Some Refreshing Leadership
Now that Canada’s plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and further threaten coastal waters has been dealt a massive blow by the Federal Court of Appeal, I suggest it…
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This About Sums It Up
And it begs the question: Is our species really worth saving? Recommend this Post
Please Watch This, Catherine McKenna
As Minister of Environment and Climate Change, I think it is important for you to see what the practice of real integrity, as opposed to the mouthing of inane platitudes,…
Pray For Jimbo
Apparently, crazed televangelist evangelical Jim Bakker has enemies that are legion. “I don’t dare wear a Trump hat. The evil in this country is so bad if I was a…
These Are Brave Ladies
When you are young, it is easy to find heroes, people whose daring exploits elicit awe and wonder. When I was a kid, Superman was my comic book hero. Although…
Memo To The Press
As usual, Robert Reich is spot-on in his insights. Here, he offers some solid advice to real journalists on how they should cover Trump: Recommend this Post
About That Odour In The Air
While The Great Pretender and his faux Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, continue to utter platitudes about climate-change action while visiting formerly Beautiful British Columbia, smoke is…
It’s All Connected
Humans are a lamentably short-sighted species. Sure, we understand some of the basic underlying principles that govern our existence, but that knowledge seems to have little overall impact on the…
Days Of Outrage
The expression of outrage can serve a useful purpose, no doubt. It can promote new awareness that facilitates change; it can lead to levels of engagement that ultimately may improve…
George Orwell Meets Rudy Giuliani
“Truth isn’t truth,” proclaims the increasingly zany and demented uncle known as Rudy Giuliani. Start at the 1:20 mark to take the full measure of the man, the man he…
Jack Dorsey, Hypocrite
I am posting less these days, likely because I am losing faith in the possibility of positive change. I realize now, more than ever, that our fate is not in…
Playing To The Lowest Common Denominator
…looks like this: Recommend this Post
On Canadian Hypocrisy
While many (but not our strangely silent allies) have cheered Canada’s tweet critical of Saudi Arabia’s abuse of human rights’ activists, it has not escaped others that the gesture has…
Putting Everything Into Perspective
No one did it better than George Carlin. Recommend this Post
Hothouse Earth
Hot on the heels of the news that Justin’s folly will now cost taxpayers at least another $1.9 billion comes widespread acknowledgement that we may indeed be reaching the climate-change…
I Don’t Know Why
… but I never tire of watching lunatics like Jim Bakker and his brethren. Guess I am just desperate in these trying times for some comic relief, and believe me,…
A Betrayal With Far-Reaching Implications
Despite the inspiring persona he peddled to win the last election, Justin Trudeau has turned out to be just another politician. As hard as that might be to accept, his…
In The Realm Of Canadian Political Whoredom
I nominate Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine Mckenna as Queen: And here is what she had to say after news of the Trudeau climate betrayal emerged: Prostitutes are…
Speaking Of Neoliberal Tools
It is never nice to shatter someone’s illusions, but sometimes it is necessary. That is exactly what iPolitics is doing as it reports a not unexpected but nonetheless egregious betrayal…