Last week, COP 25 at Madrid came to an end without an effective agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In the meantime, the climate crisis continues to accelerate at rates higher than ever. The alarming evidence is all around us: Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls has been shrunk to a trickle by drought. In May, it…
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Is Kinder Morgan going to be Justin Trudeau’s Standing Rock?
I’ve been one part saddened and one part outraged by the video footage coming out of Standing Rock, North Dakota over the last number of weeks as passive, unarmed water protectors are attacked on a daily basis, sometimes by police in riot gear. Police and security forces have not hesitated to use attack dogs, Taser…
Are the federal Liberals really serious about climate change?
Like many Canadians, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals during their first year in office. I even suggested in a previous blog that the saying “they campaign from the left but govern from the right” might finally no longer apply to the current incarnation of the party. But I suffered…
High time for electoral reform
Election night saw a bunch of my friends, my partner Penny, and I all gathered at our house with munchies and a big screen TV to watch the action. Before the results even began to trickle in I was predicting a Liberal victory. I don’t take much credit for my prognostication abilities, however, as all…