Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne’s column for the Labour Day weekend comment on the role unions play in pushing for advancements for everybody. – Paul…
Kinder Morgan
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…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – David Moscrop makes the case for a long-overdue inheritance tax in Canada: Over time, if left unchecked, capitalism facilitates the pooling of wealth…
Hothouse Earth
Hot on the heels of the news that Justin’s folly will now cost taxpayers at least another $1.9 billion comes widespread acknowledgement that we may indeed be reaching the climate-change…
Punishment does not fit the crime
When Justice Kenneth Affleck jailed a senior who was honestly motivated to improve the world, the judge was following a long-established Canadian legal tradition. It dictates: Punishment need not fit…
A Glimpse at the Risks We Must Bear for Your Pathetic "National Unity."
Two things: the Deepwater Horizon disaster involved conventional, crude oil. They were not dealing with tar-like sludge laced with toxins, acids, heavy metals and carcinogens. Secondly, it was a fairly…
Neoliberal Friends With Benefits
Kinder Morgan couldn’t have a better friend than Justin Trudeau: Texas-based Kinder Morgan made a seven-fold return on the sale of its Trans Mountain pipeline system to Canada’s federal government,…
Vox Populi
While many will be fixated on the latest soap-opera installments that politics now regularly yields, such as the outrageous behaviour of Trump at the G6+1, or the strange elevation to…
Note To Justin
Because it is 2018, instead of buying leaky pipelines on the taxpayer’s dime, maybe you should enter the modern era and emulate China: Recommend this Post
His Hypocrisy Is Breathtaking
Perhaps he is counting on a fawning international press and a somnolent Canadian public. Perhaps he is counting on those who put partisan loyalties above all else. Or maybe he…
Pipeline Another Live Protest Against Kinder Morgan Pipeline
This time, it is in front of the constituency of Trudeau’s Justice Minister and Attorney General, Jody Wilson-Raybould: Recommend this Post
"Iceberg, Dead Ahead!" Trudeau’s Multi-Billion Dollar Pipeline Blunder.
The J. Trudeau Memorial Pipeline could be transformed into a multi-million dollar blunder, swept away by a bursting carbon bubble. We’ve been warned about the carbon bubble for years, well…
What do Jason Kenney, John Horgan and Elizabeth May have in Common?
This just in from the “strange-bedfellows” department: When it comes to the Trans Mountain pipeline, Jason Kenney, BC premier John Horgan and Green Party leader Elizabeth May are singing from…
Our Naked Prime Minister
Disingenuous, Dishonest, Cynical. Calculating. Choose any or all of those adjectives, and you will have an apt assessment of Justin Trudeau and his decision to nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline…
Live: Pipeline Protest From Whistler
Clearly, Mr. Trudeau’s “sunny ways” do not dazzle everyone. Recommend this Post
Justin Trudeau: A Reality Check
While Canadians are rightfully applauding the retaliatory tariffs the Trudeau government will be imposing on the United States, my concern is that distraction will diminish the outrage that same government’s…
Nathan Cullen’s Peerless Takedown Of The Hapless Justin Trudeau
Enjoy (or not, depending upon your political/philosophical/environmental orientations): Meanwhile, Star letter-writers offer some much-needed reality checks about Trudeau’s betrayal: Your editorial highlights the political risks in the Justin Trudeau government’s…
$4.5 Billion? Try $20 Billion.
What a fitting legacy for a double dealing prime minister, a pipeline fiasco. He may not like it but Justin Trudeau’s name will forever be tied to a bitumen tube.…
Call Him By His Real Name
I hope Justin Trudeau has a vivid imagination and total recall. That way, he can revisit the fall of 2015, depicted above, a time, you may remember, when he was…
They Got Snookered
For years to come, the Liberal government’s purchase of Kinder-Morgan will be used in business schools to illustrate deeply flawed decision making. What the Liberals did yesterday was simply bad…