OpenMedia.ca: Cuts Threaten to Close Window on the World by Tony Burman
Former head of Al Jazeera English and CBC News says that as the world becomes smaller and more complex, the amount of airtime on the CBC devoted to international issues is shrinking.
Continue readingFar and Wide: Conservatives Should Wear F-35 Debacle
I suspect Ottawa will look even more absurd as usual today, as the Conservatives react to the “scathing” Auditor General report on the F-35. I look for the government to embrace the AG report, even THANK him for his good work in the name of the public interest. The Conservatives
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun TV Ratings: The Shorter Story
The only way anyone will watch is if they put a Liberal on.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Silly NDP Budget Antics
As some know, I’m not one who normally goes out of my way to go after the NDP on a lot of things, as they have positions closer to me then the Conservatives do by a longshot, but if this is Thomas Mulcair’s new strategy, it doesn’t exactly bode well
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Ampersand wearing a fez
I think Marc Johns has nailed it. This is exactly the kind of whimsical hat an ampersand would wear. Here are some other suggestions punctuation/headgear combos: colon wearing a bowler hat semi-colon wearing a flat cap question mark wearing a … Continue reading →
Continue reading350 or bust: Enbridge Pipeline Panel Frightened By Singing & Drumming Pipeline Opposition
In a bizarre turn of events, the Enbridge Pipeline hearings were suspended in Bella Bella in northern British Columbia yesterday after the panel members expressed concerns about their safety. This development seems curious, as the Joint Review panel members have the full weight of the federal government behind them, and
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Gabriel Kuhn Reviews David Gilbert’s "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond" (Oakland: PM Press, 2012)
The following review is reposted from the Alpine Anarchist: David Gilbert mentions the documentary film The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, released in 2002, on the very first page of his book Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond. Gilbert relates how the film has
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Budget 2012 shows Harper plans to stick around awhile
A week or so later, I’ve finally had a chance to take a gander through the Budget 2012 documents. I like to look through the source documents on things like this rather than rely on media and punditry analysis to form my opinions. And having done so, I have to
Continue readingImpolitical: Harper at the Wilson Center
Harper spoke at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington yesterday following the meeting with Obama and Calderon. The C-Span video at the first link is just under an hour and gives you a bit of insight into Harper’s thinking on a range of issues facing Canada. Some of the moments
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Calgary Herald Editorial Writers Tell Lies
…when they write: That said, environmental organizations only have themselves to blame for the crackdown on their activities, as spelled out in last week’s federal budget. By organizing interveners from Brazil, who were signed up apparently without their knowledge, as we reported on some time ago, it was inevitable that
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The PUB and the MFers #nlpoli
Right off the start, the title goes back to a humorous tweet a few months ago. It went something like this: If Muskrat Falls is MF, then does that make its supporters MFers? You gotta laugh at this stuff, folks, because if you didn’t you’d either cry or turn into
Continue readingLetting the grown-ups take over
The Auditor General’s report comes out today, and it’s expected to be exceptionally scathing to the F-35 procurement process. And rightfully so. Word has it that following the release, the government will turn over the process to Public Works, like they did the shipbuilding contracting process. You know, the one that was
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Cancelled Enbridge Hearings to Resume in Bella Bella, Youth Embark on Hunger Strike
The Heiltsuk First Nation learned late Monday that scheduled National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline will resume Tuesday in Bella Bella, following their cancellation Monday in the wake of a peaceful demonstration to which the Joint Review Panel overreacted. Heiltsuk Chief Marilyn Slett is, however,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Cancelled Enbridge Hearings to Resume in Bella Bella, Youth Embark on Hunger Strike
The Heiltsuk First Nation learned late Monday that scheduled National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline will resume Tuesday in Bella Bella, following their cancellation Monday in the wake of a peaceful demonstration to which the Joint Review Panel overreacted.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My New Version of the Brawl on the Hill
Gawd. I’m in the doghouse again. Some of my friends have been beating up on me for my post about the Thrilla on the Hilla. For they were shocked and appalled that I should “glorify” such a brutal spectacle, and then crudely bait the Cons. And by so doing lower
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: CBC on NEB Cancelling Day 1 of Bella Bella Enbridge Hearings – incl. Audio Clip
Read this report from CBC on the National Energy Board’s decision to cancel the first day of the Joint Panel Review hearings on Enbridge in Bella Bella after the panel was greeted by a demonstration at the local airport – featuring images and commentary by Damien Gillis. (April 2, 2012)
Continue readingcultural sn:afu: MoneySense magazine ranks Hawkesbury 150th out of 190 cities, people ask ‘what the fuck is MoneySense magazine?’
For a few years MoneySense, a Toronto-based magazine, has been ranking cities in Canada from best to worst. For the third year in a row they’ve decided Hawkesbury is one of the worst places to live in Canada, and the … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe on Why Harper Budget’s Gutting of Environmental Laws is a Good Thing
I think the Harper budget is a plus for the environment. It comes in a way from a roundabout look at things. The government will take habitat protection out of the Fisheries Act and will put developments on a “fast rack”. Why is this good news? Because we now have
Continue readingTrashy's World: Trashy in Paris… so I had better things to do…
… than sit at my laptop! No matter. Had a blast with my daughter in the City of Lights. Even saw some lights! And bones. And food. And monuments, portraits, beautiful parks, amazing vistas and, and… Paris at its finest! And the work part of the visit was a roaring
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