Canada’s Carbon Black Eye – Bitumen Peddling
Across Canada, provincial and local governments have achieved great things in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the Harper government has grabbed as much undeserved credit for that as possible. Yet…
The Mound of Sound
Okay, Radical Islaam May Factor Into Boston Marathon Bombing
One bomber is dead following a shootout with Boston police. The other is on the run with police in hot pursuit. Both men are implicated in an earlier shooting that…
The Capitalist Reformation? Not Holding Breath, Not Holding Breath.
Even dedicated capitalists are beginning to realize they’re in a hole to nowhere and they have to stop digging. Just as classical economic models are being recognized as obsolete and…
20-Years Later, Canada’s Cod May Be Gone For Good
We’ve waited two decades for east coast cod stocks to rebound. Now researchers say they haven’t and they’re not going to. “Here we are more than 20 years after the…
The Gordion Knot of Modern Industrialism – Pricing Natural Capital
“Natural capital” comprises things from nature that belong to no one and to everyone – things like the atmosphere. Other types of natural capital are considered national assets, like a…
Chris Hadfield’s High School Science Experiment in Space
The Canadian commanding the International Space Station, Chris Hadfield, took a science experiment request from two high school girls from Nova Scotia. It’s a lot of fun.
Nick Stern’s Carbon Bubble Warning
Nick Stern is the latest voice to warn of the Carbon Bubble that threatens to plunge world markets into yet another financial crisis. The former World Bank chief economist, currently…
What Were America’s Founding Fathers Thinking?
Why this, of course.
When the Middle Class Finally Revolts
Across the western world, our political classes are oblivious to the powder keg of revolt they’re sitting on. So warns Polish philosopher, Marcin Krol. Notwithstanding received ideas to the contrary,…
Who Is Actually Dividing Our Society?
The United States and, to a lesser extent Canada, have fallen victim to wedge politics. We become victims when our society is fractured, made suspicious of and hostile to each…
The Still Islamophic States of America
The the greater scheme of things the Boston Marathon bombing was a fart in a hurricane. Except, of course, it happened in Boston during a notable footrace run mainly by…
Greens Outpolling Liberals on Vancouver Island
If the polls hold for the next four weeks, the governing B.C. Liberals will be handed a third place, as in last place, finish on Vancouver Island when voters get…
Even the IMF Thinks Tory Austerity Has Gone Too Far
Britain’s Tory Cameron government has been nothing if not resolute in rejecting criticism of its austerity fetish. To Cameron and his chancellor, George Osborne, it doesn’t matter a whit that…
The Only Hope Is to Depose the King
And the King is still coal. The head of the International Energy Agency warns that the drive to renewables and alternative energy has stalled. “The drive to clean up the…
Elizabeth May’s Pipeline Warning to You Eastern Canadians.
Her e-mail is self-explanatory. When it comes to Stephen Harper and bitumen pipelines, you can keep your opinions to yourself. Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline runs straight through major Canadian cities,…
The Boston Marathon Murders were Probably Domestic Terrorism
I’m pretty sure that American authorities are trying to hunt down whoever detonated Claymore mines at the finish-line of the Boston Marathon yesterday. One Indian paper had an account yesterday…
The American People and Conservative Republicans Agree – Legalizing Pot Is a State Right
Some of the most conservative Republicans in Congress are leading the charge to end their federal government’s war on pot. They introduced a bill, the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act,…
Putting Bieber in Perspective
Justin Bieber is prudently laying low after leaving a boneheaded remark in the guestbook of the Anne Frank house proving that kids do really stupid things and so he does.…
At Least One Person Thinks Highly of George w. Bush – Of Course It’s George w. Bush
Former president George w. Bush isn’t plagued with regrets over his bungled years in the White House. On the 10th anniversary of his spectacular failed war in Iraq and with…
America’s Enemy-Industrial Complex
You can own all the locomotives and all the rolling stock in the world but they’re useless without tracks. The same logic holds true for the world’s largest, most fearsome…