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Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness
Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness Facebook’s reach is being used to create division, spread hate and harm democracy. And the corporation doesn’t care. ‘Almost three-billion people now see the world through the personalized and profit-driven filter of social media.’ Photo via Shutterstock. In 1486, a German priest named […]
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms?
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms? The UCP government is moving to take control of citizens’ savings — and they should be very worried. Cautious. Reliable. Boring. Those are words that are appropriately associated with pension fund management. However, pensions have recently become a hot button political issue […]
Governments Need to Face Reality — the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing
Governments Need to Face Reality — the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Collapsing From Saudi Arabia to Alberta, the numbers are clear. But we still shovel taxpayers’ money at oil and gas companies. While Canadian politicians keep up their parochial posturing, a global storm is brewing. Around the world there is early evidence of a seismic shift. […]
The Ghost Election Issue We Need to Get Real about: Personal Debt
The Ghost Election Issue We Need to Get Real about: Personal Debt Canadians are so deep in the red it colours how we see vital issues. Today we manufacture armored vehicles for the brutal regime in Saudi Arabia while fretting about domestic job losses if we don’t. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledges to slash Canada’s already paltry […]
Quit Chastising Brazil, Canada. You’re a Climate Killer, Too
Quit Chastising Brazil, Canada. You’re a Climate Killer, Too Some want global intervention against ‘rogue’ climate states. That may not end so well for us. The two both ask and answer their own question in the Globe and Mail piece. “Is it acceptable that a single government can unilaterally adopt environmental policies that put millions […]
Accelerate New Oil Wells, Abandon the Old Ones, All the While Burning
Accelerate New Oil Wells, Abandon the Old Ones, All the While Burning Alberta in a nutshell, under new leader Jason Kenney’s trajectory. The urgency to expedite new petroleum projects stands in stark contrast to the utter disinterest in cleaning up the old ones. Alberta is perhaps unique in the world in having no mandatory timelines […]
Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta’s Dubious Climate Claims
Wildly Underestimated Oilsands Emissions Latest Blow to Alberta’s Dubious Climate Claims As disaster looms, petro province lets industry call the shots. Trust us. That has long been the message from the oil sector to the Alberta public, which seems to have little choice in the matter. In a bizarre arrangement, the Alberta oil patch pays […]
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign The anti-BC PR blitz fuels the anger of right-wing groups like the ‘yellow vests.’ A Tyee investigation revealed the expensive details of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s national public relations effort to scapegoat British Columbia, including dubious claims of pipeline benefits translated into Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino and […]
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst
The Year the Oil Bubble Burst As companies are forced to slash value of reserves, industry faces a grim new future. The days of artificially inflated oil prices might be over forever. Teardrop image via Shutterstock. Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for the oil industry? It’s reporting season in the financial world and like […]
Psst, Trudeau: IMF Now Pegs Our Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $46 Billion
Psst, Trudeau: IMF Now Pegs Our Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $46 Billion Fastest way to transition Canada to a green economy? Quit the giveaways. According to IMF economists, Canadian carbon-based fuels should be taxed an additional $17.2 billion annually to compensate for climate change. Oil photo via Shutterstock. Justin Trudeau has a problem. How can Canada meet […]
