The issues swirling around the management of the Municipal Forest has attracted a great deal of attention, input and debate. I have been off the blog for a month but…
This is late in coming not because ARC wasn't following it practically in real time but because we wanted to see where it was going. We do however have to…
I have to say that Justin Trudeau really made Canada look good at the G7 Summit in France.He seemed to stand out from the other leaders, as the fresh face…
If the Green Party of Canada truly wants to do politics differently, it’s time to state clearly whether or not they will support Harper-style extremism, and worse.
Photo courtesy 350.org (Twitter) I’ve recently returned to a something I wrote in my twenties. Back in 2005, I contributed a “Letter to older activists” to the book Letters From…
View of the refinery from the Fourth Congress of Biological Diversity, Paraguana. Photo by Quincy Saul/Ecosocialist Horizons Ian Angus is interviewed by Rebel News, a critical source of news and…
The aristocracy of American capitalism can be found on the membership list of the Business Roundtable. The Roundtable, one of Washington’s top lobbyists, includes among its 193 members the chief…
Justin Trudeau’s unforgivable sin was when he broke his promise on electoral reform. That, and a decade of Stephen Harper, is what gifted him his false majority. Like Harper before…
Years ago when I stumbled across the Dark Mountain collective I was drawn to how it was a place for ‘people tired of the lies society tells itself.’ Now with…
Jeff Cliff interviewed me for his Facebook Live stream on Sunday. We discussed Saskatchewan politics, media, blogging, censorship, and the Amazon Fires. For instance, I can link to Facebook, but…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Peter Wade reports on new polling showing that American voters remain angry about a political system which benefits a privileged few at the…
A strange question for August in Canada — how do I choose an indoor bike trainer. But life intrudes and the question came from a friend whose work precludes riding…
This is a quick read outlining the history of the efforts to do something to slow down fossil fuel use. Everything we know now about climate change, pretty much, we…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 26, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: New York policeman fired for actions in death of Eric Garner What…
Alexander Gauland • Photo by Alexander Gauland The wise priest Laocoön, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous “Trojan horse”. A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him…
This link about people on the spectrum came to my FB feed as “Sponsored Content,” so I’m wary at the get go, but they present this argument to be addressed:…
Communications is key in our modern political world and the importance of having a clear message cannot be understated. That’s always been true in politics long before now, but in…
Photo by Munk Debates It is great that Elizabeth May wants to debate foreign policy issues, but why would the Green Party leader want to participate in an event designed…
Justin Trudeau is brandishing — rhetorically, at least — his progressive credentials. His predecessors would not have lurched this far to the left. Chantal Hebert writes: None of Trudeau’s predecessors…
My late friend Senator Keith Davey used to start every day at his office with a ruled pad on which he would make all his notes for the day in…
