Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Nov. 3, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Big Wreck – Too Far Gone
The newest episode of “What You Need to Know” is recorded and now up. In this episode Alyson Fair, Geoff Turner and I talk about the federal election results in…
Have BC mussels developed a form of contagious cancer? The New York Times is reporting on research out of Columbia University that traced the cancer back to Bay mussels from…
Now that Bill 207 has been tabled in the Alberta Legislature, we can look at the bill and its implications more closely. What follows here is my personal analysis of…
Former Trump national security advisor and bellicose neoconservative may be ready to turn on his former boss. The New York Times reports that John Bolton’s lawyer says his client is…
When I was a kid, I played “3 and you’re in”, every day after school, until my mother would come home from work. Whoever was in net or in reality…
When I was a kid, I played “3 and you’re in”, every day after school, until my mother would come home from work. Whoever was in net or in reality…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Montreal’s Palais des Congrès after winning the Canadian election for the second time, October 22, 2019. Photo by Stéphane Mahé/Reuters. In the parlance of the…
From time to time this blog refers to research papers on climate change released by the Pentagon and Britain’s Ministry of Defence. The Brits recently released the sixth edition of…
North Cowichan’s wily old politician Mayor Al Siebring has buffaloed his council into holding a new public hearing on the expansion efforts of the GAIN group. This after two days…
A group of climate activists in southern Washington are blocking the delivery of pipe from India destined for the construction of the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline. Young activists interrupted the…
When I was a kid, I played “3 and you’re in”, every day after school, until my mother would come home from work. Whoever was in net or in reality…
“In politics, you can die 100 times.” – my guru, Alykhan Velshi. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 8, 2019
When we entered the 21st century a few history types predicted we were embarked on a century of revolution and chaos. They suggested that our traditional institutions and modes of…
It was about as dire a warning as they come. Nobody was crying ‘wolf.’ Certainly not 11,000 of them. They warned of “untold suffering” around the world if we don’t…
That’s how New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern describes her government’s landmark climate legislation, which commits the country to zero carbon emissions by 2050. The bill passed 119 to one:…
Andrew Scheer’s leadership of the Conservative Party, Tom Walkom writes, is doomed — because he cannot win in Ontario: The Conservatives did gain three more Ontario seats. However, their share…
It happened yesterday. You didn’t hear much about it, because all the drama had happened the day before, with the seven-hour-long Conservative mass-suicide disguised as a caucus meeting. The Liberal…
Assorted content to end your week. – Luke Savage responds to the attempt by neoliberals to escape growing discontent with corporate control and individual atomization by denying they actually represent…
