What Sideshow Steve Never Learned in Bible School
Harper, to the extent he thinks at all, thinks regular inspection of bitumen supertankers and a bit more aerial surveillance should put coastal British Columbians’ concerns to rest. Harper curiously…
Harper, to the extent he thinks at all, thinks regular inspection of bitumen supertankers and a bit more aerial surveillance should put coastal British Columbians’ concerns to rest. Harper curiously…
The Harper government, or someone on its behalf, will show up in Vancouver today to announce that Ottawa has heard our concerns and has prepared a “world class” oil spill…
In the thug gallery that passes for a federal government today this shouldn’t surprise anyone, least of all parliamentary budget officer, Kevin Page. On CTV’s Question Period, Page revealed the…
The Cypriot people are discovering how austerity politics plays out these days. Like the Irish people before them, and the American public before that, they’re being fleeced to bail out…
Kids, don’t try this at home.
The source of wind-turbine illness has been tracked down. The source is anti-wind farm campaigners who make people think those windmills are going to make them sick. Let’s call them…
When the photos began coming in of Sarah Palin’s appearance at this year’s CPAC conference, something seemed amiss. Sure five years have passed since Palin was the heartthrob of angry…
Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. That is all you need to accept to realize that our growth-based economics are invalid, even harmful and we need to move…
For the first time since its founding in 1947, Pakistan has seen a civilian government complete a full term in office. Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, government were often…
One of Shanghai’s main sources of drinking water, the Huang Pu river, has had thousand of dead pigs removed from its waters. Recent reports put the total at 8,300 and…
By the time you’re in your 60s you’ve developed a sense of a certain cadence to life, something like a master Circadien rhythm that regulates life on our planet. Every…
It was 1968. Richard Nixon was squaring off against the Democrat chosen to succeed Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey. Johnson, meanwhile, had brought the leadership of South and North Vietnam to…
You might as well write off the grandkids right now because every day our political leadership is telling you that they already have. That could change. The day might come,…
Sure, we all want rid of the Prince of Darkness, Beelzebub himself, Sideshow Steve Harper. Fair enough, we’re all agreed on that. But why don’t we start with the easy…
Pope Frankie the Humble caught the media’s attention when, after winning the biggest contest in Christendom, he went back to his hotel, collected his bags, and then checked out, stopping…
In the fiscally dodgy Athabasca Tar Sands it was really only a matter of time before the call would come to bring in cheap Chinese labour. Still, it’s a little…
The Fossil Fuelers’ nightmares lie not so much with environmentalists and regulators as with shareholders and investors. The energy companies are pretty adept at fending off environmentalists and regulators but…
If you want to see the face of progressivism, take a look at Elizabeth Warren. If you want to understand what progressivism in the 21st century is about, listen to…
The Asia Pacific region faces enormous freshwater challenges triggered by overpopulation, industrialization, and climate change. What’s coming is bad enough if only Asia wasn’t starting so far in the hole.…
The sort of warfare the West has been waging this century is largely without heroes in the connotation of that word in previous wars. There have been some to be…