Premier Alison Redford Part two of the Fall sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly begins today for a short two-weeks of business. Aside from the two-day speech driven sitting held last month, this will be the first time that new Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford and her cabinet will gather in
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: Canada, possibly a leader in solar
Sounds good: World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Produces Power with Canadian Solar Modules.
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Teddies Make People Share
Feeling as though we belong is important for our mental and physical wellbeing. Social exclusion hurts and it darkens our mood. Unfortunately, this sets up a vicious circle because we’re then less likely to engage in friendly, prosocial acts, and so less likely to form new bonds with others. A
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Who’s protecting YOUR water?
This should really make us all wake up: Someone from Russia (it could have been the government or a private interest, we don’t know yet) was able to remotely shut off then back on a second later a pump in Springfield, the capital of the state of Illinois — and
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Getting the User to Pay: Toll Roads Aren’t That Awful, Poll Says
A Canada-wide poll commissioned by the CBC shows that Canadians are not averse to letting the user pay when it comes to roads and bridges. More than three-quarters of those questioned in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto said okay to tolls on new highway construction, with Montrealers being more in favour
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Creation of Adam
Adam is a man. He is just 20 years old, though he’s had to endure more heartache and hardship than most his age. He smiles almost constantly, with a playful, shit-eating grin, and when he does even his eyes smile, crinkling to show that it’s genuine. His eyes are blue,
Continue readingOccupy: Canadian media turns its back on the homeless, the marginalized, the disenfranchised
While many of us progressives like to think that the Occupy movement has awakened Canadians to the 99%, the reality is different. Editorial boards across Canada have seen to the marginalization of Occupy by concentrating on its weakest and most vulnerable members. By accommodating the homeless, the disenfranchised and the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America – Segregation is Back
The United States has been wrestling with racial segregation for decades and, while considerable progress has been made in some areas, plenty remains to be fixed. But a new form of segregation is on the rise – wealth segregation. The gap between rich and poor is more than statistical. A
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #18
Yellow moon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On rare independence
Yes, there’s some good news in the revelation that some Con MPs are asking questions about their party’s insistence on supporting and subsidizing asbestos exports. But let’s not minimize the issue as a story of “internal Con rift!!!” which will only push Harper and his message control machine to clamp
Continue readingOccupy Vancouver on the move
With the likely scenario of violence in Toronto as Bill Blair’s baddies descend on the occupiers who refuse to move, Occupy Vancouver has taken a different stand. Instead of confronting authorities, Occupy Vancouver will continue with its unique approach to non-violent resistance by simply moving the camp. The location has
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: MikeHudak/Tim Harris
Ontario News Watch has been gradually expanding beyond simple news aggregation into investigative jurnalism, with occasionally impressive results. For example, this story: Directly contrary to what PC leader Tim Hudak’s advisors have been saying publicly for two years, a number of former Premier Mike Harris’ so-called “Whiz Kids” were involved
Continue readingwmtc: library in a phone booth
I meant to include this in my recent library-related post, but I misplaced the link. So now this lovely little library has a post of its own. Please go here to see a beautiful old UK “phone box” recycled into a tiny lending library. More and better photos of it
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Man gets $100,000 after police mistake shampoo for drugs
In Canada there would almost certainly have been no compensation or, at most, a trivial sum. Going after the authorities for wrongful prosecution is very difficult here. http://bit.ly/rERobe Associated Press DARWIN, AUSTRALIA—Authorities have compensated an Australian man $100,000 after he was wrongly accused of trying to smuggle
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: New economic order needed to fight climate change: Dion
From Brockville’s Recorder & Times:The world needs a new economic order if it is to mitigate the effects of climate change, former Liberal leader and onetime environment minister Stéphane Dion told a local environmental group on Sunday.With a previous limit on global warming now all but impossible, the only way
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Montreal Gazette: Groups says it’s time to dump Big Telecom
By Jason Magder for the Montreal Gazette About 94 per cent of Canadians get their Internet service from one of a handful of large telecom companies. Now a net neutrality lobby group is urging people to dump big Telecom in droves, in the wake of a decision Tuesday by the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Occupy Canada – Tough going in the Canadain Winter.
Protesting the norm, the accepted, what is deemed credible will never be an easy task. Defenders of the status quo will defend their system with rationalizations that make sense to them and others in the system while dismissing outright, criticism and alternate points of view presented. This process of in-group/out-group
Continue readingDisturbing…in a good way…
Unsettling America t/here i found this… Waziyatawin Speaks to Occupy Oakland Waziyatawin is a Dakota writer, teacher, and activist committed to the development of liberation strategies that will support the recovery of Indigenous ways of being, the reclamation of Indigenous homelands, and the eradication of colonial institutions. Waziyatawin comes from
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: True North
In today’s Globe and Mail, Robert Redford — who lately has spent a lot of time in Vancouver — offers another take on the Canadian-American partnership, which Stephen Harper trumpets so loudly: I want to be very clear that I’m not pointing a finger at the people of Canada; neither
Continue readingThe Skwib: Sad Spaceman gets philosophical
Alltop is worried about having its files decompressed.
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