Two Pipelines Approved: The Opposition Reacts (badly)
Do you have a headache? Are you an Alberta conservative wondering how to react to Trudeau approving the Trans Mountain and Line 3 pipelines and, horrors, singling out Notley’s Climate…
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Stuff Still Happens, week 48: Why we (sigh) need pipelines
This week, the Trudeau government approved two pipelines, and rejected one other. Trudeau is winning lavish praise for his bold, statesmanlike decision in some quarters, hyperbolic, end-of-the-world scorn from others.…
The Liars and Believers
Trudeau’s support of an eternity of carbon production proves that he’s just another lying politician.
Embedding neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis
(2016). Embedding neoliberalism in Greece: the transformation of collective bargaining and labour market policy in Greece during the Eurozone crisis. Studies in Political Economy. Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1080/07078552.2016.1249129 Source:…
The CDC & Corporations: Profit Instead of People
A number of reports confirm my fears that the CDC in the US is a revolving door of scientists and the pharma industry, with everyone looking to make a buck,…
Stuff Still Happens, week 47: Tarnish on the golden boy
Is the shine coming off the golden boy? Justin Trudeau is under the gun these days for what appear to be, if not lapses in ethics, at least some questionable…
Health: Fertilizing the Roots of Mistrust & Conspiracy
Science is all about accepting and learning from results, even if they work against your own hypothesis. Corporate science is all about throwing out results you don’t like. This is…
Ontario: This is what you get when Toronto doesn’t pay property tax!
Toronto’s plan to introduce road tolls is a great idea, but won’t address the real issue. Which is? Toronto isn’t charging enough property tax.
Predictions That Aren’t Fun
“Asia ramping up coal use. US returning to coal. Lets focus on tech like CCS not tax harming econ w/o real GHG impact” – Premier Wall This tweet from the…
Stuff Still Happens, week 46: Bird debate splits Canada! Or maybe not.
The fallout from the Nov. 8 U.S. election continued this week. And just like nuclear fallout, the devastation will be long term. President-elect Donald Trump (my fingers had a hard…
Ten reasons to support first-past-the-post voting.
This is an updated version of the paper of the same name from the Democracy Papers of 2007. With the special committee of the house of commons due to report…
How Soon Will Trump Be Impeached?
The prospect of a US government dominated by Republicans will likely delay the impeachment of US President-elect, but the evidence is mounting that Trump’s fantastic voyage to Washington will be…
Petition to End Carding in London
Concerned about the Trump win in the US? How about the anti-gay, anti-abortion teen that just won the election in Niagara, Ontario? Take a stand. Take a small, important healthy…
Paved Paradise Because Parking Was Already There
July 5th, 2016, after years of a mud pit following the rip-out of the previous playground: Now it looks like this again: Reasoning given: A project of this scale requires…
When your friend is a rapist/ someone you know is accused of sexual assault
In response to the open letter penned/signed by many public intellectuals/writers on the Steven Galloway case…. (see here for story) and my general disappointment that that was the letter they…
A most deplorable term: ‘Gullibillies’
Gullibillies is a deplorable term. The sooner the left stops using it, the sooner we’ll repair the damage and fragmentation spawned by Trump.
Too Bold A Halloween Costume
The University of Regina has quite a few exchange students. They pay more than a bit to study here in Canada too. One picked a stereotype to make fun of…
The importance of impartiality
Where we take a brief moment to remind the world why impartiality is so critical to our justice system and how the acts of one judge – Judge Bernd Zabel…
Our circuitous carbon plans
I’m shaking my head at the moment as we contemplate getting a new furnace for our house. To be honest, there’s really not much wrong with the existing one. In…
Stuff Still Happens, week 45: President Homer Simpson
As always, The Simpsons predicted the future. In a season 9 episode called Trash of the Titans, Homer runs for sanitation commissioner against career civil servant Ray Patterson, voiced by…