Apparently, Just An Error In Judgement
I find myself sinking into seemingly irremediable cynicism about the human species. This is but one of the reasons: Recommend this Post
November 2021
Nikiforuk – Back to The Future. No, Really. Party Like It’s 1970.
What if we could go back to the 70s? The early 70s. Global population stood around 3.5 billion (8 billion today). The human ecological footprint had not quite exceeded our…
Has the Other Shoe Finally Dropped? The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Adaptation.
It was a subject of some discussion years ago when the debate focused on whether the world had shifted from one geological epoch, the gentle Holocene, into a new, man-made…
Justin, it’s time to raise the flag again
You may have noticed that the once-proud Canadian emblem, the Maple Leaf flag, has been looking somewhat shamefaced these days. On all federal buildings, the banner has been lowered to…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Christine Gibson writes about the need to start seriously fighting against the dangers posed by a climate breakdown, rather than merely hoping…
Legal Tweet of the Day: November 4, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Air Canada suspends more than 800 unvaccinated workers under new federal rules via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
Why Québec’s big bet on hydropower is bad news for the climate
Photo by Fré Sonneveld/Unsplash Hydro-Québec’s goal to be “the battery of North America” recently received a setback in Maine. Some 60 percent of voters in a November 2 referendum in…
Managing Developer Installed Waste Systems An Uphill Challenge
Originally published by Six Mountains By Larry Pynn SIXMOUNTAINS.CA Regional District waste operations violate BC environmental regulations Read more Read more… The post Managing Developer Installed Waste Systems An Uphill…
Federal Government to Cut Fossil Energy Subsidies – As If.
Sounds good but wait, there’s a catch. The Trudeau government has signed on to some other country’s initiative to stop financing Canadian fossil fuel projects abroad. It sounds like Mr.…
Big legal win today for North Cowichan.
Big legal win today for North Cowichan. The Court of Appeal allowed the Municipality’s appeal of a BC Supreme Court decision related to expansion at Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit, ruling…
The End For Ford
The end for Doug Ford may be just around the corner. At least, that’s the way Bob Hepburn sees it: Anybody who missed Doug Ford’s announcement on Oct. 22 that…
Health care support workers have the highest number of workplace injuries
Lost time injury (LTI) claims for workers compensation by health care support workers have shot up in the last few years, even before COVID-19. For many years, claims were in…
Covid wins again
Canadian airlines require their employees be vaccinated, but governments won’t do likewise with their employees ??? ???? ?? ?????????. A farce. #cdnpoli #onpoli #qcpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 4,…
Liar, Liar, Pants on fire!
Can you imagine prime minister Justin Trudeau telling the G20 country leaders that they have not done enough to save our planet? He told the G20 meeting in Rome last…
On Alberta’s anti-equalization referendum, BQ’s Blanchet tells UCP’s Kenney: Bring it on!
As the folk wisdom goes, be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Jason Kenney got his wish yesterday when Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet told him,…
From The Land Of Freedom
It’s hard not to be inspired by our southern neigbours, eh? Recommend this Post
Dysfunctional duopoly
Far from being “broken,” our political system is doing precisely what it’s designed to do. It wasn’t built to deliver results in the public interest or to foster policy innovation,…
Justin Trudeau’s Extraordinary COP26 Performance
Justin Trudeau is on his way home after three action packed days at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. And it's a fitting end to an amazing year. He led…
How to save the world (from a climate armageddon)
Smoke billows from chimneys at a coal-fired power plant in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on December 12, 2018. Photo by Xu Congjun/Imaginechina. This summer we witnessed, with brutal clarity, the…
Taxing Sugar Drinks Works if the Tax is Known
Soda taxes get proposed often, and they have varying levels of success depending on how they are implemented. A new study reveals that when people are made aware that the…