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Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’ RCMP raids in Wet’suwet’en territory can’t bring justice, reconciliation or a better future, Neskonlith chief says. Chief Judy Wilson: ‘We have to change to ensure that our young people have a future. That’s what the Indigenous land defenders are talking about when […]
Oil’s Wild Price Swings Set to Create Global Chaos
Oil’s Wild Price Swings Set to Create Global Chaos Volatility is here to stay — and the political and economic implications will touch us all. Oil once gushed from the ground for drillers, like these workers in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1901. Now costly fracking and oilsands mining produces lower-quality oil at far higher costs. […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
Yellow Vest Movement Spreads to Australia & Poland
Yellow Vest Movement Spreads to Australia & Poland We are witnessing the Yellow Vest Movement now also spreading to Australia. We are seeing the rise there and in Canada also against Fake News that the media is desperately fighting Trump on who now label him an idiot in headlines. We are also witnessing a backlash against […]
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene
Art of the Monstrous: Burtynsky and the Anthropocene The National Art Gallery in Ottawa currently hosts a sensational exhibition called “Anthropocene.” Edward Burtynsky and his associates Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier have created a multi-media mind-boggling representation of the transformation of the earth by humans. Their work has the shock-effect similar to the famous […]
Canada’s Forgotten Man: Energy Workers
Canada’s Forgotten Man: Energy Workers All over the world, the forgotten man is rising up, reminding the ruling elite of his existence. Fed up with leaders catering to the whims of 0.05% of society, or instituting policies that impact their pocketbooks, the working folks of America, Italy, Brazil, and France are making sure their voices […]
Canada’s Natural Gas Crisis Is Being Ignored
Canada’s Natural Gas Crisis Is Being Ignored “Alberta and its natural gas producers face a daunting crisis,” Alberta’s Natural Gas Advisory Panel said in a report in December, highlighting the challenges that natural gas producers in Alberta face in market access and pricing for their commodity. Industry officials and analysts say that the situation with […]
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement
Yellow Vests Becoming World Wide Movement The Yellow Vest Movement that began in France, is spreading. It appeared also in Belgium and it spread to Canada as well. The French arrested the leaders of the Yellow Vest Movement calling them an anti-government charging them for organizing an unauthorized protest, as authorities adopt a tougher approach to try to curb […]
BC earthquakes and fracking
BC earthquakes and fracking As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information There is no fracking going on right now in northeastern British Columbia, the epicenter of the province’s oil and gas production. Hydraulic fracturing operations have been shut down there for a month due to earthquakes […]
Canadian Household Debt-to-Income Ratio Near Record High
Canadian Household Debt-to-Income Ratio Near Record High “Households with elevated levels of debt are more vulnerable to increases in interest rates”, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation redundantly observes in its latest bulletin and warns that “with interest rates on the rise, highly indebted households could see their increased required payments exceed their budgets.” Naturally, […]
Imperialist Aggression against Venezuela: Canada Tries to Use International Law to Justify Interventionism
Imperialist Aggression against Venezuela: Canada Tries to Use International Law to Justify Interventionism Like the shopkeeper in the Monty Python dead parrot sketch who insists a deceased bird is actually alive, imperialist aggression against Venezuela is turned into promotion of the “international rules-based order”. At the opening of the UN assembly in September Justin Trudeau […]
No “Poloz Put?” Ignore BoC Warning At Your Peril
No “Poloz Put?” Ignore BoC Warning At Your Peril Governor Stephen Poloz’s warning last week that the Bank of Canada wouldn’t backstop fluctuating stock markets drew little attention. “Is there a Poloz Put?” the central bank head asked rhetorically. “No.” At first glance, the fact that only one BNN Bloomberg producer and a few smaller […]
China Arrests Third Canadian Citizen As Feud Worsens
China Arrests Third Canadian Citizen As Feud Worsens That didn’t take long. Three days after warning Canada about “escalation” and “grave consequences” amid a worsening diplomatic crisis, China has arrested a third Canadian national, according to Canada’s National Post, which cited a spokesman for Global Affairs Canada, the international arm of the Canadian government. No […]
Where No Corn Has Grown Before: Better Living Through Climate Change?
Where No Corn Has Grown Before: Better Living Through Climate Change? Photo Source Phil Roeder | CC BY 2.0 The growing season used to be too short to grow corn in Alberta. That’s no longer true, according to a front page story in the November 26 Wall Street Journal: “Warming Climate Pushes Corn North.” Thanks […]
Toronto Home Prices Just Plunged At A Rate Not Seen Since 1996
Toronto Home Prices Just Plunged At A Rate Not Seen Since 1996 A seismic shift is currently underway in the Toronto real estate market which may have finally pricked Canada’s biggest bubble. In October, home prices plunged at the fastest pace in more than two decades, according to new data published by Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada’s Price Index for new […]
