Monarchist Grit, Green, & Dipper. For a while now this blog has beentrying to join The ProgressiveBloggers, a blog aggregator forblogs that are progressive innature (if that wasn’t obvious fromthe…
“Astrology is not a science; there’s no evidence that one’s zodiac sign actually correlates to personality.” I was disappointed to read that line in a story in The Atlantic, a…
When you’re producing a low-grade fossil fuel – high-carbon, high-cost, low profit margins – fluctuations in world oil prices hit hard. Such is the fate of Alberta and its Athabasca…
What a disconnect. While the community of nations cuddles in Katowice, Poland, promising to do better in the fight to tame climate change, 2018 is expected to record a 2.7…
The Daily Beast has a report that looks into Donald Trump’s nihilistic mind. The future? He doesn’t care. He won’t be around then anyway. Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald…
British Columbia’s salmon stocks are reeling. Half of Canada’s chinook salmon are endangered, with nearly all other populations in precarious decline, according to a new report, confirming fears that prospects…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, has a membership roster that includes the wealthiest, most prosperous and, generally whitest, nations on the planet. If there’s stuff on…
They didn’t quite storm the Bastille but the riots that hammered Paris over the Macron government’s proposal to hike carbon taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel may have been a…
It’s not the sort of thing I expected to read in the pages of Macleans but, there it is, the case for Canada to rapidly grow the nation’s green energy…
It was something of a letdown yesterday when Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing report on former Trump national security advisor, Michael Flynn, was released to the public, most its contents…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday December 5, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith writes that for all the recognition of poverty and precarity in the U.S., it may be home to even more material…
Two years ago, Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley reached what Tom Walkom calls a classic Canadian compromise: The federal government would help Alberta Premier Rachel Notley exploit and transport bitumen…
I'll never forget how Mad Mike Flynn used to warm up Donald Trump's election campaign rallies, by getting the Trumpling mob to chant "lock her up, lock her up, LOCK…
What is the world coming to? Here we have a die-hard conservative such as Jaime Watt in Toronto commiserating with the new democrats over the bad choices of NDP leader…
Customers of banks are getting sick of their money being spent on destroying the world so they’re doing something about it. The Dirty Dozen banks are a group of banks…
This week, we’ve been celebrating International Disability Day (December 3) and this year’s theme is “Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. So there’s no better time to…
BC Hydro’s quarterly report for the period ended September 30, 2018 shows the utility is very good at some things. Specifically, borrowing and spending money. In the thirteen years from…
Recent political developments in France and Alberta, though quite different in tone, suggest carbon taxes may not be a viable way to address climate change – leastways not without reaching…
