Guesswork

I’ve been a fan of David Suzuki for years now, and not just because we went to the same high school. He’s been responsible for raising public awareness of important environmental issues in Canada and around the globe, and he’s brought intelligence, wit and lucidity to the debate.
That said, I found his widely publicized […]

This is what Toronto and apparently much of North America looks like today, as we get snowed under by a massive, festive pre-Christmas storm system. I know it’s inappropriate to relate specific weather events to the bigger picture of global warming, but seriously, we have to blame somebody.

It’s rarely a good idea for corporate executives to be pitch-folks for their own companies. Wendy’s Dave Thomas had a homespun manner that let him pull it off, and Christine Magee makes it work for Sleep Country Canada because, lets face it, she’s kind of hot. However, having watched Galen Westons’ first spot […]

BBC News reports that 56% of adults surveyed still believe scientists are divided on the question of man-made climate change, in spite of the fact that there is almost universal consensus among climatologists that it is real,it is happening now, and that it is likely to get much, much, worse.
The confusion can be attributed largely […]

Some days I just hate people. The National Post reports on a survey that confirms what was already pretty obvious - Canadians are willing to work to save the planet as long as they don’t have to do anything personally.
In spite of all the rhetoric and fevered Inconvenient Truth-watching (17% named the […]

Now, from the industry that brought you the Exxon Valdes and the war in Iraq - clean air! There’s a short ad from the American Petroleum Institute that I guess is intended to be serious, but which verges on self-parody.
The spot features an 18 wheeler rolling picturesquely down an empty highway as a […]

Well, Shutdown Day has come and gone with a lot of media hype (which may have been the intention) but no apparent impact on our computer addicted society. The idea, which was conceived by Montrealers Denis Bystrov and Michael Taylor, was that on Saturday March 24 everyone should turn off their computers for a day […]

There’s outrage in the UK because local governments are tracking household garbage with RFID chips that have been attached, in many cases surreptiously, to “wheelies” around the country. The chips are designed to identify and weigh the bins as they’re dumped into the truck, to determine how much waste is going into landfills rather […]

According to Yahoo, the most viewed news story on their site this morning is “Mischa Barton’s O.C. Character killed”. Now I have to confess that I’ve never seen The O.C., partly because it conflicts with “American Idol”, and partly I’ve been afraid of Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows since the 1980’s. No doubt Mischa Barton is a […]