Here are three predictions about Jason Kenney’s inquiry into that “foreign-funded defamation campaign” against Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. It will be a gong show It will cost far more than…
Today’s political soup offers little in the way of social or environmental sustenance. The Horgan government’s Environment minister George Heyman delivered the decision selling out the citizens of Shawnigan Lake…
Local governments are told they are “where the rubber hits the road” when it comes to doing anything Originally published y the Cowichan Citizen LEXI BAINAS Jul. 5, 2019 7:00…
I’ve previously pointed out the connection between Andrew Scheer and an explicit effort to elevate the burning of fossil fuels to goal surpassing any interest in human well-being. But it’s…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Susie Neilson discusses the growing health gap between the rich and the rest of the population in the U.S. And Ricardo Tranjan…
Late last week, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer was once again accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Government of wanting to phase out the oilsands, as he put…
In truth, Canada needs a thorough and honest inquiry into foreign political funding, online manipulation and influence. Unfortunately, the $2.5-million probe into “foreign funded defamation” of Alberta’s fossil-fuel industry announced…
Will Sonia Furstenau and her fellow Green MLA’s Adam Olsen and leader Andrew Weaver withdraw support of the BC NDP government over this slap in the face to those residents…
“The fossil fuel industry … is the biggest obstacle to real action on climate change today,” says the co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, which this morning published an eye-opening…
The Letters section in today’s Globe and Mail is filled with readers’ thoughts on climate change. One such reader is me. Please see the fifth letter from the top for…
The Letters section in today’s Globe and Mail is filled with readers’ thoughts on climate change. One such reader is me. Please see the fifth letter from the top for…
By Larry Pynn North Cowichan council has assured the public that it’s no longer business-as-usual in the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve and that the municipality plans to undertake meaningful public…
Many elements have to come together if Canada is to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions. There is now a technical consensus that “electrification” – the replacement of fossil…
That prediction/lie didn’t work out too well. On Wednesday, Todd D. Stern, the United States special envoy for climate change, who was in Beijing for talks, said that some Chinese…
It is always assumed that editorials in newspapers are more about opinions than facts. And that makes the Toronto Star just as biased as the National Post. The other day…
The anticipated federal election in October looks like one that nobody can win. All the political parties are going into the election with heavy baggage. Nobody has the confidence of…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood offers an electoral primer for voters who want to avert a climate breakdown in this fall’s federal election. And Paul…
Photo by Melissa Terrazola The movement for a “Green New Deal” has taken off in the US and Canada. The idea takes inspiration from the American post-war economic mobilization and…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – PressProgress offers its annual reminder not to be taken in by the Fraser Institute’s anti-tax spin. And Robert Frank reports that support…
Here, on how the developing issue of plastic pollution has brought out the worst in both PR-focused Liberals and regressive Conservatives alike. For further reading…– The U.S. National Oceanic and…
