The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association used its clout with the sleazy government of Sideshow Steve Harper to modify the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Greenpeace used the Freedom of Information Act…
Could the courts force Sideshow Steve Harper to take his gags off federal government scientists? Democracy Watch and the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Clinic may soon test the legality…
Keystone pipeline boosters have argued the project will create jobs, lots of jobs. US Chamber of Commerce president, Tom Donohue, has estimated the pipeline will create 20,000 jobs immediately and…
Dick Cheney has buried the truth of America’s conquest of Iraq so deep that he will himself be long dead and buried before the facts are ever exhumed. It might…
Brace yourself. If you’re hoping, praying for a progressive advance in America’s Congress, The Atlantic has a sobering reality check for you. The last time a major policy bill made…
As if America’s corporatist politicians weren’t already bought and sold the United States Supreme Court may be about to open the doors to total and absolute political corruption in American…
Demographic change has really swept over the City of London where the white population now makes up just 45% of residents. It’s estimated that 620,000 white Londoners have left since…
Much of Europe is reeling from the discovery that many beef products have been adulterated by the substitution of horse meat. Cases tend to be mainly ground beef and processed…
We are steadily, inexorably it seems, leaving the world of manual labour. Even the Chinese are beginning to turn to robotics to replace low-wage workers. So, how do entire societies…
Conservatives are fear-driven. Their minds work differently than ours, or at least they work differently than progressives’ minds. Brain scan research has found that rightwingers process information via the right…
On 13 April, 1919, a crowd assembled in Amritsar’s public garden in defiance of British general Reginald Dyer’s ban on all meetings. It’s believed that upwards of 10,000 Indian men,…
Time magazine has published an informative evaluation of the F-35 as it stands today. The F-35, designed as the U.S. military’s lethal hunter for 21st century skies, has become the…
On a clear, moonless summer night I like to sit out in the backyard and gaze up into the heavens. I realize that the lights I am seeing come from…
Who says you can’t bullshit a bullshitter? Don’t tell that to the procurement wizards at our Department of National Defence. They’ve been pulling the wool over the eyes of our…
We’re Number One, We’re Number One! No you’re bloody well not, no you’re bloody well not! The United States is many things but it’s not the greatest country in the…
It’s possibly the most successful unit in China’s Peoples Liberation Army. Unit 61398 is believed to have hacked hundreds of terabytes of data from targets in Canada, the U.S. and…
Decarbonizing our economies and our societies, breaking our dependency on fossil fuels, is going to be vastly harder than you may have imagined. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk offers a sobering…
It’s probably no surprise that Sideshow Steve Harper, immersed in the magical thinking of fundamentalist evangelism, would say “screw austerity, let’s create an Office of Religious Freedom. Now, find me…
Scientific research is supposed to be peer reviewed. For federal government scientists, however, their research is politically reviewed first to make sure it conforms to Comrade Harper’s rancid ideology. U…
The United Nations Environment Programme warns that the Arctic is about to get gang raped and it’s going to be ugly. The Arctic needs to be better protected from a…
