“To help meet the growing demand for green and “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) certification, the Cleaning Industry Management Standard & Certification Program has been expanded to include new “Green B…
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Currently some Cablegate material is links to other sites. Readers finding broken links should contact the Sixth Estate administrator and request that a full copy of the cable in question be hosted here. Documents in bold have been identified by the ed…
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As Obama Quietly Pushes for a Nuclear Weapons Renaissance, Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Nuclear LabIn New Mexico, an out-of-control wildfire that began Sunday has already burned nearly 80 square miles and is a mile or less from Los Alamos National Lab…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Judge: Police Have A Culture That Rejects Accountability
Those were the words of Justice Elliot Allen as he sentenced two Toronto police officers to one year of house arrest for beating a Cabbagetown man in 2009. As is the usual practice when one of their own is under judicial scrutiny, the courthouse was p…
Continue readingLeDaro: Princess Beatrice pays a stylist $2,400 per day to be dressed
She is the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. I have nothing against the Royal Family as such, but this is absolutely ridiculous. She’s a grown woman, can’t she dress herself and donate the rest to a charity? $2,400 would pay for a poor fami…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Civilian Oversight of the Police is Crucial
Rex Meade of Dundas has a very interesting letter on police heavy-handedness and how to deal with it in today’s Star. If you get a chance, take a look at it.Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Raise the Debt Ceiling!
Some Republicans are living in a fantasy world thinking that there is way to continue business as usual even though the debt is above the debt ceiling. Even if the Government cuts hundreds of billion today the debt would still get above the debt ceilin…
Continue readingPakistanis really don’t like the U.S. They really don’t
That the United States is unpopular in Pakistan is common knowledge. But just how unpopular is surprising. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 73 per cent of Pakistanis hold an unfavourable opinion of the U.S., 68 per cent have little or no …
Continue reading@LacyMacAuley and my namesake: This is where we juxtapose, redux | #G20
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.”She thought it over. “They can’t do that,” she said finally. “It’s the one thing they can’t d…
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Stockwell Day sets up government relations firm
Former cabinet minister Stockwell Day has started a government relations strategy consulting firm in Vancouver. Stockwell Day Connex has no partners and will provide “strategic approaches to issues.” His website states his firm will not do lobbying. Day says he … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: BC’s Regressive Tax Shift
With much of the talk on taxes in BC about the HST, we issued a new report today that looks at the bigger context for BC’s tax system (Vancouver Sun oped here, CTV News story here). Iglika Ivanova, Seth Klein and I compare and contrast BC’s tax system after a decade where tax cuts were […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The federal government is out to kill you
If you want an example of the sorts of irresponsible, partisan rhetoric that usually gets wound up in some types of issues in this province check out a post at a local blog. It’s titled in an appropriately hysterical way, given the subsequent commen…
Continue readingeaves.ca: Links on Social Media & Politics: Notes from “We Want Your Thoughts #4″
Last night I had a great time taking the stage with Alexandra Samuel in Vancouver for “We Want Your Thoughts” at the Khafka coffee house on Main St. The night’s discussion was focused on Social Media – from chit chat to election winner – what next?” (with a little on the social media driven response […]
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Raven Coal Mine Proposal: Damien Gillis’ Letter
As the window for public comments draws to a close in the first stage of the environmental review process for the proposed Raven Underground Coal Mine, nearly 2,000 comments have been submitted thus far from diverse individuals and organizations. Comme…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Feature: Questions remain on the future of eco fees in Ontario
It’s not often I sympathize with Tim Hudak and the Conservative Party of Ontario, but on the future of eco fees, they have their work cut out for them. To recap, last summer, the Liberal government in Ontario introduced an eco fee on select electronics and household hazardous materials, which was Phase 1 of a … Continue reading »
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: China Tapped Out – Told to Import Food
Chinese groundwater reserves are in peril and the country must cut domestic food production.Zheng Chunmiao, director of the Water Research Centre at Peking University, said the world’s most populous country will have to focus more on demand-side rest…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that (with a B.C. flavour) for your Tuesday reading.- Yes, the CCPA’s report showing that taxes in British Columbia are downright regressive is stunning enough on its face. But the real story may lie in the response of the province’s finance m…
Continue readingwmtc: handmade soaps, equal marriage, and stop the tar sands: i discover lush
As part of my work for the video surveillance project, I was wandering around the Square One mall, when I saw this sign in the window of Lush.I went inside to ask for more information: there was a petition, a postcard drive, and an excellent pamphlet f…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Stockwell Day sets up a firm to help lobbyists, gets the okay, and denies this is what he is doing
Ethics commission OKs Stockwell Day to start government consulting firmStockwell Day has set up Stockwell Day Connex, a company that will help looters in suits to lobby the government of looters in suits – all the while, denying that is what he is doin…
Continue readingLeDaro: Reggie Brown: Obama’s impersonator
I don’t think I have ever seen a better impersonator than Reggie Brown. He looks like Barack Obama and does a perfect impersonation. He was invited by GOP Leadership Conference. Repugs fully enjoyed his jokes about Obama and other democrats but as s…
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