August 2020
When We No Longer "Give a Sh_t"
Covid-19 statistics become a blur. Millions infected, hundreds of thousands dead. Slowly what once alarmed us no longer matters as much. “If I look at the mass I will never…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Chuck Collins asks why the billionaires who have seen their fortunes continue to grow during a pandemic aren’t giving anything back to…
Mulcair Bites Back
I haven’t always agreed with failed NDP leader, Thomas Mulcair, but he’s on the money in his op-ed in the latest Maclean’s, “How Canada became an environmental outlier.” Liberals and…
Solidarity for Breakfast in Fort Frances
We’re in the home stretch of the Conservative Leadership race and before the month is done, Canadians will know who will be the one chosen to lead the Conservative party…
WE/Oui Oversight
It was just a week ago that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified before the House of Commons Finance Committee and in something that seems normal for 2020, it’s felt like…
Back To School With Doug
This week Doug Ford revealed his back to school plan. He’s not getting high marks. Bruce Arthur writes: The safe care of our children is a fundamental social compact. So…
a piece of new york is gone: pete hamill, rest in peace
A piece of New York City died this week. Pete Hamill, a legendary New York journalist and possibly the last of a breed, died yesterday at age 85. Obituaries describe…
Here’s Why a Letter to the Editor from Ward 2 Councillor’s Adviser Published Today in the Sudbury Star is Misleading – and Unhelpful
I just read this letter to the Editor of the Sudbury Star from Tom Price, who is an adviser to Ward 2 Councillor Michael Vagnini. I have serious concerns about…
Here’s Why a Letter to the Editor from Ward 2 Councillor’s Adviser Published Today in the Sudbury Star is Misleading – and Unhelpful
I just read this letter to the Editor of the Sudbury Star from Tom Price, who is an adviser to Ward 2 Councillor Michael Vagnini. I have serious concerns about…
Here’s Why a Letter to the Editor from Ward 2 Councillor’s Adviser Published Today in the Sudbury Star is Misleading – and Unhelpful
I just read this letter to the Editor of the Sudbury Star from Tom Price, who is an adviser to Ward 2 Councillor Michael Vagnini. I have serious concerns about…
Back to the Future: 1992 study reveals recreation, ecology, viewscapes trump logging in Municipal Forest Reserve
Almost three decades ago, North Cowichan’s Forest Advisory Committee retained a consultant to review municipal logging on Maple Mountain and to ask people and organizations to fill out a questionnaire…
The Fake WE Scandal and the DipperCon Monster
It's been that kind of holiday. I should have been in Scotland running wild in the highlands, but instead I'm practically a prisoner in Toronto. Yesterday I was planning to…
Street Writing …or?
Street Writing – that’s the term I have been applying to what I have been doing since mid May. The activity has evolved from simply me sitting on some infrastructure…
The sun sets on Hong Kong
Once an enterprise Canadians went to war for, the British Empire is now in disgrace. And no wonder. It owns many sins. The Atlantic slave trade, the Kenyan gulag, the…
The Great Athabascan Write Off
It’s not like Justin Trudeau and Jason Kenney couldn’t see this coming. It’s just that they wouldn’t. Bloomberg reports that energy giant, Exxon, is preparing to write off certain fossil…
Plague Update: Science In Use
Right Wing media started this year telling people that the new Coronavirus was the flu, and would cause no deaths in America. Fast forward to August and almost 150,000 Americans…
The Answer To Cancer – Important Video
Extremely important – and FREE VIEWING this afternoon. (Wed, Aug. 5, 2020) Video will be taken offline at 9pm ET, when Episode Two goes live. Episode One is two hours,…
Don’t blame COVID-19 for new Site C dam cost overruns and delays, energy experts say
BC Hydro has classified the health of the most expensive public project in B.C. history as ‘red,’ blaming the pandemic for Site C’s deepening woes, but significant problems had emerged…