It Makes Perfect Sense
While many bemoan the fate of the Teck Resources Frontier tarsands project as yet another example of restrictive regulatory measures, others, as the following letter from the print edition of…
Letters to the Editor
Going, Going ……
I posted recently about the Teck tarsands development that is seeking the Trudeau regime’s approval. If the government gives its go-ahead to the project, it will destroy whatever remnants remain…
A New Horrifying High Our Leaders Will Ignore
News that Antarctica just reached new horrifyingly high temperatures, forerunner of the deluge to come, once more reinforces the perilous state our world is in. Despite that, it seems likely…
Tell It Like It Is
I have written nothing about the Iranian missile that brought down the Ukrainian flight, frankly because I don’t know what to say beyond the fact that it is an immense…
Makes Sense To Me
I had this exact conversation with my son this week as he and his wife visited from the west. Alberta, Ottawa set to clash over rent supplement cost, Dec. 27…
Looking Toward Liberation
I have regular telephone conversations with my friend Dave, who lives in Winnipeg. Like me, he has a very jaundiced view of those elected to ‘serve’ us, and part of…
Time For Reflection
While the battle for climate-change mitigation will be won or lost by regulating the big polluters, it is all too easy for us to scrutinize them to the exclusion of…
What About The Common Good?
One of the things that has most disturbed me about this election campaign is the emphasis both the Liberals and the Conservatives have put on so-called cheque-book issues. Whether it…
Give Me Your Frightened Masses
Run, children, run, to your polling stations!H/t Theo Moudakis Meanwhile, for those made of sterner stuff, there is an insightful analysis by Larry Kazdan of Vancouver of what should truly…
"It Is Not Fair"
H/t Greg PerryI suspect the following letter by a young person expresses the angst of an entire generation: I had hoped my final years in high school would go smoothly.…
A Journal’s Sad Decline
Readers of this blog will probably know that I am a big supporter of newspapers. In my view, they are the best bulwark against the ignorance that seems so prominent…
But Is Anyone Listening?
The Star has been running a series on climate change that I have read with some interest, offering as it does a good and extensive primer on the peril we…
Closer Than You Think
In his latest series of racist tweets, Donald Trump urged four congresswomen of colour, all but one born in the U.S. to go back and help fix the totally broken…
Globe and Mail Letter
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…
Globe and Mail Letter
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…
Scheer’s Climate-Change Plan – A Reality Check
While the Trudeau government engages in public double-think exercises (expansion of pipelines AND climate-change mitigation!), those hoping for climate salvation from the Conservatives under Andrew Scheer would be well-advised to…
A Crazed Autocrat
Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,For goodness dare not check thee. – Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3 H/t Patrick Corrigan The above quote from Macbeth, along…
A Day Of Reckoning
H/t Theo Moudakis Here in propaganda central (a.k.a., Doug Ford’s Ontario), it would appear that few are being fooled by the outrageous campaign the Ford regime is conducting against the…
And Now, A Word From Kermit
H/t Greg Perry Still not convinced? Perhaps these letter-writers can help: Local governments all over the world are declaring a climate emergency, so stop using the neutral term “climate change”…
Speaking of Doug Ford And His Ilk ….
H/t Patrick Corrigan Paul Rapoport of Ancaster, Ontario, has some advice well worth the consideration of Canada’s Conservative premiers: Keep your Enemies List current. Cut their funding. If you want…