Nick Gillespie of Reason TV talks with British writer and journalist James Delingpole about his new book Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors. A self-described conservative libertarian, Delingpole claims that anthropogenic climate change is not as extensive as is widely … Continue reading →
DeSmogBlog: Cornell Report Busts Myth of Keystone XL Job Creation
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Proponents of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project would like you to believe that, if approved, its construction will put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work. Thi…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Alert! Episode 188
With another economic downturn threatening, York University Professor and author David McNally returns to explain how the decision to bail out banks at the expense of the public sector has lead to the current predicament and what social and labour move…
Continue readingArt Threat: Vancouver seeks Viaduct variations – re:Connect competition looks to obtain citizen input
It’s the site of what is arguably Vancouver’s most notable event, a bitter battle between the Non-Partisan Association and an alliance of Strathcona activists and Chinatown business people – the Georgia Street Viaduct. Built as a first phase of a planned interurban freeway system, this minute stretch of freeway reaches like a tree root from […]
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Convince Me: Alison Redford (part 2)
Nation, I committed to posting your messages as you try to convince me – and the millions of members of the E.S. Nation – to vote for your candidate of choice on October 1st.The second message I got today was, like the first, from a backer of Alison Re…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Don’t Be Calling Me for Money
As a former Liberal I’m finding the “ex” part is being overlooked these days. Whenever the Libs pass the begging bowl I can expect to get an e-mail about it.What I don’t understand is exactly what the Libs have done that would warrant me, a…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Union guy stealing my cookie
From BNET,
Today’s CEOs think Henry Ford was a chump. Case in point: Larry Young, the CEO of the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. In 2009, DPS made $555 million in profit and has never been in better financial shape. Young’s strategy going forward: c…
Scott's DiaTribes: Borys Wrzesnewskyj… I propose “call me Borys” for the campaign slogan
I’m going to need to first off learn how to pronounce Borys’s last name correctly. Secondly, like a couple of other Liberal bloggers, his entry into the Liberal leadership race is very intriguing.
Now, I don’t know a lot about Borys, other then his participation in the Ukrainian motion and such that is described in the original article, so just because he seems a good grass-roots canddiate doesn’t mean I’m going to support him until I research him a bit more.. but this party and this party leadership race needs a good shake-up, and if Borys can supply that, that’s half the battle for […]
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: How Much Does That Cost? Part III: Cliffs, Chromite & Moose Mountain
This is the third in a series of blogposts I’ve made this past week regarding issues related to costs which I’ve been pondering. In Part I, I wrote about the hidden costs of nuclear energy, many of which I was unaware of before the last 6 months. …
Continue readingcentre of the universe: You might read it here, but what does that mean?
So, there’s this advert that’s run in at least one, possibly more Canadian newspapers. I’m not interested in posting the advert, but I’ll link to an article that talks about it. Understandably, a lot of people are Very Upset abo…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: This Would Be So AWESOME!!!!!
Okay, this has little (if anything) to do with Canadian boneheads exclusively, but they were amongst those who complained bitterly and impudently about Idris Elba (who if fanfuckingtastic, by the way) being cast in the role of Heimdall in the "Tho…
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Agents Claim to Have Captured Alleged BLA Combatant George Wright
in happier times…Many of you will have heard the sad news that police are claiming they have arrested George Wright, an alleged former BLA combatant living in Portugal under the name Jose Luis Jorge dos Santos.Mainstream news reports state that Wrigh…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Meet the new NDP – sans Quebec?
So ProgBlogger Accidental Deliberations came up with this fun post based on this Globe and Mail article, which states that the new NDP is made up of “left-leaning Liberals and hardcore progressives,” according to polling done by Innovative Research.And…
Continue readingStevie Finally Comes To Petey MacKay’s Rescue With Standard Excuse–”Support The Troops!”
Yeah, “Support the Troops!” is Stevie Spiteful’s delayed defense of Petey MacKay’s jet setting with government jets these days– to the tune of $3 million. So, boys ‘n’ girls, shame on you if you’re questioning Petey MacKay’s (and I guess this would also go for questioning ol’ Walt Natynczyk’s Caribbean vacation as well) . . . → Read More: Stevie Finally Comes To Petey MacKay’s Rescue With Standard Excuse–”Support The Troops!”
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: authors # 4 on happiest jobs list
Why were these jobs with better pay and higher social status less likely to produce happiness? Todd May writing in the New York Times argues that “A meaningful life must, in some sense then, feel worthwhile. The person living the life must be engaged by it. via The Ten Happiest Jobs – Forbes. Fascinating list: […]
Both suits now focusing on Andrea Horwath
Things are happening fast. Now not only are McGuinity’s Liberals attacking Andrea Horwath and the NDP, but Hudak is as well. Internal party polling is obviously showing a serge in support for the NDP after the debate. Over 1.5 million people watc…
Continue readingQP: The non-sequitur of single parenting stories
During Members’ Statements before Question
Period, NDP MP Libby Davies rose to give this statement:
Mr. Speaker, decorated Iraq war
veteran Rodney Watson has lived in limbo for 2 years, in sanctuary at an East
Vancouver church, with…
*facepalm*
Word of the Day: “Satire”
Look it up, Washington.
Please.
(P.S. to The Terrorists: You can stop now. You’ve won.)
RedBedHead: Dirty Oil Has More Freedom To Move Than People
Free ride for dirty oil, border checks for people. But which is more dangerous?
It’s one of those typical injustices of capitalism that money, capital and dirty, earth-destroying, toxic oil products, have more right to cross borders and move around t…
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Civics, Humour, Space, and Water
I’m going to assume that Calgary’s Civic Camp is a success, because they have an awesome mayor who nobody expected to win. == Things could be worse. These disasters will make you smile. == http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/dawn/20110915/vesta20110915-640.swf Embedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Vesta is a minor planet in our solar system, […]