Bird Brains Avoid Wind Farms
Opponents of clean energy try to find any reason to stop renewable installations (I guess they hate the planet?) and when it comes to wind farms they suddenly start caring…
2018
Column: Liberals and sexual harassment
Forgiveness. When is it owed, politically? By whom, and when? Who should dispense it, and who should receive it? Not abstract questions. Not, certainly, on the weekend that federal Liberals…
Horwath has been heard from.
News from the front lines of the pre-election election campaign in Ontario: The New Democratic Party does exist. As irrelevant as the NDP might be in this pre-election period, it…
Liberal amounts of fake accounting
Residents of British Columbia understand financial pain that follows when officeholders subvert public utilities to gain political advantage and reward special interests. BC Liberals aimed to privatize public assets and…
Alberta is not Texas North, Canada is not Kazakhstan, and Kinder Morgan’s big brains in Houston must’ve known it
There are a few Albertans who happily imagine this place is Texas North. Alas for those who do, and notwithstanding the media stereotypists who encourage this nonsense, we are as…
Plenty of Blame to go Around on TMX Pipeline
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
Plenty of Blame to go Around on TMX Pipeline
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
Plenty of Blame to go Around on TMP
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
The Country is Broken!
Just when Albertans thought things couldn’t get any worse, Jason Kenney declared the country was broken. What? Did Trumpism seep across the border while we were sleeping? Canada survived the…
Whytecliff Park
Whytecliff Park
Michael Crummey’s ’Sweetland’ leads Audreys Books Edmonton Bestseller List for fiction
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 15, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Episode 10: Week 300 of the Trans Mountain Pipeline debate, and predictions for Alberta’s 2019 Election.
This episode includes analysis from Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman about week 300 of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline dispute (including updates from Ryan, who was behind enemy lines…
Chariot of the Gods
I love my wife, my six kids, my Mom, my brothers, Jean Chrétien, punk rock and this. Today, for the first time in 2018, my ‘74 Super is back on…
Happy Earth Day
It’s the 48th Earth Day, and it’s the 20th anniversary of Mann’s hockey stick graph made famous in Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. So we’ve known, for sure, that climate…
Pleanty of Blame to Go Around on TMP
At the time of writing, I still have no idea how much money our “progressive” governments in Victoria, Edmonton, and Ottawa are planning to shell out in order to persuade…
A Man Of Courage And Principle
In a world given to self-interest, self-promotion and devastating cruelty, it is heartening to know that there are still giants who remind us of the goodness and principle our species…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Denise Balkissoon writes about the importance of ensuring a just transition for fossil fuel workers – rather than using their jobs as…
The week in the Twitter sewer
I am active on Twitter. I admit it. Some people apparently read me on Twitter, too, and I (mostly) enjoy interacting with them. Here’s what the last week has been…
A NEW WAY TO SHARE CARE – IT’S AS EASY AS ABCD!
I’m just back from a truly inspiring conference hosted by the Asset Based Community Development Institute (or ABCD) and their Canadian partner, Deepening Community at the Tamarack Institute. The conference…
Saturday Photo: Two Takes on a Pepper
I’ve always admired the sensual photographs of fruit and vegetables by Edward Weston. He did a number of lovely photos of nudes and rocks, but nothing quite beats his peppers…