We’ll All Be Singing This Tune Before Long
It goes like this: “If we had had more ambition , we would not have to ask for so much for adaptation. If there had been more money for adaptation…
The Mound of Sound
CPC3 – No, It’s Not a Star Wars Character
Calgary Petroleum Club – Beijing Chapter CPC3 – it’s the unholy union of the Conservative Party of Canada, the Calgary Petroleum Club and the Communist Party of China. Peas in…
The Root of All Evil
Liberal, New Democrat, choose your poison. Layton, Ignatieff, Mulcair, Rae or Trudeau, makes no difference to me. They sold me out and they sold you out in the bargain. To…
Tundra is Fuel and It Will Burn Us
We hear a lot about the tundra that blankets the far north thawing due to global warming. As it thaws it releases previously trapped methane and CO2. Well it does…
Steve’s Friday Night Special – China Gets Nexen
Steve Harper, whose credibility is beyond shredded, is pledging to Canadians that he’ll never, never, ever, ever let the Chinese government corner a chunk of the Tar Sands – except…
America’s Mini-Civil Wars
There’s one brewing in the midwest, another raging in the southeast and a third building in the southwest. They’re regional, inter-state conflicts over distribution of dwindling groundwater resources. In the…
British Nurse Hoaxed by Australian Radio DJs Takes Own Life
Jacintha Saldanha was on duty when two Aussie DJs tricked her into thinking they were the Queen and Prince Charles calling for an update on the Duchess of Cambridge. Saldanha…
The Legitimacy of the Harper Majority is No Longer In Question. It’s Over, Finished.
It wasn’t just a troubled warplane that crashed and burned with Harper’s decision to cancel the purchase of the troubled F-35 light bomber. The legitimacy of the Harper majority government…
Sifting Through the Wreckage of Canada’s F-35 Fiasco
The Harper government’s abandonment of the “troubled” F-35 buy has seismic implications. This is the first time Stephen Harper truly lost his mojo. He wanted this hopelessly flawed warplane so…
Canada Bails Out on the F-35
It’s over!!! Canada will not be buying Lockheed’s “troubled” light strike bomber. Faced with the imminent release of an audit by accountants KPMG that will push the total projected life-cycle…
A Big Win for American Progressives
U.S. chain restaurants like Papa John’s and Applebee’s didn’t pull any punches before the November elections. In fact they outright threatened they would retaliate against an Obama win, taking it…
Mind Over Matter
Can we really train our minds to do tasks we once considered possible only with our hands and feet? It seems the answer is “yes.”
World Bank – High Food Prices are the New Normal
High food prices mean one thing for many people, food insecurity. A report from the World Bank warns that high food prices have become the “new normal” meaning that the…
Atmospheric River Hammers California
It was around this time last year that an atmospheric river was singled out as the culprit responsible for causing massive flooding in the U.K. New Scientist posted a chart…
Maybe It’s Time to Get Out of Dodge
This was bound to happen. Inevitable. American cellular giant Verizon has filed a patent application for a device to watch you watching TV. Who is interested in watching you watch…
One of My All-Time Favourite YouTube Clips
Maybe he just needed a haircut.
NGOs Make Emergency Appeal in Doha
Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, Christian Aid, Action Aid and Friends of the Earth have issued an emergency appeal for immediate and forceful action by the delegations at the Doha climate summit.…
The Moon Goes Commercial? Maybe, Maybe Not.
A company calling itself Golden Spike has announced it will start commercial moon travel service by 2020. The company will take people and gear to the lunar surface and back…
Think You Don’t Live in a Conservative/Liberal/New Democrat Petro-State? Think Again.
If you don’t believe your political party of choice is selling out your grandkids and their kids you had better ask yourself why you could possibly believe that. The fossil…
F-35 May Not Be Usable in Asia Either.
Range may be the Achilles’ Heel of the F-35 stealth light attack bomber. At the end of the day, the Joint Strike Fighter may not be the right warplane for…