Well, we’re in it now originally written by: Bill Palmer | 5:16 pm EDT April 12, 2018 The United States has a sitting President who is so deeply caught up in criminal scandals, a federal judge signed off on a raid this week of his attorney’s office and residence. The Vice President appears to be caught…
Kinder Morgan’s Blackmail Notley and Trudeau hint at propping up uneconomic pipeline with taxpayers’ money. CANADIANS SHOULD BE ALARMED! 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. On April 7, he protested at the gates…
BC Government Withheld Information on Dangers of Unregulated Fracking Dams Despite risks, managers refused to provide information as election loomed. By Ben Parfitt TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. Despite criticism for failing to warn about…
Unauthorized Fracking Dam Problem Growing At least 92 dams built without approval; safety risks feared. Part 1 of a series. By Ben Parfitt 29 Mar 2018 | TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. Swamp Donkey dam was…
The Oil Party Is Over, Trudeau — Even Canada’s Energy Firms Know It Why are corporations more candid about industry’s realities than our prime minister? By Ross Belot 18 Jul 2017 | iPolitics This column first appeared in the always excellent iPolitics. Ross Belot is a retired senior manager with one of Canada’s…
Only Fantasies, Desperation and Wishful Thinking Keep Pipeline Plans Alive There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere. By Mitchell Anderson , is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. “The bottom has already fallen out of many bitumen projects yet they stagger on,…
‘Peoplekind’ Is a Painful and Goofy Example of Trudeau’s Hollowness The prime minister’s constant use of progressive language contradicts his government’s actions. By Tom Parkin 9 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Tom Parkin is a political writer and frequent media commentator with a social democratic perspective. Once again, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a display of his progressive…
Loblaws Skates on Price-fixing, Tried to Send Homeless Man to Jail Canada’s justice system nods to the powerful while treating poor people like criminals. By Michael Spratt | TheTyee.ca Michael Spratt is a partner at the Ottawa based criminal law firm Abergel Goldstein & Partners. He is also an award-winning blogger and podcaster. His work can be found…
Republican employees of Google and Facebook were secretly embedded inside Donald Trump campaign Opinion of Bill Palmer Updated: 9:49 pm EDT Fri Oct 6, 2017 Last September the blog “Palmer Report” brought out the story of how a Donald Trump campaign staffer told the BBC that Facebook had sent its employees to “help” with the…
Call it ‘fascism American-style’ — and be prepared to fight back. By Henry Giroux Henry Giroux is a chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. This article was first published in the Conversation Canada. ‘Trump is the apostle of moral blindness and unchecked corruption, and…
