Politics and its Discontents

While The Great Pretender and his faux Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, continue to utter platitudes about cl...

I hope Justin Trudeau has a vivid imagination and total recall. That way, he can revisit the fall of 2015, depicted above, a time, you may...

If you know anything about the climate-change peril within which the world lives, you will see this announcement by Justin Trudeau and hi...

Please explain again why your insistence that we need to build more pipelines is valid, given these facts: A new world record price for e...

Answer: When you scratch beneath the surface of Justin Trudeau's soaring rhetoric. In his scathing assessment of our prime minister...

I was going to write about Linda McQuaig's honest assertion that much of the tarsands' oil will have to be left in the ground if Ca...

After all of the feel-good rhetoric of the Climate Summit of the Americas , held last week in Toronto, it would appear that we are back to...

In this world, remaining faithful to one's principles can be a very difficult proposition. We often hear how important it is to "...

While no reasonable person would suggest that Canada should immediately turn its back on it resources, the folly of self-described economi...

All kinds of abuses continue under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. As reported by the CBC , an Italian company, Saipem, contracted by ...

Steve Harper and his chums have transformed cognitive dissonance from an affliction into an art form. Harper’s prime directive, his overar...

Like many, I have real reservations about Justin Trudeau's capacity for the kind of leadership that reflects a mature and nuanced mind...

I truly wish there was something to celebrate. Take a look at my previous post and the commentary from the Mound of Sound that accompanies...

Despite the best efforts of the Harper government to make its own addiction to the fossil fuel agenda the Canadian people's as well, i...

In light of the National Energy Board's rubber stamping of the Enbridge Line 9 reversal with very few safeguards, here is a timely remi...

As reported in The Vancouver Observer , grave health risks from the Alberta tarsands are both statistically significant and deeply disturbin...

I received the following email yesterday from Jack Nagler, Director of Journalistic Public Accountability and Engagement at the CBC, regar...

While the Harper cabal proceeds full-tilt with its tarsands advertising campaign, the details of which Canadians are being denied , a game...

According to a Huffington Post survey , more than 60 per cent of Albertan respondents backed Neil Young's condemnation of the tarsands;...

It would seem that Chad Beharriell of Windsor has Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver's number : Make transition to a green economy...