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…
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…
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…
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’.)…
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 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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
Some questions come up about the treatment of a cyclist this past weekend by the OPP. Who’s in the right?
It’s been a while since my last blog, as you no doubt have noticed. You’ve noticed, right? Seriously, somebody must have noticed? No? Ah, well … I do have an…
Saskatchewan used to bustle, but soon it will be busless. It would literally rather provide mobility to tarsands than people. https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/i-dont-like-the-sound-of-it-one-bit-sask-riders-react-to-end-of-greyhound-in-province/ https://thestarphoenix.com/business/we-simply-cant-leave-people-stranded-by-the-road-alberta-expands-rural-bus-service-pilot-project/ “The announcement came 14 months after the Saskatchewan…
Another report / study comes up to show us consumers that we’re all idiots because we’re not separating metal from plastic on toothpaste or not eating grease-less pizza (is there…
Pundits and political scientists will measure the time-of-death and arguments will flare up occasionally but the agreement is that news, as we knew it, is dead. We can celebrate its…
It is said that Jason Kenney is a shrewd politician but recently he made a mistake that might prove fatal. We didn’t catch it at first, what with Kenney going…
Randy Rainbow updated this song, and it’s genius. Really.
I’ve always had a tough time remembering my mom’s birthday. Mom was born a couple of days after Canada Day and I was usually off in La La Land celebrating…
