The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly. Here is a link to a table that shows what the NDP demanded and what the Liberals offered. As you
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly.Here is a link to a table that shows what the NDP demanded and what the Liberals off…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly. Here is a link to a table that shows what the NDP demanded and what the Liberals offered. As you
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: First Nation demands resignation of Alberta Energy Regulator chair, ex-Big Oil exec Gerry Protti
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is demanding the resignation of Gerry Protti, the newly-appointed chair of Alberta Energy Regulator, a new agency charged with monitoring environmental issues. The ACFN is concerned that, under Protti’s leadership, the agency will prioritize advancing the interests of the oil, gas and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Face of Globalization
When you’re racing for the bottom dollar, it eventually costs some people their lives.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Flying to Chesterfield Inlet
On the way – maybe! – to Rankin and then Yellowknife.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A challenge to Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan, the OFL’s “leader,” has been getting upset about a series of friendly inquiries I’ve been sending his way via the miracle that is Twitter. I’ve been asking him good-natured questions – about his Israel-hating policies, about his bankrupting of pension funds, about the loss of members in OFL –
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Video: Kingston is “Voting in the Streets”
It had all the trappings of an election — lawn signs, leaflets, TV commercials, media coverage and an army of volunteers knocking on doors. This vote, however, wasn’t run by any level of government but by a group of citizens opposed … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: ICAO Won’t Relocate, But Not Because of Harper Government Diplomacy
Until yesterday, I suspect very few Canadian outside of the airlines industry actually knew that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN organization which promotes regulation of international air travel, had its headquarters in Montreal. Some more Canadians probably know it is today, and, as you probably know, the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CISPA is NOT dead and here’s why you should care
CISPA, a U.S. warrantless online surveillance bill, would turn the websites you use into legally immune government spies. It’s stalled in the Senate right now, but it looks like they will be trying something similar soon. This bill affects anyone whose data is stored in the U.S. – in other
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Drought in California, Dry Days Here: What’s the Future of Water Resoures
A friend in California just wrote about their extended drought, just as the first news of brush and grass fires make the news. I spent a couple of hours this morning working in our yard, and while the snow has only been out for two weeks, already the ground is
Continue readingArt Threat: Blood work: A conversation with the director of Blood Relative
One ongoing trend in documentary filmmaking involves privileged minority world saviours travelling to distant destitute lands in order to do good or capture the act of doing good on film. In films like FUCK FOR FOREST, playing at this year’s Hot Docs film festival, people from rich countries set out
Continue reading350 or bust: Mother Puts Body On Line to Prevent “Toxic Trespass” From Fracking
* Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a biologist, a mother, and a cancer survivor. She recently went to jail for 15 days after being sentenced for trespassing on a gas compression rig last month owned by the Inergy gas company, near her home in the Finger Lakes region of New York
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Shine is Coming off. . . .
The embarrassing attack by the HarperCons on any kind of thought and refection reached the height of folly this past couple of weeks and it seems to demonstrate a faltering government which seems to be incredulous at the thought that they will eventually lose power. First we have Harper’s bizarre
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Bother With Climate Change? The World is Ending Soon Anyway.
Apparently an awful lot of Americans have embraced “End Times Theology”. As they see it, the world is ending soon anyway so there’s no point worrying about trivialities like climate change. A study by David Barker of the University of Pittsburgh and David Bearce of the University of Colorado concludes
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Void for Vagueness
R. v Levkovic, 2013 SCC 25 deals with the concept of a law being void as too vague: The doctrine against vagueness is founded on two rationales: a law must provide fair notice to citizens and it must limit enforcement discretion. Understood in light of its theoretical foundations, the doctrine
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Arthur Haberman argues that our universal public health care system helps contribute to a more democratic society: There is something that political philosophers — those like Tocqueville and Mill in the 19th century — have come to call living democratically. By this it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The White House Ponders an Ice-Free Arctic Ocean
The domestic and international security implications of an ice free Arctic ocean will be briefed at the White House this week. The meeting is bringing together Nasa’s acting chief scientist, Gale Allen, the director of the US National Science Foundation, Cora Marett, as well as representatives from the US Department
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 3: A cranky start…
I’m actually beginning late on the night of May 2. I’d really much rather look at old movies on my IPad. But sometimes I get so damn mad, I just have to write.1. I received a media advisory today that a group in St.-Louis de Kent is giving instructions on non-violent
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