Hoist On His Own Climate Petard
If I was a Liberal I would have been upset, if not furious, when Justin Trudeau, taking a page out of Christy Clark’s playbook, claimed that Canada should receive credit…
The Mound of Sound
Don’t They Come in Gold?
Maybe it’s for the Fourth of July festivities. Maybe it’s a dress rehearsal in case he loses the presidency next year. Either way, Donald Trump has brought the big guns…
What’s With New Brunswick?
Is New Brunswick Canada’s Louisiana? Anyone who regularly reads Graeme Decarie’s excellent blog, The Decarie Report, is regaled at how that province operates as the feifdom of a few powerful…
Environment Update
Today is, predictably, worse than yesterday. That is becoming the now customary reality as we steadily drift ever further from a stable, inhabitable planet. Don’t worry, we’ve still got years…
Ottawa’s Favourite Banana Republic Opens Fire on Students
Canada has a thing for Honduras. The ravaged country is a second home to powerful Canadian mining companies and Ottawa appreciates the carte blanche treatment. Harper was quick to jump…
Did the Long Reach of Donald Trump Cost a Canadian Cartoonist His Job?
The cartoonist is from New Brunswick, Michael de Adder. His former employer – Brunswick News Inc. where Adder’s political cartoons ran in four papers. Until he posted this to his…
The G20 Isn’t a DayCare for Donald Trump’s Kids
Couldn’t he have just dropped her off at the mall? Donald Trump’s daughter/bride, Ivanka, caused something of a stir when she appeared as a stand-in for her dad at the…
Global Weirding, the Canada Day Edition.
Relax, it’s not another campground getting whacked by a tornado. It didn’t even happen in Canada. Try Mexico. In Guadalajara residents got a shock as they greeted the first day…
The Winds of Change Are Coming
And they’re coming for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, perhaps Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives to boot. It always seemed just a matter of time. How long could the voting public allow the petro-pimps…
This Election Is For Keeps
I can’t stress enough that the October elections will be like none other in Canada’s history. It’s our last chance to steer Parliament away from its blind obsession with the…
What if Putin Is Right? What Then?
Before flying off to Osaka, Russian badboy Vlad Putin took a moment to share his views on democracy and its troubled and tattered trappings. Putin declared liberalism “obsolete” and said…
Isn’t Politics the Real Problem?
The CBC had an ‘experts panel’ today answering audience questions about climate change. One topic that was expressly off-limits was politics. I listened for a while but it was all…
The 21st Century West – Growing Steadily Dumber.
Ever since we entered the millennium, IQ scores across the West have been dropping. People are getting dumber. That’s not a judgment; it’s a global fact. In a host of…
Canada’s Climate Migration Begins
Canadians are on the move in search of safety. They’re beginning to get away from the smoke and flames of wildfires that now sweep broad swathes of the West. The…
Japan Surrenders to America – Again
This time there won’t be any signing ceremony on the deck of an American battleship in Tokyo bay. This capitulation will be at the G20 in Osaka. Japan has bowed…
US Medical Groups Declare Climate Health Emergency
I have two family members in Europe. One daughter has just relocated from Dublin to Amsterdam. She’s found a centuries old place, the postcard spot along a city canal. My…
That’s Serious Money. Where Will We Find It?
A succession of neoliberal governments across the West have been wildly effective at advancing inequality, austerity and an era of ‘everyday low taxes.’ Before long that’s going to bite us…
The Westminster Quagmire or The Price to Be Paid for First-Past-The-Post
Today’s Guardian editorial contends that the United Kingdom may not survive Brexit but neither might the Conservative party. The editorial board singles out first-past-the-post for Britain’s looming political quagmire. The…
A Meteorologist Finds Art as France Swelters
It’s a scorcher in Europe. France is expected to set a record for June with a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius. The previous record of 41.5 C was set in…
A Reminder of Just Who We’re Really Screwing
The debate over pipelines, supertankers and bitumen is undercut by how we take it in the context of ourselves, our nation. That spares us from thinking of bitumen trafficking in…