Canadians, especially western Canadians, still see our country as a petro-state rich in oil and gas. Bill McKibben, of 350.org, says technology has already put that dream to rest. If…
Environmental activist, Bill McKibben, of 350.org, has written a piece for Scientific American that cuts through the chaff to reveal what any hope of forestalling runaway climate change is going…
Chris Kilford has written an excellent opinion piece in The Ottawa Citizen. The former Canadian Forces colonel served as air attache to Turkey from 2011 until 2014, experience that gives…
Justin Trudeau has done a bit of redecorating. Gone into storage is the desk used by Stephen Harper. The prime minister wanted something a little smaller. He might not have…
Kinsella reminds us today to be very afraid of ISIS, that we're all in the terrorists' gunsights, and he's even got a link to the New York Times to prove…
One of the few, powerful weapons Palestinians have against Israel are video clips of Israeli military abuses posted to YouTube and Facebook. You don't have to see many of them…
Sausalito, California man, Henry Wolf, has a dandy 1993 BMW motorcycle complete with custom Corbin seat that he's probably looking to unload.Wolf just walked out of a California court house…
Would that there were more signs of life in the upcoming COP 21 climate summit in Paris.As it is, next week may be the most important week in the future…
From the "Only In America" file.Scene: A waffle house in Biloxi, Mississippi. It's 1 a.m. A waitress is working the graveyard shift. 45-year old Johnny Mount is scarfing something, probably…
To some of Silicon Valley's best and brightest, micro-dose LSD has become a popular, performance enhancing drug.Young professionals in the technological hub are microdosing on lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and…
Just a day after boasting that he personally gave the order for Turkish fighter jets to down a Russian bomber, Turkish president Recep Erdogan seems to be having the political…
Now that ISIS is still running all over the Caliphate (borderland of Iraq and Syria) and the blood feud is underway between the Hatfields (Russia) and McCoys (Turkey), you might…
In the wake of the Paris attacks, president Hollande ordered a French bombing campaign against the Islamic State's 'headquarters' in Raqqa, Syria. In The Guardian, Jurgen Todenhofer writes that Hollande…
Turkish president Recep Erdogan has thrown fuel on the fire by claiming he personally ordered Turkish jets to shoot down the Russian Su-24 bomber on Tuesday.The facts strongly suggest this…
What gives terrorist leaders sleepless nights? It's not us. It's not their enemies. What they fear most is becoming invisible, boring - losing the support of their base, rich and…
We should all defer to the science types and their powerful consensus when it comes to us, the laity, having to make decisions on complex issues such as climate change.…
The establishing point: the U.S. military command has issued such a string of inconsistent explanations and excuses, effortlessly shifting from one to another as they were disproven that it doesn't…
From ForeignPolicy.com.Some Russians have described shoot-down in larger historical terms: it is the first time that there has been a real, military conflict between Russia and NATO, wrote the liberal…
It's hard to imagine what the jury is going to make of this James Forcillo's explanation of why he emptied his service pistol, nine rounds in all, into Sammy Yatim…
This is rapidly becoming an international knife fight in a phone booth. In reaction to yesterday's downing by Turkish fighters of a Russian Su-24 light bomber and the subsequent shootdown…
