"A Big Step Backwards"
Global consumption of fossil fuels – oil and coal – rebounded last year. It’s enough that fossil energy giant, BP, called it “a big step backwards” and warned that the…
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Did the Trudeau Liberals Use Hacked Data to Win in 2015?
What role did Victoria’s AggregateIQ and perhaps Cambridge Analytica play in the Trudeau Liberals’ come-from-behind triumph to majority in the 2015 federal election? An article in the National Observer suggests…
Salutations to Samara!
Somebody else cares! There is help on the horizon. Canada’s political parties have been ground down to unimportant collections of non-entities over the past 40 years. And it seems that…
From Teddy’s ‘Bully Pulpit.’
Trust President Donald Trump to get it wrong. He thinks of President Theodore Roosevelt’s White House ‘bully pulpit’ as a place to bully other world leaders. What Roosevelt saw as…
Donald Trump’s play date with Kim Jong Un.
The American president plans to add to his infamy tomorrow as he meets with Kim Jong Un, leader of North Korea. It seems incongruous for Donald Trump to be traveling…
This Should Give Justin a Needed Boost
Trump advisors went on the Sunday morning US talk shows like scalded cats to denounce Justin Trudeau’s handling of the G6+1 leaders summit. White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said…
It was not all about Trump.
The American president flew out of Canada’s Bagotville air base yesterday a disappointed egotist. He stopped by to impress the other world leaders and got the cold shoulder. Not even…
Imagine a World Where Every Leader Was a Variation of Donald Trump
Donald Trump likes to pretend he’s shaking everything up. In fact he’s tearing everything down and what he can’t tear down his instinct is to bog it down. You could…
Good News for the Environment = Bad Tidings for Prime Minister Pipeline
If it’s as good as they say it is – and, with these “breakthroughs” that’s always a very big “if” – the fossil energy industry could be kaput. Sorry, Justin.…
Trump to be at Le Manoir Richelieu.
Despite being in danger from maddened beavers, American president Donald Trump says he is coming to gamble with the rich and famous of the world this weekend. The other six…
At Least They Gave Him a Warm, Safe Place to Die
74-year old Ted spent the last hours of his life in his favourite seat inside the Tim Hortons on West Broadway in Vancouver. In the city with the most expensive…
"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…
The Funny Thing Is – It’s Here and What Have We Done to Adapt to It?
You might not have seen video of the dramatic flash flooding that swept the historic town centre of Elliott City, Maryland, but that doesn’t matter. Perhaps you didn’t see the…
The Perils and Pitfalls of the J. Trudeau Memorial Pipeline – They’re Very Real
To hear many east of the Rockies tell it, a dilbit spill in British Columbia’s coastal waters isn’t going to happen, although it is, and, should it, they have a…
"The Greatest Threat Facing Mankind" – Not That You Would Know It, Not In Canada.
“Climate change is still moving much faster than we are.” That’s the pitch from UN climate change czar, Antonio Gutteres. “Scientists are now worried that unless accelerated action is taken…
$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.…
Bill McKibben Sums Up Trudeau in One Sentence
“In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in the world going fully in the tank for the oil industry.” That’s how…
The political pivot point of 2018.
In every election there is a point of pivot that decides the outcome. It has been fascinating listening to people across Ontario in the current campaign, learning of their concerns…
Trans Mountain Thursday – The Rule of Law and Cooperative Federalism – For Some, Just Not For All.
The Tyee again tackles TTM (Trudeau’s Trans Mountain pipeline) with two reports. Stepford Liberals, and your ranks are legion, are not going to like this. Will Horter explores how the…
Enron’s Patsy. How Kinder Morgan Played Trudeau and Canada for Suckers.
Steve Kean knows how to play hardball from his days as senior vice president of government affairs with the long defunct Enron corporation. Now, on behalf of the son of…