Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses how Canadian workers are feeling the pain of decades of policy designed to suppress wages – and notes there’s plenty…
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Get Used to It. This Is Just Beginning.
It’s amazing how the plight of refugees fleeing a war on the other side of the world has had such a deep impact on electoral politics in Canada. I’ll bet…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ian Welsh discusses how our problems with poverty and inequality arise out of artificial scarcity: We either already have excess capacity or we…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Michael Hurley and Sam Gindin discuss the need for workers to organize to reverse the trend of precarious work, while the Star…
An Arboreal Barometer
Some of them are mute witnesses to over three thousand years of history. Towering and majestic, some as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the giant sequoia, native to a…
Burning: A summer of fire, smoke, ash and change
Photo: Province of British Columbia/Flickr CC licence Wildfires are ripping across California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska during this summer of 2015, the result of unprecedented droughts and record…
More Canaries
My guess is only the willfully ignorant, the profoundly stupid, and the ideologically blind do not realize the environmental peril we are experiencing, one primarily but not exclusively driven by…
Hey Canada, Make Climate Change Part of the Election
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Angry For Good Reason
Every evening at 6:30, I try to take about 10 minutes to watch NBC Nightly News, the object of my interest not American politics but the apocalyptic imagery of the…
What is climate leadership in BC, Canada and the world?
Thursday, August 20, 2015 The governments of both British Columbia and Alberta are currently consulting the public as they develop “climate leadership plans.” But what does it really take to…
Climate Change Is Solvable
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If Not Now, Then When?
Carrie Newcomer, a talented singer songwriter and fellow Citizen Climate Lobbyist, played at CCL’s National Conference in Washington, DC in June. Here’s one of the songs she played. I hope…
Imagine An Era of Low-Carbon Prosperity
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Apocalypse Now, And The Shape Of Things To Come
I decided to take a break from the political landscape today to look at our physical one. Regrettably, although the title of this post comes from two films, what is…
Another Reason To Vote
If you know any young people looking for a reason to vote, please pass this on to them: National Pipeline Approval Board Posted by Robin Chat on Saturday, August 15,…