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…
2020
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…
$10 Oil Bearing Down on US Markets
The world oil supply is bursting at the seams. World oil producers are running out of places to put it. The Saudis (and others) have been so backed up with…
$0 Oil Has Come to Athabasca. Hey, How Are Those Pipelines Coming Along?
From Oilprice.com: Canadian oil companies have begun shutting down steam-driven oil sands production projects as prices continue to fall, Reuters reports, noting the move could have dire long-term consequences for…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bruce Campbell writes that we have a needed opportunity to reimagine how our economy and society are organized, while Gregory Beatty rightly argues…
A Timely Idea
Poland and Denmark have decided that there’ll be no government bailouts for corporations registered in offshore tax havens. The Danish finance ministry on Saturday extended its bailout program into July…
Review: The Serpent of Venice
The Serpent of Venice is a mash-up extraordinaire of The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Cask of Amontillado, starring Pocket, the lead from Moore’s… Continue ReadingReview: The Serpent of…
Institutional Legacies of Violence: Neoliberalism and Custodial Care in Ontario
Many residents at the Huronia Regional Centre, an institution for developmentally disabled children operated by the government of Ontario between 1876 and 2009, suffered long-term neglect as well as physical…
Facebook Corrections Leave Questions
The problem with this Facebook censorship/correction of disinformation is that they’re really bad at censoring. My blog has been blocked for years, and they’ve never responded to my appeal to…
The new world
A few months from now, there will be two classes of people: those with proven immunity, and those who don’t. It’s going to upend a lot of the old class…
Organizing the unemployed in Alberta: Lessons from past depressions
William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood during the Lawrence textile strike on the Lawrence Common, Lawrence, Massachussetts, March 14, 1912. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Periods of mass unemployment, like the daily-worsening…
Covid-19, the Other Killer
By now everyone knows that Covid-19 attacks its victims in their anatomical boiler room – the heart and lungs. But Covid-19 has a new and very dangerous ally. These people,…
Talking Tragedy in Nova Scotia on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We had a hard discussion about the tragedy from…