How Justin Trudeau Can Tame Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney has been the unquestioned ruler of the cowboy province of Alberta for only a day, and already he is trying to break up the country.Demanding that British Columbia…
May 2019
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Rick Smith and Ken Neumann write about the importance of developing a Green New Deal that includes participation from (and protection for)…
Plant Blindness and You
Can you tell the difference between a big leaf maple and a Japanese maple tree? If not, then you may suffer from plant blindness. Hopefully you can tell them apart…
New column day
Here, pointing out how Drawdown‘s list of emission reductions which are possible based on peer-reviewed research into current technology (which received recent attention thanks to a CNN quiz and Vox…
Legally Adulting: The Legal Issues Life Throws Your Way
Our first seminar of the series, Legally Adulting kicked off last Monday April 29th at Mofer Coffee. We had a great time at Legally Adulting (v1.0). We met a very…
He Will Never Be Green
My past two posts have consisted of editorial cartoons featuring well-known ‘green’characters. The first depicted Kermit the frog trumpeting the very significant electoral gains made by the Green Party in…
The Great Prognosticator
Doug Ford likes to think he can predict the future. Martin Regg Cohn writes: April 1 marked the imposition of what he calls the “job-killing” federal carbon tax, imposed on…
Is M’Lord Bored?
Lord Cross-the-Pond must be bored with his visitor status in Canada. It is not as though he does not have a suitably palatial estate in Toronto’s Bridal Path area for…
On Jason Kenney: My Hopes, Worries and Fears
So, Jason Kenney is now Premier. A friend of mine, who was not fond of Premier Notley, asked me my opinion. Anyone who knows me knows one thing: Russell Scantlebury…
Fielding questions about Jason Kenney’s apparent effort to channel Vladimir Putin, B.C. premier sounded like the grownup
CALGARY – For those of us used to listening to Alberta politicians on the topic of pipelines, British Columbia Premier John Horgan made for a refreshing change yesterday, sounding remarkably…
Tim Keizer Arrested For Uttering Threats
So remember that article where we discussed a man who is clearly suffering from mental illness who wrote that he was going to arrest and, he hoped, injure the prime…
Me, Moore, morning, marvellous
I’m not sure why I went all alliteration-crazy, there. Anyway, here’s me with smarter folks, this morning on the mighty Newstalk 1010.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
The MSM has pretty well been the PR arm for CIA’s attempted coup in Venezuela. You really have to wonder about the talking heads who spew the party line…
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BABY GOAT?
This shocking beyond belief. A baby goat disappeared or perhaps was stolen! Share widely. Originally posted on Facebook-https://tinyurl.com/y6medn3x Yellow Point Farms 28 April at 15:34 · Update- REWARD $1200 for…
Andrew Scheer, Hamish Marshall, and the Con Kochtopus
When I heard about that secret meeting between Andrew Scheer, his ex-Rebel campaign director Hamish Marshall, and those Big Oil billionaires, I just knew it was part of a wider…
A Bad Moment in Question Period History
Every day that the House of Commons is in session we have Question Period. At it’s best, it’s a forum where MPs from around the country can ask questions of…
BRITAIN WINS! Parliament Declares Climate National Emergency
From CNN: Lawmakers in the UK Parliament have declared “an environment and climate emergency,” making it the first country in the world to do so, according to the opposition Labour…
Is Venezuela’s Uprising Over?
Word is that Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro has vanquished rival Juan Guaido. The decisive moment came yesterday when the military failed to shift allegiance to Guaido. Now, the International Crisis Group…
Global Warming Has Been Setting a Trap For Us Since the Early 1900s.
New research shows that global warming has been transforming our soil since the early 1900’s. The NASA-Columbia University study itself is available here. Global warming has been fueling droughts since…
Pipelines Are a Lousy Bet
From National Public Radio, NPR: A new report by an energy watchdog group says companies are betting over a trillion dollars in risky gas pipeline projects. Global Energy Monitor says…