The CEO of Chrysalix Venture Capital says “let’s get honest about the outlook for the Alberta oil sands and Trans Mountain.” In Wal van Lierop’s opinion, neither makes any financial…
It’s hard to feel too much sympathy for people whose main concern is their multi-million dollar beachfront home. Yet, all along the American coastline, you can hear them grumble and…
The popular narrative is that British Columbia is sabotaging Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. BC is Justin Trudeau’s whipping boy. The province is Rachel Notley’s whipping boy. Even Calgary mayor,…
Back in February, I did an item about the largest corporations in the US and Canada respectively: Here are the current standings 1. Apple – $849 billion 2. Google –…
Michael Harris sums it up as well as any: When the only thing refugees can do to advance their cause is present themselves at someone’s border to be shot, you…
It’s that old adage – when you’re trying to get out of a hole the first thing is to stop digging. You don’t make the hole even deeper. You don’t…
It’s not that hard to figure out. You’ve got somewhere between 1,400 and 2,400 dead and wounded on one side and, on the other, zero – no dead, no wounded.…
Vice.com has analyzed the unmentioned but very real costs associated with the Trans-Mountain pipeline and the numbers are, dare I say it, “appalling.” What’s interesting is that the Vice numbers…
When Justin Trudeau spoke to graduating students of New York University yesterday he criticized the growth in identity politics. I commend him for that. It’s a phenomenon that fosters clannish…
Der Spiegel has called upon Europe to join the resistance to Trump America. The editorial says Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Iran nuclear pact has undermined the North Atlantic consensus.…
Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, says he’s “appalled” at the massacre of protesting Palestinians by Israeli army snipers inside the gulag that is Gaza. Somebody apparently slipped JT…
We’re in for a ripper of a wildfire season. I suppose they’re all “rippers” these days for the Great White Northern petro-state in this the era of anthropogenic climate change.…
I’ve been writing about this for years as I’ve watched the arrival of southern fish species into British Columbia’s coastal waters, everything from humpback whales to sardines. Fish and marine…
Thanks, NASA, although you could have learned as much over lunch with Maude Barlow. A “groundbreaking” (pun, sorry) study by NASA concludes that water shortages will be the key environmental…
Science is fast closing in on Monsanto’s controversial weedkiller, “RoundUp.” A chemical found in the world’s most widely used weedkiller can have disrupting effects on sexual development, genes and beneficial…
A tweet. That’s how the government of Justin Trudeau responded to yesterday’s massacre of Palestinians by Israeli snipers and Justin’s bestie, Benjamin Netanyahu. Deeply concerned by violence in Gaza Strip.…
The more unviable the Athabasca Tar Sands become, the more extreme measures politicians will accept to keep that corpse warm. There’s nothing for it but to drag it out into…
She’s the bain of the Oil Patch and every greasy, dishonest petro-pol in Canada, Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley very much included. Robyn Allan is a force to be reckoned…
Israel didn’t act alone yesterday when its snipers slaughtered 58 unarmed Gazan protesters and wounded another 1,300. Trump, being the truly vile snake that he is, blamed the killings and…
I remember when the Reeve of Gloucester, old Doc McQuarrie, explained to me that the key to politics was being able to tell “the difference between scratching your ass and…
