You might’a thunk they’d know better. Wrong. For eight states, including Connecticut, Rhode Island, Mississippi and South Carolina, the percentage increase in homes built in the flood zone exceeded the…
The Land of Vlad has declared a state of emergency over wildfires sweeping Siberia. Officials said 2.7 million hectares of forest (about 10,400 square miles) were ablaze on Tuesday as…
When it comes to methane, the technology needed to identify the source of fugitive emissions from space isn’t far off. And not just by some general area. It’s possible to…
The media serves an important if not vital function in a democratic society. But, what if the bulk of the mainstream press becomes controlled by a handful of foreign-based billionaires?…
The UN’s International Law Commission currently has on its agenda an item concerned with protecting the environment in times of war. The commission has drawn up 28 draft principles, the…
With an election just three months away, can we say that our political parties are really loyal to the country and our people? Loyalty is an elusive term, shifting according…
Vancouver Park Board News ReleaseJuly 31, 2019 At a special Vancouver (Read more…) Board meeting last night, Commissioners received a feedback report on the draft VanSplash Aquatic Strategy outlining a…
Wow. Check out the federal second quarter fund-raising numbers, just out. Conservatives: $8,532,334.15 (YTD $16,500,000) Liberals: $5,033,998.49 (YTD $8,891,161.49) Greens: $1,437,722.71 (YTD $2,221,001.46) NDP: $1,226,868.92 (YTD $2,660,343.07) You read that…
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Noah Smith writes about the unfairness and inaccuracy in blaming people for finding themselves in poverty. And Sarah Kaine and Emmanuel Josserand…
It was one of the worst political moves in modern Canadian history. Elizabeth May's decision to hire Warren Kinsella to run the Green Party's War Room, or as she prefers…
That didn’t last long. The Green Party has severed its ties to Warren Kinsella. Susan Delacourt reports that: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has wound down a controversial working relationship…
It is hard to believe that Doug Ford’s gang in Ontario cannot even get a handle on the pot business. Is there no part of government in which they have…
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at United Conservative Party Headquarters last night! I imagine there were heated words spoken about Mr. Justice Eric Macklin’s decision just…
Blanketed cats.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/shifting-ground Don’t worry. There is no climate change. If there were, the Conservative Party would have told us._________________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/being-china-support-hong-kong-carrie-lam-protests-1.5228707 I think ( I very much fear) that China is going to…
Donald Trump’s path to holding the White House in next year’s election was dealt a setback today by California governor Gavin Newsome. The governor signed into law today, “The Presidential…
It’s hard to believe that Orwell wrote this 70 years ago.
Millenials, and those who follow them, are rightfully growing increasingly concerned about climate change. Thanks to the gift of mortality, it is unlikely that my cohort will be around to…
I know there's a tendency for ARC to highlight the rampant dysfunction and infighting of the far-right groups we cover on the blog (as our friends with Yellow Vests Canada…
