Amid all the hoo-ha emanating from the nation’s capital over the partial holiday weekend, the bit that didn’t seem to fit was the dispiriting news – for many Albertans, anyway…
Well it seems the efforts of Yellow Jackets Canada Exposed and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (and perhaps to some small extent my own) have resulted in a statement regarding David…
If you want to know how low the Con media in this country have fallen, consider this :By most honest accounts Andrew Scheer is a religious fanatic, a racist, a…
I did it to only defend (proudly, enthusiastically) Jody Wilson-Raybould. Some have asked me if my choice of background was an accident. It wasn’t.
Tonight and since this story broke, these are the only questions that really matter: 1. What role did Gerald Butts play in Jody Wilson-Raybould’s demotion? 2. Why she was demoted?…
As a global civilization we really have behaved terribly. For couple of weeks I’ve been working on a piece on pollution. Greenhouse gas is a part of this problem but…
Peter Rusland There are many local unsung heroes deserving a street, building or park named in their honour. One such person was H. Rider Haggard. Writer and researcher Dean Unger’s…
Instead of picking a moral leader like Elizabeth May to feature, the wretched folks editing Canada’s worst newspaper that isn’t Postmedia, thought to abuse our language with this: How in…
Has Big Fossil been fudging the environmental assessment studies it spoon feeds to Alberta’s oh-so-accepting regulator? Apparently so. Dozens of oilsands environmental impact studies are marred by inconsistent science that’s…
Well this is quite the turn of events, one that I don’t think that many people saw coming, or at least so soon. I surely didn’t. BREAKING: @gmbutts has quit…
The hiatus is over, Cowichan Conversations has returned and will be once again sharing posts and of course, often the best parts, your comments There is no shortage of events…
For those who claim the SNC-Lavalin affair is much ado abut nothing, this is certainly an interesting development: OTTAWA—Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary and long-time friend, has resigned amid…
Lengthy statement below, at the end of which one can only ask: “Then why resign?”
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice- President Mike Pence quickly realized that things were not going as planned. The rest of the world can, I hope, rejoice…
Climate change, and our inability to deal with it, has become a corollary to the essential impotence of states and individuals. What Mandela said about how an individual has the…
Back when the House of Commons rose for it’s usual holiday break in December, the first few months of 2019 looked to be promising ones for the governing Liberals. They…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dion Rabouin examines the U.S.’ unprecedented level of inequality and wealth concentration. And Orsetta Causa, Anna Vindics and James Browne highlight how worsening…
Photo by Esther Lin (MMA Fighting) Leslie Smith is a mixed martial arts (MMA) athlete and a former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) top-ten fighter. But the biggest fight of her…
