How Do You Like Your Chances?
Maybe you think they’re just making this sh*t up. Maybe you would like to think they’re just making this sh*t up but you realize that they’re not. Maybe the enormity…
The Mound of Sound
If We Don’t Heed Them Now, We’re SCREWED!
Parliament may have declared we’re in a state of climate emergency but, lamentably, there’s precious little evidence that they mean it. Canada remains bitumen country, pipeline country, and bugger the…
Evangelical Conservatives – a Marriage Made in Hell
Katherine Hayhoe knows a thing or three about evangelical Christianity, right wing politics and climate change. She is an evangelical Christian. She’s married to an evangelical pastor. She is a…
Gary Mason Takes Jason Kenney To the Woodshed
When Alberta energy giant, Encana, announced it was leaving Calgary and moving to the States, the terrible-tempered Jason Kenney was quick to blame it all on Justin Trudeau. If only…
Searching for Signs of Life
Here are today’s ‘big’ stories. We have underestimated by a factor of nearly four the number of people at risk from sea level rise by 2050. It was 80 million.…
Peter MacKay. Let the Feeding Frenzy Begin.
Having sold out the Progressive Conservatives to Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay is looking to climb over Andrew Scheer’s moribund corpse to capture the Tory throne. And he has the gall…
A Golden Age for Despots and Thugs
Some, such as the king of Thailand, are more blatant than others such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, but despotism is staging a comeback worldwide. From Egypt’s el-Sisi, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan,…
A Murder of Convenience?
It’s the stuff of conspiracy theories. Did perverted multi-millionaire, Jeffrey Epstein, really commit suicide in his jail cell or was he murdered? Celebrity pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, says the autopsy…
Good News for The Donald
It’s obvious now that Donald Trump is averse to reading. He may be the first functional illiterate to receive a degree from Wharton. There’s a story there that we still…
Roubini – When the Next Crash Comes
Economist Nouriel Roubini skyrocketed to fame as the first to foretell the crash of 2007/2008 (a claim that overlooks the even earlier warnings from Stiglitz and Krugman). In 2011 Roubini…
And Nobody Listened
It’s Kurt Vonnegut. The year is 1988. Vonnegut wrote a letter to the citizens of Earth in 2088. He wrote of future perils that, in some ways, have already come…
The Clock Runs Out on Little Bay Islands
A sad tale of outport Newfoundland. The provincial government has decreed that the isolated community of Little Bay Islands is over, finished. As of the 31st of December, all life…
The Many Facets of Climate Change
How do you inform yourself about climate change? Do you ignore it to the extent possible, try not to think about it? Do you look at it as a scientific…
"Living the Storm Before the Storm" Nikiforuk on Blue Canada Versus Red Canada.
The Tyee’s petro-scribe, Andrew Nikiforuk, digests the indigestible aftermath of our federal election. Hint: it bodes no good. Once again we have been reminded that Canada’s political parties behave like…
The Liberals Serve Notice on Jaggy. The Pipeline Is Not Negotiable.
The word comes from none other than Bill “Job Churn” Morneau who traveled to (where else?) Calgary to proclaim the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline is not up for discussion. In…
He Said What? Colorado?
One of the first things he did on assuming office was to have his lawyers issue warnings to every school he’d attended not to release his records. We’ll never know…
Anybody Remember Joe Clark?
Joe Clark, the 16th prime minister of Canada. In May, 1979, Joe swept Pierre Trudeau’s government out of power, winning a minority government. The PCs swept pretty much everything west…
If Scientists Can Get It Wrong, Why Not Economists?
Scientists have been wrong about climate change since that became a household term. They just keep getting it wrong but not in the way you hear it from odious people…
Now There’s an Idea! Every Vote Should Count.
Now, if you’re one of those people who doesn’t spot the obscenity in some guy who just won 33 per cent of the vote crowing about the grand mandate he…
It’d Serve the Bastards Right
Why is Justin Trudeau our prime minister, not Andrew Scheer? According to an item I picked up on CBC this morning it could be that ‘Summer Help’ Andy was laid…