Shorter Enbridge, responding to the revelation that a tidy 94% of its Canadian pumping stations are missing required backup generators and/or shut-off buttons: So the question is whether we’ll take steps to comply with environmental laws if nobody’s bothering to enforce them? Let’s consider that for a moment. In summary,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5958…This Is What Al Jazeera Is About 2Day
At this what their anchor and personal friend of mine Richard Gizbert is about today. This is also what your capital is all about today too. WFDS
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Why you should choose Sound in Motion for your EDM fix in Toronto
I’m not gonna lie. I’m pretty excited that Toronto is getting it together with more electronic music festivals. Last year was the first mainstreaming of multi-day electronic music festivals with pretty big names coming to entertain hundreds. Digital Dreams and VELD are the big ones. And I’m glad they exist.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: But did they fill out an application first?
Enbridge pipeline protesters close Ontario highway A highway near Hamilton, Ont., was shut down for almost 90 minutes Monday morning as a group stopped traffic to protest Enbridge’s plan to reverse the flow of its pipeline that cuts through a rural area of Hamilton. About 40 protesters staged a mock
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: CETA: EU-Canada trade agreement threatens fracking bans
Note: CETA negotiations continue in Brussels today (May 6) through at least Wednesday. By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Amsterdam/Brussels/Ottawa – The proposed Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada would grant energy companies far-reaching rights to challenge bans and regulations of environmentally damaging shale gas
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Home care reform: how wrong are these incentives?
We probably wouldn’t have believed it had we not received the documents outlining the new plan for specialized home care funding. It’s staggering in its ability to further complicate administration of home care and create so-called “efficiencies” for which the … Continue reading →
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Corporate Canada Is Safe With Justin Trudeau
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The state our Canada’s democracy is grim at all levels. Our PM Steve Harper is an overbearing, top down dictator. He has managed to BS too many Canadians that he is a wonderful manager of the economy. He is not. Under Harper our sovereignty is being sold
Continue readingLeDaro: Oil Companies: A threat to our planet
All oil companies care about is profit. The environment, the health and safety of people, is not a priority of theirs. Only profits, no matter who is hurt in the process. Oil companies are psychopathic, dangerously addicted to money at the expense of all else, and like drug dealers they
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arctic Ocean Acidifying Rapidly
Oh well, we probably won’t even think about this once the oil spills begin but it turns out that cold sea water is especially absorptive of CO2. And, that is why the Arctic Ocean is rapidly acidifying. Scientists from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme report widespread changes in the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5957…Say Hey To 82 Candles
Happy birthday to the Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays. You went to college; you figure out how old he is. WFDS
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Re-reading Hirschman
Since I was a graduate student in the last millennium, I’ve been fascinated by the role of the cotton textile industry in recent economic history, beginning with that momentous event still being heard around the world, the First Industrial Revolution. It just caught fire in Bengladesh. There are books about
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Re-reading Hirschman
Since I was a graduate student in the last millennium, I’ve been fascinated by the role of the cotton textile industry in recent economic history, beginning with that momentous event still being heard around the world, the First Industrial Revolution. It just caught fire in Bengladesh. There are books about
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Hungry in Canada: One-in-Five Skip Meals to Help Make Ends Meet
By: Food Banks Canada | Press Release: TORONTO, May 6, 2013 – Today, food banks across the country are asking Canadians to join the Hunger Awareness Week movement from May 6-10, 2013, to raise awareness about the solvable issue of Hunger in Canada. Hunger hits much closer to home than many Canadians realize. In fact,
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Leave to appeal
Tomic v. Tough, 2013 BCCA 212 deals with the criteria for granting leave to appeal [22] The criteria for granting leave to appeal were addressed by Saunders J.A. inGoldman, Sachs & Co. v. Sessions, 2000 BCCA 326 (CanLII), 2000 BCCA 326 at para. 10 (in Chambers). They include: (1) whether
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5956…National Post, The, Down On 10 Per Centers
10 per centers are political pamphlets, usually very partisan, that MPs are allowed to send free-to-the-MP to 10 per cent of the households in their riding. It usta be, back in the halcyon days of the Martin era, 2010, that said 10 per centers were transferable. That means that a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stand up for affordability and choice in Canada’s cell phone market
Did you know that the high prices in our cell phone market mean that you can own about four phones in Portugal for the same price as having one device in Canada? Learn more here. Help spread the word by sharing this image: Citizens can stand up for affordable and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Why Justin Trudeau May Be More Dangerous than Harper
The thing that has always bothered me about Justin – ever since his entry onto the public scene at his famous father’s funeral – is that he’s never appeared to stand for anything real. Years later, even following a lengthy leadership race and literally thousands of media clips and public
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Canada’s Nate Silver weighs in on B.C. ’13
Here. Dix didn’t have a great debate performance, Clark did. Also, going neg has worked for the latter – while refusing to do so hasn’t helped the former. That all said, Mr. Grenier says closing the remaining gap is going to be pretty hard for the B.C. Libs. I think
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Canada’s Nate Silver weighs in on B.C. ’13
Here. Dix didn’t have a great debate performance, Clark did. Also, going neg has worked for the latter – while refusing to do so hasn’t helped the former. That all said, (a) NDP vote is much more efficient on the ground and (b) Mr. Grenier says closing the remaining gap
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Boston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here
Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated eight and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in
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