Originally published by sixmountains.ca A prominent B.C. professional forester is asking the provincial government to immediately “stop all old-growth logging” on Vancouver Island. “By every measure, and in every ecosystem,…
Share this: The so-called “Re-open Canada” protests around Canada are much smaller than the protests south of our border, but they are no less freakish. In Vancouver, the protest was…
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The parallels recall the 2003 ‘Holy Shit’ fire in Western Canada. Ed Struzik 30 Apr 2020 | The Conversation Canada Edward Struzik is the author of Firestorm: How Wildfire Will…
cbcgem.app/6HfDjTTeYbeDgnMF6 Words I can’t think of right now.
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 slow start of re-opening from…
Obscenely rich Jeff Bezos thinks we’d all be better off if we just ordered our groceries online, that is to say from Amazon. If what makes Jeff Bezos better off…
And he’s with his pal, Billy-Bob!
Seventy years ago this week the Red River flood started. It had a huge impact on our family. Later my father was a part of the process that led to…
Seventy years ago this week the Red River flood started. It had a huge impact on our family. Later my father was a part of the process that led to…
Seventy years ago this week the Red River flood started. It had a huge impact on our family. Later my father was a part of the process that led to…
In Victorian times, doctors had an expression: “The operation was a success, but the patient died.” Doctoring in Victorian times was a pretty iffy proposition; once they ran out of…
An Israeli security wall near Gaza. Photo by Gigi Ibrahim/Flickr. May 2020 will focus attention on the many dangers and challenges facing the future of Palestine. First, Nakba72 will commemorate…
Many economists and public policy experts are arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven the need for basic income for all. Photo from Flickr. The rapid fraying of the economy…
About three weeks ago I wrote a post looking at those who were still refusing to accept the deadly nature of Covid-19.I warned that kind of ignorance could kill us.And…
Review: Planet of the Humans Richard Heinberg April 27, 2020 A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans(directed and narrated…
I first took note of Glen Murray when he was mayor of Winnipeg. I was active in my community in inner city Calgary and Murray seemed to share my sense…
Don Lemon with zero fucks left.pic.twitter.com/kbC0zghhzB — Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 4, 2020
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Scott Aquanno writes about the role the Bank of Canada has played so far in responding to COVID-19, while also recognizing that a…
