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Science Snippets: “If We Start Right Now …”
Science Snippets: “If We Start Right Now …” Every day, I receive an email message from at least one person with this line, or something like it: “If we start right now …” The message then goes on to say that, if we start right now, we can fix the climate emergency. We can preserve […]
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab
Canada’s Bill C-26: Yet Another Government Power Grab Technocracy – a 1933 cartoon by Winsor McCay. Soviet Era Ethos Stomps Privacy and Due-Process Another doozy from the Canadian government. Following along several other bills winding their way along the Road to Serfdom… Bill C-11 regulates the internet under the CRTC and paves the way toward institutionalized […]
More Than Half of Canadians Worried About Putting Food on the Table: Poll
A woman shops for produce in a grocery store in Toronto, Canada, in a file photo. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press) More Than Half of Canadians Worried About Putting Food on the Table: Poll A new poll suggests that more than half of Canadians surveyed are worried about having enough money to put food on the […]
Be it Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Be it Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media My opening remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto tonight Tonight at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, I’m teaming up with The War on the West author Douglas Murray in the prestigious Munk Debates. Our opponents are Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and New Yorker staff writer, and […]
Canadian Banks Slammed For Continued Fossil Fuel Investments
Canadian Banks Slammed For Continued Fossil Fuel Investments Canadian banks are receiving backlash from investors for their continued investments in fossil fuels. All Canadian banks were revealed to have increased their exposure to fossil fuels between 2020 and 2021, by between 25 percent—TD and BMO—and 132 percent for CIBC. The report is the latest example […]
Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It)
Oil is Bankrupt (If We Want It) Alberta’s Oil Companies Are the Walking Dead. Albert’s oil-patch is a zombie, the walking dead. The companies that extract oil there owe more money than they can pay, more than they can borrow, more than they can earn. If they were made to pay their lawful debts, they […]
‘Canary in the Gold Mine’: Asset Seizures Could Skyrocket Due to Post-Pandemic Debt Default, Says Bailiff
A for sale sign is displayed in front of a house in the Riverdale area of Toronto on Sept. 29, 2021. (The Canadian Press/Evan Buhler) CANADA ‘Canary in the Gold Mine’: Asset Seizures Could Skyrocket Due to Post-Pandemic Debt Default, Says Bailiff North Central Bailiffs in Kelowna, B.C., is busy. In fact, as pandemic restrictions […]
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds
Logging industry targeted B.C. old-growth forests for more than a century, SFU study finds Ken Lertzman’s paper shows between 1860 and 2016, 87 per cent of logging took place in old-growth forests A man walks past an old growth tree in Avatar Grove near Port Renfrew, B.C. A new paper published by Simon Fraser University […]
“Ferocious Fiona” Makes Landfall In Canada, Leaving Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power
“Ferocious Fiona” Makes Landfall In Canada, Leaving Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power Powerful storm Fiona battered eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds and torrential rains, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power. The National Hurricane Center said Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona made landfall early Saturday morning on the northeast corner of mainland Nova Scotia. […]
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?
As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them? Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., on May 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes As droughts, deteriorating farmland and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are calling on the […]
Health Authorities Tracked Movements of Canadians via Cellphones During Pandemic
Health Authorities Tracked Movements of Canadians via Cellphones During Pandemic PHAC claims data was anonymized. Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Health authorities in Canada tracked people’s movements via their cellphones during the pandemic, with trips to pharmacies and liquor stores being logged, it has been revealed. “BlueDot, an intelligence analysis company, prepared movement reports […]
Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties
Condemn the invasion, but retain your critical faculties Moscow’s bombing and invasion of Ukraine must be condemned by all those who believe in a rules-based international order and peaceful solutions to world problems. Hopefully Russian internationalists can come together to create a peace movement powerful enough to pressure their government. While criticizing Russian imperialism, however, […]
“Doesn’t Really Add Up”: Canadian MPs Grill Public Safety Minister On Use Of Emergencies Act
“Doesn’t Really Add Up”: Canadian MPs Grill Public Safety Minister On Use Of Emergencies Act MPs grilled Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino on Feb. 25 at a House committee hearing to examine the public order emergency declared by the government, with some focusing on whether the threshold had been met to call a national emergency, […]
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression
Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression Rav Arora, a 20-year-old writer from Canada, offers his perspective on his government’s ongoing despotic response to the convoy protest. A protester walks in front of parked trucks as demonstrators continue to protest the vaccine mandates implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 8, […]
Trudeau’s References to ‘Misinformation’ When Justifying His Emergencies Act Are Very Troubling
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa on Feb. 15, 2022. (The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld) Trudeau’s References to ‘Misinformation’ When Justifying His Emergencies Act Are Very Troubling With the parliament now formally invoking the Emergencies Act, many civil freedoms can be suspended in the name of dealing with our current emergency, whatever that […]
