Jan 07
350.org middle-manager Clayton Thomas-Muller is one of Canada’s most jet-setting climate activists. Clayton’s recent journeys have included far-flung destinations like Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, New York, San Francisco, Paris, and the Mediterranean island of Malta. If he’s been smart enough to have always stuck to the same airline alliance, the indigenous activist’s status card is probably …
Dec 22
In a startling revelation that further demonstrates that the wrong people are leading Canadian climate activism, 350.org’s jet-setting Fiji Water connoisseur Clayton Thomas-Muller stood out in solidarity with yesterday’s Line 9 pipeline saboteurs. The announcement was posted on the NGO’s website by 350.org employee Cameron Fenton, the incorrigibly stupid climate activist who recently pulled the race …
Dec 04
One of the greatest challenges for radical environmentalists can be explained with the idiom “the left eats its own.” I saw this first hand during Occupy where radical-left activists tore each other apart, often for minor violations of political correctness or other perceived transgressions of lefty code. Readers who harbour fears that Naomi Klein’s revolution …
Sep 19
In his book Diet For A Hot Planet, 350.org leader Bill McKibben warned his readers about the dangers of bottled water to the planet claiming: “…ask yourself, do we really need to be shipping water into the United States from Fiji? When Fiji Water ads boasted “Fiji, because it’s not bottled in Cleveland,” that city ran …
Jun 19
In late February TIDES Canada President & CEO Ross McMillan wrote an angry letter to the RCMP. McMillan was upset by the release of an RCMP document obtained by Montreal’s La Presse analysing risks to Canada’s energy industry. TIDES was named for their connection to anti-energy protests, the document also identified the RCMP’s “most urgent” perceived threat …
Dec 08
Note: Please click here for Part I Introduction The first time I met David Suzuki was in early 2011. I was with a friend and her daughter, exiting Banyen Books in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood (and feeling relieved as we escaped the pan flute music) when I was jolted out of nirvana as my friend grabbed …
Jun 02
The one thing I admire most about Desmond Tutu is his rigorous advocacy of non-violence. As the creator of the concept of the Rainbow Nation, and chairman of South Africa’s Truth And Reconciliation Commission, Tutu’s work made a real difference to many people’s lives. More recently, Tutu spoke out against the African National Congress, saying “it …
May 27
On Saturday afternoon I got a tweet from Antonia Zerbisias at the Toronto Star. She and I’ve had a bit of a rivalry over the past year, Antonia got quite upset after I criticized her reckless support of militant activists who promote violence (she got quite nasty in return). So, considering Antonia’s past behavior (and …
May 07
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation in BC announced last week that they’re filing a legal challenge against the National Energy Board’s review process. Their allegations include that the NEB failed to properly consult the Tsleil-Waututh on the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline “on key decisions about the environmental assessment and regulatory review of the project”; and that the …
Jan 14
Your Humble Narrator filmed the above video on October 15th at a 350.org fundraiser in Toronto. In it, May invokes Godwin’s law by comparing the fight against Hitler’s Germany to the fight against climate change. More interestingly, she next gives us a glimpse of the totalitarian world the Green Party is planning for us- explaining …