Across south Asia there are more than a billion people whose livelihood and lives are utterly dependent on the annual Monsoon rains. The severe impacts of climate change on their hydrological lifeline has left them reeling. This week Pakistan was hit by massive flooding that took their own weather services
Continue readingLeDaro: Kristin Chenoweth: Sings Anthony Weiner parody song on Jay Leno show
“She crooned: ‘They’ll think you’ve become a monk, though they’ve seen your junk, now you’ll play a different show. So let’s start because you’ve got an awfully long way to go…long, well, hmmm.’At the end of the song, Kristin addressed Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin, a longtime personal aide of Hillary
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: What Bruce Livesay said
Rabble.ca has picked up a piece from The Progressive Economics Forum by Bruce Livesay that discusses, among other things, the large amounts of money in uncollected taxes resulting from corporations and the wealthy taking advantage of tax havens. Not to mention the way governments, including our own, are trying to
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Class War: US$11.5 Trillion Hidden in Tax Havens
Which tax haven is right for you? Class war is alive and well. I have this rose-coloured, nostalgic dream of history. Once upon a time we emerged from feudalism with a democratic revolution. All were equal. Well, most. But the hope of democracy was to rid the world of the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Economist
It started with a car accident in February, and the total loss of our 2004 Prius, which had only been ours for less than a year. We were quickly compensated for its market value and were in a position to buy another car, but we held off due to a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Christy Clark’s Giant Methane Fart – Part Deux
British Columbia premier Christy Clark has visions of our province becoming an energy superpower in its own right thanks to massive reserves of shale natural gas, methane, in northern B.C. just waiting to be fracked. The stuff’s not worth much in Canada. North America has a glut of methane thanks
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 1, 2013: Ontario woman, 85, charged with stunt driving in fatal crash U.S. government fights to keep domestic spy powers A Home for Our Legal Technology Relics 20-Week Abortion Bans and the Pathway to the US
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Aggressive Cop Loses to Skateboarder
There might be a better way to entertain kids who want to skateboard in a city, other than yell at them, push them, and make their desired outdoor fun illegal. Baltimore wasn’t doing a good job 6 years ago. Regina’s not far behind. “Dude” cop loses his temper. Doesn’t file
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When Athabasca Came to Windsor
There’s a small mountain of Athabasca bitumen byproduct, petcoke, being amassed on the American bank of the Detroit River by – the Koch brothers, of course. And now, clouds of this toxic crap are being aerially repatriated to Canada – to Windsor, Ontario to be exact, carried on the winds
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Julian Assange: Bradley Manning is the quintessential whistleblower
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Bradley Manning “is the quintessential whistleblower” after a US military court found him not guilty of “aiding the enemy”, guilty of 19 lesser charges. The post Julian Assange: Bradley Manning is the quintessential whistleblower appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingLeDaro: Rand Paul: "I will not be enslaved by your “right” to basic healthcare"
This guy wants to be the President of the United States. He is expected to be a candidate for the 2016 Presidential election. “Move over George W. Bush I am dumber than you.”“Offensive, insulting, infused with the self-pitying victimology of the very privileged, and so self-evidently dumb that a college
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Industry Influence To Blame For Tavares, Florida Explosion
This post originally appeared on RingofFireRadio.com. On July 29th, an explosion at a gas plant in Tavares, Florida injured eight people, leaving five of them in critical condition. Three months prior to that, a fertilizer plant explosion in Texas killed 14 people and left numerous people injured and homeless. And
Continue readingCalgary Grit: By-Election Day In Ontario
Holyday isn’t going to lose any votes because of the scandal surrounding the truck behind him. But he might because of the guy to his left. Ontarians head to the polls in five ridings today, to replace five outgoing Liberal MPPs. The fate of the government does not hang on
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Livesey discusses how offshoring undermines government – and how it happens with the approval of those same governments claiming we can’t afford to provide for citizens: Today, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) claims that offshore banks globally hide
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6296…Showtime In Ontario: Beginning Of End 4 Hudak
It is by-election day in Ontario. Five seats are up for grabs and if Tim Hudak and his Progressive Conservative’s don’t grab four of them one would think that he would be for the high jump. I hope not coz he sucks as a politician. WFDS
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s Hair-raising experience
Someone told him about the Fall opening of Parliament.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on the questions raised by a sudden drop in potash prices – and why we should reconsider our economic and social priorities so that a minor fluctuation in a still-ample level of wealth isn’t seen as reason to push the panic button. For further reading…– My discussion of Robert
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Is it Hudak-Ford or Ford-Hudak?
The Ontario Legislature feeds on the politics of Ontario municipalities. You have to get under the skin of a number of key municipal politicians before you can fathom the directions of the Legislature. It is both the strength and the weakness of Ontario politics. Since the days of Premier Oliver
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Even if it could, Senate reform shouldn’t proceed without the provinces – or the people
To the surprise of everyone in the Ottawa bubble, Her Majesty’s Minister of State for Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, held a press availability Wednesday not to slam the Liberals for some alleged sins, but to actually speak to an issue of policy substance: the government’s Supreme Court reference on Senate
Continue readingTrashy's World: E Day in Ottawa South!
Woot! Come on everyone! Woot with me! I just don’t “get” people who don’t get excited about elections. It is the one tangible time when we, as citizens, can choose what a part of our democracy will look like. As we are CITIZENS, dammit! Not “taxpayers” as conservatives like to
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