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The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the…
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough Uncomputable: Play and Politics In the…
No post last Saturday because I was deep in the final stages of preparing my new book Against the Seas for submission. It was all done by Monday afternoon, the…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sarah Zhang writes that the three factors which will determine the path of the COVID pandemic over the winter are our own immunity,…
Editorial cartoonists step into the breach. H/t Patrick Corrigan Recommend this Post
It’s an old song. Canada’s first major climate calamity* arrives and the Greens are nowhere to be found. Annamie Paul has only just handed in her key to the executive…
Yesterday, Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all charges. No one should be surprised. Shree Paradkar lists three other examples of American injustice: Tamir Rice, 12. Just 12 years…
“Getting older sucks. You’ll see. I didn’t feel that way at your age either…” The first time I heard this, I had just turned 30, and I’ve been hearing it…
If premier Ford of Ontario and the federal government argue about it long enough, that $10-a-day daycare will become mute. In a time of serious inflationary pressures, ten dollars has…
“Infrastructure/resilience/climate change” Every cloud does have a silver lining. The natural disaster that is today’s southwestern British Columbia has got officials speaking the words they kept to themselves for decades.…
The motion that would have quickly solved Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s most pressing political problem failed to pass last night at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting near Calgary.…
Originally published by https://sixmountains.ca Those who did not would have had wages docked By Larry Pynn A major BC forest company would have paid employees to attend a pro-logging rally…
Men I Trust – Tree Among Shrubs
I appeared on CTV’s News at 5 with Matt Young today, around 24:00 in this show. And of course, there were a few points I didn’t make in the process,…
Trees fight back: First-ever use of tree DNA in prosecution sends poacher to prison Originally posted by the Washington Post By Larry Pynn Trees fight back: First-ever use of tree…
In the beginning of human civilization, wildlife made up most of mammalian life on Earth. By comparison, humans were almost insignificant. Today, in this Anthropocene, our man-made geological epoch, mankind…
Originally published by the Vancouver Sun By Vaughn Palmer Local governments right to determine growth of housing faces challenge from Housing Minister David Eby. He is threatening to hit municipalities…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all counts in trial over Kenosha shootings via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our…
President Donald Trump with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó at the White House. Photo by Evan Vucci. Last year, then Special Representative Elliott Abrams declared that the Trump Administration was…
The jury into the Kyle Rittenhouse shooting of three protesters has aquitted him on all charges. One more straw on that old camel’s weary back.
Reconciliation is a sham to our political leaders
Our political leaders have a deficient understanding of reconciliation. What they want to reconcile are the contradictory interests between Capital and Indigenous self-determination. Ultimately, our political leaders, embodied by the…