George Monbiot Gives Michael Moore One Upside the Head.
“Planet of the Humans” isn’t Michael Moore’s film. He is, however, the executive producer of the sort-of documentary and its main promoter. And he should really know better. Now George…
May 2020
Seven Years. You?
I was going through some papers and stumbled across my little hound’s American Kennel Club registration forms. Turns out he’s seven years old, going on eight. I thought he was…
Uy skweyul siem nu siiyeyu! Good day my respected friends!
Good day my respected friends! It’s Qwustenuxun again with another answer to another great question. But first, a short word from Jacqueline Ronson, lead reporter for The Discourse Cowichan…
A Normal Returning Too Fast
As we have been battling Covid-19 we’ve seen many things happen that Canadians can be proud of. As someone who worked and volunteered in politics for over a decade, one…
Setting The Record Straight
If you watched Planet of The Humans, executive-produced by Michael Moore, like me you probably came away profoundly disillusioned. The film essentially says that the environmental movement and its advocacy…
NORMAL is Cancelled Due To COVID Pandemic
“Capitalism’s shield has been breached — we can now see its soul,” writes Brad Zarett in a recent article first published in Medium. Brad writes about avoiding the trap of…
Sidewalk Blab
Developing Quayside wasn’t the bad idea. The bad idea was handing over all the profit and control to people who lived on the Upper West Side and flew in periodically…
Amsterdam: The Economy is a Doughnut
Amsterdam is embracing an ecological approach to their economy by looking at it as if it’s a doughnut. Of course, it’s not a literal snack they are using, it’s a…
The Policy Possibilities of this Moment
We’re living in hard times that are full of so much uncertainty for so many. Covid-19 has turned the lives of millions of Canadians on its head and that’s forced…
The Writing On The Wall
Elizabeth May declared this week that “Oil is dead.” She makes a pretty convincing argument: Years before the pandemic hit, major oil giants started leaving the oil sands. Many actually…
And the show goes on.
Just when you have lost all interest in America’s president Trump, he finds something more ugly, more tawdry with which to entertain you. There seem to be none of the…
Jason Kenney is Canada’s least popular premier
Jason Kenney is Canada’s least popular premier. When you add in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he’s also Canada’s least popular first minister. Chart showing Jason Kenney is Canada’s least popular…
COVID-19 in B.C.: British Columbia unveils four phases of plan to reopen province
NEWS FEATURES by Craig Takeuchi May 6th, 2020-5:24 PM PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA B.C. Premier John Horgan, accompanied by provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian…
The Narwhal has been nominated for eight(!) Digital Publishing Awards.
In case you missed it, The Narwhal has been nominated for eight(!) Digital Publishing Awards. That nomination tally puts us behind only The Globe and Mail and CBC — less…
Fighting Back. Indigenous Women Embracing Self-Defence
Indigenous women get it. They’re learning martial arts, determined not to become just another statistic. Five women have gone missing in Lisa Kenoras’ community in the past five years. Kenoras…
What happens to Alberta when the 7th largest economy drives Electric Cars?
What would happen to an Oil Exporter when the world’s seventh largest economy decides that over the next fifteen years it will phase out gas powered cars? Any economist would…
When Lives Matter
If Covid-19 has taught us anything it’s that pandemics take a terrible toll on the elderly, especially those in nursing homes. Unless… As the coronavirus scythed through nursing homes, cutting…
Chris Hedges on Revolution, Media, Prison, Corruption, and Hope
Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent for the New York Times until they didn’t like his anti-American coverage of the Iraq invasion, and an ordained minister, recently walked away (or…
Maybe it’s time for Ottawa to use its power to close those meatpacking plants until their owners fix their COVID-19 mess
Now that he’s made a little progress sorting out Canada’s gun enthusiasts, maybe it’s time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do something about those coronavirus mega-spreaders in our midst…