While We’re On the Subject of Pipelines
It’s not just human health that’s in jeopardy from the Covid-19 pandemic. The fossil fuel industry is taking a pounding. Part of it is the decline in energy consumption from…
March 2020
Oil Capitals Hunker Down
To Calgarians, the city is starting to feel like a punching bag. Its primary industry suffers one body blow after another. Oil prices crashed at the end of 2014 as…
BC Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s Update
Dr Bonnie Henry Here’s what to know about the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. on March 16, 2020. Check back here for more updates throughout the day. THEPROVINCE.COM COVID-19: Here’s…
Meme Monday #7
Wash your hands, people! The Corona virus pandemic has led many to alter their behavior as a means of stopping its spread. Her Majesty is said to be reviewing up-coming…
Talking the Latest on Covid-19 on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We spoke in depth about about the growing impact…
On Pandemics and the Climate
Everyone staying at home might buy us a bit more time to finalize policies that will actually mitigate climate change, if we actually care to do save even more lives.…
North Cowichan has a remarkable opportunity to protect BC’s most endangered ‘landscape,’ says prominent plant ecologist
Originally published by sixmountains.ca. North Cowichan’s 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve lies within the most endangered “ecological zone” in British Columbia, providing the municipality with a remarkable opportunity to make a…
L’humanité à l’heure de COVID-19: comment s’entraider
(ceci est une traduction non-autorisé de l’article Humanity in times of COVID-19: How to help each other properly par le medecin Ben F. Maier) Tout d’abord, pour que tout cela…
A Larger Perspective
In these uncertain times, we are all seized by concerns about Corvid-19. The prospect of death invariably focuses the mind, especially in the short-term. Facilitated by fossil-fuel propaganda and an…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Emmanuez Saez and Gabriel Zucman call for (PDF) governments to act as buyers of last resort to minimize the economic fallout from the…
Elite political journalists are eager to kick Bernie Sanders on his way out the door
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with attendees at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action at the Iowa Events Center in Des…
The Naked Emperor
The COVID-19 pandemic has stripped Donald Trump of his cover. Maureen Dowd writes in The New York Times: Until now, Trump has mostly succeeded in covering up things that could…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of March 16, 2020
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 16, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Prince Andrew Is Stonewalling in Epstein Case, Prosecutor Says Led Zeppelin wins…
Some Advice
This past week has been a whirlwind and honestly, it’s been the kind of thing that we’ve never experienced in our lifetimes. And really, we all know this is just…
Play Games and use Your Computer to Fight COVID-19
Without a doubt these are exceptional times; I cannot think of another moment in history in which capitalist democracies basically put their economies on hold to protect people. COVID-19 is…
Spotted by one of my former Law 599 students at the airport
Good information, here. Bad – really bad – that a provincial government has been obliged to fill the massive, yawning information gap caused by federal incompetence.
When is ‘progressive’ not?
Are all you ‘progressives’ asleep at the switch? Who let that cretin into progressivebloggers.ca who is trying to get us to fight for conversion therapy? A little attention to the…
Community transmission of COVID-19 seen in Alberta; all classes cancelled; no layoffs of health workers — for now
Community transmission of COVID-19 is now taking place in Alberta as numbers of cases grew by 17 over the past 24 hours to 56, Premier Jason Kenney told the province’s…
What’s Better Than Givenchy of Christian Dior? And Trump Tries to Scoop German Vaccine.
Hand sanitizer, that’s better than fancy fragrances. And who’s okay with that? Louis Vuitton, Hennesy, Moet – the company that produces those high end fragrances and cosmetics. Answering the patriotic…
COVID-19: A Study in Leadership
“The first role of government is to help people in crisis or need. That’s why we have government.”– John McCain Crisis separates the leaders from wannabes. We will be watching…