OTTAWA – Natalie Mehra says The Ontario Health Coalition is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to service transfers to private endoscopy clinics from The Ottawa Hospital. Speaking at a “Code Blue” forum in Ottawa last night, the … Continue reading →
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Removing any doubt from the Western Failure in Afghanistan – Women still not people.
Democracy promotion abroad. Funny how it seem to only happen in locals of geopolitical importance. I’m sure we’ll get around to distributing freedom for everyone eventually. Afghanistan, on the other hand, is geopolitically important to the West for possible energy reserves and pipe lines that could be a significant
Continue readingopenalex: écoHackMTL Launches today!
It’s been a long time in the works, but my latest project: écoHackMTL has its official launch today! Cities are getting smarter, greener, and more open. But the challenges of this urban century are huge: climate change, rapid urbanization, resource constraints, food security. We all know the list. But cities
Continue readingopenalex: écoHackMTL Launches today!
It’s been a long time in the works, but my latest project: écoHackMTL has its official launch today! Cities are getting smarter, greener, and more open. But the challenges of this urban century are huge: climate change, rapid urbanization, resource constraints, food security. We all know the list. But cities
Continue readingopenalex: écoHackMTL Launches today!
It’s been a long time in the works, but my latest project: écoHackMTL has its official launch today!
Cities are getting smarter, greener, and more open. But the challenges of this urban century are huge: climate change, rapid urbanization, resource constraints, food security. We all know the list.
But cities are also home to an amazing diversity of skilled, creative, and dedicated people. There are community activists, NGOs, hackers, developers, and city officials all committed to making our cities better places. écoHackMTL is an experiment into what happens when you put all those people together and help them collaborate on finding solutions to some of our most pressing urban problems. Stay tuned to find out more.
And if you are in Montreal today: Come on out!
http://ecohackmtl-2013.eventbrite.ca/#
For more on the project and the amazing group of organizations that have help put it together you can also see www.ecohackmtl.org
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Not exactly the spotlight we want in Canada
Canada sure has been in the news a lot of late. Unfortunately, it’s about the wrong reasons. The Senate expenses scandal and the subsequent resignation of Nigel Wright made the NY Times billboard in Times Square. We subsequently then have a Peruvian reporter out of the blue asking Harper on
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Blake meets Zathir [excerpt from The Fridgularity]
Author’s note: here’s another quick hit from The Fridgularity, which is still available for 99¢ in May. Not much needed to introduce this one, except to say that the main character, Blake, has been drinking, and that he’s been … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Beth and Expenses #nlpoli #cdnpoli
All this talk of Senator Beth Marshall and her hefty annual stipend for chairing a committee that has met once in two years brings to mind the good senator’s role in the House of Assembly patronage scam, a.k.a. the spending scandal. Marshall is credited with first sniffing something was amiss
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada Politics News: Thursday Morning Recap
Canada politics news: Thursday morning recap: Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Senate. Senate expenses scandal. Sen. Mike Duffy. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Conservatives. A few of the dominant news issues/topics on Wed, May 22, 2013. But this bold editorial declaration by the Toronto Star stands out: “If the Prime Minister can’t bring himself to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Report gives Manitoba’s invisible migrant farm workers a voice
They come to Manitoba each summer under Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program to work on farms and nurseries. And they’re invisible. Now a new report by the Migrant Worker Solidarity Network and The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba gives these migrant farm workers a voice. About the report: The Migrant Worker’s
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Peruvian Apology
Well it took a long time, and he had to travel all the way to Peru, before he finally agreed to talk to the media about the sordid Senate scandal.But today he did allow reporters to ask him TWO questions.So he could tell people in Canada he's very, very, very sorry.
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Viva Con! Hasta la Victoria Siempre con Conrad – putting the ‘cross’ back in Crossharbour!
Lady Black and Lord Black of Crossharbour contemplate the future of our fair Dominion, or something. Below: The real Conrad Black, in happier times, lectures a gangrenous limb as his bodyguard ponders his boss’s remarkable vocabulary; the House of Lords. Oh dear! Poor old Tubby Black, welcomed back home after
Continue readingBryan Crockett: On the Senate Expenses Scandal
I’m sure you’re probably aware, but I’ll give you a run down on the latest Conservative scandal. Stephen Harper has a habit of appointing extremely disappointing Senators including Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau, and Pamela Wallin. Long story short: Mike Duffy cheated taxpayers out of $90 000 and, instead of paying
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Mike Duffy & Why An Elected Senate Would Have Made This Worse
Nobody really thinks Senator Mike Duffy received $90,000 in return for some political favour, but that public perception would most certainly change if he and every other Senator faced regular expensive election campaigns that depended on large contributions and even larger political favours. An elected Senate requiring hundreds of thousands
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Mike Duffy & Why An Elected Senate Would Have Made This Worse
Nobody really thinks Senator Mike Duffy received $90,000 in return for some political favour, but that public perception would most certainly change if he and every other Senator faced regular expensive election campaigns that depended on large contrib…
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Mike Duffy & Why An Elected Senate Would Have Made This Worse
Nobody really thinks Senator Mike Duffy received $90,000 in return for some political favour, but that public perception would most certainly change if he and every other Senator faced regular expensive election campaigns that depended on large contributions and even larger political favours. An elected Senate requiring hundreds of thousands
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Animal Rights Protester Attack Appears In Part Racially Motivated
UPDATE: Looks like she has already been identified. I remember the first rodeo I attended in Manitoba growing up, though I apparently had attended others when I was younger that I can't recall now. I was six years old and two events are retained in my memory. The first was
Continue readingMind of Dan: Because what I need is another reason to be fascinated with birds
– via XKCD
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Toronto Sun (!): get help and step aside, Rob Ford
Wow. Just, wow. The problem is the drug allegations have now paralyzed this agenda. It’s a distraction that utterly undermines Ford’s ability to manage a dysfunctional council that opposes any notion of restraint. Ford needs to directly address these allegations, or get help and step aside. He must be prepared,
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Labrador By-Election Round-Up
Hey folks, I’ve done my Labrador round-up over on Gael L’Hermine’s World Elections blog, which you can read here. Gael was pretty busy with BC and other election coverage, and nice enough to allow me to do a guest post for him. If you’re interested in all things elections, however,
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