Notch One Up for Artificial Intelligence
There are plenty of bright lights who warn that artificial intelligence, AI, could be the end of us. Elon Musk is one. More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, has written of…
The Mound of Sound
Colby Takes the P*ss Out of the Buffalo Declaration
Even NatPo columnist, Colby Cosh, can’t take the Buffalo Declaration seriously. Alberta or Buffalo? Choose your own adventure? I suppose the revolution is still incomplete in the minds of the…
Trudeau – the Barricades Must Come Down
Prime minister Trudeau has said “the barricades must now come down, the injunctions must be obeyed, and the law must be upheld.” It’s not clear whether Trudeau was referring to…
The Last Frontier – Teck’s Fuzzy Math
Vancouver mining company, Teck Resources, is increasing the pressure on the Trudeau government to approve its Frontier mine proposal for the Athabasca Tar Sands. Teck claims it will face a…
About that "Buffalo" Business.
Somebody should let Michelle Rempel in on this. This is a buffalo found in Africa, the Cape Buffalo. This is the water buffalo found in Asia. This majestic beast, however,…
Nobel Laureates Demand Trudeau Nix the Teck Frontier Bitumen Mine
A group of Nobel laureates have written an open letter to Justin Trudeau and his assistant pm, Christia Freeland, to reject the Frontier pit mine for the Athabasca Tar Sands.…
JP Morgan’s Schizophrenia
JP Morgan is perhaps the world’s largest investor in climate-wrecking fossil fuels. The bank has also realized that the fossil energy economy has mankind on a precipitous road to an…
America’s Long Goodbye
With Donald Trump, ambition is often betrayed by execution. Trump wants America out of Afghanistan. For all the good they’ve done these past 18 years and the dismal prospects of…
40 Months for Roger Stone
It’s a far cry from what DoJ prosecutors wanted, around 9 years, but Trump dirty trickster Roger Stone has been sentenced to 40 months in prison, just over a third.…
Nouriel’s White Swans
Economist Nouriel Roubini shot to fame for his predictions of the 2007/2008 Great Recession. While he used to speak of black swans, Roubini is now turning his attention to white…
Boogaloo – There’s a word I haven’t heard in a long while.
Whatever it once meant back in the 60s or 70s, Boogaloo has become the brand of a rightwing extremist movement said to be flourishing in the United States. The group…
Trump Tried to Cut Deal With Assange
The Daily Beast reports that Trump made overtures to Julian Assange offering the WikiLeaks founder a pardon if he would cover up the Russian involvement in hacking Democratic Party emails…
Trudeau’s Folly – Opposition Wants It Scrapped.
Canada has a pipeline problem. The problem is we own one. It’s Kinder Morgan’s old Trans-Mountain pipeline that we bought from those Texas bandits at way over market value. The…
The Wet’suwet’en Take Ottawa to Court
Two Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are suing the federal government for failing to adhere to its emissions targets under the Paris climate accords. Mr. Naziel, who goes by the hereditary name…
Speaking of Pipelines. Gas Leaks Under-Reported.
This is not what the fossil fuel industry wants to hear, especially in Canada where mounting opposition to gas and bitumen pipelines challenges producers and their political minions. A new…
Guilty as Charged?
It is, by any measure, a scathing indictment of modern societies, very much including our own. The charge as dark as any faced by the worst societies in history. Only…
Letting Nature Survive. There’s a Radical Notion.
23 former foreign ministers have penned a joint letter urging world leaders to allocate a third of our planet to nature. Humanity’s ongoing destruction of nature threatens the survival of…
To All You "Rule of Law" Progressives.
It doesn’t take much to peel back the veneer of some self-styled “progressives.” The Wet’suwet’en controversy makes that clear. In reality, most of us know Sweet Fanny Adams about our…
Who Is Pitching "De-growth"? The Harvard Business Review
At some point, we’ll realize the GDP-Growth Club is about as ridiculous as the Flat Earth Society. The big difference is one is inherently nihilistic, while the other is populated…
Things Look Different From the Salish Sea
I guess it’s a West Coast thing. Maybe it’s the granola. The simple fact is that British Columbia is the best province in Canada. When it comes to health outcomes,…