What JWR has to say
…about something that matters a lot. ** “A new nation-to-nation process,” they said. “We will renew the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples. It is time for Canada to have…
2019
Kenney’s Conundrum, Capturing Carbon.
It was in the business news recently. It was about the success of Shell Oil’s $1.3 billion carbon-capture plant, Quest, near Edmonton. The Quest plant is designed to capture and…
Iceland’s Carbon Capture Plan Working
Iceland already is one of the greenest places on the planet and they are going even further to try keep the whole planet green. The country is hosting a research…
Simon Lono , 1963-2019
Simon Lono – husband, father, grandfather, advocate, orator, writer, mentor, friend – died Friday, May 24, 2019. He was 56. When our friends are alive, we do not spend time…
B.C. Appeal Court’s Trans Mountain ruling may not be quite the slam-dunk Alberta thinks it is
The unanimous ruling Friday by the British Columbia Court of Appeal that the B.C. Government does not have the constitutional authority to control what goes inside the federally regulated Trans…
Quebec premier vows drive to slash oil use; Alberta premier calls climate worry ‘flavour of the month’
Over the weekend, Quebec Premier François Legault vowed to implement an ambitious electrification drive that would reduce the province’s use of oil by 40 per cent by 2030, which in…
Throne Speech: Whose Destiny Are We Talking About?
“I am your density…I mean your destiny.” — George McFly, Back to the Future (1985) All eyes were riveted on Lois Mitchell, Her Honour the Honourable the Lieutenant Governor, last…
Doublethink by the barrel
As someone who is a columnist for two great newspapers, and as someone who is acutely aware that newspapers have been and remain in big financial trouble, I say: it…
May 2019 Bits and Bites: Michele Tittler, the III%ers, Northern Guard and Robert Jones, and More
This is going to be long and disjointed. I'm also going to miss a lot of stories others are covering. Still, I thought it appropriate to provide a brief summary…
The Myth of Clean LNG
Liquid natural gas is regularly pitched as a “transition fuel” to help wean us off oil and gas as our economy moves to alternative clean energy. That’s a lie. Green…
CNN Calls It – 2020, Team Oil versus Team Climate
The cable news network, CNN, contends that, when Americans go to the polls next year, there will be one winner and one loser, Team Oil or Team Climate Change. Voters…
David Suzuki: True leaders work for us, not the fossil-fuel industry
David Suzuki takes a look at Canada’s petro-pols in an op-ed in the Georgia Strait. Politicians often justify their undying support for the fossil-fuel industry by claiming they’re looking out…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jo Davies points out the widespread recognition that Canadian corporations need to pay their fair share for a functional society. And Eric…
in which we become homeowners?!
We are buying a house! The list of things we said we’d never do is really beginning to pile up! An SUV, a third dog, and now this. All our…
Have They Not Seen?
Max Boot used to be a clarion spokesman for the American Right. Now, having seen what the Right hath wrought, he is horrified. Last week, he writes, Trump hit two…
Ignoring Bernier is bad advice.
It amuses me that people are telling Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer that former conservative MP Maxime Bernier is not a problem. That is bad advice. First of all, you have to…
Democracy Delayed
I regret that for the foreseeable future I will not be writing any commentary upon the state of our democracy on these pages due to personal family challenges that must…
May 25: Time is almost out…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/patagonia-ice-field-split-climate-change-1.5147759 Hey, /don’t sweat over this. Don’t mean nuthin. We know that because our oil bosses said so. So let’s all pull together and concentrate on killin’ them filthy eyeranians.________________________________________________________________…