The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has released a new report on how to get Toronto to be a zero waste city. The report covers a lot of material from food waste to hazardous waste, in total there are five sections with suggestions on how to improve Toronto’s waste management. Even if you’re not in Toronto […]
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Continue readingWhen the government really isn’t on your side… Excerpts taken from here. “Between 1971 and 1991 in Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, the “reduction of the Roma population” through surgical sterilization, performed without the knowledge of the women themselves, was a widespread governmental practice. The sterilization would be performed on Romani women without their […]
The other day I wrote that although some Cons may have taken down the Progressive Blogger site.Twitter is still standing and it belongs to us.So when I saw that Rona Ambrose was inviting Canadians to tweet her their questions.Hey everyone, I’ll be …
Continue readingFor some interesting insights into the way government works, take a look at an access to information request someone submitted for documents related to the bond ratings for the province issued earlier this year.First, notice that the department respons…
Continue readingPHOTOS: How the Frontier Centre views Canada’s Equalization Program. Oh! Wait! That’s a 19th Century temperance poster. Same difference, basically. Below: The Wildrose Party’s four Frontier-Centre-associated “equalization fairness” panelists:…
Continue readingIt was only last week that the leaders of Alberta’s two main conservative political parties – Progressive Conservative interim leader Ric McIver and Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean – were in Ottawa hobnobbing with the conservative …
Continue readingBritish Columbia Hansard, March 1, 2016Judy Darcy, MLA, New Westminster:Last February, we raised the latest IT failure under this Liberal government — the debacle of the clinical system’s transformation project in Health. This $840 million project ha…
Continue readingFrom my ongoing Abandoned Literature series. Message or email me if you would like a print. If you can’t make out the text in these images (these are small low […]
Update: I recently received an official response to my article regarding Donald Trump from a fellow blogger, take a moment to read over the response and review the counter points, does this change h…
Continue readingUpdate: I recently received an official response to my article regarding Donald Trump from a fellow blogger, take a moment to read over the response and review the counter points, does this change how you feel about Donald Trump? http://thegreatcanadianmemo.blogspot.ca/2016/03/the-trump-phenomenon-part-2-response-to.html What does Donald Trump and Sandra Bullock have
Continue readingWhat does Donald Trump and Sandra Bullock have in common? They both subscribe to the brand of crisis and utilize it in a political environment. The main difference between the two is that…
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Amy Hagstrom Miller has defended her group of Texas clinics, Whole Woman’s Health, all the way to the Supreme Court despite tremendous personal cost. Here’s why. Amy Hagstrom Miller will face the Supreme Court tomorrow in defense of her group of abortion clinics, Whole Woman’s Health. Hagstrom Miller is a…
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! no. 91 November/December 1989 During World War II, Yugoslav and Greek communists conducted an armed struggle against the Nazi occupiers.
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Continue reading“Meet the Democrat Who’s Not Afraid to Criticize President Obama on ISIS,” intones a recent ABC News headline. The story describes remarks by Hawaii Rep.
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Continue readingThis is a guest piece by James Rowe, an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a member of the Corporate Mapping Project, a research alliance investigating the power of the fossil fuel indust…
Continue readingOnce upon a time, there was a pack of good-hearted dogs who were known for their good deeds, and indeed their good natures. They travelled around the town unmolested, loved by everyone they met, helping with the chores, keeping the town safe from wil…
Continue readingThere is no particular need to waste time on Section A news. There are issues worth research and reporting in Moncton. But they aren’t in this paper. Among those issues….1. Most of the world now accepts it as fact that that climate change is on us. H…
Continue readingThis is a guest piece by James Rowe, an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and a member of the Corporate Mapping Project, a research alliance investigating the power of the fossil fuel indust…
Continue readingBefore the last election, Premier Clark justified BC Hydro rate increases as a “common sense decision” that would enable the private/public utility to pay off the billions in its deferred accounts.”People are struggling, it’s a tough economy, and hydro…
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