To my regular readers: please forgive me this additional indiscretion – I’ve become involved in a matter in my community for which I feel very passionate about – my municipal…
Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction.…
Dave Melrose, a reader who is in the solar installation business, commented on my previous article Death knell for net metering. He worries that people could be misinformed because I…
In Sketcha, using the ballpoint pen tool – far more scribbling than I usually do, but drawing her high highness’ shaggyness requires some different approaches.
Image by DWF Hardie/ICI/Wikimedia It doesn’t take much imagination to associate climate change with revolution. If the planetary order upon which all societies are built starts breaking down, how can…
The federal government isn’t properly handling the risks that fish farms pose to wild salmon. Trudeau’s environmentalist-cred just took another shot thanks to Canada’s environment commissioner. In a series of…
What if we could sort out the Athabasca Tar Sands in a way that would eliminate most of the hazards of that Carbon Bomb, increase employment and wealth in Canada,…
@lisakinsella @supriyadwivedi @MichelleRempel @LaRoccaKelly speaking on the need for more women in politics at the Economic Club of Canada today!
With the Trans Mountain pipeline dominating as much news coverage as it has, it’s inevitable that we’d see the usual debate as to the relative desirability of different types of…
There aren’t many lengths Trudeau won’t go to when it comes to pimping bitumen. He’ll lie and lie and lie, he’ll freely break his promises, he’ll even pressure public servants…
Photo by Barry Caruth Europe’s largest bank has joined the list of global investors retreating from new financial commitments in the fossil fuel industry, including investments in oil-rich Alberta. HSBC,…
Illustration by Carlos Latuff Neither side can be characterised as “good”. There are no “white hats” in this gunfight. But there is clearly a side to prefer if the yardstick…
The Hot Nasties were a first-wave Calgary punk band who (improbably) have had their stuff covered by the likes of the Palma Violets and Nardwuar, and praised by the frontmen…
The old myth that tax cuts, especially of the corporate kind, create jobs, continues to be circulated. Indeed, here in Ontario, PC leader Doug Ford is promising to reduce the…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 25, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines (SSAG) assist Ontario Courts in…
In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Oleg Komlik takes note of Wade Cole’s research showing how income inequality affects political dynamics. And Hannah Finnie recognizes that young people are…
If Justin Trudeau is to be believed, the Canadian government is going to take an equity stake in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline. Andrew Nikiforuk suggests that we should take…
Every year it seems showering is brought up on this site and the theme is always the same: shower less. Indeed, back in 2006 we looked at a device called…
It was already a horrible tragedy, an act of insane violence or murderous misogyny. The alleged attacker had posted praise for a mass murderer in the United States who was…
