Hmmmmmmm … Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives appear to have picked defending a racist heckler who tried to sandbag Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a string of tendentious questions about immigration as…
Cats seeking cover.
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Mason discusses how politicians are fiddling while our planet burns. And Jonathan Watts reports on the strongest sea ice in the…
Donald Trump is holding a rally in coal country West Virginia, and I think I can imagine what he's going to say."Pray for me bubbas, I'm having a really bad…
August 21, 2018 To who it may concern, We are a group made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including volunteers, former inmates, and currently incarcerated inmates. Many of our…
Michael Cohen in a courtroom in SDNY, under oath, declared that the President directed him to commit a federal crime. — Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 21, 2018
It’s a red letter day, unless you’re Donald Trump or a congressional Republican or a handful of their cronies. The editorial board of The New York Times couldn’t resist piling…
Bad day for Donald Trump. Earlier in the day it was announced that Trump’s supposed lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, has cut a plea deal with the US attorney…
If you’re feeling overwhelmed, a bit like the three monkeys, that’s understandable. Yes, the research on climate change has been pouring in, hot and heavy. Yes, the news is dire.…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/20/summer-weather-is-getting-stuck-due-to-arctic-warming https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/21/arctics-strongest-sea-ice-breaks-up-for-first-time-on-record https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/16/british-columbia-wildfires-state-of-emergency-declared https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-scientific-word-is-out-on-coming-hothouse-earth https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/we-are-climbing-rapidly-out-humankinds-safe-zone-new-report-warns-dire-climate https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/former-koch-industries-lawyer-turned-top-trump-epa-official-set-deliver-major-win Contrary to the not very intelligent opinion of New Brunswick Conservative leader Blaine Higgs, capitalism is very, very unlikely to deal with climate change.…
The problem with climate change is that you either fight it or it wins and fighting it is going to be painful, costly and immensely difficult. Even then there’s no…
NBC News reports that the deal is done. Donald Trump’s fixer and sometime lawyer, Michael Cohen, has cut his deal with the US attorney for the Southern District of New…
It sounds as though we’re about to get some lessons in just how little sovereignty Canada still has. Reports are circulating that Mexico is about to ink a new trade…
Photo by Michael F. Mehnert Veteran left-wing journalist, lawmaker and peace activist Uri Avnery died Monday at age 94 in Tel Aviv. A founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement,…
Ever since he became Con leader, after a leadership race that reeked of corruption, Andrew Scheer has been blowing a giant dog whistle the size of a house.Seeking to whip…
We’re getting used to the loss of Arctic sea ice. There’s less of it. What there is has thinned. Summers open ice free passages for navigation. But there’s some Arctic…
Anyone looking at the energy industry instantly notices the growth of clean energy relative to non-renewable sources. Clean energy is getting so popular that nations which you might not think…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday August 21, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. If your employment agreement prohibits you from competing with your…
From next week’s Hill Times column: The Storm Alliance are led by a former Soldiers of Odin leader, Dave Tregget. Like David Duke did for the Ku Klux Klan forty…
