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Is Trudeau Being Fed a Load of Pipeline Bunk? Petro-Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing.
Canada's new prime minister may be swallowing a diet carefully laced with nonsense about our nation's controversial pipelines. Economist and former CEO of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, Robyn…
IMF Not Finished Screwing with the Greek People
From the "You play ball with me and I'll stick the bat up your... " file. The International Monetary Fund, having brought Greek's Syrzia government to bended knee, has figured…
Good Samaritan’s Remorse
There were plenty of warm, fuzzy feelings for western European nations as they threw open their doors to a horde of refugees fleeing the hell on Earth of modern Syria.…
"The Good of the People Comes Before the Law." The Bullet We Dodged?
Thanks to the Supreme Court of Canada we never had to learn how far Stephen Harper would have been willing to go in indulging his authoritarian instincts had he not…
Really, We’re Supposed to Lament the Passing of PostMedia? We’ll be Worse Off For It?
A moderately well known political pundit, sometime newspaper columnist and blogger recently lamented the approaching demise of the PostMedia group of newspapers of a sort.I don't begrudge him his lament.…
Less Than Meets the Eye. The National Observer Deflates Kevin O’Leary
ISIS O'Leery???There are some things you can pretty much assume with a blowhard. One is that, beneath the pomposity and bluster, there's a different story - call it "reality."
It’s a Record! 2016 the Hottest Year Ever.
I know, I know. It's only January. We just declared 2015 the hottest year in recorded history. It sounds a little premature to proclaim 2016 the new record holder with…
Back to the Drawing Boards. Sea Level Rise Will Be Twice What We’ve Been Told to Expect.
What's a mere 1.5 mm per year? That depends.Researchers from the University of Bonn have found that we have underestimated sea level rise due to ocean warming by about half.“To…
Oh Dear, This Will Not Go Down Well.
In Houston, a grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has come down with two indictments.Only they're not against Planned Parenthood.Indicted are two anti-abortion activists the grand jury concluded had committed the…
The Tyee Asks, "Will Trudeau Stop the Madness?"
The madness is the collapse of Canada's syphilitic, corporate newspaper cabal. It's a nasty, diseased thing wobbling along in its death throes.Writing in The Tyee, Marc Edge says if we're…
Fossil Fuelers on Borrowed Time?
Fossil fuels come in a range of flavours - gas, coal, oil, bitumen - but their days are numbered.Supposedly one of the cleanest, natural gas, is the subject of a…
"We’re a Bunch of Racists"
At the Sundance film festival, Danny DeVito, Don Cheadle and Sam Neill addressed the controversy over the sublime whiteness of the Academy Awards. Softspoken DeVito put it on the line.
Trump’s Pipeline Deal
What Could Will Possibly Go Wrong?Maybe "deal" is too generous a term. Let's call it Donald Trump's pipedream.Contenders for the Republican presidential nomination all favour the Keystone XL pipeline project…
TV Sucks. Why Do We Have to Pay So Much For It?
If I had my way it'd be "give me 232, 240, 241, 270 and 279" or something sounding remarkably like that. I want my television feed cut to about five…
A Quick End to the Pipeline Debate
I got a chilling reminder yesterday that the federal Liberals are probably still Conservative-Lite when the Liberal Loudmouth came out in support of the Alberta Wildrose Party's Brian Jean's attack…
Another Record In the Bag.
Don't get too excited. It won't last.NASA ran its numbers. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, ran its numbers. They showed the same thing - 2015 was the warmest…
Beware Really, Really Smart Old Men
If you're not into dystopia you would do well to steer clear of the likes of James Lovelock, Martin Rees and, now, Steven Hawking. They're all looking to our future…
A Declaration of War – On the Future
Just when you thought you had heard all the arguments against oil/gas/bitumen pipelines, Bill McKibben comes up with another that's usually overlooked. What does it mean when outfits like Enbridge…