He’s still just 28 and yet he may have been the deciding factor in the Brexit referendum. He also played a role in getting Trump into the White House. He…
The Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr finally takes the wraps off the elusive British Columbian with ties to the Liberal Party who is claimed to have hatched the Cambridge Analytica targeting software.…
This is language you don’t hear every day, or at least most of us don’t. Former CIA director, John Brennan, apparently enraged at the punitive firing of former FBI deputy…
When I buy books, I tend to buy used – on the cheap. At the moment I’m working my way through an autobiography of Frederick Douglas, the memoirs of Ulysses…
A report from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science projects that Boston could receive 1.5 feet of sea level rise (from 1992 levels) by 2050. The report also shows that…
California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. In many ways we have a lot more in common among ourselves than we have with the rest of our respective nations. The states…
Here’s the problem in a nutshell: “It’s no exaggeration to say that minds can be changed. Behaviour can be predicted and controlled. I find it incredibly scary. I really do.…
Is Donald Trump about to unleash a fossil energy disaster on the world? CBC News reports that Trump is after nothing less than “energy dominance” and he’s not talking renewables…
Canada’s energy barons corrupted BC premier Christy Clark with massive cheques for campaign expenses. And she delivered. After what we witnessed here on the coast it’s hard not to ask…
I thought if there was one individual in Trump’s White House who was as unimpeachable as Caesar’s wife it was Defense Secretary James Mattis. Of course until just now I…
That’s how I’ll be voting this November when the BC government holds a referendum on electoral reform. And then it will be time for all of us to turn on…
And look what he found: But, hey, did you see that ray? Pretty cool, huh? Or you can just grab your board and go surfing.
New developments in mind control, yippee! Coming soon to a device near you. And you thought Facebook was a problem. When John F. Kennedy was cut down in Dealy Plaza…
What’s that sound I hear? Oh yeah, it’s the sound of knives being sharpened. I was struck when I watched Rex Tillerson give his farewell press briefing yesterday after being…
No one knows how this will end. When Trump decided to slap hefty tariffs on steel and aluminium imports he dragged out the “national security” claim to justify his actions.…
How long have you understood, I mean really accepted, climate change as an immediate, existential threat? For me I can only guess, 20 years perhaps? Twenty years. It was a…
He can’t help himself, not at his age. Donald Trump is a sociopath. He has an uncontrollable impulse to screw everybody. Facts, truth have no relevance to his modus operandi.…
He’s Rachel Notley’s minister of economic development and trade, “Bilious Daren” Bilous. Minister Bilous wins the Arsehole of the Day Award for referring to his fellow NDP legislators in British…
I was recently asked to explain why British Columbia remains in Confederation. I really had to give it some thought but still haven’t come up with a compelling reason. I…
In 2005, former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed wrote a lengthy op-ed in the Globe and Mail on Canadian water security. The final line was nothing if not prescient: “The reality…
