When "Worst Case" Becomes Your New Normal
How did scientists get climate change so wrong? The question is asked in today’s New York Times. Things are happening today that just ten or fifteen years ago scientists were…
How did scientists get climate change so wrong? The question is asked in today’s New York Times. Things are happening today that just ten or fifteen years ago scientists were…
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – David Jones writes about the important benefits enjoyed by workers as the result of the efforts of the labour movement. And Arindrajit Dube…
In one of my last posts I wrote about Andrew Scheer's bizarre performance after emerging from a bruising seven-hour caucus meeting.And how he tried to convince us that his Cons…
It's now been quite a few years since the hideous Rex Murphy regularly disgraced the CBC's flagship news program The National, with his reactionary views and his Big Oil propaganda.But…
Earlier in the week, I posted about Paula White, the evangelical minister who has risen to become Donald Trump’s chief fluffer spiritual adviser. Yet it is interesting, though hardly surprising,…
The federal election was a teachable moment. And, if our leaders are wise, they’ll understand that they have all been served a heaping helping of humble pie. Susan Delacourt writes:…
That was a good day. Who remembers?
That is not contrition. When Frank Sinatra sang Paul Anka’s song My Way, he said those regrets were too few to mention. The listener is left wondering what is left…
When I “cut the cable” I lost my connection to CBC’s 22 Minutes. I still haven’t worked out what to do with that but I have reconnected with 22 Minutes.…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Nov. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Big Wreck – Too Far Gone
The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner and I talk about the federal election results in…
Have BC mussels developed a form of contagious cancer? The New York Times is reporting on research out of Columbia University that traced the cancer back to Bay mussels from…
Now that Bill 207 has been tabled in the Alberta Legislature, we can look at the bill and its implications more closely. What follows here is my personal analysis of…
Former Trump national security advisor and bellicose neoconservative may be ready to turn on his former boss. The New York Times reports that John Bolton’s lawyer says his client is…
When I was a kid, I played “3 and you’re in”, every day after school, until my mother would come home from work. Whoever was in net or in reality…
When I was a kid, I played “3 and you’re in”, every day after school, until my mother would come home from work. Whoever was in net or in reality…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Montreal’s Palais des Congrès after winning the Canadian election for the second time, October 22, 2019. Photo by Stéphane Mahé/Reuters. In the parlance of the…
From time to time this blog refers to research papers on climate change released by the Pentagon and Britain’s Ministry of Defence. The Brits recently released the sixth edition of…
North Cowichan’s wily old politician Mayor Al Siebring has buffaloed his council into holding a new public hearing on the expansion efforts of the GAIN group. This after two days…