Nick Stern is the latest voice to warn of the Carbon Bubble that threatens to plunge world markets into yet another financial crisis. The former World Bank chief economist, currently I.G. Patel professor of economics at the London School of Economics, has joined with the Carbon Tracker thinktank to release
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Harper Becomes An International Embarassment
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Why Your High Cell Phone Bills Have Nothing To Do With The Size of Canada
Canada’s broken cell phone market has come under a lot of public scrutiny of late, with the CRTC trying to establish a set of minimum standards for wireless providers; the release of OpenMedia.ca’s citizen-powered report, Time For An Upgrade, which demonstrated the systematic mistreatment that cell phone users suffer due
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Con-Friendly RMG and Debts to Canada #RoboCon #cdnpoli
One of the companies involved in defending the Conservative MPs who are having their riding wins challenged by the Council of Canadians and citizens of six ridings affected by fraudulent Elections Canada robocalls, is in financial difficulty. Cash-strapped Tory fundraising company owes federal government $1 million in unpaid taxes. canada.com/news/Cash%2Bst…
Continue readingEarthgauge Radio: EG Radio April 18 2013: Earth Day special | Ottawa takes on climate change
Download: earthgauge-podcast-april18-2013.mp3 This week we celebrate Earth Day and look at why cities are so important in the fight against climate change. I have two features on the program today: Interview with Jed Goldberg, president of Earth Day Canada Presentation by Alex Wood of Sustainable Prosperity from the City of Ottawa
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Indie rant: my God, I so agree with this statement
Quote: “I’m so exhausted by this generation of watered-down, vaguely 60’s or vaguely folk, mid-tempo, non-offensive, cutesy indie music. When I was 16 or 22 I wanted to break shit. I was pissed off at an unjust world, at the indignities of high school, at my parents, at that ever-present
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Were America’s Founding Fathers Thinking?
Why this, of course.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5881…Everybody Is Talking About Canada
My real world buddy, Facebook pal and assistant coach for the Maine Black Bears Nate Phillippe drops this knowledge on us.“Everybody in the world is talking about Canada…outside of the US, there is probably no country in the world that is producing more blue-chip young basketball talent than Canada.” ~George
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5880…Justin Trudeau Has Only One Thing Going For Him
He is the best man for the job of running Canada. Leaders, lead. That is it; that is all. WFDS
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Report, “Cooking the Books,” Highlights State Department’s Keystone XL Miscalculations
This is a guest post by Caroline Selle A new report from Oil Change International, provides new evidence that, if built, the Keystone XL pipeline will have a devastating impact on the global climate. The major findings of Cooking the Books: How the State Department Analysis Ignores The True Climate Impact
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Breaking: CNN defends Rush to the world
Here. Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan, but what resident of Canuckistan cannot be proud of the trio’s achievement? Thusly, in the words of the Bard, Peart: We are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx Our great computers fill the hallowed halls We are the Priests, of the
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: A third anti-Trudeau attack ad
I didn’t think the first two were overly effective, but this one has me worried. The Liberal Party needs to respond rapidly before this narrative sets in with Canadians: UPDATE: It appears this ad has been removed from YouTube “by user.” It was a parody video from a radio station
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: One small step for the government
One giant leap for the opposition.
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Leadership battle imminent?
For the Tories, perhaps. Why do I think so? This is what you do when you’re thinking about making an exit.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When the Middle Class Finally Revolts
Across the western world, our political classes are oblivious to the powder keg of revolt they’re sitting on. So warns Polish philosopher, Marcin Krol. Notwithstanding received ideas to the contrary, the poor and downtrodden have never been the driving force behind western revolutions. They have always been instigated by the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Priorities
Sigh.The United States can be so mixed up at times — I wouldn’t be surprised if they start passing laws to limit the sale of pressure cookers, even though they can’t seem to pass any laws about limiting guns.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: On the "Wisdom" of Not Running Attack Ads
If you haven’t seen them yet, and I don’t know how you couldn’t have, the Conservative attack ads are hilariously stupid. Warren Kinsella thinks they’re effective, and he may be right – however the backlash so far has been almost uniformly negative, and its pretty clear it has galvanized our
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Is Actually Dividing Our Society?
The United States and, to a lesser extent Canada, have fallen victim to wedge politics. We become victims when our society is fractured, made suspicious of and hostile to each other. This malevolence is Stephen Harper’s weapon of choice. This isn’t natural any more than it is accidental. Frequently
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Retraction
On April 8 and 9, 2013, the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (“OPSEU”) published statements on news wire websites, OPSEU’s website, and certain blog websites, regarding Procom Consultants Group Ltd. (“Procom”). The statements accused Procom of impropriety with respect to purported … Continue reading →
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Mostly competent government
If, like me, you believe that personnel decisions are among the most important decisions that management can make, you really have to be shaking your head at Stephen Harper at this point. He’s had a knack for picking winners. The former head of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal abused and
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