This is all true — but gosh it's hard hard hard to get a " a cadre of people who will carry your message and be motivated to knock on doors, not just once or twice but several times a week". That's why we use robo-callers — because…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Showing the rich people we can do what we want
Booman notes this BBC interview with two young English women looting a liquor store and he discusses what America should learn from the England riots:Different countries chose different ways of responding to the economic catastrophes of the 1920’s and …
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: How To Embed Sustainability Into Corporate Culture: A Cheat Sheet
93% of CEOs see sustainability as important to their company’s future success, as found by a UN-Accenture study. But how does one embed sustainability into a company’s core culture? Dr. Stephanie Bertels of Simon Fraser University conducted one of the most extensive researches in this subject. Her findings in the 74-page report are distilled into a core framework diagram. This cheat sheet will guide you through the key points.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Thoughts on “Why not print money?”
Richard Gilbert’s “Why not print money?” in the Globe’s Economy Lab toys with more radical monetary intervention as a response to the crisis. Desperate times, they say, call for desperate measures. The title (which was perhaps not Gilbert’s at all) is more provocative than the article itself, which is mostly about tolerating higher inflation that […]
Continue readingcartoon life: Six clouds in progress 4
I think these are as done as I can make them. Filed under: art, painting Tagged: acrylic, art, canvas, cloud, orange, painting, red, white, wind, yellow
Trashy's World: BBQing meat and cancer…
If this is true, I’m screwed…. The question I’ve heard that barbecued food is cancer causing. Should I avoid it altogether this summer? The answer Yes, there is evidence to suggest that a heavy intake of barbecued meat could increase cancer risk. Compounds in cooked meat called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are to blame. Grilling, broiling […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Communities At Risk from Gas Industry Air Pollution – Interview with NRDC’s Amy Mall
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The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is busy trying to figure out why communities near gas production facilities are experiencing life-threatening levels of hydrogen sul…
Continue readingLeDaro: Shale gas protests in New Brunswick
Some interesting signs included:
“No fracking way”
“What the frack?”
Another good sign will be “Mr. Alward (the Premier of NB) Frack off.”
And many more. It would look that fracking is deadly on the environment. It pollutes the enviro…
Peace, order and good government, eh?: Let the record show
It was a bit less than two years ago that government lawyers, on behalf of CSIS, spiked their own evidence in the matter of the Security Certificate on Adil Charkaoui rather than comply with court-ordered disclosure. To quote Colin Freeze at the Globe and Mail on the federal officials involved: … they now hold Mr. Charkaoui to be less of a threat to national security than further court-ordered revelations of the secret information that was used to build the case against him. This was after a series of rulings in this and the Harkat case in which the integrity of government evidence and witnesses had been called into question and the intelligence community was letting their frustration with the "judicialization of intelligence" be known. Due process can be so darned inconvenient at times. A few days after that it was reported that the certificate on Charkaoui would be revoked. I have to wonder if the leak of a CSIS document reported last Friday was someone’s way of circumventing the judiciary completely and injecting that same evidence — unsourced, of course — directly into the public record….
Continue readingCoca Cola sponsors the Pope
What would Jesus do? Would he take a trip to Spain that cost the Spanish taxpayers, in the midst of a severe economic crisis, $80 million while accepting sponsorship from over 100 corporations, including Coca Cola?Apparently 100 Spanish priests don’t t…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Graham Fraser’s So-called Secret Shoppers
Graham Fraser, Canada’s commissioner of official languages, has kicked off a bit of a kerfuffle in the nation’s capital over a recently announced plan to investigate the state of bilingualism in the national capital region, a research study which would…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford Nation planning to fill city boards with unqualified conservative cronies
Toronto News: Ford accused of stacking public appointments – thestar.comEarly this year, we saw Case Ootes appointed to completely replace the TCHC board, and then Gordon Chong (part of Rob Ford’s transition team) was appointed to to a job for $100,000…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Murdoch-Fox Journalism is not Postmodern, it is Dishonest
Canadians were taken by surprise a month ago by the sudden resignation of CTV Quebec City Bureau Chief, Kai Nagata.
“Nagata’s personal experience is an in-the-flesh example of how the adoption of economic values and assumptions, this time in the TV …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ongoing Devolution of Toronto
Perhaps it stems from a sense of inadequacy, a measure of paranoia, or a recognition that when all is said or done, they are just not up to the job, but when those of the far right-wing take power, we are frequently witness to a type of unbridled glee…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.
– Marc Lee tears into the “unfunded liabilities” spin on public benefits which is now making an appearance in Canada:
(W)hat’s missing from this horror movie is that this is an artifact of CPP being …
Accidental Deliberations: Still feigned indignation
At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks. But that leads to the next obvious problem: that it’s scolding the NDP…
Continue readingHST Voter Turnout – Secret Warehouse Lets Sun Shine In!
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Yup.
That’s right.
The image above actually shows the super secret warehouse and the seventy fine folks who are participating in the Oompa-Loompalooza (i.e. counting and verifying the HST referendum ballots).
H…
Art Threat: Fashion, sexism and classical music – Pianist Yuja Wang’s dress creates war of words among reviewers
“Her dress Tuesday was so short and tight that had there been any less of it, the Bowl might have been forced to restrict admission to any music lover under 18 not accompanied by an adult.”
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Right to counsel
R. v. J.W.C., 2011 ONCA 550 released today has a good summary of the law regarding the right to counsel:[22] The Supreme Court of Canada has set out a framework for analysis of s. 10(b) cla…
Continue readingHiding in the loo.
Back in 2009, the PM missed a fotoshoot that was taking place at the G20. All the world leaders were there, except Stephen Harper.
The BBC said he was in the loo.
Maybe it was because he didn’t like being slotted…
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