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Climate change International

The ICJ: the law embraces environmental science

Aug 6, 2025

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…

Environment

Today is Earth Overshoot Day

Jul 24, 2025

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…

Europe

The “coalition of the willing” steps up

Jul 20, 2025

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…

Global warming International

The not so generous Australians

Jul 18, 2025

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…

International

The death of nuclear restraint?

Jul 15, 2025

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…

Human rights Religion

The ICC charges the Taliban

Jul 10, 2025

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…

United States

I still have hopes for our southern neighbours

Jul 7, 2025

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,…

Alberta Politics

Alberta Next?

Jul 6, 2025

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,…

Canada

Happy birthday to us!

Jul 1, 2025

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…

Democracy United States

The populist right’s favourite country is a failing state

Jun 24, 2025

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…

Economics

Canadians have a thing for Canada Post

Jun 22, 2025

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…

Democracy Environment

Unleashing the economy on the environment

Jun 19, 2025

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…

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    August 27, 2024
  • Sweden—a model economy
    August 15, 2024
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    March 23, 2024
  • Terrorism—weapon of the oppressed?
    October 9, 2023
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    May 7, 2023
  • Conservatives and the CBC
    March 2, 2023
  • Dismissing the low taxes myth
    February 26, 2023
  • Sundre and the death of satire
    June 28, 2022
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    March 9, 2022
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    October 20, 2021
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    May 21, 2021
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