To mark today’s re-issue of Pink Floyd’s catalog (apparently following a complex legal argument over distribution rights), EMI Music reconstructed the iconic cover of the band’s 1977 “Animals”album with an inflatable pig floating over Battersea Power Station… Personally, I think … Continue reading →
OpenMedia.ca: Mediacaster: Structural separation removed from Shaw’s license conditions
From Mediacaster Magazine
Shaw Communications has been given the go-ahead to merge its satellite and cable operations.
In a decision released this week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved an application by Shaw Com…
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Potato, potato: legislative names version #nlvotes #nlpoli
The Telegram editorialist notes: You have to like the title given to the new Conservative omnibus crime legislation by its authors. They went with the lovely title “The Safe Streets and Communities Act.” Sounds like a new, improved detergent. …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: "Haynesville" Shale Gas Industry Documentary Exposed on AlterNet
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This weekend, AlterNet published a long investigative piece that I wrote on a documentary that has made the rounds at film festivals and conferences around the country.
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What happened to What happened to Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail??
Wikileaks has uncovered a mystery worthy of a Hitchcock film, involving a Canadian, the infamous Bagram prison, schizophrenia and the disappearance of a man into thin air.
Khaled Samy Abdallah Ismail is an Canadian-Egyptian mistakenly captured in Kandahar in 2006 and detained for 18 months in Bagram while authorities decided what to do with him.
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Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: In the Words of Our Forefathers
In light of the up-coming elections in Manitoba, the BiPole III transmission line is back on the debating table. Of course, sticking to a decision that supports a small Aboriginal community in its self-determination is definitely something to be debat…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Fake Fiscal Emergencies
Our institutions are broke. It’s time we followed a true doctrine of capitalism and let them all go under and deal with the mess instead of handing over more cash to the rich and elite that run our lives.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP will lose ground in Quebec under Topp and gain under Mulcair – Angus-Reid poll
Some very bad news for the NDP in the latest Angus-Reid poll. That sound you hear in the background is the clucking of the chickens coming home to roost:Most Canadian voters are standing by their choices in the May 2011 election, but the survey shows t…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: UK’s National Health Service Misrepresents Autism
The DSM-5 is formalizing a shell game which has seen Asperger`s substituted for Autism in the mainstream media for many years. The most recent media example comes courtesy of the UK government`s National Health Service which, whil…
Continue readingNo freedom of assembly in Harperica
Dawg had a timely post yesterday on the scandalous conduct of the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests.To that, add this “long line of Canadians being arrested for protecting Canada” on Parliament Hill today:Pic tweeted by @thevillagegreen
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Is Capitalism Preparing to Bury Itself?
Where is Henry Ford when you need him?
You may remember Henry — the ruthless industrialist who nonetheless refused to be hobbled by suicidal ideology when it came to doing business. He realized as his workers cranked thousands of new cars off th…
Continue readingDany Morin previews his fall
Continuing with my roundup of gay and
lesbian MPs at the start of the fall sitting, I spoke to Dany Morin late last
week.
Q: How did you spend your summer?
A: It was a great summer. I loved being in
my riding all summer long to do all sorts of ri…
The Liberal Scarf: Either Andrea Horwath and the ONDP can’t do math, or they are misleading Ontario students
http://www.scribd.com/doc/66393202/Open-Letter Greg Sorbara writes an open letter to the CFS over Andrea Horwath’s fuzzy math in the ONDP platform in regards to post-secondary education funding
Continue readingBill Given: Ice Delay Possible at Dave Barr Arena
Installation of ice at the newly renovated Dave Barr Community Centre may be delayed until October 27, a few weeks beyond the originally scheduled Oct. 11 date. Improvements to the rink at the Dave Barr Community Centre are taking longer than expected. A $1.4-million project has included a new condenser,
Continue readingBill Given: Ice Delay Possible at Dave Barr Arena
Installation of ice at the newly renovated Dave Barr Community Centre may be delayed until October 27, a few weeks beyond the originally scheduled Oct. 11 date.
Improvements to the rink at the Dave Barr Community Centre are taking longer than expected. A $1.4-million project has included a new condenser, boards and glass, and revamping of the heating and ventilation system. Fire sprinklers and other infrastructure needs were also addressed.
Dave Barr management is working with Coca-Cola Centre and Crystal Centre personnel to accommodate ice time demands. User groups have been made aware of the projected delay.
The delay is connected with the manufacture and installation of the board and glass system.
Once these are in place, staff will work around the clock, with help from the City’s other two arenas, to ensure the ice surface is in as quickly as possible.
“We are working to tighten-up the time frame of when user groups can get onto the ice,” says Garry Roth, Community Services Director. “Running extra shifts will minimize the down-time.”
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Bill Given: Ice Delay Possible at Dave Barr Arena
Installation of ice at the newly renovated Dave Barr Community Centre may be delayed until October 27, a few weeks beyond the originally scheduled Oct. 11 date. Improvements to the rink at the Dave Barr Community Centre are taking longer than expected. A $1.4-million project has included a new condenser,
Continue readingTrashy's World: Saudi women will gain right to vote… sort of… later…
But, of course, they’ll have to be driven to the polling stations. Saudi King Abdullah announced on the weekend that Saudi women will be allowed to take part – vote and run for office – in the 2015 local elections. Of course, they are still not allowed to drive. That would be way too much […]
Continue reading350 or bust: Just Say No – It’s Time For Canada To Wean Itself Off Its Addiction to Tar Sands Crude
This hour protestors are gathering on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, to show their opposition to the Alberta tar sands, and specifically the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that could be built from Alberta across the U.S. to carry tar sands bitumen to Texas …
Continue readingthe reeves report: Parking taxes and road tolls: the politics of misdirection
I have an important announcement for all political parties – not every comment made by every individual opposition candidate can or should be used as a stand-in for opposition policy as a whole. Because people are not dumb, they see through it, and you end up looking silly. Case in point: a press release came … Continue reading »
A voice from Riverbend: Southwest Edmonton NDP AGMs coming up
Thursday, October 6 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Southminster-Steinhauer United Church 10740 – 19th Ave Edmonton, Alberta GUEST SPEAKER: Elisabeth Ballermann, President of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta Edmonton-Leduc Federal NDP Edmonton-Whitemud Provincial NDPEdmonton-Rutherford Provincial NDP Find out what the SW Edmonton social democrats are up to these days. You
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