Five provincial by-elections could be a referendum on changes to the health care system that are starving local hospitals. Two of these contests are in ridings where hospital cuts have been especially prominent on the public agenda. Called for August 1st, … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Sask Party Employment Math: From the Great Wall to the Berlin Wall
Last week, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released my policy brief on Saskatchewan job-creation. Using Statistics Canada figures, it demonstrated that “workforce growth has been almost identical during the premierships of Brad Wall and Lorne Calvert.” Unsurprisingly, the main explanatory variable for Saskatchewan employment appears to be commodity prices
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The bother of bitumen.
It should be made clear: bitumen is not oil. Distilled, bitumen becomes asphalt pitch, refined it can become synthetic oil. Bitumen is not ‘heavy oil’ and it is a lengthy, highly polluting process to convert Canada’s Athabasca tar sands into synthetic oil. While we can compute the hundreds of billions
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 3: a crashing disappointment…
.. but first the small stuff.Our newspaper does not have the latest news about an item it has been shoving down our throats almost daily for the last several years – the “events” centre. CBC had the story yesterday. City Council knows all about it. It is impossible to believe
Continue readingThings Are Good: 15-Year Study: Stop Drug Use Through Harm Reduction
The American style “war on drugs” undoubtably ruins more lives than it saves (all while militarizing North American police forces), yet some people think that punishing drug users is sound policy. Research is continually adding more evidence that approaching drug consumption as a health issue and not a criminal one
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 3, 2013: Slaw Tips Tuesday Bank of America Chalk Protester Found ‘Not Guilty’ Mississippi Supreme Court won’t undo block on concealed gun law – Times Union This week at the SCC (21/06/2013) Managing the message in the hiring
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Would Scott Brison care to comment?
Conservatives fail to take human rights seriously in Canada-Colombia deal For the second year in a row, the Conservative government has failed to live up to its moral obligation to analyze the impact of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCOFTA) on human rights. The reporting obligation, embedded as a side
Continue readingRecreating Eden: How to Change the Debate: Lessons from the Snowden Affair
Edward Snowden is apparently still hanging out in the transit lounges of the Mocow airport, but his story spins on. European leaders are waving their fists at the idea that the US spied on them, and few countries seem to be willing to allow a plane that might be carrying
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 4 Atom Bombs of Heat Per Second
Need to visualize the amount of heat trapped due to the greenhouse effect enhanced by excessive carbon dioxide levels. By raising carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s air, the land, ice, and oceans are warming significantly, even during the last 15 years when climate change deniers attempt to claim there hasn’t
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy
America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil and gas rush in recent history, with excitement spreading across the U.S. Oil and gas companies have cashed in on this frenzied excitement by courting huge investment domestically and abroad. But a growing chorus of independent analysts and law enforcement
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: ZZZZZZZZZZZ…. While You Were Sleeping
I trust this needs no explanation. H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Minute Physics – The North Pole?
Shifty little bugger when all is said and done. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Minute Physics, North Pole, Science
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Running Scared
The Harper Government, Michael Harris writes, is running scared. It’s now patently obvious that its claim to fame — competent management — is unadulterated flap doodle: The PM and his government are not good managers. The nauseating repetition of the claim that the Tories know what they’re doing with the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Campaign Starts… #nlpoli
Okay anyone who believed Cathy Bennett was “thinking about it” over the weekend know that she was already getting her Liberal leadership campaign in gear. She’ll be launching later on Wednesday morning. You see, as much as some people might fancy that her media line was true, you just can’t
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Con Canada Fakers
Sometimes a picture really does tell a story eh?Like this picture of the Canada Day party on Parliament Hill.The people dressed in the red and white of Canada, and the stage painted Con blue.Because Stephen Harper will never stop trying to brainwash us into believing that blue is the colour
Continue readingMusings on Canadian Politics: Islamic extremism and the power of an idea in the internet age
The comical, if it weren’t so serious, attempt by a couple of disaffected WASPs to murder, Boston Marathon style, Canada Day revellers at British Columbia’s legislature shows the power of an idea in the internet age. The bombing suspects, John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody, planned to detonate a
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Suspected Snowden Plane Grounded & Embassy Bugged
Assange blasted Obama today for lying about his government’s interest in capturing Edward Snowden, the celebrated whistle-blower who exposed Obama’s administration as spying on all Americans (and the rest of the world). The plane of the Bolivian president was denied flight into previously friendly countries and diverted to Austria for
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Sic Twansit Gloria: your blogger, elevated to Alberta’s Twitterati … for the moment, anyway
A typical member of the Alberta Twitterati, pretty much any time of year except yesterday. Your blogger and other renowned Wild Rose Country Twittarians may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Daveberta author Dave Cournoyer, apparently Tweeting. I may not be on Alberta Venture magazine’s list of the 50 most
Continue readingCanadian Trends: We got ’em! The terrorist non-threat of the non-explosives.
Well look at that, we got dem dere a couple of dem domestic terrrrrorists! Fully fledged domestic terrorists following the “ideology of al-Qaeda“, whatever that means. So… did they hate western freedom? Or.. what? Did they hate their own freedom? Because I’m pretty sure that the Al-Qaeda “ideology” that was sold
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Obama’s Security Appartus Exposed-Now He’s Determined To Severely Punish and Dissuade Future Whistle Blowers
More shoes to drop It seems that Edward Snowden’s whistle blowing will continue with more shocking revelations coming very soon. Guardian Reporter Glen Grenwald told Fox News that the story will be published by the Guardian tomorrow. Here is the interview with Guardian Investigative Journalist Glen Greenwald-Video.
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