How $1.34 turned into $76.13
I don’t know where you are, but here in the Great White North’s most northerly metropolis, it was a lovely summer. Until smoke from B.C. forest fires began to blot…
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Someone Finally Has What It Takes to Challenge Big Pharma
Opioid producers: your ‘get out of jail’ card just expired. The public purse is going to be cut off soon and lawsuits will follow.
Rotstein’s Monumental Epitaph
The late Abraham/Abe Rotstein (1929-2015) was an economist of a leftist persuasion, literally a Left Liberal. He left behind an almost completed manuscript which he had been working on for…
Globe and Mail Oped: We can save democracy from destructive digital threats
I had the privilege of speaking to the Federal Cabinet retreat this week. Details from the event can be found here. I was there to address the challenges of misinformation…
Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
Ed Greenspon and I have just published a report as a collaboration between the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Public Policy Forum, called Democracy Divided:…
JFK Airport Experience
“Saskboy doesn’t recommend John F. Kennedy International Airport.” Here’s the summary I left for them on Facebook: They weren’t able to let us deplane for an hour due to a…
Interview with author and professor Juliet Schor
On Earthgauge Radio this week, I was pleased to speak with Juliet Schor. She’s a professor of sociology at Boston University and author of the best-selling 1992 book ‘The Overworked…
B.C. forest fires, climate change, and the Kinder Morgan pipeline
There are now more than 500 forest fires currently burning out of control in BC. Apparently almost the entire province is now blanketed in smoke as well as parts of…
Earthgauge Radio – August 21, 2018
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/18-08-20_mixdown_mono.mp3 A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa…
Let’s Truly Hope A Special Place Exists in Hell for These ‘People’
This news is incredibly disturbing. Hundreds of priests abusing thousands of children in just one state in the US. The entitlement. The secrets and lies. The bribes, political persuasion. The…
CAPP: Canadian Association for Petroleum Propaganda.
Donald Trump could take lessons from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). These people have been feeding propaganda to Canadians for years. And they are getting better at their…
Nuttiness in the Great White North
This week, two examples of Canadian craziness. First, let’s go east, to Ontario, where the poisoned fruits of the Trump tree have fallen and taken root. (Man, that’s good writin’.)…
Earthgauge Radio – August 7, 2018
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/18-08-07_mixdown_mono.mp3 A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa…
The vengeance of the vegans.
The Toronto subway system is a special place to me. It was many years ago that my first job in advertising was selling advertising space in the subway. I loved…
Hursh Lights A Match
And the fields are dry. “As a farmer in southwest Saskatchewan, this isn’t a great year. It’s been dry and hot. Crop yields as well as prices are down. Many…
Ford and Trump and Moe Peas In a Rotten Pod
That movie about the incapable political leadership from the future is actually already here, it won’t take 500 more years. Ontario has their Harper-style Fake News now too https://twitter.com/OntarioNew…/status/1026965194243751936 Some…
Wow. This Means More Than We Think.
The recent Saudi threat against Canada should be seen as an opportunity to back out of the contentious General Dynamics deal. Will Trudeau have the resolve to make this happen?
How I helped Apple become a $1 trillion company
In between the increasingly deranged rants from the orange menace to the south, you may have heard last week that Apple (the company, not the fruit) has become the first…
Was Innis Wrong?
The question is taken from the title of an article by Nancy Olewiler of Simon Fraser University in the Canadian Journal of Economics (November 2017), which, as it happens, was…
Earthgauge Radio – Interview with Conceivable Future
The climate crisis is also a reproductive justice crisis: How do you protect your health and your children in an increasingly dangerous and toxic environment? How do you decide whether…