Episode 19: Quashing Pipelines and Political Dreams
In this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman discuss the latest news in Alberta politics, including Premier Rachel Notley’s response to the quashing of approval of…
climate change
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Roberts highlights the trillions of dollars in global benefits to transitioning to sustainable energy over the next decade-plus – as well as…
Truth In Parody
Last year, the Parody Project produced a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump and his acolytes through a song entitled Confounds the Science. If you haven’t yet seen it, please click…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Oliver Bullough writes that the combination of increased wealth concentration and the free flow of money across borders to attacks currencies and governments…
Economic illiteracy in Canadian media
The Fraser Institute declares Tax Freedom Day each year. It is an inaccurate trick to further interests of the millionaires and billionaires for whom the “charity” works. Many of those…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that progressive voices need to reclaim the theme of freedom as it becomes increasingly obvious how deprivation and precarity deprive…
A Verbal Tap Dance
Talk, as they say, is cheap. Watch the following clip to see Environment Minister Catherine McKenna further debase its value by her non-answer regarding the now-stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thomas Walkom reminds us that the Libs’s supposed tradeoff of climate policy for pipelines is failing as much in producing the former…
Planning for failure
The Saskatchewan Party’s latest excuse for a climate change announcement passed last week with little more than a passing mention in the media. And on the merits, it certainly earned…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Jagmeet Singh observes that much of the festering hate stoked by right-wing parties can be traced back to economic injustice and insecurity: (I)f…
Some Refreshing Leadership
Now that Canada’s plan to increase its greenhouse gas emissions and further threaten coastal waters has been dealt a massive blow by the Federal Court of Appeal, I suggest it…
Roll up the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner. Federal court halts the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project on the same day Kinder Morgan sells it to the Government of Canada.
Photo: A train of oil cars sits parked outside Jasper, Alberta, not far from the path of the current Trans Mountain Pipeline. What a day. This morning, the Federal Court…
This About Sums It Up
And it begs the question: Is our species really worth saving? Recommend this Post
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Matt Bruenig makes the case for a social wealth fund in the U.S. And David Dayen offers a reminder that Alaska’s dividend to…
Rotstein’s Monumental Epitaph
The late Abraham/Abe Rotstein (1929-2015) was an economist of a leftist persuasion, literally a Left Liberal. He left behind an almost completed manuscript which he had been working on for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Duncan Cameron writes that the Libs’ anti-poverty “strategy” really isn’t about much more than spin. And Katherine Scott asks when we’ll see…
These Are Brave Ladies
When you are young, it is easy to find heroes, people whose daring exploits elicit awe and wonder. When I was a kid, Superman was my comic book hero. Although…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Arno Kopecky points out that new highs in nominal standards of living around the globe are being paired with unprecedented environmental damage which…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jesse McLaren and Kate Hayman discuss how better treatment of workers can reduce the strain on a province’s health care system: As front-line…
About That Odour In The Air
While The Great Pretender and his faux Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, continue to utter platitudes about climate-change action while visiting formerly Beautiful British Columbia, smoke is…