Wear This, Enbridge
“Trust Us.” That’s the theme behind Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline PR campaign. The company is desperate to get the public convinced they’re trustworthy. They’re pros, they know what they’re doing,…
The Mound of Sound
HELP, We’re Trapped Beneath a Dead Prime Minister and We Can’t Get Up
Sometimes it can feel like Stephen Harper is a giant dead body that’s fallen on top of Canada. He’s not really dead but you can look at him a good…
Boiling Frogs
Ours will not be the first civilization to foresee its own demise yet do nothing to prevent it. It’s sometimes called the “boiling frog” syndrome. Place a frog in a…
Would You Like Fries With That?
Steve Harper really should find a way to globally franchise Steve Harper. The world’s woes, claims Harper, would be solved if only other nations could be just like Harperland, er…
The Loaded Dice of Climate Change
Trying to attribute specific weather events to global warming is impossible. Long before man got the notion to industrialize there were hurricanes and tornadoes, droughts and floods. They happened before,…
Don’t Get Uppity. Remember Your Place.
These are hard times for the honest man and they may get a lot harder yet. There’s a societal sort of continental drift underway. Our once cohesive, strong society is…
The Proof of the Pudding
Americans are catching on to the concept of anthropogenic global warming, finally. That’s mainly because from the Colorado wildfires to the sustained drought across the southwest to the flooding of…
Is Syria Cold War II’s First Proxy War?
Another sign that we may have entered a new Cold War is the alignment of major powers behind rival forces in Syria. The Russians and Chinese tentatively back Assad. The…
Welcome to the New Planet Earth
A lot of Americans will be spending this 4th of July indoors, at home. At least those who still have electricity and air conditioning perhaps. Reuters reports that scorching heat…
God Damn, But He Might Be Right
It might not be just the climate that’s at risk this century. We might be on the brink of a much larger sea change sweeping through our political, economic and…
200 Year Old Triumphalism a Bit Stale
Stephen Harper obviously likes wars. His type, the kind who are never actually around for the killing and the dying, often do. Perhaps because he so royally screwed up his…
We Need To Resist the Lure of American Exceptionalism
American exceptionalism is an intriguing, occasionally lethal, notion. Americans, it seems, are brought up to believe the United States is exceptional, the best, “number one.” From Main Street to Pennsylvania…
Let’s Not Get Backed Into Another Cold War
Nobody wants to talk much about it but the Harper/MacKay pinwheels seem intent on signing Canada on to America’s next Cold War, this one in Asia. Already announced by Obama/Panetta,…
Farewell, Voyager
It’s been hurtling through space since May 5th, 1977. Now, almost 35-years later, NASA’s Voyager 1, has made it through our solar system. Voyager completed its intended mission 30 years…
If It Looks Like a Duck and Quacks Like a Duck, It’s Probably Global Warming
You may have heard about the waves of wildfires sweeping across Colorado for the past several weeks that continue to rage with no end in sight. Welcome to the new…
A World of "More"
I know there are many good, thoughtful, well-intentioned, intelligent, generous. honourable, even noble Americans. I also know there are not nearly enough of them. They don’t hold sway in their…
Our Cowardly Governor-General
Ex G.G. Michaelle Jean agreed to prorogue Parliament in December, 2008 apparently because she was intimidated by our thug prime minister, Stephen Harper, and feared that the Tory slime machine…
Define "Adapt"
ExxonMobil CEO Ralph Tillerson has a comforting message on climate change – don’t worry, be happy – we’ll adapt. Tillerson acknowledged that burning of fossil fuels is warming the planet,…
FOX News Bundled With Rupert’s Sitcoms
Rupert Murdoch is restructuring his media empire. There’ll be two divisions, publishing and entertainment. The publishing arm will control Murdoch’s book and newspaper holdings – the information stuff. The Old…