priorities, the same pursuits that got us into today’s…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, a former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada's most populous province has a…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, a former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada's most populous province has a…
Rob Ford’s brother, former drug pusher, has cultivated his white male privilege all the way to the highest office in Ontario. Canada’s most populous province has a new premier, and…
The Guardian’s eco-scribe, George Monbiot, bemoans the rapidly accelerating disappearance of wildlife and, worse, how we come not to notice. I have lived long enough to witness the vanishing of…
The years since her beloved sugar daddy Stephen Harper left her, have not been kind to Michelle Rempel.Once she was a rising star, now not so much. Once the old…
While we proceed apace at rendering Earth uninhabitable for humans, conservation scientists think maybe we should let other species have a shot at surviving. There are several ideas but one…
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress highlights the Canada Revenue Agency’s long-overdue estimate of the public costs of offshore tax evasion, as well as other new data on…
Dear folks: Welcome to the big leagues. You’ve worked hard to get to today, so enjoy every minute. It’s all downhill from here, believe me. Five tips, gratis. One, you…
The words of Charles Dickens are ageless: ”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of…
“On abortion, we’re never going to see a black and white, yes or no question. My job as your MP is to fight for incremental changes. … It’s called the…
A fellow blogger* drew my attention to an important article by Bob Rae published in The Walrus, “When it Comes to Trump, Business as Usual is Impossible.”Here are a few…
Those who keep an eye on the dazzling breadth and pace of the onset of climate change impacts know that 1) there’s nothing linear in this process, and, 2) we’re…
Trudeau (the real one) opined that living next to America was like a mouse sleeping beside an elephant. He was right but it didn’t matter, we would dutifully march in…
Photo: Julia Hayter, Joseph Schow, Kara Levis, and Marg McCuaig-Boyd The New Democratic Party has its first contested nomination race of this election season, and it is taking place in…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/canada-wood-buffalo-national-park-report-climate-change Yes. It’s happening._____________________________________________________________ http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2018/06/caribou-science-denial-cripples-conservation-efforts-0 But what does David Suzuki know? He’s only a scientist of world status. No. Trust your local oil barons. They’re rich. So they know….things._____________________________________________________________ The…
Two things: the Deepwater Horizon disaster involved conventional, crude oil. They were not dealing with tar-like sludge laced with toxins, acids, heavy metals and carcinogens. Secondly, it was a fairly…
It is all about Canada-USA relations, and in particular, this uncomforting reality: "It’s time we understood just how far apart our two countries are and act accordingly" The whole text…
