The Kids Are Alright – Are You?
The kids, students waging a global climate strike, are alright. They know what’s coming their way. They know the future we are bequeathing to them. It is what we have…
The Mound of Sound
Orban – Poster Boy of Neo-Fascism
The Irish Times has a chilling look at Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban’s campaign to purge Europe of liberal democracy. Orban has become the de facto leader of the European…
They’re Not Just Attacking Mosques, Synagogues and Black Churches – Their Real Target is Us, You and Me.
Author Ed Husain explains why the mosque massacres in Christchurch, New Zealand are part of a tag-team campaign targeting free, secular and tolerant societies. They’re after you and we all…
How About a Zero Tolerance Policy?
It’s dead easy to make a case against high-carbon, toxin-laden bitumen, the stuff that Justin Trudeau, despite the science, wants to flood into world markets. Natural gas, that’s a tougher…
"The Age of Stupid" Revisited
It was a decade ago that “The Age of Stupid” was released. Now for something completely stupid – us, a decade later.
The "Normalization of Bigotry"
Australia, home of the Christchurch mosque mass murderer, Brenton Tarrant, has a bigotry problem, in particular a recent normalization of bigotry. This emerged yesterday when Australian senator, Fraser Anning, blamed…
Brexit Yoga
A bit of levity
How Fox News Fans Saw the Christchurch Massacre
Taken from the comments section at Fox News: – Nice to hear good news for a change – As a white man, I won’t lose any sleep over this tonight!…
Front Page of Polish Paper – ‘How to Spot a Jew’
The right wing is alive and in charge in Poland today as that country joins Hungary and Italy in descending into illiberal democracy. It therefore should come as no great…
It Is Revealed in Glimpses But This Is the Unmistakable Face of Today’s Right Wing
Whether it’s Donald Trump’s absolution of white nationalists or Andrew Scheer and Dave Tkachuk embracing them on the lawns of the Parliament buildings, the abject evil of the right wing…
Don’t Eat That Stuff, Charlie. That’s Horseshit!
Several years ago I stumbled upon a US FDA report on imported shrimp (prawns). It listed, month by month, the number of shrimp imports from Asia that were discovered to…
A Call for Scientists to Rally Behind the Youth Climate Strike
Scientific American magazine is urging scientists everywhere to come out in support of the youth climate strike. We, the March for Science, an international community of scientists, science advocates, teachers,…
What We Saw This Week in Westminster
It looks like utter chaos in Theresa May’s House of Commons. The Conservatives are fractured, Labour is fractured, whipped votes aren’t. The Scots want something, the Northern Irish want something…
Goin’ Tactical
If there’s one thing no society needs it’s “black guns.” There is a whole family of these things out there, “tactical” semi-automatic rifles that can be yours for just a…
Parliament Votes to Postpone Brexit to June 30.
It wasn’t even close – 412 to 202. With that, Theresa May gets to return to Brussels for EU consent to postpone the Brexit date. Hard to know what awaits…
CBC’s Neil Macdonald Deflates Scheer, Charlie Angus and Trudeau’s Attackers
It’s all “Bullshit Theater.” CBC columnist, Neil Macdonald, revives John Turner’s term for politics in the public forum in dissecting the antics of Andrew Scheer and the NDP’s Charlie Angus…
What Does This Say to You About that Bitumen Business?
There’s not a politician in Alberta who gives a tinker’s dam about this. Neither does your favourite prime minister or the Tory seeking to unseat him. A new report out…
UK Parliament Rejects "No Deal" Brexit, Extension Next
The chaos in Westminster continues. By a four vote margin, 312 to 308, Parliament has rejected a “no deal” Brexit. The vote revealed the deep fracture in Theresa May’s Conservative…
Going, Going… Gone
An Australian study of species at risk finds about 1,200 of the 5,457 species of birds, mammals and amphibians examined face almost certain extinction. The new research, published in PLOS…
Quarantined – At Sea.
The USS Fort McHenry is literally all at sea thanks to an apparent outbreak of a virus similar to mumps. The McHenry has been effectively quarantined at sea for the…