Regina has no curb-side recycling program in place. Residents can pay $93/yr for a private recycler to pick up by-weekly. Hi Louis [Browne], I hope you had a good Summer. Assuming Regina makes 1/4 as much waste as Edmonton, we should get $2,000,000 to employ people who sort/sell trash at our landfill. I’ve been realizing […]
DeSmogBlog: EnergyNOW! Tackles Keystone XL, And Talks To Me About Pipelines
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On Sunday, energyNOW! news tackled the Keystone XL debate in a wide-ranging half hour program that covered the controversial pipeline in typically comprehensive fashion.
An ov…
the reeves report: Ontario Green vote projected to drop – but it doesn’t have to
Just about the only thing that all parties and observers can agree upon about the upcoming Ontario election is that the high vote percentage gained by the Green Party of Ontario (GPO) in 2007 will not be maintained in 2011. And it is expected to drop for a number of reasons, but not all of … Continue reading »
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: For service with distinction, to BC Liberals
The fatally flawed Order of British Columbia must be scrapped. Rushing to aggrandize themselves and their own financial backers, BC Liberals destroyed the award’s intended essence. It was supposed to recognize:
“those persons who have served…
Continue readinggritchik: Journalist banned from covering Hudak events
Tim Hudak, and Jason Lietaer, need to get some thicker skin. And a better understanding of democracy. Click here to be taken to the full column. Highlights below. “I just received a phone call from Tim Hudak’s media guy; Jason Lietaer phoned me up. What is it with Conservatives and threatening me with legal action? […]
QP: Turmel’s first kick
The first Question Period of the new
sitting kicked off with a different face – Nycole Turmel, now the interim
leader of the Official Opposition, faced off against Stephen Harper, and asked
him about his rosy economic outlook. Harper calmly sto…
My journey with AIDS...and more!: Follow-up on my aches and pains
The x-rays (not exactly as pictured) last week were negative for anything untoward. All bones, and metal objects substituting for same reinforcing my femur, are intact. That’s a relief! The aches and pains continue intermittently, however, with s…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Counterpoint on Shale Gas and the Future of Fracking
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Recently the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature published a ‘pros vs. cons’ piece on the production of unconventional gas from shale. The…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Media Advisory: Warrantless Online Spying may be Introduced with Omnibus Crime Bill Tuesday; OpenMedia.ca Available for Comment
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WHO:
Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca
Vincent Gogolek, Executive Director, BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer, Can…
The war on gardens, and what it means
Those choosing other than well-cropped turf to adorn their properties are finding themselves pursued and threatened by city by-law enforcement all over North America. Item: In Memphis, Tennessee), a schoolteacher’s garden—in his own backyard—is cited as a “public nuisance.” When…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The similarities between debt crises and currency crises
During the nineties, the predominant form of economic crisis that could hit a nation was the currency crisis whereby the value of a countries currency drops precipitously. Most infamously was the Asian financial crisis, whose effects rolled around the…
Continue readingIt’s a body of work that you can’t ever change…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me.if what you’re r…
Continue readingTerahertz: Mulcair is comfortable on the fence
I share in CalgaryGrit’s confusion at Thomas Mulcair’s continued ambivalence about deciding whether to run for the NDP leadership. Perhaps he’s hoping to drag out the media coverage as he hums and haws over his chances of winning, allowing him to increase his national reputation as… someone who can’t make a decision? Regardless, his current […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Once again, the NDP’s popular support is holding up in the face of plenty of predictions to the contrary. But I’m sure we’ll hear all about how the leadership race will do what the scrutiny of an election campaign,…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Problem Gambling Prevention Program Comes to N.B.
I was recently contacted by Susan Saundercook, Communications Specialist at the Responsible Gambling
Council about a visit to campus today and tomorrow by kts2. The program is about targeting students to educate then about the dangers of problem gamb…
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Dippers on point for first CBC political election panel #nlpoli
Give the new Democrats’ Dale Kirby full marks for nailing natural resources minister Shawn Skinner hard over the blatant abuse of taxpayers inherent in having two partisans step down from their cabinet appointments to work on the Tory campaign. Kirb…
Continue readingNational Post columnist David Frum joins the anti green economy conservative chorus
The truth of finding new renewable energy sources and building the societies and economies of the future around harvesting and processing them cannot be denied. In other words, we evolve as a species technologically or we die. It’s also a fact that o…
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: women’s sex strike ends armed conflict
A whole new approach to peace keeping. http://ow.ly/6yCwI
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EclecticLip: A post-weekend update
pem(posted May 20, 2012)/em /p pOne of Friday’s big news items was that a quot;rogue traderquot; at UBS lost the Swiss bank $2 billion.#160; He was apparently led to jail in handcuffs.#160; Meanwhile, the people a few pay-grades up who created a $3,000 billion crisis remain at large.#160; Even though
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: The Canadian Manifesto 9: Retribution and the Bottom Line
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British politician, best known for his work to abolish the slave trade. He helped to pass legislation that imposed fines of £100 on shipowners, for each slave found on board.It backfired, because when these men sa…
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