Let Me Run This Through My B.S. Remover
I read a tweet from David Suzuki today. He wrote that we’re not even keeping up with man-made greenhouse gas emissions. No, we’re steadily falling further and further behind. That…
The Mound of Sound
The Costliest Lesson in Buyer’s Remorse in Human History
Is the hyper-expensive F-35 stealth light bomber a lemon? Have America and her allies been cajoled into buying a dud? Could just be. When Lockheed began beating down doors to…
A Dying Canadian’s Unconscionable Predicament – Die Now or Face An Anguished Death Later
Our supposedly progressive prime minister (hint: he’s not, not even close) didn’t like the Supreme Court of Canada’s per curiam ruling on the right to die with dignity in the…
Are the Democrats and America’s Jews Headed for Divorce from Netanyahu’s Israel?
Put it down to irreconcilable differences. The Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, claims that, “Netanyahu is accelerating the pace of his country’s estrangement from everyone but ethnocentric and anti-democratic nationalists and xenophobes.”…
Fascism for the 21st Century
We wince a bit when someone calls a modern leader a “fascist.” It can bring up comparisons with Hitler and that sort of thing. It’s considered a bit underhanded even…
Generation Screwed
Many of us, a large majority, have lived most or all of our lives in the era of neoliberalism that was ushered in by Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney, the faithful…
Monbiot’s "One Planet Living"
On the face of it, it sounds incredibly logical. Mankind, and all the other species with which we share this Earth, must adjust to live within the limited boundaries of…
What Canada-US Trade Would Look Like if We Were Dealing With a Sane President
A recent analysis piece in TheWashington Post reveals that Canada is probably America’s best trading partner. Canada could even be called the United States’ best major trade partner. It’s the…
Stormy Daniels’ Dick Pic
Donald Trump’s advice when it comes to women, especially wives, is to deny everything. Donald Trump said you have to “deny, deny, deny” if you are accused of sexual assault…
Complacency Kills
Complacency can be a mortal threat to civilized society. That message is driven home by anthropologist Jared Diamond in his book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail.” In…
What is Ford’s Problem? I Don’t Get It.
One of my first assignments as a fledgling reporter in Ottawa in the early 70s was to cover the local municipal governments, the City of Ottawa in particular. Back then…
More Dirt on the National Energy Board’s Stacked Deck
During the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau didn’t hesitate to attack the Harper National Energy Board as utterly corrupt. Then, once in power, he took a real shine to the…
Nikiforuk Slams "Trudeau’s Sordid Pipeline Deal."
Andrew Nikiforuk, Western Canada fossil energy super-scribe, mocks the reaction of the fossil fuelers, corporate and political, to the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal quashing the federal government’s…
Who is Leona Alleslev and Why Should I Care?
The honourable backbencher for Aurora-Oakridge-Richmond Hill has left the government bench for supposedly greener pastures on Andrew Scheer’s side of the House of Commons. “On behalf of my Conservative colleagues,…
American Democracy in Crisis – HRC
I know, I know – consider the source. People in glass houses, he who is without sin, yada, yada, yada. For all that, it’s a message that deserves to be…
The Diagnosis Seems Sound. The Prescription, Who Knows? "Beautiful Country Burn Again."
“What is it about the American character that allows the long con of our politics to go on and on, electing crooks, racists, bullies, hate-mongering preachers, corporate bagmen and bald-faced…
Wow, We’ve Even Managed to Poison Babies in the Womb
Man-made pollution is managing to poison babies before they’re even babies. Scientists have found the first evidence that particles of air pollution travel through pregnant women’s lungs and lodge in…
We Better Get Used to It Because We’re Not Fixing It.
How do twenty homes in three communities north of Boston just up and explode? It’s easy, rotten infrastructure. Infrastructure is more than roads and overpasses. It also is everything from…
It’s Going to Take More than Wind Farms
It seems like an impossible challenge. A new study contends that Europe’s chance of meeting its greenhouse gas emissions targets will require that consumption of meat and dairy be scaled…
Conservative Columnist – Time for Trump to Panic.
The Washington Post’s conservative columnist, Jennifer Rubin, thinks the jig is up for Donald Trump now that Manafort has cut a cooperation deal with special prosecutor Robert Mueller. That’s the…