Canada Is Replacing Coal With Natural Gas — And That’s A Huge Problem
On Friday, the federal government released its long-awaited draft regulations for the phase-out of coal-fired power in Canada. It was a huge move — the first step to fulfilling a…
2018
Feb. 17: How we miss the news we need to know.
http://theantimedia.org/playboy-model-details-9-month-affair-with-trump/ So Trump had a long affair with a model. Lucky him. And his wife doesn’t like to hold hands with him. But what does this have to do with…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Edsall discusses the difficulties in trying to address wealth inequality through a money-infused electoral system: Five years ago, for example, Adam Bonica,…
Want to See How Easy It Is for Russia (or Anyone) to Manipulate Ordinary People?
And Trump has denied this, denounced it as a “hoax,” for so long that experts say it’s already too late to take meaningful action to safeguard American democracy in this…
This Australian Paper May Have the Answer to America’s Gun Problem
I read the headline, “American gun obsession is based on a historical misunderstanding,” and I thought to myself, okay, here we go again. Arguments along this line are not uncommon.…
The revolution you ask for
When I was in high school studying European history we studied revolutions and explored the age-old hypotheses of whether they are brought on by rising or declining expectations. Did people…
Are Things Not As Bad As We Think?
This morning, The Guardian has published an excerpt from Steven Pinker’s latest book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. Pinker is not an eternal optimist. But…
Saturday Photo: Good Luck in Bad Luck or It Wasn’t Raindrops Falling on My Head
Report from an optimist. Last Saturday evening I was sitting in the living room when I began to hear drip! drip! drip! A little investigation found water dripping from the…
Patrick Brown and the Fabulous Con Clown Show
I always knew the Ontario PC's leadership race was a Con clown show. But who knew it could be THAT funny?I knew Patrick Brown could play a really good mummy.…
“Patrick! Come back!”
In the iconic western, Shane, the gunfighter rides off into the prairie night and the movie ends. I had no idea that Ontario Conservative MPP Patrick Brown would come back.…
Elke Blodgett was a passionate environmentalist, artist and committed friend of St. Albert
PHOTO: Elke Blodgett in 2016. (Photo: Screenshot from City of St. Albert video.) ST. ALBERT, Alberta I once described Elke Blodgett as not just a passionate advocate for our natural…
I stand with Patrick Brown – Here’s why I’ll be voting for him…
If you’re a political junkie like me, then you’re no doubt hooked on what’s happening with the Patrick Brown story. I’m all over this like Doug Ford’s little brother on…
Drink, Toast, Spin: The Latest on the Wine and Pipelines Debacle
It all started with the Asti Trattoria Italiana restaurant in Fort McMurray, whose slogan is “Live, Love, Eat.” But there was no love lost for restaurant owner Karen Collins two…
Musical interlude
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Looking at the Alberta Party Leadership
A New Day and a New Way? With the retirement of Greg Clark as leader, there are four phases to the leadership change process within Alberta Party. First was to…
Looking at the Alberta Party Leadership
A New Day and a New Way? With the retirement of Greg Clark as leader, there are four phases to the leadership change process within Alberta Party. First was to…
This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt 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 Feb. 11, 2018, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Fossil fuel pollution we forget
After Canada’s federal government and its energy regulator chose to examine broader environmental effects of Trans Mountain’s Energy East pipelines, including upstream and downstream emissions, the American owned company abandoned…
Looking at the Alberta Party Leadership
A New Day and a New Way? With the retirement of Greg Clark as leader, there are four phases to the leadership change process within Alberta Party. First was to…
Speaking of Bill "Job Churn" Morneau, How Do You Talk Someone Out of Their Health, Wealth and Happiness. It’s Easy.
A chilling report from Britain’s New Economics Foundation entitled, “Framing the Economy,“ examines how Brits were smooth talked into accepting brutal austerity. From The Guardian:What do people think the economy…