Nature Is Now On Her Own. World Governments Throw In the Towel On Climate Change.
Rio + 20 was, according to U.N. Gen-Sec Ban Moon, too important to fail yet that’s exactly what it did and that’s all it did – fail. Guardian enviro-scribe, George…
The Mound of Sound
When I’ll Vote Liberal
Who should lead the Liberal Party? Who cares? To me, and I suspect a great many other Canadians, the Liberal Party is and will remain irrelevant until it speaks to…
Bad Schadenfreude, Bad!
When writing about environmental calamity descending on the United States one must resist the urge to resort to “they had it coming.” Yes, America has been a huge and to…
Stiglitz – Pushing Back the Oligarchs
Nobel laureate economist, Joe Stiglitz, has a warning for America – and for Cajnada too – we cannot hope for our societies to survive the cancer of inequality. Stiglitz had…
For What?
Ex-con, ex-financier, ex-Canadian Conrad Black is at it again, telling Canadians what’s wrong with them and their country. This time he used a podium opportunity to exhort Canada to “seize…
Industrialized Poverty
The House(s) That Brian Built If there was any people NAFTA was supposed to help, surely it was the Mexicans. It was supposed to be their admission ticket to industrialization…
Taking Stock on the Rain Coast
It’s grey and wet outdoors. It’s been grey and wet since, what, October? Just kidding, we’ve had a few nice days. Everybody’s sure of it even though nobody can agree…
BC Court Strikes Down Ban on Assisted Suicide
It’s about time. A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has upheld a terminally ill woman’s right to physician-assisted suicide. Justice Lynn Smith held the ban to be discriminatory and unconstitutional.…
The Liberals Don’t Need Another Trudeau. They Need Another Pierre.
Many Liberals, displaying the stubborn arrogance that moved their party from Sussex Drive to Stornoway to Motel 6 in just three election cycles, are fawning all over Justin Trudeau as…
The Buffalo’s Revenge
America’s historic bread basket, the Great Plains, is just about finished. Like the Canadian prairie, the Great Plains was a massive expanse of grassland inhabited by migratory creatures and native…
A Lot of You Have Been Waiting to See This
It’s a screen capture from a beheading scene during the first season of Game of Thrones. Go ahead, take a close look. Who does that look like? Whose head is…
From "Citizens United" to Corporate Electoral Blackmail
Hey, it’s just corporations exercising their newfound political voices. According to Politico, U.S. defence contractors are planning to throw a wrench into November’s presidential and congressional elections by issuing hundreds…
Is China Grooming Africa for Half a Billion Surplus Chinese?
The theory, published in Asia Times, is that Chinese authorities have figured out their homeland can support a population of 700-million, max. With current numbers at 1.2-billion, China has to…
Rounding the Square Pegs
Rounding square pegs. That, in a nutshell, is the message being delivered by the Royal Society and 104 other national science academies, to delegates of the Rio+20 Earth Summit if…
Now Will You Stop Killing Whales, You Bastards?
The Japanese supposedly go whaling for “scientific research” purposes. Hard to tell what they’re looking for. Maybe they’re exploring new ways to kill whales or the process by which they…
IMF Chief – Inequality, the Environmnent, Social Upheaval are Linked
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warns we can either accept a realistic approach to sustainable growth or face declining incomes, environmental calamity and social upheaval. “…she…
China’s Toxic Farmland Time Bomb
China has a bagful of environmental challenges. You name it, they got it. Polluted waterways, contaminated air, greenhouse gas emissions that confound attempts to measure them – the lot. When…
For Liberals, the Way Forward is the Way Back
If the Liberals are ever coming back, and that’s a lot more iffy than many of them want to admit, it will be under a leader determined to reverse the…
Why Did Lincoln Insist on Keeping These Morons in the Union?
North Carolina recently caused snickers when its state assembly legislated against sea level rise. Their ordinance stipulated that future sea level rise must be calculated on historic results, not on…
Pentagon Post-Mortem on Iraq & Afghan Wars – We F__ked Up
Afghan Army Soldiers One way of knowing for sure that America has lost a war is when the Pentagon begins navel-gazing. That’s exactly what the US military is doing now…