I have no idea what Stephen Harper must have thought when he saw the oily flames of hell engulf the little town of Lac-Mégantic.But I'm sure it wasn't pretty eh?For while on the one hand it might have crossed his mind that the tragedy could help sell his pipeline projects.On
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Doug Christie: Summary of Information
We had originally planned on doing this a while ago (and there are one or two more posts on the subject that need to be written) but we thought we would do as we have done with some of our other articles and made it more easy for those wishing
Continue readingCathie from Canada: The skinny on Sharknado
When we saw the ads this week for Sharknado, we thought it was another Shark Week joke commercial, like Snuffy the Seal. But Sharknado is real. Terribly terribly real.Its the newest trend in movies, the schlock ripoff. More here —Inside the Asylum, One of the Most Successful Low-Budget Movie Studios:
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Campaign Diary Volume 4: On dishing it out it print … and taking it
If you’ve dished it out in print, like this guy did from the look of him, you’ve got to be prepared to take it. In real life, that was Bogey in Deadline USA. Below: The actual author of this blog with Danielle Smith, just before she announced she was seeking
Continue readingCanadian Trends: Is an ocean acidification dieoff already in effect?
Today’s revelations regarding the oil sheen in the Athabasca River being a large Algae bloom are quite interesting. At first you might say, oh good, it’s just Algae, but one has to wonder if maybe this is a preview of something bigger. The massive amounts of marine die offs are
Continue readingNorthern Insight: NDP insiders need to go
Failed NDP candidate Matt Toner provides commentary: Let’s reboot the Old Democratic Party into something new for the 21st century. Toner would offer much as an MLA and I’m surprised that voters selected a Liberal lightweight instead. However, the keys to his rejection might be revealed by words in the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: End of the game
When I read Ender’s Game I enjoyed it and looked forward to reading more.Then I found out how virulently anti-gay Orson Scott Card is, and how extensively he worked against gay marriage. So I just can’t read anything else he has written, because it only reminds me of his mean-spirited
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6234…It Is The Glorious 12th
The millionth anniversary of The Battle of The Boyne. I am doing this from memory so I may be wrong. I know that William of Orange, King Billy, is involved as is a white horse. You know 75 years in Ontario this would have been quite the day. WFDS
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If Only We Weren’t Lashed Tightly to Fossil Fuels, We Might Save the World
What would you give for a chance to reverse global warming? Think on that for a minute. What would you be willing to sacrifice to avert climate change tipping points, irreversible runaway global warming? Is such a thing even possible? A team of experts from the Chalmers University of Technology
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Flying Commercial Might Get a Bit More Troubling
We’re regaled with horror stories of intrusive security measures that greet the flying public these days. Things might just be about to get a lot worse. Welcome the era of the underwear bomb. That’s right, high-explosive skivvies said to be able to defeat current scanning technologies. Fortunately the guy chosen
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6233…Lac Megantic Missing
They are not missing; they are dead. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6232…What Will It Take To End Harper’s Reign?
I know he is behind in the polls but one would think that his caucus would be getting pissed too. The Senate. Dean what’s his Del Mastro. And now the Manchester Guardian is hating on him for the cock up at Lac Megantic. Seriously. Revolt Tories, be true to yourselves.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada Wins! First Human-Powered Helicopter Flight
Congratulations to the team from AeroVelo on winning the American Helicopter Society Sikorsky Prize for human-powered helicopter flight. The contest required a full minute of flight achieving at least 3 metres in altitude and staying within a 10 metre square area. The Canadian team’s Atlas quad-copter is shown above.
Continue readingBuckdog: Toronto Stock Exchange Surges At Prospect Of Continued Tax Payer Funded ‘Corporate Welfare’ In The USA
Those Masters of the ‘unfettered’ Free Market system were jubilant on Bay St. in Toronto today. News came that the US Federal Reserve will continue to infuse taxpayer’s money into the bank accounts of Corporate America! Yeah for the Rich! Yeah for Corporate Welfare!!! Toronto stocks surge on Fed relief
Continue readingCanadian Trends: Nobel Peace Laureate Tells Her Account of What She Witnessed In Syria
Quite a different take in comparison to the “reports” we get here in Canada (and other western nations). Canadian Trends: A war of aggression under the cloak of discretion
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Educating the Differently-Abled
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – widely attributed to Albert Einstein but likely in error I love writing essays. Sometimes organizing my thoughts on paper is the only
Continue reading350 or bust: Overburden In Northern Alberta
* It’s been two days since I returned from Fort McMurray Alberta, ground zero for the Canadian tar sands extraction industry. I spent the weekend there, participating in the 4th Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk. I’m still searching for words to articulate the impact of this experience which was both
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Death is the Cost of Cost Cutting Efficiency in Lac Megantic
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The tide is coming in on the greedy bastards who cut corners to save a buck. It is surely rising on their partners in crime, in this case the Harper government, who willing changed regulations allowing only one worker for trains like the one
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rogers new "connection fee" takes effect
On July 10, 2013, Rogers introduced a new $15 ‘connection fee’ to replace its previous ‘activation fee’ and ‘hardware upgrade administration fee’. Article by Ian Hardy on MobileSyrup: A few days ago we let you know that Rogers would be introducing a new “Connection Fee” today. You can see the
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: OMB caves in to idiots at Hamilton City Hall with "Aerotropolis"
Earlier this week the Ontario Municipal Board gave final clearance to Hamilton destroying 555 hectares of virgin farmland for “development” lands around the Hamilton airport, when at least half that much exists in the wasteland of brownfields in the lower city. The so-called “Aerotropolis”. The claim is that businesses
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