Guest speaker: Thoughts on the Riots in Paris

If you’ve been following the news lately you would have seen reports of rioting outside Paris. Unfortunately due to the language barrier it’s harder to get a feel for what the *French* actually think about these events. So I wanted to find someone who could give a better perspective on how the events are being …

China makes another grab at US Oil giant

It’s happening all over the Americas. Once the captive audience of the American dynamo… the Americas, and their included oil and gas conglomerates are being courted and outright stalked by Chinese interests. We all know what happened with Unocal earlier this year.. a government backed Chinese company tried a last minute takeover to buy up …

Canada Polluter-extraordinaire

Canadians like to think of themselves as very outdoorsy, environment-conscious people. We talk about how great our pristine mountains are, and how our lakes and streams are crystal clear. Well… if that’s the image we’re trying to project we just got a big kick in the cans cuz CNN had This Headline on their frontpage …