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…
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…
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…
“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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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. 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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, 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…
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…
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Polly Toynbee writes that the coronavirus has highlighted how poverty kills – and how a concerted fight against inequality is a precondition to…
It’s become trendy to be thrifty. Frugal, even. There’s always been a case for being frugal, but now it’s more apparent to a society facing supply chain disruptions from an…