Takeover_460x110_120816.png Decision will determine whether Bell will be given more control over Canada’s already highly-concentrated media system WHO: Lindsey Pinto, Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca David Christopher, Communications Coordinator, OpenMedia.ca WHAT: The CRTC will announce whether they will allow big media company Bell’s proposed takeover of Astral Media. The CRTC denied Bell’s
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: President Obama Pegs Fate of Keystone XL On Climate Change Impact; Slams Climate Denial Flat Earth Society
“I refuse to condemn your generation, and future generations, to a planet that is beyond fixing. And that’s why today I’m announcing a new national climate action plan, and I’m here to enlist your generation’s help in keeping the United States of America a global leader in the fight against
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Provincial driving suspensions do not constitute any part of a punishment imposed by criminal law but are a form of civil driving disability
R. v. Fernandes, 2013 ONCA 436 holds: [98] It is also important to emphasize that driving prohibition orders under theCode, and provincially-imposed driving suspensions or restrictions are different in character and serve discrete purposes. Driving prohibition orders under theCode form part of a sentencing judge’s arsenal of sanctions on sentencing an accused for a criminal
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Obama Climate Plan Touts Gas Fracking As "Transition Fuel," Doubling Down on Methane Risk
Today, President Barack Obama announced his administration’s “Climate Action Plan” for cutting carbon pollution in his second term in the Oval Office at Georgetown University and unfortunately, it’s a full-throttle endorsement of every aspect of fracking and the global shale gas market. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is the toxic horizontal drilling process via which gas
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Health Canada fiddles while bees burned by pesticides
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Earlier this month, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), an arm of Health Canada that regulates pesticides, released its report into the deaths of honey bees in Ontario and Quebec that occurred in the Spring of 2012 – concluding that certain pesticides (known as neonicotinoids) likely
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Corporate money preventing all-outcampaign to stop global warming
Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is “very excited” about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. “They’ve made such a difference,” Miller told The Toronto Star, “and to be part of an organization that knows how to make real change is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No Telling Whether Obama’s Okay with Keystone XL
President Obama has said the Keystone XL pipeline can only go ahead if it doesn’t “significantly increase” U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There’s enough wiggle room in there to delight almost everybody. Define “significantly.” There you go. What does it mean if you export the really filthy petroleum coke or petcoke
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Many years ago I read a novel by Jimmy Breslin called The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, which dealt with profound ineptitude within a certain New York mafia family. It would seem a worthwile novel to revisit, now that there is a real-life gang operating in Ottawa that seems to
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 25: mea culpa…
sorry to be late today. I had an appointment with a doctor. (I’m approaching that age at which one’s social circle is made up largely of doctors, undertaker salespeople and evangelists giving it their last, best shot.) Anyway -I missed a biggie in yesterday’s paper. The letter from medical staff
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What’s on God’s Mind Lately?
Recent throughts from The Tweet of God: Well I’ve lost faith in you, too. Sorry, rest of the world, Junior and I can’t help you now. We’re too busy helping some loon cross a canyon on a piece of floss. “Atheist” is an anagram for “eat shit”. Advantage, Me. Paula
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Edward Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Russia
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden- Hero or Traitor? Here is an update from Democracy NowU.S. Files Espionage Charges The exact whereabouts of National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden are unknown after he reportedly left Hong Kong and landed in Moscow on Sunday. His flight came just days after the United States
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: children at political protests
My kids and I went to a protest recently against the closing of a municipal daycare. Though my children are not in daycare, I recognize the need for daycares and I wanted to stand in solidarity with others. The daycare is unionized and is the only local daycare open in the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nobody Shoots at a Dead Duck!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Our PM Stephen Harper is a power at any cost politician it seems. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau is climbing in the polls giving the appearance that he will become the next Prime Minister. That is enough to have the PMO staff doing Harper’s dirty work. Here
Continue readingbgrice blog: What If We Are Wrong About Diabetes?
“What if blaming the obese is blaming the victims” This TEDTalk is a must watch. Dr. Peter Attia explains that obesity and diabetes are in fact linked, but not at all in the way society thinks it is. We are blaming the victims for causing a disease that they –
Continue readingWhat If We Are Wrong About Diabetes?
“What if blaming the obese is blaming the victims” This TEDTalk is a must watch. Dr. Peter Attia explains that obesity and diabetes are in fact linked, but not at all in the way society thinks it is. We are blaming the victims for causing a disease that they –
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: After layoffs, racialized immigrant workers face precarious employment, poverty wages
by: CAW & Ryerson University | Press Release: TORONTO, June 25, 2013 – Older immigrant workers who have been laid off are falling through the cracks of Canada’s employment system, with many of them ending up in temporary jobs with few benefits, finds a new study released today at Ryerson University’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca Sounds Alarm on Privacy Rights as court case could see Canadians’ private information handed to U.S. firm
Image by o5com on Flickr.jpg U.S.-style copyright trolling could clog Canadian courts if law not made clearer JUNE 25, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is warning Canadians that their privacy rights could be seriously undermined as a result of a case currently being heard before Federal Court in Toronto. The case involves
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6184…Rob Ford In Trouble Again
This time the story comes from CBC who have revealed that hizzonner was friends with one of the frequent callers to his Sunday afternoon radio show on CFRB. “CBC News has learned that the caller is David Price, the mayor’s current director of operations and logistics.”This of course has never,
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