National Post Letter
In today’s National Post, I’ve got another letter to the editor on everyone’s favourite topic: the Trans Mountain pipeline. (I’ll stop repeating myself once people start listening!) My letter appears…
2018
New Kinder Morgan exit strategy hint emerges as tangled Trans Mountain tale twists the national knickers
Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta’s Conservative Opposition party, must’ve struggled yesterday to keep a smirk off his face as he bloviated piously about Kinder Morgan Inc. President Steven Kean’s rumination…
Sweetland by Michael Crummey tops Audreys Books Edmonton bestseller list
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…
‘Slow-Motion Disaster’: As Canada’s New Hydro Dams Spiral Out of Control, Who’s Overseeing Site C?
Peace River Valley farmers Ken and Arlene Boon were at a lookout on a neighbour’s property on Sunday when they spotted a fresh landslide at the Site C dam construction…
Ottawa Proud Boy Member Brandon Vaughan Indicted For Assault on Palestinian-American
Evan Balgord has tweeted about this story here: Proud Boy & JDL affiliate Brandon Vaughan of Ottawa indicted by U.S. grand jury in beating of Palestinian-American man. Second JDL member…
Disruptive Technologies and the Skills Revolution
As part of my work with GO Productivity I have been all over Alberta conducting workshops on the impact and implications of disruptive and emerging technologies on small and mid-sized…
Disruptive Technologies and the Skills Revolution
As part of my work with GO Productivity I have been all over Alberta conducting workshops on the impact and implications of disruptive and emerging technologies on small and mid-sized…
Disruptive Technologies and the Skills Revolution
As part of my work with GO Productivity I have been all over Alberta conducting workshops on the impact and implications of disruptive and emerging technologies on small and mid-sized…
BREAKING: Toronto Sun Could Be In Violation of Ontario’s Election Laws
A leaked document reportedly from the Toronto Sun has emerged. In the documents handed to independent media organization CANADALAND show a clear ideological advertising strategy geared towards “exposing the Liberal…
Caribou on the Brink: B.C. Herd Reduced to Three Females Points to Failure to Protect Endangered Species
The much-studied South Selkirk mountain caribou herd is teetering on the brink of extinction. That discovery this month has focused international attention on the disaster faced by the only herd…
Doug Ford and the Harper Gang
Well Doug Ford has his bus, he's on the road, and he's now channelling Donald Trump, as only an ape could.And vowing to go after Kathleen Wynne as Trump went…
B.C. Is Taking the Kinder Morgan Question to Court. Here’s What you Need to Know.
With the announcement on Wednesday that the B.C. government will file its reference case on the ability of the province to regulate the transport of diluted bitumen in the Court…
The increasing fragility of our ability to know and communicate about the world
I’ve been thinking a lot this past week about the fragility of human communication and of our ability to know the world. That is, I’ve been thinking about how easy…
More rapture, less reality
According to some, the rapture is coming again, April 23. I’m so tired of this event. I’m still cleaning up after the last rapture. And the one before that. And…
Hire Organ Donor Transplant Doctors
Saskatchewan has a big problem in our health care system. The last Premier, Wall, promised to do something about this, but nothing got fixed. Premier Moe may be too busy…
What We Need to See For Starters
Even double hulled ships can founder in many ways. Their hulls can still be pierced by rocky projections, especially if they’re battered against those rocks repeatedly in stormy seas. They…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 18, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Apr…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses the trend toward financialization which has led to regular economic disasters – and suggests the public is well aware it’s…
Earthgauge Radio – April 17, 2018
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/earthgaugeradio-forair-18-04-17.mp3 Edition #14 of Earthgauge News for the week of April 16, 2018. A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Join me…
Beware The Bot
In the last couple of years, Britain, France and the United States have experienced cyber meddling in their elections. Yet in Canada, Tim Harper writes, “there is a puzzling, laissez-faire…