While Canada continues to condemn the future to climatic destruction by supporting the tar sands, their common wealth partner has decided to plan for the future. New Zealand has declared…
Are Canada, Mexico and the United States of America even talking about the same thing? Is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) toast anyway? Does it really matter what…
From Common Sense Canadian publisher and award-winning documentary filmmaker Damien Gillis (Fractured Land) and Valhalla Wilderness Society comes Primeval: Enter the Incomappleux, now available online following a theatrical tour and…
Read this May 1 Chek story on a new poll conducted by Mainstreet Research, revealing that a majority of British Columbians – especially strong on Vancouver Island – would support…
Chinese solar company Suntech at the Bird’s Nest stadium Read this May 1 EcoWatch article on China’s continued dominance of the renewable energy market – and the recent growth of…
The furious debate about the merits of current and future pipeline projects underscores the need for an evidence-based long-term energy strategy for our country, the conclusions of a new review…
Laila Goodridge has been chosen as the United Conservative Party candidate in the upcoming Fort McMurray-Conklin by-election. The yet to be called by-election is required following the resignation of UCP…
He’s “wasting his time” if he thinks he can run for a United Conservative Party nomination, says party leader Jason Kenney, but that isn’t stopping Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt from…
Back in November 2016 I was at a pretty low point for reasons both obvious and much more personal. I had been planning on winding down the blog and stepping…
Contented cats.
It was just another evening in Sarnia, February 2017, when the apocalyptic flaring began. Without warning, enormous flames engulfed Imperial Oil’s petrochemical refinery, spewing plumes of smoke into the air.…
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/caravan-migrants-central-america-legal-counselling-1.4640333 Wars, poverty, imperial exploitations have created tens of millions of refugees and immigrants. And we are going to see many, many times that as world starvation and climate change…
The Team Harper gang that is running Doug's Ford's campaign, gave him the tinny slogan "For The People," to try to make him look like he really is a man…
I read the report a week ago in The Guardian. I was going to write a post on it and then I thought, nah, this is just too dark. I…
Kind of cool – the Aussies have noticed what we are doing at U of C! Maybe it’s time for me and Lisa to move Down Under? Media course should…
Legendary guitar maker, Gibson, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Gibson Brands, the makers of rock’s favourite Les Paul, SG and Flying V guitars, has filed for bankruptcy protection citing a…
Here’s my latest, in CCPA’s Monitor on reconnecting taxes and the common good. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/monitor/reconnecting-taxes-and-common-good
Justin Trudeau says British Columbians wouldn’t be enduring such high gas prices if only Kinder Morgan’s Trans Canada pipeline was up and running. It’s right there in the Globe and…
Things are pretty bad when Florida senator can’t look the other way, even for the team. Marco Rubio says “there’s no evidence whatsoever” that the recent Republican tax cuts are…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Scott Gilmore discusses how Canada is actually backsliding in some crucial development goals. And Colin Gordon writes about the inequality growing on…
