KELOWNA, B.C. – A former federal Conservative cabinet minister says he’ll be supporting the BC Liberal Party in the upcoming provincial election. Stockwell Day served as trade minister and public safety minister under Prime Minister Stephen Harper but didn’t seek re-election in 2011. This past October, he and former Conservative
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 10:
If you look at the comments below yesterday’s post, you will find that a reader warned me that Colchester County in Nova Scotia plans to dump over a million litres of fracking wastewater, complete with its chemicals, into the sea. So I checked. It’s even worse than I thought. Windsor,
Continue reading350 or bust: “Together We Can End The Holocaust Against The Environment”
Reposted from Care2.com: Elder’s Meditation of the Day April 10 “Together we can end the Holocaust against the environment.” –Haida Gwaii, Traditional Circle of Elders We are all familiar with the Holocaust against the people. When this happens we feel bad and we vow never to let it happen again.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Is There an Upside to Climate Change? Maybe, If You’re Trying to Grow Wine in Canada
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) a group of scientists have analyzed what climate change may mean for wine production around the world. The news isn’t good for growers in many regions that produce the best wine, like the south of France and Italy. Drier
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Lana Payne offers an introduction to austerity for Newfoundland and Labrador residents who are just learning about it on a provincial level: In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has also taken a rather deep liking to austerity. It is a ready-made excuse to
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Temporary Foreign Workers
Armine and I have some comments in today’s Toronto Star article on Temporary Foreign Workers (page B1). Armine has been commenting extensively on this issue and my head talked for a few seconds on last night’s The National. Here is my online Globe and Mail op-ed: Reining In The Temporary Foreign
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: An open letter to Anonymous about Rehtaeh Parsons
Dear Anonymous: I have never written to you, the global hacktivist group, before. Like everyone else, I have read about your exploits and, more than once, nodded my head with approval. It’s comforting to see citizens periodically bring certain groups to heel, like child pornographers or the Church of Scientology.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Daniel McGowan Forbidden From Publishing Articles Without Permission (Village Voice)
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/04/daniel_mcgowan.php on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/daniel-mcgowan-forbidden-from-publishing-articles-without-permission-village-voice/
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Snapshot of Genocide
An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for
Continue readingkirbycairo: Temporary Foreign Workers and the Semi-Slave economy. . . .
Jim Flaherty, that inconceivably incompetent buffoon who calls himself a ‘finance minister,’ keeps telling us that the Conservatives needed to expand the ‘temporary foreign workers’ program because there are ‘labour shortages’ and there are many jobs ‘Canadians just wont do.’ But of course this is another in a long line of Conservative lies. Notice that they
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 10, 2013: Manitoba judges get pay hike Nun admits stealing $128,000 from churches; spent money at casinos Mayor Rob Ford says he will try to kill City Hall bike station with showers Supreme Court to examine
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Video message for FEMEN: ‘saving Muslim women one bra strap at a time’
A Muslimah from Manchester, England, gets her message across in this funny yet pointed video in which she thanks FEMEN ‘from the bottom of her heart’ for showing her how to campaign for women’s rights: My parents got it wrong, they seriously got it wrong…. they thought that by sending
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On RBC’s Outsourcing From Star Readers
I have a busy morning ahead, so for now I take the liberty of reproducing two letters from this morning’s Star that make some excellent points as to how to apportion blame for the outrageous corporate practice of outsourcing Canadian jobs, most apparent in the current RBC imbroglio. As well,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Flintstones wasn’t a documentary
Sorry, I just had to say that. Sometimes I just can’t help myself. Anyway: the fact that Stockwell Day is supporting the BC Liberals isn’t even remotely news – but Canadian Press and various aggregators are treating it as such, which I find totally bizarre. It isn’t news. He’s been
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: RBC-gate
It’s now been a full week of this Royal Bank of Canada PR disaster, and it shows no signs of abating. Is it true, as a commenter wrote yesterday, that Burson-Marsteller/National is advising the bank on this mess? Anyone who works there is free to comment, below.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My first year as a woman
A year ago, this story rocked my world, and my daughter’s, no pun intended. Against Me, and Tom Gabel, were a huge, huge deal for us. So, here’s her update on her journey, sent along by FB pal David Darling, and in Cosmo, no less: “During our shows this year,
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Final Power Rankings
There isn’t a lot of suspense surrounding Sunday’s Liberal leadership vote. Pick the metric of your choice – fundraising, endorsements, hair volume – and Trudeau leads his nearest challenger by at least a 4:1 ratio. I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Twitter support, but Justin has 10 times
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Weighty Subject Indeed.
Such interesting fuss over how we measure our world. 🙂 Just play the video before I make a mass of myself. Filed under: Science Tagged: Kilogram, Science, Weights and Measures
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