The World’s First "Buy Before You Fly" Warplane Explained
It's customary when a country buys an ultra-expensive bit of aerial kit to get all the contenders for the contract to bring their warplanes to one place for a competitive…
The Mound of Sound
Trudeau’s Betrayal
To Murray Dobbin, Justin Trudeau is looking more and more like Stephen Harper with each passing month. C-51, BDS, the TPP and so much more. But it's the venal Saudi…
Wow. Greenland’s Summer Melt Starts a Month Early – With a Bang !!
Imagine a cubic kilometre of ice water. That's a gigatonne, one billion metric tonnes of water. Here's the kicker - in a single day. It happened on the Greenland ice…
Trump Attracts Some Very Ugly Supporters
She came to America with her parents 26-years ago to escape from anti-semitism in Russia. Since then Julia Ioffe has established herself as a journalist writing for the New York…
Dear Ms. McKenna, Don’t Be Shy, Spread the Word
Canadian EnviroMin, Catherine McKenna, is onto something. She says the key to dealing with climate change impacts on the Arctic is to have "real conversations" with the Innu who inhabit…
A Cautionary Tale – Oil’s Days are Numbered
Sorry, Rachel. Sorry, Justin. Sorry, Brad. The heyday of high-cost, high-carbon oil is drawing to a close. Not your fault. You just happen to be stuck with the filthiest, costliest…
It Was Always Just a Matter of Time
Even Republicans are beginning to lose their taste for climate change denialism. According to Scientific American this is big news. Hardly.The Achilles' Heel of climate change denialism is that it…
Donald Trump Really Doesn’t Get It
Donald Trump sees America as the selfless benefactor of the world. In his worldview, America gives, everybody else takes.The Big Orange Behemoth figures that, if he wins the White House,…
Let’s Give the Conservatives a Hand In This Their Moment of Despair
Pity the Conservatives as they face their rudderless future. They don't know to whom they can turn. Their panic is such that a good many of them would welcome the…
A Noble but Futile Effort
They're the backbone of human rights organizations in Canada. They've written an open letter to prime minister Justin Trudeau calling on the Liberal government to rescind its approval of the…
Top Republican Kid Diddler Gets-15 Months
“The defendant is a serial child molester, Nothing is more stunning than having ‘serial child molester’ and ‘Speaker of the House’ in the same sentence.”With those words, US Federal District…
Another Reason Why the Demise of PostMedia is Way Overdue
There it is, right on the National Post. "'An Unequivocal Act of Integrity' - Harper's lawyer defends former PM's role in Duffy Affair."The Ottawa Citizen's Ian MacLeod introduces us to…
Justin, Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
A word of caution for the prime minister of Canada - Don't even think about it."It" is the loathed Northern Gateway pipeline initiative designed to transport hazmat sludge, also known…
Will Justin Toss Us in Shifty’s Jails?
It reminds me of the Bismark running at top speed trying to break out of the Denmark Strait to reach the target-rich North Atlantic hunting grounds. Only this time the…
A Little More Honesty Than We’re Ready For
Ah, screw it. Let's just throw in the towel.That's the pitch on climate change and Canada's bitumen bounty from CBC business scribe, Don Pittis.The nub of the difficulty comes down…
A Glimpse Into ISDS and Free Trade Deals that Aren’t
There's a powerful and growing argument that globalization has failed - long ago - and that the free trade deals it spawned evidence that the concept has been hijacked with…
Erdogan Parodies? That’s Already Been Done
Just sayin'And, coming soon:
Just When Dion Needs All the Help He Can Get
It's been one hell of a 2016 for our foreign affairs minister, Stephane Dion, as he's had to repeatedly defend Canada's sale of $15-billion (now closer to $12-billion thanks to…
What Do the Saudis Know that Justin, Rachel and Brad Haven’t Figured Out?
The rulers of Saudi Arabia want to wean their government off its dependence on oil revenues by - wait for it - 2020.One part of the plan will see shares…
A Prosecutor Asks the Wright Questions
The National Observer's, Sandy Garossino, a businesswoman, journalist and former Crown prosecutor has done a brilliant job of wading into the aftermath and stench of the Duffy trial to ask…