ISIS, Corona Virus, Donald Trump – C’mon Take a Load Off
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The Mound of Sound
BC Health Professionals Give Big Thumbs Down to Coastal Gaslink
A group of doctors, nurses and other health professionals from British Columbia are backing the Wet’suet’en and calling on premier Horgan to stop the fracking underway in the northeast. We…
I Found a Gold Mine – Verdict
Today I somehow stumbled across what is one of the best web sites I’ve ever visited, Verdict or verdict.justia.com to be precise. Verdict is a repository of legal analysis and…
Democracy Afoot – Scottish Parliament Reaches Out to Nordic Council
It’s no secret that Brexit has driven a wedge between Scotland and England. It was the English, after all, who hatched Brexit and rammed it through against the wishes of…
Climate Breakdown – the Condo Impact
Climate change is hammering condo owners in British Columbia. Over the last year some condo owners have watched their insurance premiums soar by 400 per cent. Some condos have become…
Is the Trans-Atlantic Bromance Over?
Are Donald Trump and Boris Johnson going through a tiff or is the bromance over before the honeymoon really got underway? Business Insider reports that things are going downhill rapidly…
What Were You Expecting If Not a Bit of Chaos?
We’re now in the Decade of Decision. We have the 20s to slash our greenhouse gas emissions by half if we’re to have a reasonable chance of averting irreversible climate…
Horgan’s LNG Fantasy
We hear a lot about Asian markets eager to buy Canadian LNG. That’s a lie. To extract, transmit, liquefy and ship Canadian methane to Asia requires a price of about…
A Call to Civil Disobedience
When Christiana Figueres calls for civil disobedience, it’s about time we listened. Figueres served as executive director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016. She…
Wild Rose Denialism
Jason Kenney has sure got his dainties in a bunch over the decision by Teck Resources to back away from the Frontier bitumen mega-mine. To hear Kenney tell it, it’s…
Jason Wins One – For Now. Alberta Court Rejects Ottawa’s Carbon Tax.
The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld Jason Kenney’s claim that the federal carbon tax is unconstitutional. It was a 4-1 decision. One judge called Ottawa’s carbon tax “a constitutional…
Newspaper Brags How Liberal City Has Become
The Seattle Times seems pretty happy at how liberal their namesake city is becoming. Seattle, by the way, has always been pretty liberal. It’s an easy place to visit. It’s…
Can AI Discover a Vaccine for the Caronavirus?
It was wonderful news last week when MIT researchers announced they had used artificial intelligence to discover a powerful new antibiotic at a time when antibiotic-resistant diseases are proliferating. When…
And Now a Word from the World Health Organization, Unicef, the Lancet and a World of Kids
It’s time we admitted we’ve got them squarely in our crosshairs. They know it. So do we.
The Dizzying Death Spiral of All Things Bitumen
There’ll be no new mega-mine in the Athabasca Tar Sands. Teck Resources will not be proceeding with the Frontier mine project that was supposed to produce 260,000 barrels of bitumen…
Teck Resources Walks on Frontier Mine
Even the oil patch is crying “uncle” on the Athabasca Tar Sands. Teck Resources has pulled its application to develop a mammoth open pit bitumen mine, the Frontier mine project.…
In Praise of Protest
One thing the Wet’suet’en protests have done is to make people take a side. That can be quite instructive as people, perhaps uncomfortable with their choice, go to some lengths…
Just Sayin, Justin
Conservatives and their Liberal alter-egos like to point out that more than half of the Canadian public don’t approve of the Wet’suwet’en resistance. A recent poll, however, suggests about 39…
Neoliberalism’s Sharp Elbows
In 2004, American intellectual, Henry Giroux, wrote “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy.” The following review from Amazon seems to capture the gist of Giroux’ warning:…
Is This What Trump Was Hoping For? Iranian Hard-Liners Score Decisive Election Win.
On January 3, a US drone was flying above Baghdad international airport when it launched a precision-guided missile at a vehicle carrying Iranian general, Qasem Suilemani, killing him and everyone…