Politics and its Discontents

If the Doug Ford government has any credibility left (a big IF), it has taken yet another hit, thanks to a Star investigation . Uncovered is...

  Readers will know that Ontario premier Ford cares little for environmental matters. One remembers his rash act upon assuming power of enth...

 A nice follow-up to yesterday's post : H/t Theo Moudakis As well, Bob Coupland of Oakville expresses some timely sentiments: Ford gove...

 .... is the metaphor NDP environment critic Sandy Shaw uses  to describe Doug Ford's appointment of Norm Sterling to head the Greenbelt...

That's what critics are calling Bill 108, the “More Homes, More Choice Act,” introduced stealthily, as the cowardly are wont to do, b...

Devolution. Debasement. Depraved Indifference. Apply whatever term you like, but the cuts coming furiously from the Ford government in Ontar...

One of the things I have always used this blog for is to bring to readers' notice things they might be unaware of. For example, although...

At the risk of being accused of "old-fartism," I offer the following which a Facebook friend posted. While I don't agree wit...

Last year, the Parody Project produced a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump and his acolytes through a song entitled Confounds the Science . If...

And it begs the question: Is our species really worth saving?

For one who naturally inclines toward dark brooding, these are not good times. But then, if people follow the news and keep themselves rea...

There are many days when I think that words no longer fork any lightning, and this blog would be more useful if I simply aggregated, without...

A recent post outlined the terrible toll plastic pollution is exacting on the world's oceans and wildlife. We pay a very high price f...

The species: the human race. The charge: depraved indifference. Watch the following to see for yourself whether conviction is a forgone co...

Religious belief can be a marvelous thing, It can give strength in times of trouble, comfort in times of grief, and direction in times of co...

Cognitive dissonance might be one way to describe how we conduct our lives in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. Wi...

Although I have written before about the terrible problem of plastic pollution that is strangling the world in general, and our oceans and ...

Those of us who follow politics fairly closely know that there is frequently less than meets the eye in the Trudeau government. Certainly,...

I suspect that most people in the West realize to some extent the self-indulgence of drinking bottled water, not to mention the many other l...

Unless we live in complete and willful ignorance, all of us are aware, on at least a minimal level, of the perils currently confronting an...