The Beer Store’s small planning error.
It was reliably reported the other day that Ted Moroz, president of Ontario’s Brewers’ Retail Inc., that operates the Beer Stores, has reported making a mistake to his foreign owners.…
February 2020
The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the violins! Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
Cue the violins! No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River. Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of…
Natural gas production up, public revenue down
Citizens of BC are misled by government about economic returns from natural gas. Relevant statistics are not readily available and the ministries prefer to conceal them. Since government does not…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Wet’suwet’en—A Divided Nation
I have on a number of occasions sat with fingers poised over my keyboard attempting to write something about the Wet’suwet’en/pipeline issue. Too many issues keep cropping up in my…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Feb. 22: Not a good day.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/02/protests-indigenous-peoples-culmination-centuries-political________________________________________________________________ Happy shopping! https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-counterfeits-fakes-online-shopping-1.5470639________________________________________________________________ For 120 years, the U.S. has created poverty, exploitation all over Latin America. And it has murdered uncounted numbers. Now, it blames the migrants for all…
Is This What Trump Was Hoping For? Iranian Hard-Liners Score Decisive Election Win.
On January 3, a US drone was flying above Baghdad international airport when it launched a precision-guided missile at a vehicle carrying Iranian general, Qasem Suilemani, killing him and everyone…
Notch One Up for Artificial Intelligence
There are plenty of bright lights who warn that artificial intelligence, AI, could be the end of us. Elon Musk is one. More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, has written of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Benjamin Israel, Jan Gorski, Nina Lothian, Chris Severson-Baker and Nikki Way highlight the reality that increased extraction from the tar sands is fundamentally…
Colby Takes the P*ss Out of the Buffalo Declaration
Even NatPo columnist, Colby Cosh, can’t take the Buffalo Declaration seriously. Alberta or Buffalo? Choose your own adventure? I suppose the revolution is still incomplete in the minds of the…
Canada Humiliated by International Scientific Community
Forty Nobel winners are asking the Canadian government to put an end to the proposed Teck mine. You should too by filling out the petition.
“Nothing to See Here”
Looking around Canada this week at the Federal and Provincial levels, you’d be hard pressed to find any leader having a good week. It’s just been a lot of bad,…
A Crisis Of Legitimacy
The United States is a mess. And, Frank Bruni writes, it’s getting worse: Something unsettling is going on in American politics — in America, period — and the chaotic Democratic…
42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With ‘Moral Clarity’ and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine
Alberta’s oilsands north of Fort McMurray. Photo by Louis Bockner/Sierra Club BC. In an open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, 42 Nobel…
Hate speech ≠ free speech.
Hate speech ≠ free speech
Saturday Photo: Concrete Getting Nearer
Next week I should get suggested revisions to my next book Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future. The University of Regina Press has set the publication date for…
Planes, Trains and Ski-Doos.
There is no more of an icon of business to Canadians than Bombardier. The company had its beginnings in 1935, with the snow coach designed by mechanic Joseph-Armand Bombardier. Since…