Nine Uncomfortable Canadian Energy Facts We’re not cutting emissions as much as we should, and we’re dependent on an increasingly expensive source of oil. By Andrew Nikiforuk | TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here.…
Another week, another horrifying Trump scandal that must result in impeachment. CNN discovered that many of Donald Trump’s cabinet and staff paid their way to their governmental positions. CNN received the information through a Freedom of Information Act request, and its contents damage what little integrity and ethics of the Trump Administration had left. We…
Welcome to the child genocide phase of the Donald Trump debacle written by Bill Palmer | 10:31 pm EDT May 26, 2018 REPRINT FROM PALMER REPORT.COM I’ll get in trouble with some folks on both sides for saying this, but I don’t care, because it’s true and it must be said: we’re approaching the genocide phase of…
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s waste water disposal wells linked to cluster of quakes in 2015. By Andrew Nikiforuk | Reprinted from TheTyee.ca Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about the energy industry for two decades and is a contributing editor to The Tyee. Find his previous stories here. Large scale fracking operations, like…
Paul Manafort was hauled back into court to face charges from the special counsel that he had breached his plea deal by “repeatedly lying.” Now the Guardian has a report that would seem to be something very, very worth lying about. Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian…
The Green New Deal, catching fire in America, is the kind of policy plan that Canadian unions could loudly champion. Photo via the Sunrise Movement. On climate change, workers shouldn’t be left behind — they should lead the way. By Matt Price writing for TheTyee.ca Matt Price is author of the book Engagement Organizing: The Old Art And New Science…
15 PAGE BLOG OF NOTES In the wake of attacks by the outlaw death cult Da’esh against a Russian airplane, in Beirut, and in Paris, a firestorm of debate has erupted over how to handle Syrian refugees as well as other Muslims. Suggestions run the gamut from multiple claims that only Christian Syrians should be allowed into the U.S., to…
The sheer illiteracy of Trump and his people In the 1979 movie Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a Roman centurion (John Cleese) scolds insurrectionist Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman) for the anti-Roman graffiti he just painted on a wall, not for its message (Romans go home!) but for its appalling Latin grammar. Once Brian gets…
WaPo: Russians Used Facebook Retargeting’ Tool to Mess with 2016 Election From The Washington Post: SAN FRANCISCO — Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook tool to repeatedly send them messages designed to influence their…
Was the 2016 election legitimate? No! original composition by Tim Faulkner Was the 2016 presidential election legitimate? That is a question asked multiple times as new evidence has continued to surface over the past two years. The Los Angeles Times is now looking into that very question. It was recently reported that Donald Trump received a…
