Trump/Netanyahu vs. Omar/Tlaib
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2019
Solar Energy ‘Pipelines’ Needed, Says BC’s Community Solar Network
Peter Nix Dear Editor I was an environmental scientist consulting with many of the oil sands companies in Alberta in 1999 when I realized that any benefits of oil were…
What’s Next, Obstruction of Justice?
It went largely unnoticed yesterday when the RCMP announced their investigators were looking into the SNC-Lavalin/JWR/Trudeau affair. It’s hard to imagine they’re looking at anything other than possible obstruction of…
Trudeau’s Ethics Violation Is ‘Political Dynamite’
. By Michael Harris | TheTyee.ca Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist and documentary maker. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the…
Tailings Dam Collapses in the Americas: Lessons Learned?
Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Jan 31, 2019. Protest against mining company Vale. Photo: Lincon Zarbietti The catastrophic collapse of yet another Vale tailings (mine waste) dam in Brumadinho, Brazil brings us…
Please, No Excuses for Maduro
In the early days after the Russian revolution, leftists would visit the country in order to view this experiment in collectivist society. They would be welcomed, given the grand tour…
Why The Fake Scandal Will Still Not Go Anywhere
In my last post I looked at how Justin Trudeau's poll numbers had finally recovered from the so-called fake scandal.And I expressed the fond hope that I would never have…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ben Parfitt comments on the dangers of captured regulators such as B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission who end up serving corporate “clients”…
#LavScam: RCMP confirm probe underway into Trudeau and PMO
Finally. After seizing Gerald Butts’ government-issue laptop and cell phone – after all of the senior PMO staff lawyered up – one would’ve thought the criminal probe was already underway.…
weekend trip with mom: a few days in the comox valley
I thought it would be fun for my mom to see a different part of Vancouver Island. I didn’t want her going home thinking the whole island is a sparsely…
Vicarious Liability
Yesterday turned out to be a much bigger day than most of us thought it would be when we all woke up on a lazy mid-August day. Ottawa has been…
Coverage of Hong Kong protests shrouded in hypocrisy
Photo by Las Vegas Review-Journal Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s…
Hong Kong phooey! Would you like any hypocrisy with that?
Photo by Las Vegas Review-Journal Where to start? For nearly 40 weeks hundreds of thousands of French people have been on the streets in anti-government demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s…
A Bad Day
Yesterday was a bad day for Justin Trudeau. The ethics commissioner’s report was a no holds barred condemnation of his behaviour in the SNC-Lavalin Affair. Chantal Hebert writes: To read…
Diogenes, Leadership and SNC-Lavalin.
There is no time left for what might have been. Canadians are going into an election when what we so desperately want to say is ‘None of the above.’ Are…
Oh, dear, what can the matter be? They promised to bring us a pretty ‘Blue-Ribbon,’ but all they deliver is cant!
Once upon a time, your blogger worked for a famous newspaper publisher who announced one day that since we journos hadn’t had a raise for a couple of years we…
Alex Robertson Recognized For Decades Of Dedication Covering Local Sports
Well done Alex, nice to see after your decades of dedication to local sports. Your ebullient personality, and ‘I can do this’ approach, has been officially recognized. Rock on brother!…
What Do They Know that Justin Doesn’t? Koch Bros. Bail on Tar Sands.
The Koch boys seem to know a bad deal is a bad place to be stuck. Right now that bad place is Athabasca. Once among the largest landholders in the…
CBC Interview About Liberal Leadership
Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed by CBC News at Mitzie Hunter’s launch for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.