Americans Get Real About Climate Change – Finally
For 15 years or more I’ve been following how Americans respond to the issue of climate change. It’s about as politicized an issue as any I can recall. The Repugs…
For 15 years or more I’ve been following how Americans respond to the issue of climate change. It’s about as politicized an issue as any I can recall. The Repugs…
He’s the dean of open-mouth radio, widely loved by American nativists, xenophobes, racists, misogynists and garden-variety bigots and just as widely deplored by everyone else. Rush Limbaugh, whose signature prop…
There’s really not much to like in CNBC’s brash investment guru, Jim Cramer. Until now. Cramer warns that the fossil fuel industry has entered the “death knell stage.” Cramer added…
Is today’s America no longer a democracy but a tyranny? In today’s Globe, Sarah Kendzior persuasively makes the argument. The Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump was never a matter…
Something is happening that the climate modelers didn’t foresee. Well, most of them anyway. Bloomberg reports their models are suddenly running “red hot.” There are dozens of climate models, and…
It’s not just that governments don’t tax enough. It’s that they don’t tax big incomes and big wealth nearly enough. Economist and professor Richard Wolff argues that modern global capitalism…
I recently sent an email to a liberal friend in West Virginia. I referenced Thomas Jefferson’s writings on rebellion and asked whether a stacked judiciary, a shamelessly “bought and paid…
Apparently Peter Mackay is the only prospective challenger for the Tory throne so far to cough up the $300,000 admission fee. Question. If no one else chooses to throw away…
Shots are being fired across bows. What’s the point of walking out if you don’t slam a few doors on the way? That seems to be Boris “BoJo” Johnson’s outlook.…
It’s actually $2.12 billion CDN, $1.6 billion USD. That’s the write-off Chevron is taking on its Kitimat LNG investment, an interest the company is still trying to sell. Chevron chief…
Spotted on the Deutsche Welle web site, this photo of a pilot aboard a jetliner flying passengers out of China, presumably Wuhan. Overkill? You decide. A German military aircraft carrying…
A blast from the past. A German-Canadian huckster. A former Progressive Conservative cabinet minister. A dodgy prime minister. A European aircraft giant with a reputation for handing out easy money.…
It was a semen stain on Monica Lewinsky’s little blue dress that Ken Star used to skewer Bill Clinton. DNA don’t lie. Now Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carrol, who…
Another story that has gone largely unnoticed on our side of the Atlantic concerns growing tensions between two NATO members, Greece and Turkey, that have now drawn France to send…
Today is not going down well with one of the UK’s component nations, Scotland. First minister, Nicola Sturgeon, put it plainly: “As of 11:00 pm tonight (2300 GMT) the U.K.…
There’s a lot going on in Europe these days that escapes much notice on our side of the pond. We hear about the rise of “illiberal democracy,” a term coined…
Toronto may be in line to get hammered by climate change in the decades to come. Out of 85 major cities around the world, Toronto is projected to experience the…
The Brits, half of them anyway, are looking forward to midnight and Britain’s official departure from the European Union. The Euros, on a different time zone, will mark the event…
We’re getting steamrollered by Trudeau and his Liberal thugs but the truth still gets out. From the Canadian Press. And a guy named Mike Pearson is blowing the whistle. Work…
The government of the United States of Trump has released a report projecting that US CO2 emissions will decline by a staggering 4 per cent by 2050 from 2019 levels.…