Many Canadian municipalities are starting to come to grips with what climate change will mean to their cities and what they need to do, now, to adapt. This item from TorStar is a pretty graphic depiction of what Toronto is facing even as its beached whale of a first magistrate
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The Disaffected Lib: Not White Enough for Canada
The new $100 bill featured the image of a woman peering into a microscope. That is until a focus group decided the woman looked, gasp, “Asian.” So, relax, you’re not going to be having any yellow women on your hard-earned huns. The Bank of Canada has laundered the bill, altering
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America Has Wiped Out Its Middle Class. Time for Canada to Follow Suit?
That’s likely the message Harper FinMin and garden gnome Jim Flaherty will get when he gets together with his future employers top Canadian CEOs for his annual summer “policy retreat.” Flaherty, it seems, wines and dines the Big Boys and they return his generosity in the form of legislative wish
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: That Limbaugh Stain is Hard to Get Out
The protest-driven advertiser revolt against Rush Limbaugh seems deeper than might have been expected. Cumulus Media, a major affiliate of Rush Limbaugh’s show reported millions of dollars in losses attributable Limbaugh’s advertiser troubles. During a call with investors Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey acknowledged Limbaugh’s “drag” on business while being careful
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Someone Was Convicted of Murder, Just Not the Murderer
Someone was convicted of murdering British businessman Neill Heywood in Beijing, only it might not have been the accused, Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai. The Chinese court found Gu Kailai guilty of the crime only the woman in court was a stand-in, a double. Reports have
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It Was True Then, It’s Just as True Now
“You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1916-1939)
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will Britain Wage War on Ecuador to Deliver Assange to U.S.?
Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum within its embassy in London. The Brits claim they have some right to attack the Ecuadorian embassy to seize Assange, presumably to facilitate his delivery to the United States. Is this really what it’s come to? Is this what it takes to shred
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Everybody Loves Marineland!
I don’t have many grievances with Ontario but Marineland is a huge exception. For some reason the ads run all summer out here on the coast. They highlight two things that obviously go together, orca and roller coasters. Whenever the ad runs my blood boils a little bit as I
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Climate Change Denialism Hits 2% Among Canadians
Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not happening. Two per cent, just one-in-fifty. The findings are in a survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. for IPAC-CO2 Research Inc., a Regina-based centre that studies carbon capture and storage. The online poll of 1,550 people was done between
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Outrage for Coastal British Columbians
This is what you’re up against when Ottawa, Alberta, Big Oil and Enbridge come to play. The pipeline operator, gaming an already rigged system for clearance to build the Northern Gateway pipeline/Kitimat supertanker operation has released a video on its web site in which it shows the Douglas Channel these
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Julian Assange Granted Asylum
The Guardian reports that Ecuador has granted Julian Assange political asylum. Given that the WikiLeaks founder remains holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, it’s unclear whether asylum will mean he gets to stay there indefinitely. “Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange,” said an official in the Ecuadorean
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Summer Funnies
Ah, takes you back to those great childhood years
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Glimpse Into the Warfare State
Further evidence that America is being transformed into a genuine “warfare state” comes from a report in Wired magazine that the Pentagon is planning to unleash SEAL teams to attack and kill drug lords south of the U.S. border. “According to anonymous Mexican and U.S. military sources cited by Proceso
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Northern Gateway Hearings a Stacked Deck
Those who suspect that Steve Harper has “fixed” the environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway pipeline initiative won’t be surprised to learn the board reviewing the proposal has ruled the U.S. Transportation Safety Board report into the Enbridge pipeline fiasco on the Kalamazoo River in Michigan won’t be admitted into
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Saudia Arabia, This is Progress?
Saudi women are being given a portal to industry, sort of. The government is building what sounds like a glorified industrial park that will be exclusively women-only. The city, to be built in the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is set to be the first of several planned for the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Obama, Spender in Least
Not that it matters much in a society utterly detached from reality, but Forbes has analyzed government spending growth by president since Ronald Reagan and, contrary to the outright lies the Radical Right (GOP) and the Tea Party love to spin and gullible Americans love to swallow, Barack Obama has a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Not Like We Weren’t Warned
“When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.” So wrote British general, Andrew Skeen, in the early 1900s in his guide to military operations in the Pashtun
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Taking the Fight to Them
It’s time to do what they fear most – connect the dots. That means linking bitumen trafficking to the plight being inflicted on the poorest and most vulnerable peoples on Earth due to global warming. It’s a link that is irrefutable. We know that the climate change the world is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Bain of Mitt Romney’s Existence
The folks of Freeport, Illinois know what it’s like when Bain Capital comes to town and, pretty soon, so will most Americans. Whether he likes to admit it or not, Mitt Romney is getting ever richer sucking the blood out of towns like Freeport. For decades Freeport had an industrial
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Taking Out the Trash
You can tell when the Radical Right, University of Calgary Bitumen-Boosters go into meltdown. It’s when their august leaders, like Prof. Barry Cooper, write stuff like this in the Calgary Herald: British Columbia is full of “sybaritic scatterbrains,” Cooper wrote, “soft consumers and rent collectors, drinking lattes in the rain.
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