India—too big to hold accountable?
The world isn’t a fair place. The rule of law doesn’t apply globally. Might is often right. This reality overarches Canada’s accusation that the Indian government orchestrated the murder/assassination of…
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OMG. Liberal Speaker Encourages House to Give Ovation to Nazi.
That's bad. Remember when Lyle Stewart of the SaskParty invited an infamous murderer to the Throne Speech a few months ago too?#skpoli — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) September 25, 2023 The…
Plague Update: It’s Still (Not) Over
BC isn’t helping old people with COVID-19. Seems like eugenics. Can you imagine the scandal if this happened 2 years ago? We do “this” because we will NOT go gentle…
The Spat With India
So, India is expanding its temper tantrum over Canada expressing concerns over the suspected role of the Modi government in the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. To a certain extent,…
Homelessness among Indigenous peoples
I’m writing an open access textbook on homelessness and have just released Chapter 6, which focuses on homelessness experienced by Indigenous peoples—especially in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. A ‘top…
Manufacturing Consent for War in Canada and the United States
In this webinar, organized by Peace Alliance Winnipeg, Colleen Bell and Yves Engler explain how governments in Canada and the United States shape public opinion to support their wars. The…
The Price of Dispensing With The Monarchy
Over on Musk’s Xitter site, I spotted the following post basically arguing that we should dispense with the Monarchy in Canada. Let me start off by saying that I’m sympathetic…
Pause Conservative Governments Until We Can Figure Out What’s Going On
Smith on net-zero from 1½ years ago: Innovators can do net-zero!Politicians are too polarizing!Kenney spent too much time fighting the carbon tax! They don't understand how much the industry is…
Canada Starts to Reduce Oil & Gas Subsidies
A country that loves extracting fossil fuels has begun to clean up its tax rebates for the destructive oil and gas industry. Canada spent over $15 BILLION on subsidies for…
Putting Names on the Climate Crisis
The people who make decisions to continue us on a path of climate catastrophe have names and addresses. We need to shame people who are actively engage in profiteering off…
Discontent in the provinces
A recent Angus Reid Institute survey of Canadians’ approval (or disapproval) of their provincial governments’ performances was full of surprises while bereft of optimism. Angus Reid maintains a Government Performance…
The brilliance of the Sustainable Jobs Act
Last week the feds tabled Bill C-50, the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, in the House of Commons. The bill would create a Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council to advise the government…
Alberta is missing the transition window
When Alberta’s Premier, the Hon. Danielle Smith, gave her election victory speech; she made it clear that she believed that she could protect Alberta’s Oil and Gas industry from the…
Canada smokes New York
Good neighbours share. But what Canada is sharing these days with its good neighbour to the south is not appreciated. I refer to the dense plumes of smoke from our…
Moving Beyond The Partisan
A couple of years ago, I expressed my disgust with partisan politics and proposed a model that is intended to break the connection between party discipline, insularity, and policy platforms.…
It’s Simple to Install Solar Panels
Efficient of solar panels continues to increase and the costs of installing them keep going down, meaning that there’s never been a better time than now to install solar panels.…
Trudeau’s future—past as prologue?
According to a recent Angus Reid study Prime Minister Trudeau’s approval rating while low is still better than most of his recent predecessors. It currently stands at 40 percent, not…
Electoral reform—to be or not to be?
Once again our hopes rise. Or do they? At their recent national policy convention the Liberals voted to back a citizens’ assembly on electoral reform. Specifically, the convention resolved that…
Climate change—we make progress
Each spring, Canada submits The National Inventory Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The report holds Canada accountable to targets it is committed to under the…
Two cheers for King Charles!
Today’s the day! Prince Charles in short pants, already apprenticing for the job (Photo: Creator unknown, Library and Archives Canada). Charles III, the former Prince Charles, finally gets the job…