There’s Your Problem – Too Damned Much Wiggle Room
The wrench in the gears that prevents meaningful international action on global change is the enormous wiggle room in the debate. This arises, in large part, because of the opportunity…
The Mound of Sound
Ford Out
T.O. mayor Rob Ford has been given da boot.
US Disappoints World on Emissions Cuts, So Does Everyone Else
Barack Obama's campaign pledge to act on climate change is beginning to look like electoral hot air. Despite the urging of poor countries at Doha, the U.S. is holding to…
Are Things Heating Up in the Himalayas?
For a while, India and China even claimed to have finally settled their dangerous border dispute. If they ever had a deal, it seems that deal is in doubt.The land…
Suicide on a Grand Scale
Prince Charles states the obvious. "Mankind is on the brink of 'committing suicide on a grand scale' unless rapid progress is made on green issues, the Prince of Wales warned…
Two Near Misses in Two Days
Two shipping near misses off Kitimat in two days. Thursday the deep sea freighter, Tern Arrow, lost engine power and wound up drifting for three hours in Laredo Sound south…
The Missing First Step
Rona Ambrose has a typically Ambrosian approach to hunting down Canada's next combat jet to replace the stellar but aging CF-18s.Rona's gonna chat. She's going to talk to our allies…
Fewer Lawyers = More Doctors
We're wasting precious tax dollars training too damned many lawyers, money we could be putting to good use training more doctors.The Law Society of Upper Canada is tossing about the…
UN Demands Israel Stop Ripping Off Palestinian Resources
The U.N. General Assembly, by a vote of 156-5, called on Israel to immediately stop its decades-old practices of exploiting, damaging, depleting and endangering the natural resources of the Occupied…
Will BC’ers Back Pot Next Year?
The organization, Sensible BC, plans to place a marijuana policing referendum before British Columbians in 2014.SBC has already had a test run, placing its Sensible Policing Act proposal before Elections…
Is America Now Okay With the Post-Mubarak Egypt?
Did Benjamen Netanyahu just rebuild America's relationship with Egypt?After the fall of the brutal, murderous Mubarak regime, many American pols seemed genuinely distraught when a candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood,…
Netanyahu Steps In His Own Mess
Benjamin Netanyahu, with a looming date with Israeli voters, is doing his best to portray himself as the victor in Israel's 8-day, Operation Pillar of Defence but, in the minds…
What? Another Dire Report on Global Warming?
We used to get climate change reports once, perhaps twice a week. Now they're flooding in daily. That's not surprising given that scientific research papers on various aspects of anthropogenic…
Oil Producing Countries Asked to Levy Carbon Tax on Exports
Oh this will go over well with Ol' Shifty Steve Harper.A gaggle of poor nations are asking major oil producers to levy a 3-5% carbon tax on oil exported to…
Well There Goes the Nativity Set
Apparently "we" (that'd be the Vatican) really doesn't know when Jesus was born but they're guessing it was somewhere between 7 and 2 B.C. Then again, how could he have…
Can’t They See How This Ends?
The U.S. military has really fallen for this remote-controlled mayhem business. The latest and greatest thing is the miniature, one-way drone. It has a range of between 6 to 10-miles,…
Let’s Make a Deal
What worries me whenever I see a poll suggesting that the Harper Cons might be toppled in 2015 is how far off that day is and what impetus that gives…
If Canadians Want a Liberal, It Won’t be Mulcair
Sorry Dippers, your guy is a liberal and Canadians' Liberal of choice is the guy whose hair is on his head, not his face.NatPo's latest poll finds if Canadians had…
Going to Pot
There was a discernible jolt in the wake of election night when the good people of Colorado and Washington voted to decriminalize possession and use of marijuana.Some folks here on…
Drifting Ever Faster Away from 350
The figures are out for 2011 and they're record-breaking. Last year we managed to drive atmospheric CO2 levels to 390 ppm.The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached…