Israelis approaching Jerusalem are being greeted with an 8-storey poster of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu beneath a caption, “a different league.” To Haaretz correspondent, Bradley Burston, these towering campaign…
One aspect of climate change that is often missing from our conversation is how much of it is already locked in. Until we find some mechanism to extract atmospheric greenhouse…
For many millennials and their parents, this election will be like no other. Many of those millennials now have infants, toddlers, newborns and their parents have grandbabies. This year it…
Michael Ferguson has succumbed to cancer.
Britain is caught in a holy hell of a Brexit quagmire. Among British MPs, everyone has an idea and no one can get traction. Some want a second referendum on…
It is a fight that lasted several years but the proposal to build a coal port to ship thermal (dirty) coal from the Fraser Surrey Docks is dead. From Dogwood:…
Recently PostMedia ran a petro-friendly article accusing British Columbians of being hypocritical when they point fingers at Alberta for greenhouse gas emissions. It was a pretty one-sided piece. I responded…
In the opening years of this century, our new millennia, some historians predicted that the 21st century would be a “century of revolution.” Almost 20 years in, it’s looking as…
He sure talks a good game but, time after time, Justin Trudeau’s promises prove empty. The numbers come from the latest climate pollution projections report,”Canada’s Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant…
Aviation Week reports that the oldest F-35B could be put out to pasture in 2026. There’s a problem with the too-good-to-be true Joint Strike Fighter. Structural defects may leave the…
The question is how degraded has the Salish Sea already become from shipping traffic out of Canada’s largest port, Vancouver. Indigenous groups from Canada and the US want hard answers…
Two elite Paris police officers have been convicted of raping a Canadian woman who had been invited to tour their police headquarters. They each won a 7-year stretch in the…
Today there are 16,000 desalination plants in operation converting sea water into fresh water for countries beset by water insecurity. Finally the United Nations is reporting what critics have known…
It’s the law. Canadian energy companies must clean up old wells and cannot rely on bankruptcy as a mechanism to pillage the public. The top court’s ruling released Thursday overturns…
The simple fact is that we live in an age of rapid technological change that is largely alien to older people. Think back to when you had to set the…
Most of Canada is in a deep freeze as the Polar Vortex sweeps down from the Arctic. It’s cold. It’s killer cold. It’s also your new normal or at least…
This is methane gas trapped in the ice of Abraham Lake, Alberta. Across the north, methane gas and CO2 are being released from the thawing permafrost and from lake beds…
Russia, why would Russia want to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump and the fixing of the 2016 presidential election? US Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on…
In his 2008 book, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, author Gwynne Dyer wrote of a brutally militarized border between the United States and Mexico. This…
It’s hard to believe that Trump eschews alcohol because he governs like a drunken sailor. In November, scientists from 13 US federal departments, acting on the directions of Congress, produced…
