‘The Planet’s on F***ing Fire’: Bill Nye Explains Climate Change to Adults
CLIMATE CHANGE Olivia Rosane Bill Nye the Science Guy has lost his cool when it comes to climate change. In a segment on John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight Sunday, the…
May 2019
Independant Media and the Canadian Budget
Today on Facebook I noticed a story about how the Trudeau government is creating “newspapers and websites deemed reliable.” That makes it sound like the government’s creating a serious official…
Green leader May supports same old pro-imperialist foreign policies
Elizabeth May and Irwin Cotler Does Elizabeth May hate Palestinians? Does the Green Party leader want the Trump administration to attack Iran? Does she support efforts to overthrow Venezuela’s government?…
U.S. dollar hegemony forcing regime change in Venezuela
After the new coup attempt – or propaganda coup – Venezuela lives in a state of foreign imposed insecurity. The failed coup was executed on 30 April by Juan Guaidó,…
Mr. Apology won’t apologize
From next week’s Hill Times column: Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre, regularly refused to make apologies when he was Prime Minister. In 1984, when pressed by Brian Mulroney to apologize to…
Greenwashing the House of Commons
If you want to gauge the sincerity of our political parties’ plans to tackle climate change, a good starting point would be to see if they’re turning it into a…
Are You Saying Boo or Boo-urns?
Politics isn’t always all sunshine and rainbows for those elected to serve. Sometimes politicians have to face upset constituents or voters, sometimes for reasons that are beyond there control and…
And Let the Chips Fall Where They May – BC Plunges Into Money Laundering
And, when those chips fall, a lot of them will probably land at the feet of the former BC Liberal governments and their premiers, Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark. My…
"We’ve Run Out of Elections to Waste" – McKibben
Bill McKibben has a warning – “We’ve run out of elections to waste – this is the last chance to make a difference on climate change.” McKibben, of 350.org, has…
On reticent Harper cabinet members
Even John Ibbitson admits the government,s hands are clean in the Norman case. All it took was for one of Harper, Kennedy, O’ Toole or MacKay to make a phone…
The Wednesday Night Parliamentary Late Show
Our Parliament has many rules, conventions, quirks and traditions. When you work there, you start to learn about all these different bits and some turn out to be quite interesting.…
A Day Of Reckoning
H/t Theo Moudakis Here in propaganda central (a.k.a., Doug Ford’s Ontario), it would appear that few are being fooled by the outrageous campaign the Ford regime is conducting against the…
The Winds Of Change
In Britain, the winds of change are blowing. Climate change has become am urgent issue. John Vidal writes: The last few months have seen the debate shift. Put it down…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Karl Nerenberg writes that the ultimate test of the public’s willingness to facilitate a climate breakdown is fast approaching – but that the…
Andrew Scheer and the Fake Scandal That Wasn’t
As we all know, Andrew Scheer likes to sniff for fake scandals like a hog sniffs for truffles.And for a very simple reason, he has nothing else, no policies, no…
Is This Margaret Wente’s Worst Column Ever?
In the course of her long and sordid career Margaret Wente has written some terrible stories.In her inimitable style, half click bait, half snooty Marie Antoinette.Some written by her, some…
London’s Congestion Pricing Works
Back in 2003 London rolled out its congestion pricing to reduce traffic going into the city and provide more funding for transit solutions. The results have been predictable insofar that…
The Ford folk play high-speed games.
What is a safe speed on a highway? That is a question that the Ontario government is trying to figure out. And they are wasting their time trying to answer…
Trump, Bolton Are Beating the Drums of War
It has been clear for well over a year that Trump is a pathological liar, a cheat, a sneak and an incomparable threat to not only the US but the…