Kyle Farmer takes issue with The Star’s failure to ‘connect the dots’ between increasingly destructive weather and climate change: At a global warming tipping point What will it take before the Star commits to covering the unfolding crisis of environmental sustainability? The Star dutifully reports on droughts and floods when
Continue reading350 or bust: Sell Your Crap. Pay Your Debts. Do What You Love.
This week’s TED Talk features Adam Baker, founder of ManVsDebt, a blog which focuses on a simple message: The first step to living a life of passion and purpose is to remove the barriers that hold you back. It sounds like good advice to me! * ManVsDebt.com
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sarah Palin Guest On Ezra Levant’s Freedom Cruise?
No. Almost certainly not. Its still just these losers: The “crazy 8”, as I like to call them. But its another slow news day and I wanted to spike this rumor before it got too far.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Familiar tunes amid the Shifting Balance of Power #nlpoli
All the talk the past week or so about negotiations between the crowd in Confederation Building and the crowd in Ottawa brought out the conventional wisdom about premiers using fights with the feds for political purposes. The coincidence of a talk on nationalism the week before linked the two ideas
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Con Circus and the Real Scandal
Well I'm sorry to say that Stephen Harper wasn't able to make it to Question Period today. Although I can't say I'm surprised eh?I'm sure he knows that if Tom Mulcair gets to grill him about the Duffy Affair again, like he did last week, they'll have to wheel Great Shattered Leader out of
Continue readingBuckdog: Stan Rogers … 30 Years On … ‘The Field Behind The Plow’
Stan Rogers November 29, 1949 – June 2, 1983) Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers passed on 30 years ago yesterday. He would be 63 now if he were still alive. He died in a fire aboard an Air Canada flight on the ground at Cincinnati Airport at the age of
Continue readingManitoba AGM
There was a lot of passion for Liberalism in this room. I’m looking forward to helping out on the Provencher by-election!
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Just shut up, that’s why
Well, we certainly know now where RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson stands on bullying and harassment in the workplace “I can’t be continuously defending against outlandish claims as if they were representative of a modern RCMP when they’re not.” Ah, yes, Paulson testified to a Senate committee today to the effect
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6096…Racism Twds Kids In Quebec
Imagine such a thing happening.This time they are picking on kids, excluding soccer playing boys who happen to wear turbans.Cannot have that.The National Post writes that “Brigitte Frot, the director general of the provincial association, [The Quebec Soccer Federation] says the reason to maintain the ban is for player safety reasons.” Coz
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Dirty Details: Dents, Faulty Welds Found Along Keystone XL Southern Half in Texas
If an ecologically hazardous accident happens to TransCanada’s Keystone XL (KXL) tar sands pipeline, we can’t say we weren’t forewarned. That’s the latest from a press release and YouTube video recently disseminated by the good government group, Public Citizen. Public Citizen‘s Texas office explained, “Dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, reportedly have
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Tuesday’s Sun: the end of scandal
“Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe,” said a French cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard. “The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.” Baudrillard’s works influenced The Matrix movie series, of all things, but we shouldn’t hold that against him. Surveying the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Thousands demand Lone Pine drop its NAFTA lawsuit
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release OTTAWA – Two weeks after the launch of a public petition, organizers have received over 3,000 signatures demanding that energy company Lone Pine Resources drop its $250 million NAFTA (North America Free Trade Agreement) lawsuit against Canada for Québec’s moratorium on fracking. The petition
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Free press? Apparently, it’s only for Conservatives.
Just ask Don Martin. Or better yet, ask his cowardly bosses at CTV (Conservative Television).
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Boorish Boar
The other day I posted a video in which Don Martin denounces the disgraced Senator Mike Duffy. He makes a reference to the exact point at which Mike Duffy ceased to be his friend. This is the episode I believe Martin is referring to: H/t janfromthebruce Recommend this Post
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: School choice and segregation
A fascinating report was issued last week by People for Education – an Ontario based non-profit organization that promotes public education. The report looked at demographic data in the Ontario school system and drew some frightening conclusions about the growing inequity in access to educational opportunities. For example: * students
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Greeks ask Canadians to help stop Canadian mining corp Eldorado Gold
By: Mining Watch Canada | Press Release OTTAWA – The situation around Eldorado Gold Corporation’s mining projects in northern Greece is extremely tense. In the face of negative official response to social and environmental concerns from the company, Greek authorities, and even the Canadian Ambassador – a delegation from the affected
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Sounds of Summer: Crickets and Night Hawks
While walking in Mount Royal Cemetery on Saturday I was surprised and delighted to here a cricket. Usually they come later in the season, but perhaps the very warm weather had spurred this one along. Over the weekend, I heard nighthawks too. They usually arrive a week or so earlier,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Very Little MSM Coverage of the Bloody Protests in Turkey
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We have been hearing about the protests and riots in Turkey. Fortunately the internet, especially ‘Twitter’ provides coverage that has been sparsely covered in the Western MSM until very recently. It is clear that the Turkish people are not buying what the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Health care sustainability: evidence shows this debate should have been long over
Over the weekend CPAC was playing excerpts from two conferences – one on drug coverage the other on health care sustainability. The first, Rethinking Drug Coverage, was held in Ottawa May 24-25 and was co-hosted by the Canadian Health Coalition … Continue reading →
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