Trudeau’s Dodgy Ten Billion Dollar Bet
Justin Trudeau bet the farm on bitumen when he bought the Trans Mountain pipeline. Cutting a treasury cheque for $4.5 billion to the former owner, Kinder Morgan, and facing another…
2019
New York Banning Plastic Bags
Everyone knows the harm plastics are bringing to the world, especially to marine animals and waterways. In an effort to reduce the harm done by plastics New York state is…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Donald Gutstein examines the crucial difference between advancing toward a zero-carbon economy, and incentivizing further fossil fuel development through misleading terms such…
Assange Turfed/Arrested
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has been taken into custody by British police. Assange was nabbed after Ecuador stripped him of his diplomatic immunity. He had been holed up in Ecuador’s…
An All-Out Attack
On the surface, the ructions in education occurring in Ontario may hold little interest to those living in other jurisdictions. However, those residing elsewhere would be well-advised to keep an…
For Diversity of Opinion. Against Undermining
I read in the comments on Willy’s post and mine from yesterday that others besides the Underminer should be delisted from Progressive Bloggers because what are seen as opinions that…
The Peaceable Kingdom?
Next week, there will be a really big show in Toronto. University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson will be debating Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Bob Hepburn writes: Tickets for the…
Disrespecting Democracy: Senate Conservative Edition
During my nine years working on Parliament Hill, I was blessed to get to be a part of and witness some amazing things. There are things that I got to…
#LavScam lesson
I teach crisis communications to lawyers-to-be at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, my alma mater. My students, as always, are terrific. And, for the whole term, we’ve been…
In Alberta, vote, wash hands, wash hands again.
With less than a week to another Alberta provincial election I cannot forecast the vote. It is one of those times you can only vote against. There seem to be…
March 30, 2019 Hate Rally: Video of Racist Groups Prove They Were the Aggressors
On March 30, the second day of what Joey Deluca claimed would be a 72 hour “patriot rally” in Edmonton occurred. Much like the previous day, the hate groups which…
A question begged: Where were the UCP’s top operatives if they weren’t vetting candidates?
Apparently someone in the United Conservative Party could run a sophisticated vote-diversion scheme but the party didn’t have the technical wherewithal to operate a simple candidate vetting process capable of…
Andrew Scheer, Faith Goldy, and the Right-Wing Extremists
It was one of the most grotesque interviews I have ever seen. Two right-wing Christian fanatics on the bigot Rebel, discussing why they could never support a harmless motion condemning…
The Tony Clement Self Pity Tour And Peep Show
With the announcement that Tony Clement will not be seeking re-election in his riding of Parry Sound—Muskoka, it is time to revisit this story. In my opinion, Tony Clement was…
Just Another Good Willy Loman Point
Willy asks: Why is The Underminer still on Progressive Bloggers. (I have decided to post on this blog to add additional points. Please read his post as well.). Scott Tribe…
What Planet Are These People From?
The Edmonton Journal warns that Albertans are itching to separate from Canada if they don’t get full access to British Columbia’s coastal waters. A recent poll by the Angus Reid…
Ford, Tory and that big transit announcement
We live in an era when governments have a greatly-diminished ability to do big things. That’s why Doug Ford’s multi-billion-dollar transit announced events today are so unusual – and even…
Wormageddon
In a playground war of worm-whipping debauchery, a boy must decide if he’s a bully or a Romeo. Continue ReadingWormageddon
Where the Rubber Meets the Road – Climate Migration – Central America
Imagine Central America empty. Not exactly empty but heavily depopulated. Think of it as climate change for the Americas. It’s been coming for a while, several years in fact. A…
Review: We Can Do Better
A short, accessible, measured, and methodical book that lays out what the author describes as a "reconstructed historical materialism" – th...