The need for a biofuel that can be used in standard automobiles is needed more everyday as the bloody global thirst for oil only increases. Thankfully researchers have engineered a bacteria that can produce a fuel substance that can be used in standard internal combustion engines. To be used as
Continue readingRecreating Eden: The Rich Get Rich Dept: Academic Gap Widens between Rich and Poor Kids in the US
It’s obvious in some ways, but rich kids do better in school and succeed in all sorts of things more often than poor kids do. We all know that, but an op-ed piece in The New York Times today shows just how much that gap has grown in the US
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 29, 2013: Israeli boy’s Facebook post gets parents arrested for abuse | The Times of Israel The Legal Basis for Omar Khadr’s War Crimes Appeal U of W law student investigates roots of five-figure tuition Owner of
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, April 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, April 29, 2013: Israeli boy’s Facebook post gets parents arrested for abuse | The Times of Israel The Legal Basis for Omar Khadr’s War Crimes Appeal U of W law student investigates roots of five-figure tuition Owner of
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Oxford University Press Apologizes to Richard Warman
The link is here, but here is the screen shot: It will be interesting to see who will be next.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Help Save Canada’s Hate Speech Law!
If you missed reading through one the links in my last post, the Harper Tories are trying to force Bill C-304 (which would repeal the hate-speech provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act) through the Senate before their late June convention so they can toss some red meat to the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: Late Coda To Hechme Case
Richard Warman is still having to tell people it’s lies: The “Hechme allegation” was one of the stranger incidents in The Speechy Wars–the epic political battle over section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act that began in 2008 and still grinds on in the Senate. Two Neo-Nazis managed to convince
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Twisted Priorities
The Harper government is a nasty piece of work. Its twisted priorities now permeate the Canadian economy. Those priorities are best illustrated by the temporary foreign workers program. Originally established in boom times to help alleviate labour shortages, the Harperites have used the program to cudgel Canadian workers. Haroon Siddiqui
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Birth Control – An Ounce of Prevention…
Fiscal conservatives give me a headache at the best of times. Having them opine about how availability of birth control is going to drive up costs and make every one sad, well…makes me sad. It would be nice, for once, if our conservative friends would base their opinion on something
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Wynne pulls back into a “tie” with the PC’s.
A new poll out this morning that should cheer the Ontario Liberal Party and the Premier, Kathleen Wynne: The Liberals and Conservatives are each at 36 per cent while the NDP has slipped further behind to 24 per cent, with Mike Schreiner’s Green Party at 4 per cent, according to
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Annual GDP Change #nlpoli
A release on Friday from Statistics Canada showed that the provincial economy shrank by almost 5% in 2012. They even supplied a lovely chart to illustrate the GDP changes in each province as well as the national average. This wasn’t just modest growth or even a modest drop. We are
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Bait and Switch: Red Chris Mine, ‘Green’ Funding and the Northwest Transmission Line
The Northwest Transmission line is a 344 km, $600 million taxpayer-subsidized hydroelectric corridor. Despite receiving $130 million in federal “green infrastructure” funding and over $300 million from BC Hydro so far – much of that covering $200 million in ballooning cost overruns – it is designed to power mining operations
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Craziness in Alberta jails continues – and may get worse today
The scene on the darkened lane that runs past Edmonton’s giant new Remand Centre has resembled the set for an apocalyptic movie the past couple of nights, with striking jail guards’ huge-wheeled four-by-fours crowding the ditches, AUPE banners flapping in the dark and strikers gathered around burn barrels. With Deputy
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Who exactly is misleading and withholding information on Pipelines in British Columbia?
Kevin Logan (with Christine) A Cowichan Conversations Contributor Over at the Common Sense Canadian I have documented the many twists and turns of the BC Liberals. Christy Clark, having shuffled through at least three sets of communications staff, seemed to change her position each time a new scribe was propelled to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Con Police State
He is, after his depraved leader, the most brutish Con of them all.A religious bigot, a ghastly hypocrite, a political thug who has spent a lifetime attacking judges, and jailing Canadians.For he cannot jail enough of them. Or violate our liberties enough. And now he's out of control. Read more »
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: UFOs, Sea Level Rise And The Magnetism Of Climate Science Denial
IF there was a prize for the most esoteric and stratospherically “out there” theory against human caused climate change, then surely Thomas Watson would be in line for this particular gong. In an interview in January for the US-based internet radio show “It’s Rainmaking Time“, this 83-year-old Australian from Victoria
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Extraordinary Political Interference: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview
[View the story “Canada Police State Confirmed: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview ” on Storify] We recommend:Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay Said Canada Should Bring Omar Khadr HomeHarper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”Statistics Canada: Crime rate reached its lowest level in 40 years in 2011Confirmed again: “Canada may use information obtained
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: The Great Academic Rejection of 2008-20??
…….. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20….. Do you know what this is? It is a count of the amount of days since my last job interview. A count that is used to monitor a continued hope that employment in my field or a career of some sort will be attainable under the current economy.
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