Let’s Not Get Too Gushy About Rob Ford
I get it, he’s got cancer. With the sludge that guy has pushed down his gullet and snorted up his nose, quelle surprise! As our friend, The Salamander, pointed out,…
The Mound of Sound
What, Were They Completely Out of Helicopter Gunships?
Alright punks, recess is over! Think of your gradeschool principal. Now visualize that principal clad in body armour, kevlar, clutching a grenade launcher and perched behind the wheel of an…
What’s Next for Canad’s Armed Forces – Dumpster Diving?
Yes, That Old! Hardly a week passes without another example of how Stephen Harper has neglected the armed forces he boastfully claims to revere. The jumped up little shit doesn’t…
A Big Win for SpaceX
He may be the Charles Lindburgh of our day. Elon Musk – born in South Africa to a Canadian mother. Traveled to Canada, became a Canadian citizen, studied in Canada…
Enough Talk About Inequality. It’s Time Our Government Acted.
I don’t expect Stephen Harper to take any effective action on inequality. That’s a problem facing the Canadian people, not the oil barons of Calgary or his chums in the…
Hard Times on the Miramichi
When we think of a good run of sockeye salmon on the Fraser River, numbers of 20 to 30-million come to mind. That’s one run of one species of salmon…
Another Part of the Puzzle – Our Warming Oceans
The playpen of climate change denialists is on temperature change. They like to cherry pick statistics, sweep the bulk of the data under the carpet, and declare that global warming…
Will Mike Duffy Call the Next Election?
Sure, it sounds far fetched, but the opposition parties had better be prepared for Harper to call a snap election. Word I’m getting from Ottawa is that the evidence in…
Scotland Would Hardly Be the First to Go Its Own Way
Back when Rule Brittania meant something, much, if not most, of the world’s population was under British rule, part of the British Empire. This handy map from TheCommonwealth.org shows how…
Duffy to Trial
Mike Duffy will be heading straight to trial. Counsel appeared briefly in court today and were told to come back on the 23rd to set a date for trial. That…
Last Month – Hottest August On Record
NASA has run the numbers. August, 2014 was the hottest August since records were kept of these things starting about 130-years back. May, 2014 was also the hottest May on…
Texas Brainwashing Youth
Well I guess North Korea doesn’t have a monopoly on this any more. The great state of Texas wants to implant lies in the minds of its youngsters. Texas has…
Clean Is Cheap, Cheaper Than Dirty.
Of all the Big Lies embedded in our collective consciousness by the fossil fuelers and their minions in government is the scary tale that going green, decarbonizing our economies and…
There’s This Story Making the Rounds…
It’s an item from Reuters that has been picked up by a number of newspapers, including The Globe & Mail. It concerns a study that found one species of algae…
We Still Don’t Know the Depths of Harper’s Perfidy
Canada’s Manchurian Candidate? But we’ve got 32-years to find out. That’s the toxic lifespan of the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement whereby Harper sold Canada down the river to…
How South Americans are Killing Their Environment
In some places, cutting down trees can have huge consequences. In South America, the impacts are especially far-reaching. Deforestation has picked up again in the Amazon. That, in turn, is…
How America Wakes Up to Climate Change
It’s not temperature that’s finally sweeping Americans into acceptance of anthropogenic climate change. It’s precipitation or, in some cases, the lack of it that they can’t get around. There are…
The Cavendish Cottager Comes Roaring Back to the Front Page
Stephen Harper’s pucker factor must be at “Level 7- Deep Purple” at the prospect of what awaits when Conservative senator Mike Duffy begins his criminal trial process this week. A…
Sound Familiar?
The current decline of the United States from global economic hegemon re-enacts the same path that brought low the previous dominant economies of Spain, the Netherlands and Great Britain. Here’s…
For What It’s Worth – Ignatieff on ISIS
Der Spiegel interviews Harvard professor, Michael Ignatieff, on ISIS, Obama, the Middle East generally, Israel and Palestine. Some interesting thoughts, some banal and predictable. You be the judge.