Ontario Premier Doug Ford meets with firefighters and emergency personnel in Thunder Bay during the province’s ongoing wildfire crisis. Photo courtesy Doug Ford/X. The wildfire situation i...
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Canada wildland fire information system mapHeroes of the flamesSome courageous people. Chance Paavola View on Threads View on Threads Here is a fascinating interview from the National Post with Chief…
The Muruntau mine, one of the largest gold mines in the world, located in the mountains of Murintau in the Kyzylkum Desert in Uzbekistan. Photo by Oleksandr Goncharenko. Washingt...
As was totally predictable, apologists for Alberta’s United Conservative Party are now clutching their pearls about Danielle Smith’s pancakes being labeled fascist. “Berta Proud Dad” himself – the pro-separation “independent…
Prime Minister Mark Carney has caused his government to serve oil barons rather than the people who elected it. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made that choice long ago. Now British…
Last week I gave a talk at Chatham House for an event on ‘Is Data Localisation the Answer to Data Sovereignty? Location, Control and the Architecture of Trust’, organised in…
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A recent article in The Guardian asked one of the UK’s top climate scientists, Professor Ed Hawkins, to bust the biggest myths about climate change. He tells us we can’t…
When it comes to absorbing carbon you can do a lot worse than plankton. Yes, those tiny specks of flora that float around the ocean can take on a lot…
open.substack.com/pub/thegrimhistorian/p/has-america-crossed-the-asshole-threshold it’s happened before. It’ll happen again.
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 20, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:US Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Tying Tylenol Use in Pregnancy to Autism and…
Canada and Mexico once appeared to be travelling the same housing road. Both dismantled public housing capacity, empowered private developers, and transformed homes into financial assets...
Like her hero Donald Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has always understood that populist movements like her United Conservative Party are based more on tribal identity than serious policy. Indeed,…
Governments acknowledge climate science, then pursue policies that directly contradict it. They transfer public wealth to immensely profitable corporations, encourage greater fossil-fuel dependence, and leave ordinary people to bear the…
A trolly Trump demands an entrance fee from Canadian smoke.
In the old westerns, bandits would board trains and demand passengers turn over all their money upon pain of death. Everyone complied, the bandits happy with their take and the…
What if, instead of using its vast industrial might to become the world’s dominant imperial power, the United States had developed an equally strong military whose combat capacity could be…
