They’re changing the guard at Trump’s state department. Rex Tillerson got the boot this morning in a manner befitting the Mango Mussolini’s notion of presidential propriety. He read about it,…
Don’t sell that old snowblower just yet. The last three or four years have seen freakishly warm spells in the dark of the Arctic winter. Temperatures 35 degrees Celsius have…
Justin Trudeau sticks tenaciously to his story that the Kinder Morgan dilbit pipeline is the price we must pay for a low-carbon Canada. What Trudeau is referring to is his…
Did Putin order Trump to axe secretary of state Rex Tillerson or does Trump just know his master’s will. Why did Tillerson get the heave ho this morning via Trump’s…
In the United States, the Secretary of State is sort of a big deal. He/she is in the president’s inner circle, the “long pants” team. They also become a household…
It’s becoming increasingly hard to write almost anything about climate change. There are no longer any stark words of warning that seem to connect in any meaningful way with most…
This is the Oregon experience. It ought to be Canada’s also. That’s precisely what the Supreme Court of Canada concluded was our constitutional right under the Charter in its powerful,…
In British Columbia, First Nations, environmentalists and a big segment of the general public are gearing up for a war against a dangerous and potentially catastrophic product, diluted bitumen also…
Unfair or not, Justin Trudeau has taken a hit in the public’s mind over his pretty clumsy trip to India. With JT et famille sporting an elaborate wardrobe of Bollywood’s…
He was a former Russian intelligence officer nabbed in Moscow in 2004 for having betrayed his country to Britain’s MI6 in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was a colonel…
It’s started in Maryland but the Old Line state may be just the first. A bill is working its way through the state legislature that anyone running for president of…
I haven’t been posting much lately. I’ve been writing quite a bit, a small mountain of drafts, but I just never finish them. I give up. I’ve accepted that we…
Trump’s top economics advisor, Gary Cohn, is jumping ship. Cohn warned the Mango Mussolini that he might pack up his briefcase if Trump went ahead with a tariff war over…
“A society that indulges in the mass arrests of its own citizens may not yet be a dictatorship, but nor is it any longer staunchly democratic. And things are decidedly…
Abraham Lincoln quote scripture when he warned that the slavery debate imperiled America. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” At the time, a couple of years before the Civil…
At 81, David Suzuki has declared himself to be in the “death zone,” an apparent allusion to looming mortality that has given him greater impetus to speak out. Since Justin…
CBC News reports that Canada’s hope to be exempt from Trump’s trade war on imported steel and aluminium has been shot down. There’s been speculation that the tariff regime could…
I remember when the United States introduced the M-16 for use by its troops in Viet Nam (back when that was two words). It was a real departure from previous…
I have my own reservations about Rachel Maddow. Sometimes she gets just a little carried away which is never a good thing if you’re chasing witches. That’s why I rarely…
The Legendary B-61 – Old Reliable Remember, this is the same Donald Trump who, when still a candidate for the Republican nomination, asked his nuclear weapons tutors, what was the…
