Several months ago, back in the spring of this year, Radio Canada ran an investigative report regarding the run-off of chemicals from John Munro International Airport at Mount Hope, the highest point in Hamilton. This was prompted after a lot of fish and turtles were turning up dead downstream in
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Would you pay off your mortgage if it meant not feeding your kids?
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Continue readingA Different Point of View....: New Latin American/Caribbean alliance aims to further reduce Gringo Power
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with Argentina’s President CristinaKirchner at the CELAC summit. Slowly but surely, the Gringos are being chased out of Latin America and the Caribbean!The 600-million people of the combined regions have taken another important step towards minimizing the influence of the United States, the International Monetary Fund
Continue reading“Did you call him a piece of shit?”
Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP for Papineau, explains why he lost his shit at so-called environment minister Peter Fucking Kent yesterday in the House of Commons. He apologizes for his intemperate language but, take note, NOT for the sentiments expressed therein. I think the only thing he should have apologized for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Future Thinking
If our civilization is to have a future we’re all going to have to change the way we think. We’ll need a new way of seeing things, new values and principles – call it Future Thinking, thinking about what we need to do to ensure we can provide a future
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Sitting on the Sidelines: Young Workers Miss Out on the Recovery
As is well known, the youth unemployment rate remains high, and well above average. It stood at 14.1% in November or more than double the unemployment rate of 6.3% for persons aged 25 to 54, and 6.2% for those aged 55 and over. What is a little bit more surprising
Continue readingThings Are Good: Young Farmers Band Together to Propose New Farm Bill
Farmers don’t have it easy. There are significant hurdles to overcome for young farmers trying to produce sustainable food on traditional farms. There is a surging movement of young farmers trying to bring apprenticeships, local partnerships, and community supported agriculture (CSA) to the masses by proposing changes to the 2012
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Reviews Are In. Canada Sucks.
It’s hard to believe anyone was surprised that the Harper regime reneged on Canada’s Kyoto Accord commitments. But even though they knew it was coming, at home and abroad people find Harper’s actions repulsive. From The Guardian: “I regret Canada’s withdrawal and am surprised over its timing,” said the UN
Continue readingthe woodshed: The height of political sophistimacation
“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.“-John Stuart Mill This epigram from Mill has been bouncing around my brain for a few days now, sparked in part by an evening of sparring on Twitter with a bunch
Continue readingOntario policing: the fish rots from the head
Perhaps I’ve been a little unfair to the Ontario Special Investigations Unit (SIU) in the past. Reports that they almost invariably clear Ontario cops of the most heinous misconduct are entirely accurate. But it seems that in some cases, at least, they have had little choice in the matter, whatever
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree (Justin edition)
I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. And it did yesterday when Justin Trudeau, son of Pierre, called Environment Minister Peter Kent “you piece of shit.” At least Justin apologized. Of course there was no excuse for it — but entirely understandable given that Kent was giving
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s Over. US Troops Leave Iraq.
The United States military mission in Iraq is over, eight years, eight months and 26-days after American tanks first poured in from Kuwait. Some 4,500 US soldiers have died. No one can be sure how many Iraqi civilians were killed. The usual, obscene estimate is “more than 100,000.” The departure
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Indigenous People: A Key to Environmental Rescue
Michael Welsh: Clayton Thomas-Muller, you’re on staff with the Indigenous Environment Network and a founder of Defenders of the Land. What distinguishes them from other Indigenous organizations? Clayton Thomas-Muller: Defenders of the Land is a new initiative. It was created to provide a forum for the most radical landbased First
Continue readingRecreating Eden: What Happens When The Right Unites: The Cons Get Away with Murder
This morning La Presse has this excellent drawing by Chapleau, with an even more telling caption: “C-10, Kyoto, Long Gun Registry, I do what I want because I’m MAJORITY” A lesson for us all: unite the left.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Can Fact Checking be Politically “Neutral,” When Facts Are Not Equally Distributed Across the Political Spectrum?
pinocchio.jpg Recently, I sat in on an off-the-record meeting about political fact-checking. I can’t report or quote from the event, but it spurred along some general thoughts that had already arisen in the context of writing The Republican Brain, which focuses a great deal on fact-checking—and thus, helped propel this post.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Be Bold – we must light a lamp and not put it under a bushel!
Last night I spoke to a Liberal Riding President from British Columbia. She said that a major failing, as she saw it, of the Liberal Party was a failure to be bold. She said we are seen as timid. I thought over what she said and realized it is true
Continue readingLaws? That’s for you regular folks.
Since May 2011, there has been an increase in crime. Mostly in Ottawa. Let’s see, a gubbermint, which was found in contempt of Parliament, gets far less than 50% of the vote. And then goes on a wild crime spree, lying about some supposed "mandate". Which of course would only
Continue readingThe lobbyists behind warrantless online spying | OpenMedia.ca
via openmedia.ca This isn’t Oz, folks. Pay LOTS of attention to that man behind the curtain … Related posts: A public-service announcement from OpenMedia.ca | #cdnpoli #onpoli Permalink | Leave a comment »
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A bad week for Penashue #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Poor Peter Penashue. First, the federal Conservative intergovernmental affairs minister gets hammered for stupidly appointing his campaign manager to a position on the offshore regulatory board even though the guy isn’t qualified for the job. The SRBP post spawned a raft of comments in all sorts of places across the
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