Where a Little "Job Churn" Might Be a Good Idea
It’s all about job security. Who can forget when Cap’n Comfortable, Trudeau’s quite wealthy finance minister, that Morneau guy, told Canadians they would have to accept future of “job churn,”…
The Mound of Sound
What We Need to See For Starters
Even double hulled ships can founder in many ways. Their hulls can still be pierced by rocky projections, especially if they’re battered against those rocks repeatedly in stormy seas. They…
Hot? No, Cool.
Heating is a major contributor to modern energy consumption. We like to keep our homes, workplaces and business we attend nice and comfortable. That takes a lot of energy. Only…
What Comey Left Out
Former FBI director, James Comey, has been getting well deserved comeuppance from the American left for not taking responsibility for the Hillary email fiasco, late campaign, that may have cost…
"Here I Stand" – The Late Rafe Mair on an Independent British Columbia
Lawyer, Social Credit cabinet minister, columnist, broadcaster: Rafe Mair was one of those legendary firebrands British Columbia occasionally produces. Mair died in early October, 2017, seven months after he had…
Who Knows What We Might Learn?
Alberta’s outgoing premier, Rachel Notley, will table legislation permitting that province to put British Columbians under some bizarre form of petro-siege. There’s sheer malevolence to it, Notley’s words make that…
A Huge Breakthrough
It was an accident. Scientists were studying a plastic-eating bacterium found at a waste dump in Japan. They wanted to know what it was, how it worked, what it evolved…
It’s Called "Enmity"
There are plenty of synonyms for “enmity” but somehow never quite enough. Here are some: hostility, animosity, antagonism, friction, antipathy, animus, acrimony, bitterness, rancor, resentment, aversion, ill feeling, bad feeling,…
Just Keep Pushing. Just a Little More.
Justin Trudeau erased any residual doubt that he’s more than a punk yesterday when, following a bizarre meeting with premiers Notley and Horgan, he announced that Ottawa will be using…
Good Morning Fellow Pipeline Owners
Word is that Justin is packing up the federal chequebook and heading to Texas to buy himself – and the rest of us – a lovely pipeline. This way he…
Submit. You Will Submit.
In many parts of our country, a lot of Canadians still fawn over Justin Trudeau, still see him as a delightful alternative to that other guy, Harper. In my part…
You’re Right, Justin. Delusional, but Right.
The prime minister has spoken. Justin Trudeau proclaimed that his pipeline fetish isn’t about “punishing” British Columbia. The man/boy prime minister is utterly, indisputably right. It isn’t about punishing British…
At Last, An Ally. Merci, Quebec.
Let’s hit bully boy Justin where it hurts, in his home province of Quebec, where the government has come out swinging in support of British Columbia. The first and, to…
All that Fuel Just Sitting There Waiting to Burn
It was so much easier when you could think of the Arctic as white, covered in a crisp layer of snow and ice. Today you have to think green as…
Well, With the Week He’s Had Who Wouldn’t Want to Let Off a Little Steam?
The United States has launched missile strikes against government targets in Syria. This time Britain and France tossed in a few missiles of their own, brothers in arms sort of…
Horgan’s Reasonable Overture
British Columbia premier, John Horgan, has an eminently reasonable solution to Justin Trudeau’s and Rachel Notley’s pipeline fetish – refine that cruddy bitumen here and sell it on the Canadian…
A New Problem – Oceanic Heat Waves
It’s only logical that global warming would not spare our oceans. Not only do they absorb most, about 70%, of our atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting in worsening acidification, but the…
How Democracy Dies. The Orban Template.
Hungary is now, essentially, a totalitarian state – within the European Union, within NATO. In Andrew Sullivan’s column in New York magazine, Yascha Mounk explains how democracy died this week…
A Terrible Foreboding. Trump in Meltdown.
There’s never a calm moment when America is ruled by someone as mentally unstable and unfit for office as the current White House occupant, the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump.…
A World in Peril, the Great Atlantic Conveyor
One thing all petro-pols learn quickly is how to turn their backs on calamities closing in on us. And, yes, that includes Justin Trudeau. He’s in the club. So, when…