Few Know This Better than Rex Murphy
T-Rex’s latest screed in the National Post, slams the idea that today’s journalists are “guardians of the truth.” For proof, “Tailing Pond” Murphy offers what he calls “Trump journalism,” the…
The Mound of Sound
A "Mosque Tax" – A New Proposal from Germany
At first it sounds outrageous – a tax on those attending Mosque services in Germany. Outlandish, how dare they? Only it’s not that simple. Lawmakers from Germany’s grand coalition government…
Commemorating Thirty Years of Indifference, Neglect and Outright Mendacity
In today’s New York Times, environmental activist and lecturer, Paul Bledsoe, offers up a year-by-year record of three decades of American indifference, neglect and blatant dishonesty on climate change. It…
Climate Change is Scary But It’s Nothing Compared to Us.
Climate change may be poised to begin killing us off en masse in the coming decades but the real killer will be us or, more precisely, human nature. An insightful…
Lots of Words But Where Are the Deeds? Could Our Hands be Tied?
One thing conspicuously absent in the realm of climate change is meaningful action. Not gestural measures, there are plenty enough of those. Meaningful measures that reflect both the magnitude and…
It Wouldn’t be Christmas Without the Lowly Oyster
As a family ritual, passed down from generation to generation, the only thing anyone knows is that it goes back long before any of us remember. Our grandparents said it…
Robert Reich – Trump is Toast.
It’s not Trump’s loyal-unto-death base that’s the problem for the Mango Mussolini. It’s America’s “bought and paid for” Congressional Republicans. They may fear Trump’s base but not as much as…
Obama Admits Neoliberalism Wrecked Liberal Democracy
Former President Barack Obama has blown the whistle on neoliberal capitalism and admits it fostered the rise of the far-right and fueled crippling levels of inequality.
Battling the Gloom
It wasn’t a terrible surprise to read the morning’s severe wind warning from Environment Canada. A look outside had stolen the government’s thunder. Yeah, it’s windy again just as it…
Climate Dominoes
When world leaders periodically muster up enough courage to take on the issue of climate change, they do it with great timidity. They approach it in the context of political…
T’was the Eve Before Blackness
There’ll be no white Christmas for Vancouver Island. In fact, unless these high winds stop and allow the ferries to run normally again, for some it won’t be much of…
Vlad Says: US Out of Syria, UK Out of EU.
All Vlad Putin wants for Christmas, the Americans to pull their forces out of Syria and Britain to go ahead and quit the European Union. Apparently he’ll take care of…
Alan Greenspan – "Run for Cover"
Former fed chairman, Alan Greenspan, the guy who could do no wrong until he could do no right, is adding his voice to the choir of investment types who see…
Be Careful What You Ask For, Alberta
There’s plenty of grumbling out of the oil patch these days, angry muttering about western separation. They’re fed up with waiting for a pipeline to tidewater, something they pin on…
Judge Giving Flynn a Rough Ride at Sentencing Hearing. Flynn Counsel Get Adjournment.
The judge presiding over the sentencing of former Trump national security advisor, Mike Flynn, wasted no time revealing his contempt for the retired four-star general. A federal judge blasted former…
Is the Monroe Doctrine Dead?
For almost two centuries, America has considered the Americas, especially Central and South America, off-limits to foreign meddling. At first the concern was ambitious European states. The US pledged not…
The End of an Era
It’s a controversy that dates back to the day when Brian Mulroney was prime minister and a soon to be prime minister, Kim Campbell, Mulroney’s defence minister. At the time,…
Once the Politicians Stop Patting Themselves on the Back
To hear Canada’s environment minister, Catherine Mckenna, tell it, the Katowice climate summit was a great success. It wasn’t. It was the opposite of success. It was a failure. And,…
A "Target Rich Environment"
There’s a discernible sea change underway in America’s right wing media. When it comes to reliably pro-Republican opinion, the National Review ranks in the first tier. Which is why it…
What Country Poses the Gravest Threat to Canada?
Is it Iran? How about North Korea? Russia maybe? Or could it be the United States of America? Could America really be the greatest threat we’re facing? I think you…