“Displacement activity” is how the Financial Times columnist, Simon Kuper, describes the infuriating fondness of our political leadership to become absorbed in secondary matters, even trivialities, while they ignore the…
The United States has reaped enormous benefits from the global consensus that treats the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. No country, it seems, is as aware of this…
This comes directly from the business page of Canada’s most oil-friendly newspaper, The Calgary Herald. It’s from April 24, 2017 to be exact. China’s ambassador to Canada tried to allay…
Not since the time of the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts at the turn of the 20th century was so much owned by so few I’m pretty sure I’ve never spent…
Are Canadian governments giving away the country’s fossil energy resources? It seems our energy producers, always ready with political cash to throw around (remember Christy Clark?), are getting something of…
In 1858 Abraham Lincoln was fighting for his state’s Republican nomination for the US Senate. Some believe that Lincoln foretold the calamity that awaited America, its most bloody war ever,…
If this thing works, they won’t have to fire a round to deal a severe blow to Western military forces. Russia says it will begin testing a new photonic radar…
IMF chief Christine Legard has added her voice to the call for urgent action on climate change – and growing inequality. “As I’ve said before, if we don’t do anything…
I like to think of the Council of Canadians as a political party in its own right although I understand why it is not and must never be a party.…
Don’t usually associate the University of Calgary with climate change research but… A new study led by U of C’s Cryosphere Climate Research Group finds that Arctic sea ice is…
That’s a tall order, Mohammed, even for a crown prince. A lot of people won’t want you to live to see the day. Mohammed bin Sultan, crown prince of Saudi…
Ask Michael Bloomberg
Neoliberal, free market capitalism, has had a good run since it was ushered in by Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney. There’s been plenty of time to watch it in action and,…
Most of us know that neoliberalism, ushered in 40 years ago by Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney, has run its course. If you bump into him, please let Justin in on…
It was possibly one of the biggest yawners in recent years when the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that, globally, mankind had about 60 years of soil fertility…
Vlad Putin claims the world is on the brink of developming of a new super weapon. Vladimir Putin warned a crowd of young students that scientists in Russia will soon…
Hide and Seek is back. US Navy surface units in the Mediterranean were caught unaware last May when a new Russian sub launched a salvo of cruise missiles at targets…
We’re nearing this year’s global climate summit in Bonn, Germany. What a fitting time for Trump to fill the White House environmental advisory post. And the nomination goes to –…
Only not, perhaps, in a good way. We, mankind, us, you, me – have so f#@ked up our oceans that the creatures who call them home are in a world…
It’s not just a nice idea. It’s more than some feel good proposition. It, electoral reform, may be our society’s last best chance of restoring representative democracy. Justin Trudeau teased…
