China is on track to meet its climate change goals nine years early
Photo from Pixabay China appears on track to reach its carbon goals up to nine years earlier than planned under the Paris agreement, in a potential huge boost for efforts…
August 2019
National Post Publishes Absolute Bullshit Re Beyond Meat
The absolute bullshit is this bit: “For the last million years, we’ve evolved with a very specific diet that’s been based on whole foods,” Rogers said. “There hasn’t been a…
National Post Publishes Absolute Bullshit Re Beyond Meat
The absolute bullshit is this bit: “For the last million years, we’ve evolved with a very specific diet that’s been based on whole foods,” Rogers said. “There hasn’t been a…
What’s Really Killing Us?
Global warming is a symptom of the disease. Overpopulation is another symptom of the same disease. The degradation of our farmland, the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, the freshwater crisis, the…
The surreallity of life in Alberta
Living in Alberta, I sometimes get the feeling I live in a place shifted a few degrees off centre from reality. For example, in the real world we are faced…
Well, Let’s Add This to Our Growing List of Dire Warnings
Another day another warning that humanity is pushing its luck, overstressing this Earth, our one and only biosphere. For those of you who can’t handle stress, don’t fret. It’ll be…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joel Connelly reports on a new B.C. study showing the breadth and depth of the effects of a climate breakdown. Reuters examines…
New column day
Here, on how a public drug manufacturer could both secure Canada’s supply of needed medications in the face of threats from both corporate greed and U.S. policy threats. For further…
Will Hysteria Or Rationality Prevail This Fall?
As we wind ou way through the dog days of summer, it is a truism that no one will pay attention to politics and the upcoming election until after Labour…
Solve the Global Housing Crisis by Recognizing Buyers
The cost of housing has skyrocketed since the banker-caused 2008 financial crisis and there are no signs of prices stabilizing. In Toronto we’ve seen the price of housing rise faster…
What Awaits Us
Globalism, Larry Elliott writes, is on its last legs: Globalisation as we have known it is coming to an end and that’s by no means unwelcome. Hailed as the ultimate…
Kinsellabration: meet Kane Kinsella
It had been a terrible, awful year, filled with unbelievable pain. A very small number of you know why. It was hard to breathe, some days. And then, this happened.…
Trudeau’s Secret Weapon.
You have probably been wondering why prime minister Justin Trudeau is so cheery and ebullient these days. It is probably not just the fact that his pal Gerald Butts is…
Fallout from dual probes into 2017 United Conservative Party leadership campaign still drifting down
It may not be fair, and you may not like it, but politics is like French justice: Guilty until proven innocent. OK, the French say it ain’t so, and we…
After Being Shoved Tarek Fatah Strikes White Nationalist and Faith Goldy Supporter Derek Harrison With Cane At Bernier’s PPC Immigration Speech
Late last month Max Bernier pledged that if elected his government would reduce immigration to Canada to no more than 100,000 to 150,000 though given the parameters he sets out…
THE GUERRILLA AND PROLETARIAN POWER (Red Brigades, February 1978)
What does it mean to build the organization of proletarian power in the current period of the class war? In this period in which the restructuring of the state has…
A real Festival of Joy™️
Wow! For the 2019 Festival of Joy™️, I decided to do one of those Facebook fundraiser things for suicide prevention – a cause very important to me – and we…
Allegations & Revelations in British Columbia: Enter the Ethics Commissioner
It was just last week that I wrote an update to the story of British Columbia Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido and the allegations against him and his law firm. This…
WOMEN WORKERS (Red Brigades, February 1978)
Women from all sections of the proletariat occupy an inferior, subordinate, and worse paid position in relation to men. Moreover they suffer from the serfdom of domestic labor. Women’s labor,…