Cancer, Keto & Health – Key Facts
Two of many illusions cut through here, in this documentary series, The Answer To Cancer (linked below): 1. Genes cause cancer and other disease. Wrong. That is old science, now…
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Know The Risks
Humans are really good at pattern recognition but really bad at figuring out which patterns actually matter. This impacts how we live as individuals and as a collective – be…
Pension trade-offs and democratic deficits
Forget houses as a source of secondary income – that’s so 2007. After the latest recession, Americans are increasingly dipping into their retirement savings to fund on-going consumer expenses. Many…
What’s the risk? Climate activism aiming at supply and demand
One way to think about climate activism is to see if it focuses on the supply of or demand for fossil fuels – pipelines or cars, hydrocarbons or carbon emissions.…
Notes on pensions and risk
Canada’s finance ministers are meeting this weekend and a proposal to expand the CPP is at the top of the agenda. If implemented, this proposal would bolster an important public…
Austerity and the profitability puzzle: government gives profits a helping hand
This is the third and final post in what has become a three-part series on the puzzle of high profitability and low investment in the Canadian economy. In the first…
Embracing Redundancy
We’ve all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we’ve even…
Embracing Redundancy
We've all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we've even…
Embracing Redundancy
We’ve all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we’ve even…
Embracing Redundancy
We've all been sold a bill of goods. All the time we are told that efficiency, productivity and profitability are the most important things in the world. Heck, we've even…
IdleNoMore: A Short History
Today the Harper Regime capitulated to the request by #idlenomore and First Nations to meet. This seems like a big win but I can only look at this with skepticism.…
IdleNoMore: A Short History
Today the Harper Regime capitulated to the request by #idlenomore and First Nations to meet. This seems like a big win but I can only look at this with skepticism.…
IdleNoMore: A Short History
Today the Harper Regime capitulated to the request by #idlenomore and First Nations to meet. This seems like a big win but I can only look at this with skepticism.…
IdleNoMore: A Short History
Today the Harper Regime capitulated to the request by #idlenomore and First Nations to meet. This seems like a big win but I can only look at this with skepticism.…
Most BCers Support Northern Gateway Pipeline
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to British Columbians that they support an oil pipeline that endangers ecologically sensitive terrain, after all they continue to financially support every other pipeline…
Liberal Red And NDP Orange
The Liberal Party of Canada is often criticized for being stagnant, for not changing, but one just has to look at its logo, its branding, and more specifically, its colour…
OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper's government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday's article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside:…
OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside:…
OilGate: Selling our Sovereignty
Harper’s government is guilty of projection if nothing else. Yesterday’s article in the Ottawa Citizen clearly points out how foreign interests have taken ownership of the oilsands from the inside:…
Public comments prove Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is all risk, no reward
By: 350.org | Press Release: WASHINGTON – April 23, 2013 – Opponents of Keystone XL have submitted more than one million comments urging President Obama, Secretary Kerry and the State…