While attending a barbecue hosted at Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s family home, Prime Minister Stephen called for Liberal Premier McGuinty’s defeat during the October 6 Ontario Provincial election. This isn’t just meddling in provinc…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Shell Agrees To Pay Nigerians For 2008 and 2009 Oil Spills
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In a historic move, oil giant Shell has agreed to take responsibility and to compensate Bodo fishing communities in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta w…
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Less Than Woman, Less Than Human
Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford have tendered a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in response to a query regarding the current international status of women. From this exercise, the Commission will be working to “identify emerging trends and patterns of injustice and discriminatory practices against women 
OpenMedia.ca: Despite New Services, Roaming Charges Remain High in Canada
Living under a telecom oligopoly is no easy thing. Canadians can attest to that as they face high mobile roaming charges from major telecom companies. Recently, the OECD released a report that reveals that Canada has the highest roaming prices among al…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Shades Of Mike Harris’ Ontario
When people start to die of bad water, the government will, I am sure, take full responsibility. That’s what Mike Harris did, right? Right?
Continue readingcartoon life: Six Clouds in progress 3
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Trashy's World: Do any cloud geeks read this blog?
If so, could someone tell me what kind of cool clouds these be?
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Guest Blog: Canadian Gamers Fed Up With CRTC on Net Neutrality issues
By Jason Koblovsky of the Canadian Gamers Organization
A few months ago, a few Canadian gamers sent in a complaint to the CRTC that suspected Rogers’ throttling practices were affecting connectivity to the World of Warcraft (WoW) game. The CRTC ha…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": How Disappointing For Them
I am sure prairie farmers will turn around and throw this dirty government money back into the faces of the Harperites. After all, these folks are mostly good, free market capitalists, who vote the straight Conservative ticket. Giving them a government…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Excuse Me While I Pause for a Little Rest: the 400 Boxes are Unpacked…
The guy in this video is a piker–on 64 boxes. But we had similar surprises as we opened boxes. Perhaps it should be no surprise that I’ve filled 8 large garbage bags with stuff from files I’ve kept forever and ever, but never looked at.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: What "Fracking" is About
Until a couple of months ago I had never heard of “fracking”.
I now understand why. And I should have known.
Governments, by long standing habit, don’t like smarty pants
environmentalists to learn what the hell is going on and thus be able
to alert…
Morton's Musings: Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt. Friedrich Nietzsche
Was Nietzsche right in holding all guilt an illusion? If we have no free will and are merely creatures of circumstance then yes, guilt is an illusion. But if we have a choice, and even a constrained choice, then guilt may have a reality. Of course, th…
Continue readingThe Outsiders (The Rise of ‘Isolated Incidents’ of Right-Wing Violence)
Interesting video of the dog whistle words and actions of the right wing noise machine and the unfortunate results.H/T: @GottaLaff
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: EnvironmAnt Canada job cuts raise concerns
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/04/pol-environment-job-cuts.html
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Last Word On The Turmel Fiasco
To the MSM, give your collective heads a shake. You have been played. You chased after the shiny rather than using your heads (or whatever the hell Rob Silver uses for thinking). You have now said to soft nationalists that they have no right to change …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- No, we shouldn’t be surprised that Clark-era PCs disagree with the Harper Cons given that their leader long since jumped ship as well. But Peter Blaikie’s take on the Cons’ dumb-on-crime policies is still worth…
Continue readingScience versus Photo Ops
I was watching the cbc news this morning. I find it very sad to witness the decline of that once proud public broadcaster. The cbc used to provide some fine investigative journalism. It’s one story in particular that caught my eye today however, that speaks to the disconnect between government and the media . . . → Read More: Science versus Photo Ops
Continue readingThe Right Wing Commentariat is getting Desperate
JuysTerence Corcoran Just go read Terence Corcoran’s latest in the National Post. Never mind that the world was plunged into economic crisis by unregulated financial institutions; and near fully captured regulators never mind that by most accou…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Denial Down Under With The Galileo Movement
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THERE’S a new climate denial lobby group on the block – bravely regurgitating previously debunked pseudo-science and making wild unsubstantiated claims that climate scientists are all…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On equalization
One more note on today’s fund-raising news which is best seen in Alice’s historical quarterly data.For 2011 Q2, total fund-raising for the NDP, Libs, Bloc and Greens was $7,918,876.12 – while for the Cons, it was $8,205,078.88. Which looks to mark a lo…
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