We like to call ourselves progressives but very little of what we write, what we advocate for, is genuinely progressive. Far too much of it is simply whining, bitching. How…
It has been such a long time coming but tomorrow we will end the arrogant and abusive reign of British Columbia’s corrupt and dishonest provincial government. The cheap hustlers, thieves…
This is incredible coming from the pipeline promoting, bitumen boosting Globe & Mail. An urgent appeal to our next provincial government to deal with our environmental challenges. That includes saving…
Think we don’t have a global population problem? Think we’re not exhausting our environment? Well has the U.N. got a grub for you. A new report from the U.N. Food…
Harper EnviroShill, Peter Kent, is one of the sleaziest actors in Ottawa. His latest pitch – we have to get out from under the U.S. dilbit discount – i.e. get…
There’s nothing Steve Harper likes better than to bask in the glory of a celebrity. He gets his nose so far up their bums that sometimes you wonder how they’ll…
It’s a fighter pilot, natch. Did I mention he’s a fighter pilot? What’s with those guys anyway? Oh wait, I remember, they’re Fighter Pilots – the coolest variant of humans…
This Guy Not Only Drank Your Water First, He Made It. London’s Thames Water utility is polling city residents for their views on drinking recycled sewage water. It’s one solution…
If you’re going to run afoul of the law on Vancouver Island, you had better hope and pray you’re not female. If a man is arrested in Victoria and goes…
Another look at the century old and ongoing, lethal aftermath of the way Britain and France carved up the Middle East following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire post WWI.…
Let’s say you’ve got a neighbour and your neighbour has a really big bulldozer and your neighbour becomes fond of using that bulldozer late at night to dig seemingly random…
It seems standard these days that survivors of traumatic incidents of man-made or natural disaster are quickly whisked into trauma counselling. It seems pretty intuitive – people are traumatized, people…
This is what can happen when Conservatives become too full of themselves. Britain’s Conservative government is openly talking about privatizing the Royal Mail, a crown corporation, and not just going…
There’s a very useful, and usefully concise, primer on climate sensitivity in The Guardian. It runs through the major ambiguities, probabilities and mere possibilities and deserves a quick read. To…
There’s nothing magical in reaching a record 400 ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 but it’s not symbolic either. It’s a benchmark of how far we’ve come and where we’re headed.…
Today’s Times Colonist editorial goes straight to the heart of the darkness that lurks within the Harper government. A group of professors at the University of Victoria has asked the…
A more than curious omission in just one of the Senate standing committee reports on Senators Mac Harb, Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy and their housing expense claims. What distinguishes…
On Bill Maher’s RealTime show last night, journalist Glenn Greenwald stood up to Maher on Muslims, Islam, and American foreign policy. It’s a long clip. Greenwald’s retort comes in around…
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, took the arrival of a recrod, 400 ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 to deliver a few thoughts on our losing battle against climate change and what…
It’s an old legal adage that, “hard cases make bad law.” What it means is that when law is made in response to monstrous crimes, the sort that truly shock…
