Can the Greens shatter the status quo?
August 10, 2010 | 8 Comments
When I studied Canadian politics, we learned all about the “party system.” It’s a catch-all term that describes how political parties have appeared, evolved and interacted with each other since the dawn of representative democracy. In Canada, we’ve so far endured four party systems. The first system was the post-Confederation duel between the Liberals and [...]
Drink Crappy Wine and Save the Environment!
July 20, 2010 | No Comments
This argument is just way off the mark: It used to be unthinkable to start a dinner party without a satisfying ‘pop’ of the cork. But the popularity of ‘New World’ wines from Australia or America and the convenience of opening a picnic bottle without a corkscrew led to a rise in the popularity of [...]
BP and the Oil Spill Fallacy
June 25, 2010 | 5 Comments
In case you thought British Petroleum couldn’t sink any lower, don’t worry, they can. From The Wall Street Journal: But in Planet BP — a BP online, in-house magazine — a “BP reporter” dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even rosier picture of the disaster. “There is no reason to hate BP,” one local [...]
A Skewer’s a Skewer No Matter How Askew
June 15, 2010 | No Comments
Over at Stageleft, our good friend, Balbulican, has scanned the scientifically-vacuous science-y blogs for us and offered some analysis. He links to Jay Currie who links to The Daily Bayonet. Personally, I couldn’t get through the post at The Daily Bayonet; it was like a bad caricature of an AGW skeptic. Thankfully, Balbulican did, and [...]
What does BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster mean for Canadians?
June 10, 2010 | 4 Comments
As the BP oil spill continues to wreak havoc in the Gulf of Mexico, many Canadians may be asking how this may affect them – in both the short and the longer term. In the short term, and not to belittle or shift the focus away from the massive environmental damage this spill has caused [...]