In Case You Forgot About It, We’re Still Facing a Climate Crisis.
The shockwaves of the pandemic and the oil crisis have caused the climate crisis to recede from the public conversation. We may have other things on our mind but the…
April 2020
Special message to ignorant, bigoted conservatives during Covid-19: Go ahead, meet up in big groups, go to church, hug and lick each other, spread the virus amongst yourselves!
Neo-cons resemble zombies at a recent U.S. protest against public safety I’ve gotten so angry lately when I hear about idiotic conservatives bitching and whining (even more than usual) about…
The Problem with Junk Oil
Canada seems likely to get knocked off its perch as the world’s fourth largest petroleum exporter. We’ve milked it for all it was worth but today it’s worth way less…
De-cluttering The Mind – And Our “Civilization”
If we had only Socrates, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Thoreau as guides, to direct our course, and tell us about the world and how to live in it, I think we…
Covid Journal, April 21, 2020
How can a ‘market’ be a market without a market? Our stock markets are based on underlying principles like cash flow, employment numbers, productivity and sales. With none of the…
Crisis Overreach in Manitoba
As Canadian governments, both Federal and Provincial, have been fighting Covid-19 and doing their best to meet the needs to the public, that effort has required steps to be taken…
Follow The Money
Stephen Moore — who Donald Trump tried to install on the Federal Reserve Board — calls the people who insist on opening up the economy despite the health risks “the…
After this Pandemic Cities will be More Resilient
Pandemic and other major health issues have hit cities before and they’ll hit cities again in the future. Each time this happens cities find new designs and solutions for the…
In a half-full Canada.
How many attractive countries are there to help alleviate the overcrowding, the poverty and the tensions of so many countries of this world? And of one of the more desirable…
Is Oil Profitable? Negative.
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had…
Hard to believe keeping meatpacking and oilsands plants running hasn’t contributed to COVID-19 spread
If you listened carefully to yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing in Edmonton, it was difficult to avoid the conclusion the Kenney Government’s reluctance to regulate certain industries has contributed to the spread…
More methane? Meh!
In British Columbia and other western provinces, we will soon be working to reshape the economy. Now is a perfect time to commit to reduced production of fossil fuels and…
What Is A Forest? How Does It Live? How Does It Die?
Icil Dobell There is an extraordinary phenomenon occurring in North Cowichan and the world because of Covid-19. The unanticipated implications for our forests are an advocate’s dream come true. In…
Accepting lockdown measures is like First Nations accepting blankets…
If you don’t understand the reference, after destroying First Nation People’s property, homes and very lives governments gave them blankets to help them through the winter, the blankets were infested…
The Wheels Are Coming Off the Wagon
It wasn’t that long ago that we snickered at people walking around with wheelbarrows of money, just enough to buy a loaf of bread. It happened in Weimar, in Zimbabwe,…
The buck never stops with that orange bastard
The office of the presidency comes with the ultimate responsibility for the biggest decisions in the world. Every great president throughout our history has met that duty with the leadership…
My latest: keep underestimating them. See what happens next.
The familiar voice at the other end of the line laughed, a bit. “They’re making fun of the way I look and sound, again,” he says, sounding not at all…
It’s the Most Popular Course in Yale’s 300 Year History. Now It’s Yours, Absolutely Free.
With the world seemingly in free fall mode it’s not hard to get a bad case of the downers. Ivy League great, Yale, has something you might want to try…
Unplug: Nine Weeks To Basic Clarity
Important, extremely useful books here. A brain washing, in the sense of clearing away the fog and gaining some clarity and perspective, is critically needed, now more than ever. What…
Talking Tragedy in Nova Scotia & a Gradual Re-Open from Covid-19 with Kristy Cameron
Today I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison and Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the tragedy over the weekend in…