Anti-Vaxxers Kill
They rely on scare tactics and conspiracy theories and they’re making dangerous inroads, often from anecdotal accounts spread through social media. Now we’re figuring out the cost in lives for…
The Mound of Sound
A Star in the East? A Business Reporter Speaks Out on Climate Change and How Little We’re Really Doing to Fight It.
Don Pittis, the CBC’s business reporter, usually focuses on things economic but today he is venturing into climate change and how miserably our federal and provincial governments are doing in…
What the World of 2100 May Look Like
This is a year 2100 warming map. If all the nations in the world were as emissions profligate as the brown nations – Russia, China, Canada and a few others,…
Mueller’s On a Role. Federal Agents Raid Office of Trump’s Tax Lawyer
He may be in Argentina but this will have Trump seething. Federal agents have reportedly raided the Chicago City Hall office of a lawyer who previously did tax work for…
When Trump Tear Gassed Women and Kids
I’ve experienced tear gas only once, in nuclear, biological and chemical warfare training. It’s an experience I’d never want to repeat although what I got was probably a low-grade gas.…
Climate Change. America’s Military versus Donald Trump.
Donald Trump can’t stop bleating how much he loves America’s military. Odd how he doesn’t want to do anything about one of the greatest threats to US military readiness. The…
Eating Ourselves to Extinction?
It’s the combined effort of 130 national academies of science and three years in the making. The report from the Interacademy Partnership warns that humans are literally eating ourselves to…
Is Trump a Magnet for Scumbags?
The Miami Herald has an article on how Donald Trump’s current labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, intervened to quash a child prostitution investigation into Trump pal (and Bill Clinton and Prince…
What’s With Grewal?
Justin Trudeau is having trouble with an errant MP, a Grewal fellow who represents the riding of Brampton East. Raj Grewal has stepped down, sort of, somehow, citing personal issues…
The Browning of the Arctic
The Arctic has become increasingly less white as the Arctic sea ice melts, the tundra warms and the Greenland ice sheet retreats ever faster. In fact the Arctic is turning…
There’s More Than Liberal Democracy in Peril from Right-Wing Populism. They’re Also Out to Derail Action on Climate Change.
Paul Krugman had it right when he denounced climate change denialists as “depraved.” And the depraved, also known as right-wing populists, will be out in force at next week’s COP24…
You Have All the Watches But We Have All the Time
It’s the Achilles’ Heel of counter-insurgency warfare, i.e. the quagmire that is modern-era Afghanistan. To win, all the insurgents need do is remain a viable military and political force when…
Notley’s Desperation
There’s not much Rachel Notley won’t do, it seems, to try to fend off her near inevitable loss in next year’s Alberta elections. The misery of the Athabasca Bitumen Pits…
Trump’s Mole Inside the Mueller Investigation?
It seems as though former Trump campaign manager and shady international operator, Paul Manafort, has chosen to bet on getting a presidential pardon after all. While Manafort was supposedly spilling…
Harry Leslie Smith RIP
He called both England and Canada home and he was an outspoken progressive voice on both sides of the Atlantic. Harry Leslie Smith has died, age 95. From his home…
Melania’s Blood Red Christmas
Over at Washington Post they’re taking the piss out of Melania Trump for her decision to line the White House corridors this year with blood red Christmas trees. Here are…
Krugman: Climate Denial is Depraved
NYT columnist and Nobel laureate economist, Paul Krugman, isn’t pulling any punches. Climate change denialism among congressional Republicans and Trump’s White House is depraved. Wait, isn’t depravity too strong a…
Collusion, Anyone? Manafort and Assange.
Trump’s then campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has disclosed that he personally met with Julian Assange in Equador’s embassy in London. In fact, Manafort’s meetings were conducted in 2013, 2015 and…
Global Carbon Emissions Rise Again
After four consecutive years of modest declines, carbon emissions are again on the increase. The UN warned that global emissions needed to peak by 2020 and then begin a sharp…
That’s What You Get For Loving Me
While thinking about General Motors’ announcement that it will be closing the company’s Oshawa assembly plant next December, I couldn’t help but wonder just how secure the remainder of Canada’s…