Politics and its Discontents

Tomorrow marks the day that the Ford Government enacts Bill 23 , The Gift To Developers Act. It can also rightfully be designated The Enviro...

I recently wrote about a plan to bulldoze the Duffins Creek wetlands to make way for an Amazon distribution centre. Facilitated by an MZO (...

Wetlands, or marshes, fens, bogs, and swamps, are the link between land and water. Wetlands include trees, grasses, shrubs, moss, and other ...

Anyone who reads this blog regularly probably knows that I am something of a cynic when it comes to our species. Sure, there are many excep...

Last week I posted a story about the National Energy Board taking pity on Enbridge, reducing a fine levied against the energy delivery gi...

The National Observer reports the following: Enbridge Inc. will save $22,000 after convincing Canada's pipeline enforcement agency t...

The Mound of Sound , who knows a great deal about the topic, offered the following response to my post on our hubris and our folly . Than...

Bloggers far more skilled and knowledgeable that I have written extensively about how our societal systems are broken. Whether we look at th...

I was taking a bit of a break from blogging today when this came up, a sobering object lesson in the environmental disasters that we flir...

The following definition of greenwashing is offered by Wikipedia : Greenwashing (a compound word modelled on "whitewash"), or &qu...

I received this essay from Mound yesterday. He asked me to read it carefully before deciding whether to post it, given its dark, apocalyptic...

I have missed reading the Mound of Sound since he put his blog, The Disaffected Lib , on hiatus about five weeks ago. A man of wide-rangin...

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...

But what is the answer? Re: ‘Golden age’ for Poland caps 500 years of pain, Dec. 22 Seeing the statement “communism’s iron grip” was too...

For obvious reasons .

This was most gratifying to see, although I was puzzled by the laughter that periodically erupted from the audience:

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson : ‘What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers? Chilling, vile, and depraved words. H/t Nathan...

The only trouble is, everytime he does, he affirms his incompetence. Yes, young Tim Hudak, the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservat...

Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. By that standard, w...