Imagine the nerve – debating climate change as a national emergency. Britain’s Labour Party intends to force a debate on the issue this week in Parliament. Labour will this week…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Derrick O’Keefe, Robert Hackett and Shane Gunster highlight how the TransMountain pipeline bailout and SNC-Lavalin scandal have cemented Justin Trudeau’s status as…
Six months ago, Justin Trudeau was poised to win a second majority government. But, in those six months, the political landscape has changed drastically. Jaimie Watt — a Conservative operative…
Bill McKibben in The Guardian: “Luckily, we have two relatively new inventions that could prove decisive to solving global warming before it destroys the planet. One is the solar panel,…
H/t Patrick Corrigan Paul Rapoport of Ancaster, Ontario, has some advice well worth the consideration of Canada’s Conservative premiers: Keep your Enemies List current. Cut their funding. If you want…
The word ‘disquieting’ took a while to choose. I have been trying to define the times leading up to the October 21 federal election and it reminds us of flying…
This previously published bit from 2009 in which Steve May‘s seriesis highlighted perhaps shows how little things have changed in 10 years. Much of his series is focused upon “green”…
George Monbiot The Paris climate change agreement is worthless. Politicians can’t possibly honour it unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves @GeorgeMonbiot The industrial landscape across the…
a-far-right-party-is-poised-for-a-breakthrough-in-spain-s-elections-for-the-first-time-since-franco-1.5110632 It’s 1930s fascism all over again – but on a far wider scale. The world hasn’t learned a thing from the Second World War. By the way Mussolini and…
When Andrew Scheer had that secret meeting with some Big Oil bosses at a fancy hotel just outside Calgary the other day, he must have been praying up a storm…
Pilots of the United States Navy are logging unidentified flying objects, UFOs, in American airspace several times a month. Now the navy brass are taking their reports seriously. As first…
This is straight out of the National Rifle Association playbook. Whenever America suffers another mass shooting (several times weekly of late), the NRA and the gun lobby along with their…
Photo by U.S. Department of State While Justin Trudeau’s government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela’s government is motivated by support…
At some point we’re going to have to write off conservatives, Tories and Blue Liberals alike, when it comes to climate change. They’re either outright, dyed in the wool, deniers…
I’ve recently had some interesting conversations with friends in Vancouver and Ontario. In each case the other side brought up the issue of climate change and, specifically, how it might…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne highlights how the fight over carbon taxes fits into a broader framework of class warfare – and how the right’s climate…
Eastern Canada is reeling from flooding that even Doug Ford admits is the result of climate change – and, hard as this is to say, he’s right. The hydrologic cycle…
There is little question in my mind that in the depths of his shallow soul, Doug Ford, like his philosophical father Mike Harris, believes that government ‘interference’ is what makes…
We are headed towards the end of the first half of this year. This doesn’t mean that it’s already too late to begin making any changes. For instance, most of…
