Thursday, June 22, 2023

Ford's attempt to interfere in another Toronto election comes up short

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I am currently in England (a family health emergency that turned out not to be not that much of an emergency after all), and I won't be ...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

Ford extends strong mayor powers to 26 more municipalilties

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford is continuing his concerted exercise in circumventing local democracy by extending strong mayor powers to 26 more ...

Canada's population reaches 40 million

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Statistics Canada has officially announced that Canada's population has reached 40 million . It doesn't seem that long ago that its ...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Why do conservatives always support the oil and gas industries?

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I've wanted for some time to explore why the right-wing of politics is so wedded to the oil and gas industry. This is just me expatiatin...

New World Bank report on fossil fuel and agricultural subsidies

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A new report from the World Bank entitled "Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies" lays out in grim reli...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Record-setting ocean temperatures presage bad climate news

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I know we don't really need any more bad climate news, but the current record-setting ocean temperatures can't be ignored. The effe...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

A treaty to control plastics use is under way

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Unbeknownst to me, moves are afoot to ban plastic. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration maybe, but the United Nations (more specificall...
Monday, June 12, 2023

COVID is not done with us

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It's been a while since I've thought too hard about COVID-19. It's not that long since I finally succumbed to it (early April, c...