George Heads Off to the Greybar Hotel
The Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, is out to get arrested today. Good for him. Good for us all. A few hours after this column is published, I hope to be…
The Mound of Sound
BREAKING NEWS!! – Kinsella Won’t Vote Liberal
Warren Kinsella has declared he won’t, he can’t, vote for the Trudeau Liberals. QFS – Quelle F#cking Surprise! Gee, Warren, I’m pretty sure most of us guessed that from your…
Captain NumbNuts Has Done It This Time.
There’s no room for doubt now that Donald Trump has no concept of the notion of “power vacuums.” Trump created a vacuum in Syria when he withdrew US forces under…
Liberal Schizophrenia – Oil Good, Oil Bad!
As ‘buyer’s remorse’ goes, this takes the cake. With the Justin Trudeau Memorial Pipeline becoming an electoral millstone around Liberal necks, the Grits seem to be in the throes of…
It Will Still Be FPTP But At Least Not a False Majority
With neither Scheer nor Trudeau closing in on a majority win, we can anticipate some government involving some parties that is at least far more representative than the last two…
Greta Comes Calling. Jason Gets Knickers In a Bunch.
When it comes to a bloodsucking denizen of the night, i.e. Jason Kenney, word that Greta Thunberg is coming to town must be like having to stand in the noonday…
I Can Live With That
338 Canada predicts that Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands will be swept by the Greens and New Dems. The Libs and Cons are trailing badly in every island riding.…
The Flagship of the Pacific Northwest Still Listing
No, not Amazon. Not Microsoft. Long before either of them became household names there was another, Boeing. Boeing a legendary maker of truly leading edge airplanes – passenger liners, bombers,…
Oh, That "Other" Justin Trudeau?
There it is, front page of Britain’s Daily Mail. The headline says it all: “College professor named Justin Trudeau sues the University of North Texas for discrimination after being investigated…
Gimme Shelter
Donald Trump is about to test the waters of his neatly stacked Supreme Court as his last resort to avoiding coughing up his tax returns. He lost his attempt to…
IMF Calls for Massive Carbon Tax
The International Monetary Fund claims the world needs to move to an average $75 (USD) per ton carbon tax by 2030 if we’re to have a reasonable chance of averting…
Hey, "Journalist," I Think They’re Talking About You.
Here I am once again coming to the defence of Justin Trudeau, a guy whose party I do not support. Even though I don’t like Justin Trudeau or his policies…
This Is Why I Don’t Buy Singh’s Greenwash
Dippers are fond of donning green when an election looms but we’ve learned, time and again, it’s all electoral greenwash. When in the throes of an ideological aneurism, the BC…
More than just "Locker Room Talk"
It caused jaws to drop when, just before the 2016 presidential election, an audio tape was released in which the Republican candidate bragged to a TV host named Bush that…
Better Than Scheer? Hard to Tell.
Is Peter MacKay planning a comeback? According to the Globe, MacKay’s people are laying the groundwork for a leadership challenge if Andrew “Summer Help” Scheer loses on the 21st. Veteran…
Nobel Peace Prize – Tomorrow
Greta Thunberg is the heavy odds-on favourite to receive the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize tomorrow. She’d be my pick, hands down. You can go here to take a look at…
Your Government Will Sit By as It’s Petro-Pals Do In Your Grandkids.
The fossil energy giants have taken the pulse of their political enablers and what they see is clear sailing ahead. The world’s 50 biggest oil companies are poised to flood…
Enough With the "Journalist" Crap
There is among us one who never hesitates to gild the lily when heaping praise on himself. You know, the “law professor” who never was. Now he’s citing journalistic ethics…
Monbiot – How the Fossil Fuel Giants Made Us Their Fall Guy.
How about we make the last two weeks of our federal election campaign all about fossil fuels? Of all the issues in this election it’s the only one that is…
Running from His Own Shadow – And Pulling Away.
CARP (sic) In the third and final installment of ‘The Tyee Trolls Andrew Scheer,’ Steve Burgess explores how the slippery Andrew Scheer is pulling out all the stops to distance…