Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada's longstanding - if far from inevitable - identity as a resource economy is standing in the way of…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Scott Sinclair, Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood and Stuart Trew study the contents of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Sinclair and Trew also highlight why…
Drowning In Our Excesses
The news is alarming, the statistics incredible, the implications dire. A convergence of factors, not the least of which is climate change, is causing rapid ice-sheet melting in Greenland. It…
How To Let Go Of The World And Love All The Things Climate Cannot Change
Like many of you, I have watched Gasland, Gasland II and the Sky Is Pink. Josh Fox has been a trailblazer digging in and challenging the oil and gas trade.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Paul Wells argues that climate change and First Nations reconciliation - two of the issues which the Libs have tried to turn into signature…
Scottish Independence and Some Lessons For Alberta
Last Sunday was the second anniversary of Scotland's independence referendum, which as you may know, was for me a day of great disappointment.And one I'll always remember.But I haven't dared…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Arthur Neslen points out how new trade agreements figure to make it impossible for governments to meet their environmental commitments. And Corporate Europe…
This Reality Is Becoming Too Pressing To Ignore
The other day I wrote a post describing how the National Media Council dismissed a complaint from a Toronto Star reader that arose from a New York Times story detailing…
A Very Small Victory
In a seemingly endless battle, even small victories deserve to be noted. And it is indeed a small victory on the climate-change front that The Star's public editor, Kathy English,…
In case we didn’t have enough reasons to want Donald Trump to be trounced…
...he's now serving as Brad Wall's latest excuse for climate obstructionism. We'll see if anyone asks the implied follow-up question: whether Wall is actually hoping for a Trump win on…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot observes that while few people would want to drive animals to extinction directly, we're all too often eager to settle for a…
Opinion: Environment & Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna gets failing report card
Environment & Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna (Mike Gifford/Flickr cc licence) The following is an op-ed by Dr. Eoin Finn – B.Sc., Ph.D., MBA In October 2015, SFU Energy and…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Naomi Klein writes about the racism and dehumanization behind climate change denialism and inaction. And George Monbiot reminds us of the dangers of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Erin Seatter interviews Adam Lynes-Ford about Brian Day's latest attack on universal Medicare. And Ricochet's editorial board highlights how Day is ultimately fighting…
The Angry Ocean and the Coming Apocalypse
I grew up by the sea. I learned to read its many moods. I learned when it was safe to swim in it or sail on it, and when it…
Donald Trump’s Insane War on the Planet
Donald Trump is always declaring war on something or somebody, so he can look bigger in one of his many mirrors, or in the eyes of the mob.One day it's…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Brendan Duke examines the connection between wage growth and worker productivity, and makes the case that the former may lead to the latter:The 1929–1950…
BC’s Climate Plan shows why real leadership requires accountability
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her staff are in th...
BC’s Climate Plan shows why real leadership requires accountability
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and her staff are in th...
Are You A Supremacist?
Where I live, the summer has been, with just the occasional respite, unbearably hot. It has certainly interfered with one of my seasonal pleasures, sitting on the deck and reading…