How Alberta’s Fires Are Making Jason Kenney Look like a Maniac
It had to be one of the most bizarre spectacles I've ever seen, one so depraved it could only be Jason Kenney.Flying off to Ontario to campaign for the Scheer…
2019
Saturday Photo: Are Electric Cars the Future?
These sleek beauties are fueling up through the electric cords running to their house. Supposedly a nearly completely electric fleet of automobiles is what we want, at least where elecricity…
Austerity and the Decline of the Collective
(Notes for Second Annual Arnold Amber Memorial Lecture, Toronto, May 29, 2019) I am honoured to be celebrating the life and values of Arnold Amber. Celebrating social justice and human…
Signifying What?
Jason Kenney is all about oil. And, given what’s happening in the rest of the world, it’s clear that he’s living on another planet. As this one warms because of…
On crisis acting
Shorter Brad Wall, Distinguished Statesman: Never mind the facts about my trumped-up grievances, I demand that we break up the country in order to burn down the world!
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The NDP has released its Power to Change climate plan, including steps to create green jobs and give effect to Indigenous rights while…
‘None of the Above’ is not an option.
There seems to be some disquiet across this fair land over our lack of good choices in the looming federal election. And whose fault is that? Frankly, Canadians have been…
Your Ward News update: James Sears fires his lawyer
Today was supposed to be a good day. James Sears was supposed to be sentenced, which would likely have meant handcuffs and jail for him this morning, May 31st, 2019.…
Musical interlude
Now, Now – Set It Free
Jagmeet Channels Groucho
Groucho Marx once quipped, “Those are my principles and, if you don’t like them, well, I have others.” That came to mind as I read the NDP’s Environmental Election Epiphany…
GENOCIDE
The National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women will report that the thousands of indigenous women murdered and vanished in recent decades is a “Canadian genocide.” The report, obtained…
"Just Another Scumbag"
That’s how former Trump right-hand man, Steve Bannon, says Donald Trump will be remembered – “just another scumbag.” The former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization…
Just When You Thought They Couldn’t Sink any Lower
The Trump regime is rebranding American LNG as “Freedom Gas.” Mark W Menezes, the US undersecretary of energy, bestowed a peculiar honorific on our continent’s natural resources, dubbing it “freedom…
It’s Not Hard to See Where This is Heading
A really good soup usually has three or four key ingredients, stand outs that define the texture and flavour. The environment is like a soup and it is shaped by…
Can Socialism Save American Democracy?
Photo by Jeff Gauthier It was all but a formal declaration of his re-election strategy. “Here in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in…
Israeli intervention in US elections overwhelms anything Russia has done, claims Chomsky
Veteran activist Noam Chomsky has accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US electoral politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that may have been carried out by Russia.…
Power to Change the Channel?
In the past month there has been a lot of ink spilled over the various parties plans for the environment and to tackle climate change. The New Democrats have, in…
It’s that Right Wing/Climate Change Thing
The city of Madrid has made impressive strides in establishing an urban low-emissions zone. The incoming, right wing government, wants to erase that progress to bring back the good old…
Scotland, An Early Victim of Climate Change?
The head of Scotland’s nature conservancy warns the country faces an apocalypse of flooded towns, dead forests and polluted rivers if the world doesn’t act quickly to slash greenhouse gas…