What? Putin Wasn’t the Only One Who Noticed?
The damage is done. This presidential election campaign has left America’s reputation in tatters around the world. At this point it doesn’t even matter who wins. Harvard professor, Stephen Walt,…
The Mound of Sound
Alberta’s Hundred Billion Dollar Hangover Cure
There’s these two guys, see? Regan Boychuk and Brent O’Neill. Two Albertans. They want to revive Alberta’s collapsed labour market while, at the same time, cleaning up the mess “up…
Russia and the GOP Have the Same Goal for America – Chaos – Or How We Know Who’ll Win the American Election – Trump, No. Clinton, No. Putin, Of Course.
Republican Congressional leaders have been pretty outspoken about one thing – if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, they plan on making the gridlock that beset the Obama administration even worse,…
They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind
Memo to Recep Erdogan and the House of Saud – it’s beginning to look like whirlwind time. ISIS leader al Baghdadi, his forces being driven back from their stronghold in…
Oil Is Death – Van Jones
Social and environmental activist, Van Jones, has a pointed message on fossil energy – it’s death. h/t SaskBoy
Are the GOP Planning to Make America (And the World) Even Worse Off If Trump Loses?
Think Vlad Putin is a threat to America? The Russian thug can’t hold a candle to what Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have in store for their Star Spangled Bungle…
Some Things, It Seems, Just Won’t Die. Remembering the Sponsorship Scandal.
Twenty years is often enough to purge bad memories. It’s fair to say that most Canadians today have only the vaguest and often inaccurate recollection of the Chretien government. One…
Is This White Christian America’s Last Hurrah?
If it is, couldn’t they have found someone a little more Christian than Trump to preside over their swan song?
It Sounds Radical But It’s Not, Not Really.
There’s been no end of weirdness over the past couple of decades but, being the most adaptable species of complex life on Earth, the only creature able to inhabit every…
The FBI Has Finished The Job of De-Legitimizing America’s Democracy
The only thing we know for sure about next week’s election is that either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be proclaimed president elect. Oh yeah, there’s one other thing…
Dear Justin, Please Fix This. NOW!
We knew that Harper and civil liberties were like an oil spill and water. Nothing good could come of that combination. After all, it’s what gave us C-51. In no…
Who Will the "Most Self-Deluded People on Earth" Choose Next Week?
Chris Hedges writes that, when Americans flock to the polls next week, a lot of them will be voting irrationally. There is no shortage of signs of impending environmental catastrophe,…
How About Another Holiday – Wallonia Day?
The federal government might not see it the same way but Ottawa should introduce a new holiday, Wallonia Day. It would mark the day those feisty little Belgian bantams stood…
Electoral Reform? Don’t Hold Your Breath.
Real Change? No, Sorry, Short Change. Alison at Creekside has prepared an important item on remarks by Trudeau’s minister of democratic institutions, Maryam Monsef, during a recent public meeting in…
Is There Anybody In the Wheelhouse?
It was quite a week. We got the latest report, Living Planet 2016, that warned two-thirds of the planet’s wildlife could be gone by 2020. That will mark a half…
Could This Be How Trump Wins the White House?
Is the FBI pulling a Zaccardelli on Hillary Clinton? You may recall how then RCMP commissioner, Giuliano Zaccardelli, gave Harper a leg up by announcing, in the midst of a…
It’s Got Everything, Even a Sarah Palin Cameo
If you liked “The Producers”, you’ll love this:
The Republican Civil War. It’s Already Underway.
Donald Trump has stopped fundraising for the Republican Party that he feels has openly betrayed him. The Republican leadership is turning on the outsider candidate who captured their party, inflicted…
Trade, Trade, Trade
I recall an interview with prime minister Trudeau at the 6-month mark of his ascent to power. He told the interviewer that his overarching responsibility was to be an agent…
Where Has All the Wildlife Gone?
The latest Living Planet Report has been released. A few years ago the World Wildlife Fund in conjunction with the London Zoological Society and other groups issued a LPR that…