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Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When a Railroad Goes Deadbeat
You guessed it, we’re talking Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the railroad company that incinerated the luckless villagers of Lac Megantic, Quebec. MM&A has stopped paying contractors working on the clean-up of the disaster causing the town to demand $4-million within 48-hours to pay the contractors MM&A itself hired. MM&A chairman
Continue readingFinding Clarity: Phobia This! Phobia That!
I am coming to agree with my daughter that I deserve the sobriquet Grumpy. Case in point was seeing the entry below on a Facebook entry: How many homophobes does it take to change a light bulb? A: None – They are afraid of change, even if it will make
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Seven years for shooting at police in Kimmirut
R v Utye 2013 NUCJ 14: [1] On July 28, 2012, the early morning peace and tranquility of Kimmirut was shattered by the sound of gunfire. Two members of the RCMP and a youth were inside the police detachment when the attack began. A hail of bullets penetrated the detachment building
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Congrats to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
…better known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, on their new arrival (still unnamed, they let it be known in their brief chat with the press they hadn’t decided on a name yet; for now he is a Prince of Cambridge): Best picture I’ve seen of the new Prince is
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: An honourable thing to do
Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s Ottawa.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On The E.I Whistleblower
The other day I wrote a post on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance fraud every year. The “fraud quotas” were just one aspect of an office culture that encouraged cutting benefits from as
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Canada’s embarassing green jobs record
Why is Canada missing out on tens of thousands of green jobs and tens of billions of dollars in economic development? Clean tech is among the globe’s fastest growing and highest job-creating sectors, yet while countries like China, the US and Germany are reaping hundreds of thousands of new jobs
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Telecom Against Canada – Who will win?
Big Telecom is at it again – Telus is now actually threatening the government with legal action if they follow through on their commitment to stop the Big Three cell phone giants from taking over public spectrum assets that were set aside for new affordable telecom options for Canadians. Telus
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The colonization of land by life pushed back in time
A recent story on Science Daily made me stop and read with fascination. It’s about the discovery of fossils that showed life colonized land more than two billion years ago. That’s a shocker, because all indicators are that the Earth was a hostile place, land was barren, and life was
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Carefully Engineered Ascendancy of Public Stupidity
Maybe people who had survived the Great Depression and World War II were a little more wary, spent a little more time looking over their shoulders. The postwar years gave rise to a period of insight and enlightenment that was abruptly arrested in the late 70’s, early 80’s with the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: His Majesty, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith: we care
Crazed republicans remind me of crazed atheists: they are more preoccupied with saying they dislike/disbelieve than those who actually do like/believe in God or Her Majesty or whatever. I mean, honestly, if you don’t care, why don’t you STFU? I swear: if Twitter didn’t exist, crazy people would go back
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Venezuela abruptly ends talks with U.S. – flatly rejects ‘gringo aggression’ and ‘meddling’
On July 20, Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, announced that rapprochement talks with the U.S. that began in June were at an end. The announcement followed controversial human rights-related remarks by Samantha Power – Obama’s nominee for UN ambassador – who expressed “concern” over Caracas’ management of human rights issues. When
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: IKEA’s (Sad) Spin Reply to My Boycott Letter
Solidarity means an attack on one is an offense to all! So if you have sent your letter to IKEA explaining why you are boycotting them for locking out their Richmond workers for 10 weeks, you may have received this precious reply from the corporation, below. I will re-spin it
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Further to the Local Food Movement
The New York Times has a nice story about sustainability at McGill and elsewhere.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadians oppose Harper’s dictatorship-style plan to gut the CBC
According to a new Nanos poll, 81% of Canadians oppose Stephen Harper’s dictatorship-style plan to seize control of the CBC and gut its editorial independence. The post Canadians oppose Harper’s dictatorship-style plan to gut the CBC appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rabble: Why Canadians should be demanding answers about online spying
Canadians are still in the dark about the activities of the ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go? Demand information about the full extent of government spying on innocent citizens: http://SecretSpying.ca Article by Adam Kingsmith for Rabble: We are living in an age of surveillance,”
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rabble: Why Canadians should be demanding answers about online spying
Canadians are still in the dark about the activities of the ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC. Just how deep does the rabbit hole go? Demand information about the full extent of government spying on innocent citizens: http://SecretSpying.ca Article by Adam Kingsmith for Rabble: We are living in an age of surveillance,”
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