Coming Soon to Your Little Part of The Coast
This will be showing at the local community centre next week. It’s kinda making the rounds. Sort of thing that can bring people together. I heard some talking head today,…
The Mound of Sound
Another Waypoint Passed
While we’re on the subject of pimping bitumen, pipelines and supertankers, let’s pause to observe another waypoint passed in our race to increase our atmospheric loading of greenhouse gases. 410.…
When You Add It All Up, What We’re Doing Doesn’t Make a Lot of Sense.
Oceans make up 70 per cent of the planet’s surface but they absorb 90 per cent of the heat emitted by global warming. The remaining 10 per cent is carried…
The Rehabilitation of Marx. Happy 200th, Karl!
Tomorrow is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. I first encountered the Communist Manifesto in officer school. I understood almost none of it but I discovered that…
Kim Closing Nuclear Test Site. All Hail President Trump.
The Republicans think Don Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for bringing North Korea to heel. Kim Jong Un did, after all, promise to close the country’s nuclear test site. Way…
It’s What They Do. Enbridge Fined for Pipeline Inspection Violations.
You would have thought that after the horrible Kalamazoo River dilbit fiasco, Canadian pipeline giant, Enbridge, would have been a little more conscious about pipeline safety. Apparently not so much.…
Governments’ Fossil Fuel Windfall is Flagging – Nikiforuk Again, Of Course
To hear Justin Trudeau tell it, Canada’s fossil fuels are the key to our prosperity. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk says that’s pure bullshit. A comprehensive report on Canada’s energy sector…
Climate Change is a Great Threat. The Greater Threat Lies in How We’re Governed.
There are more than 14 thousand posts on this blog. Sometimes I pick a year and a month and go back to see what I was writing at that time.…
"A Manipulative, Secretive and Occasionally Deceitful Politician"
When it comes to summing up the deeply disappointing Liberal prime minister, Michael Harris does it as well as anyone. Canadians dumped the Conservatives for a young, attractive politician who…
Cambridge Analytical is Dead. Long Live Emerdata.
Cambridge Analytica has been assigned into bankruptcy in both the UK and the US. The company pulled the pin claiming that, after the Brexit/Trump election scandals it was left with…
Well, There’s a Snag.
It’s been recognized for years that the way to mitigate the dangers of and opposition to the Athabasca Tar Sands and its pipeline and tanker infrastructure is to refine bitumen…
I Have Never Struggled With a Post As Much As This One.
I read the report a week ago in The Guardian. I was going to write a post on it and then I thought, nah, this is just too dark. I…
This is Just Sad
Legendary guitar maker, Gibson, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Gibson Brands, the makers of rock’s favourite Les Paul, SG and Flying V guitars, has filed for bankruptcy protection citing a…
There It Is. I Knew He’d Go There Eventually.
Justin Trudeau says British Columbians wouldn’t be enduring such high gas prices if only Kinder Morgan’s Trans Canada pipeline was up and running. It’s right there in the Globe and…
Little Marco Rubio Blows the Whistle on the Republican’s Tax Cuts
Things are pretty bad when Florida senator can’t look the other way, even for the team. Marco Rubio says “there’s no evidence whatsoever” that the recent Republican tax cuts are…
National Observer Slams Canada’s Business Writers for Media Malpractice
…it is not the media’s job to assume that opinions without evidence are equal in worth to opinions which are fact-based. Or to assume that the scale and decibel level…
Think Of It As a Glacier the Size Of Britain.
Glaciers are typically an ice sheet sitting atop some hard surface, usually rock. With climate change they’ve been retreating, melting, turning that ice into runoff water that finds its way…
The Vancouver That Might Have Been. A Tribute to the Legend, Harry Rankin.
Most Vancouverites of a certain vintage remember 1986 as the year that begat the ruin of their once magnificent city. It was the year of Expo 86, the World’s Fair…
Great. Remind Justin of How He Is So Unlike His Father.
Oh, oh, oh, feel the burn. The Tyee has published a letter Jeanne Mikita received from prime minister Trudeau’s office written 19 February, 1970. She thought so much of it…
There’s More Than a Little Trump in Trudeau
He must know he’s seen as a bit of a shitbird out here which would explain why Justin Trudeau made sure to get his ass to Vancouver to announce that…