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Column: Oil prices will force changes

Today’s column in The StarPhoenix Former CIBC economist Jeff Rubin was one of the first to say that oil would hit $100 a barrel, back when it was around $20. Now he is suggesting it could go to $200 in the next short while unless there’s another global recession. While many call for more drilling [...]

Column: Looking at some bigger issues

Tomorrow I woke up to a steady stream of email and tweets coming into my Blackberry about my first column appearing today in The StarPhoenix.  It’s an introductory column so there wasn’t a lot of original research put into it (I knew the topic pretty well).  While today the column appeared on A3, it is [...]

The Grind of Poverty

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." Nelson Mandela This is the third in a series on poverty, homelessness, and a concentration of services in Saskatoon’s inner city.  You can find part 1 and part 2 in the [...]

The collapse of farming

James Howard Kunstler is predicting that farming could be the next industry to go down The net effect of the failures in banking is that a lot of people have less money than they expected they would have a year ago. This is bad enough, given our habits and practices of modern life. But what [...]

The Long Emergency: Surviving Catastophies of the 21st Century

  An hour long video of James Howard Kunstler speaking on The Long Emergency and the impact that peak oil is going to have on western civilization.