Former Harvard divinity student, Chris Hedges, tackles biblical inerrancy head-on in his excellent book, American Fascists. In it, Hedges points out a gaggle of contradictions and inconsistencies in scripture which…
Some, like James Hansen, say we’ve probably already left it too late. The slightly timid assessment of the IPCC says greenhouse gas emissions must peak no later than 2020, just…
Consider it, at best, a reprieve. “It” is the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming surface temperatures. A team of American and Australian researchers have concluded the slowdown…
The global freshwater crisis has worsened markedly over the past decade and in the most hard-pressed areas the response has been to ramp up the depletion of dwindling groundwater reserves.…
Marc Mayrand isn’t pulling any punches in his outright condemnation of the Harper regime’s election reform bill. In an interview airing Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House, Mayrand said “my…
British Columbia’s sole Green Party MLA, Andrew Weaver, is willing to accept a Northern Gateway pipeline but on conditions that probably won’t be acceptable to Ottawa, to Alberta or to…
Woody Allen has responded to his former adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow’s allegations of molestation by attacking her mother, Mia Farrow. “Of course, I did not molest Dylan,” writes Allen. “I…
Was a funeral really the only reason Toronto mayor Rob Ford came to the Lower Mainland? Word has it that, after the funeral, Ford got pretty well baked. On a…
It’s not just the south coast any more. Flood alerts and warnings now extend across the south coast, including all of Wales, and northward as far as Blackpool, Sheffield and…
I know a fellow who works in the Alberta oil patch. Not in the bitumen racket but in oil shale fracking in a job that takes him far and wide…
Approval has been given for an offshore wind-turbine demonstration project near Coos Bay, Oregon. The turbines will float, anchored some 1,400 feet above the sea bed. They’ll be situated some…
I sat in on a discussion presented by Canada’s sole Green Party MLA in Port Alberni Tuesday night. The MLA for Victoria’s toney Oak Bay/Gordon Head riding and leading Canadian…
Stephen Harper has a band. Who knew? You probably did but I didn’t. Anyway he’s going to have to find a replacement for the band’s former drummer, Ottawa teacher Phil…
If a boat is just a hole in the water into which you pour money, a submarine is a cavernous tube into which you sink fortunes. At least that’s the…
Climate change denialists are not skepticists no matter how much they try to make that claim. If they were skepticists they would probably be scientists, not denialists. Scientists are skepticists.…
There’s nothing, absolutely nothing that Stephen Harper abhors more than a little workplace democracy. When it comes to workers choosing to exercise their rights to democratic collective bargaining which, let’s…
Passengers aboard a B.C. Ferry at the Departure Bay, Nanaimo terminal on Tuesday got to witness the spectacle of a school of white stripe dolphins being hunted by a pod…
One of the great failures of progressive bloggers is our obsession with telling each other, over and over and over ad infinitum, that Stephen Harper is a shit. It’s not…
Palestinian Authority president Mahmound Abbas is floating the idea of a permanent, i.e. generational, NATO force to patrol a buffer zone separating his nation from Israel. Palestine, he said, would…
Ever wonder what global warming has done to temperatures where you live? The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit has developed an interactive layer for Google Earth that lets…
