John Hollingsworth shared this on Facebook less than 15 minutes ago. On the approach leaving Quebec to the Champlain Bridge which links Aylmer, a suburb of Hull, which is a quartier of Gatineau, to Island Park, a major road in Ottawa. For what it is worth not only is this
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 3: A very mixed bag…
Just back from a couple of days in PEI. Quite a revelation. I lived there for three years in my early teaching days – and hated it. This time, as I drove along its roads, I was quite taken by the high standard maintenance of its houses and grounds. Even
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Radioactive Waste From the Marcellus Shale Continues to Draw Concern
Amid all the pushback to fracking, most of the attention has focused on what drillers put into the ground. The amount of water used. The chemicals that make up energy companies’ secret mix. Whether these dangerous chemicals will contaminate our drinking water. But one of the biggest problems of fracking,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca welcomes new CRTC Code of Conduct reining in 3 year contracts as positive step forward for cell phone customers
New Code a starting point that begins to addresses citizen concerns on broken cell phone market OpenMedia.ca is welcoming the CRTC’s publication of its new Code of Conduct for Canadian cell phone providers. The new Code addresses restrictive three year contracts while leaving some work to do in other areas.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca welcomes new CRTC Code of Conduct reining in 3 year contracts as positive step forward for cell phone customers
8637598334_d8cebe642a.jpg New Code a starting point that begins to addresses citizen concerns on broken cell phone market June 3, 2013 – OpenMedia.ca is welcoming the CRTC’s publication of its new Code of Conduct for Canadian cell phone providers. The new Code addresses restrictive three year contracts while leaving some work
Continue reading350 or bust: The Obama Tar Sands Pipeline
Is the Keystone XL pipeline really what President Obama wants to leave as his legacy, for future generations to remember him by – and curse him for? * Meanwhile climate destabilization continues as unabated as our carbon dioxide emissions: Czech PM Declares Emergency As Floods Threaten Prague: Czech Prime Minister Petr
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Mike Konczal discusses the distribution of U.S. tax breaks and incentives, and finds that measures normally presented as offering breaks for everybody in fact serve mostly as giveaways to the wealthy: (T)he government is very responsive to the interests of the top 20
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, June 3, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, June 3, 2013: Lori Douglas inquiry’s new counsel wants do-ove Just how public are a public official’s files? Toronto’s Ford brothers demand apology for ‘gutter journalism’ Bradley Manning’s court-martial to start Monday Toronto Star reporter arrested, ticketed
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Doctors get lion’s share of Budget funding
Forget all the government Budget rhetoric about better home care. The real winners are the docs. The Ontario Budget Estimates are out and the line item primarily covering the doctors (“Ontario Health Insurance”) is going up 2.9 per cent to $13.3 billion. The rest of the health care sector got
Continue readingRedBedHead: Deflected Marxism: The Poison Of The Intelligentsia
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently Lenin was listening to Beethoven with the Russian novelist Gorky and commented something along the lines: “ah, the petty-bourgeois intelligentsia.
Continue readingRedBedHead: Deflected Marxism: The Poison Of The Intelligentsia
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently Lenin was listening to Beethoven with the Russian novelist Gorky and commented something along the lines: “ah, the petty-bourgeois intelligentsia. Sometimes they produce such beauty that one wants to reach out and pat them on the head. But you
Continue readingRedBedHead: Deflected Marxism: The Poison Of The Intelligentsia
I was thinking recently of an apocryphal story that was told to me many years ago as I sat in a dank basement drinking from a keg of beer. Apparently Lenin was listening to Beethoven with the Russian novelist Gorky and commented something along the lines: “ah, the petty-bourgeois intelligentsia.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Moscow and New York City Both Launch Bike Sharing Services
Mayor Bloomberg in New York City has been clear that streets are meant to move people around and not just cars. The efforts the city has made to open up streets to people are working and the most recent push comes from their new bike sharing program. “I expect to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The New E.I. Tribunal
Last week, The Star’s Thomas Walkom had an excellent column on Harer-led changes to the Employment Insurance Tribunal that turn it into a complete repository of patronage, rewarding the party faithful even more lavishly than those who have earned a partisan place in the Senate. Some contrasts to show the
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Where’s The Outrage?
That’s what Bob Dole trumpeted almost twenty years ago, when he was running against Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski. Try as he might, Dole couldn’t generate public outrage against Clinton. Susan Delacourt wrote last week that Conservatives can’t seem to generate any outrage over the fact that their top security
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Anarchism vs. Libertarianism – Noam Chomsky
The uniquely toxic form of libertarianism in the US and is a symptom of private power and influence run amok. This is just a snippet of the interview with Noam Chomsky, I recommend you go read the entire article on Alternet. Wilson: Why should we choose anarchy, as opposed
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Exposed: "FrackNation" Deploys Tobacco Playbook in Response to "Gasland 2"
Big Oil has deployed the “Tobacco Playbook” once again, this time in response to the release of “Gasland 2.” It comes in the form of a documentary film titled, “FrackNation,” whose co-directors’ funding in the past came from Donors Capital and Donors Trust, referred to by Mothers Jones‘ Andy Kroll as “the dark-money ATM of
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Fridgularity wins IRDA award for best humor book
Exciting news announced at Book Expo America (BEA): The Fridgularity won the IndieReader.com Discovery Award (IRDA) for best humor, 2013. Hugh Howey, bestselling indie author of WOOL and Amy Edelman, founder of IndieReader, announced the winners of the 2013 awards … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No Surplus to Supply #nlpoli
Critics of the Muskrat Falls development pointed out over 18 months ago that the project would have problems meeting its electricity commitments. Nalcor disputed that. But this weekend, CBC’s Paul Withers told On Point host David Cochrane that Nalcor has refused to commit in writing to supply Nova Scotia with
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