The ICJ: the law embraces environmental science
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To live is to burn fuel and human beings are burning…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To live is to burn fuel and human beings are burning…
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are drawing down the Earth’s natural resources. The Network is an international…
Western Europe has long been a fractious place with war a near constant for millennia. And its three leading powers have generally been in the…
The little island nation of Tuvalu, population 11,342, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has a problem. It’s disappearing into the sea. Climate change…
The recent altercation between Israel and Iran culminating in the U.S bunker-bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities prompts a number of questions. Is Iran’s nuclear program…
Throughout history it has been women’s lot to be oppressed by men. Such has been the custom in almost all societies. It is of course…
Quite a few years ago I spent three years working for a major oil company in Houston, Texas. I enjoyed Texas and I enjoyed Texans,…
When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced the creation of her Alberta Next panel, which would offer Albertans an opportunity to contribute to issues for referendums,…
I’m not much of a flag waver. Patriotism brings out too much of the worst of our tribal nature. Not that I don’t have feelings…
U.S. President Donald Trump is a great admirer of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Indeed, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon described Orbán as “Trump before…
In these times when institutions are often faced with mistrust, if there’s one Canadian institution one might expect to be in that category, it’s our…
Reading about the Liberals’ One Canadian Economy Act, or Bill C-5, and the rush to get it through Parliament, I was reminded of the infamous…