Sorry, but I still hear that sound of knuckles dragging on the ground.The Conservatives, we're told, have removed a provision in their policy book that defined marriage as "Adam and…
The G7 leaders have struck a pact to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025. It sounds great, in principle, but do we have any reason to believe them?In Canada our…
He's not your TV weather guy. When he gets it wrong he's in trouble. Paul Douglas owns a company that provides weather forecasts to Fortune 500 companies that need to…
It's a pretty simple proposition. If there are three things that will probably kill you and you put your efforts into fighting one of them the other two that you…
A number of Liberal senators say they'll oppose the Trudeau government's assisted dying legislation when it reaches the upper chamber.Senator Jim Cowan put the argument as plainly as possible: "The…
Thank God Canada doesn't produce cluster bombs or else Steffie Dion would have writer's cramp signing the contracts. From Foreign Policy:Frustrated by a growing death toll, the White House has…
Vancouver's alternative media outlet, the National Observer, says that Canada needs to go after Facebook and Google for millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.Canada's newspapers are bleeding money. The problem…
A new report released by the US National Institutes of Health has reignited the cell phone/cancer issue. A major, multi-year study concludes that cell phone exposure is linked to two…
Where is Lee Harvey Oswald, now that we need him? Donald Trump vows to derail the Paris climate agreement, virtually ending any prospect of averting runaway global warming. This man…
Was he trying to convey a message to the people that, if they vote to leave the EU, this is the future that awaits them?There he was, Britain's own prime…
Something to dwell on over the weekend.
It's not severe drought or epic floods, some of them lasting months or years. It's not severe storm events of ever increasing frequency, duration and intensity. It's not sea level…
Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Ben van Beurden, says the energy giant won't be moving into solar energy until it proves profitable.I know something that might change Ben's mind. Eliminate all…
Sorry, Ruth Ellen.
That's the formal name of Shifty Steve Harper's new company. Joining him are, oh so predictably, Ray Novak (unemployed prime ministerial ball scratcher) and Jeremy Hunt, veteran Harper advisor.Actually, HAC…
Close, but no cigar.Exxon and Chevron shareholders have voted down resolutions demanding that their companies explore their vulnerability to climate change action.Chevron shareholders voted 41% in favour. Exxon shareholders came…
This one's too good to pass up.Dateline: Rhydypandy, a village in Wales.A flock of sheep has gone on what is being described as a "psychotic rampage" through the village of…
The Harper/Ambrose Conservatives are gathering in Vancouver for a whoop-up. Seems like an odd place for Tories to gather. Sure it's beautiful, much nicer than any place where they still…
He rose to fame by taking down Michael Zehaf-Bebeau when the gunman stormed Parliament's centre block. That probably had something to do with former House of Commons Sergeant at Arms,…
You knew they're grotesque. You knew they're dirty. You knew they create massive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The Athabasca Tar Sands are an environmental calamity.All that and…
