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Alberta

Danielle lays down the law

Sep 27, 2025

Danielle Smith is famously jealous about provincial rights. She fights with the feds continually, going on the offensive over every perceived breach of the province’s…

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Climate change

Naming, shaming and curbing the climate villains

Sep 25, 2025

Now here’s an idea. The Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization, has initiated a proposal for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The idea is…

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International

Recognizing Palestine … and about time

Sep 22, 2025

It’s more than a bit late, but as they say, better late … Canada, along with Great Britain and Australia are officially recognizing a Palestinian…

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Politics

Good luck, Chrystia

Sep 19, 2025

The federal government will be greatly diminished by losing Chrystia Freeland. This week, she announced she is stepping down from cabinet after the PM appointed…

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International

Is Brazilian democracy healthier than America’s?

Sep 17, 2025

That a South American country’s democracy might be healthier than that of the United States is a notion that would have been unthinkable only a…

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Democracy United States

Sometimes “the people” are wrong

Aug 30, 2025

Donald J. Trump represents the worst of his country—the archetype of the ugly American. I have been pondering what selection of adjectives might best describe…

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Politics

We still need the NDP

Aug 26, 2025

In recent years I have developed the practice of voting NDP provincially and Liberal federally. The federal choice arises largely from the Liberal candidate being…

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Politics

Pierre channels Danielle

Aug 20, 2025

It’s a long way from Ottawa to Battle River-Crowfoot. Born and raised in Calgary, Conservative leader Pierre Poilieivre has for over 20 years represented the…

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Featured

The U.S. changes sides, whither Canada?

Aug 15, 2025

Donald Trump and his MAGA colleagues have decided to do more than abandon America’s fight against climate change, more than formalize climate denial as the…

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United States

America chooses ignorance

Aug 11, 2025

Back in days long past, in a place called Camelot, John F. Kennedy ruled as president. Kennedy was noted for wanting to have bright people…

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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…

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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…

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Featured posts
  • The U.S. changes sides, whither Canada?
    August 15, 2025
  • Alberta, tribalism, luck and oil
    May 24, 2025
  • Yes, Trump really is crazy
    April 7, 2025
  • It’s the cruelty that appals
    March 16, 2025
  • The hypocrisy of exporting fossil fuel emissions
    November 29, 2024
  • What is the real price of your hamburger?
    September 23, 2024
  • Premier Smith and the fascist hatemonger
    August 27, 2024
  • Sweden—a model economy
    August 15, 2024
  • The most important history lesson
    March 23, 2024
  • Terrorism—weapon of the oppressed?
    October 9, 2023
  • Are we on a path to sustainability?
    May 7, 2023
  • Conservatives and the CBC
    March 2, 2023
  • Dismissing the low taxes myth
    February 26, 2023
  • The “racialized” fallacy … or how to (or not to) compare ethnic groups
    March 9, 2022
  • How races differ
    May 21, 2021

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