It started with John D. Rockefeller.
It was John D. Rockefeller in the 1800s who put together Standard Oil of New Jersey and created ‘Big Oil.’ He created the power house that to this day is…
August 2019
United States of Terrorism
Mass shootings everywhere now in the US. Domestic terrorism and racism is ripping America apart.
When words no longer have meaning
This is an astonishing statement from a former Prime Minister. Crimes against humanity include murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, death squads, kidnappings, enslavement, torture, rape and extreme acts of violence.…
Your Ward News Sentencing Update: Make it stop already!
The victims are tired. The journalists are tired. The judge and crown attorneys are no doubt tired. I’m tired of writing about it, and heck, I think even the racists…
August 3:It’s not just climate change. It’s us.
Our politicians just love to give glib talks about how they’ll deal with climate change (which they may or may not think is happening.) But it’s not that easy. In…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The New York Times’ editorial board highlights how many of the people looking to defend a habitable planet from environmental destruction are being…
Musical interlude
Seven Lions feat. Davey Havok – December
Journalists who are UCP members are not the problem; media companies that publish nothing but conservative views are
There was a fine old to-do on social media Friday night when a Toronto journalist revealed that a high-profile Postmedia columnist known for her enthusiastic support of Jason Kenney had…
Saturday Photo: The Road to Nieuport after the Field at North Hatley
Last week I posted a photo on my Facebook Page that I’d taken of a field at Glen Villa Gardens in North Hatley, QC. Lovely peaceful scene, I thought. The…
Your morning Warren Twitter™️
After I did my Barney thing on CTV years ago, a Conservative friend laughed to me: “Evolution is science. How can they be against science?” The folks who deny that…
Be Very Afraid
I remember in 1975 seeing the film Jaws. Like most people, it terrified me, so much so that it was many year before I got up the courage to go…
Kenny’s War On “Foreign Interests”
Jason Kenny has declared war, Linda McQuaig writes, on the “foreign interests” that he claims are out to sabotage Alberta’s oil based economy: With the exception of Donald Trump’s claim…
Trudeau does a Harper.
There was a strong sense of déjà vu as our prime minister headed to the far north to kick off his election campaign. It was just four years ago when…
Kate Atkinson’s Big Sky leads Audreys Books Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers List
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended July 28, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
#LavScam in the Wall Street Journal
And Trudeau could lose over it. And, God Almighty, he deserves to lose over it. Ms. Wilson-Raybould says she remains puzzled by the pressure Mr. Trudeau’s office placed on her.…
Andrew Scheer’s Desperate Medicare Scam
Andrew Scheer has managed to conceal what he really thinks about our medicare system, like he has managed to conceal so many other things.His religious fanaticism, his grotesque misogyny, his…
Denying the existential threat
Much of climate change denial is driven by money. The world’s ten largest fossil fuel companies are collectively worth trillions and their managers are not going away quietly. For years,…
Is Andrew Scheer in the closet about Quebec sovereignty?
Not being a conservative, I disagree with most of Andrew Scheer’s pronouncements, but they rarely surprise me. One, however, surprised me very much. Indeed, I was surprised that any Anglophone…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ainslie Cruickshank reports on new polling showing that most Canadians support a transition to a clean energy economy even without having received much…
Wider And Deeper
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates because, according to Fed Chair Jay Powell, there were clear signs that the economy was slowing. There was, Paul Krugman writes, another…