I sat in my hotel room in London on a recent vacation, reading the comments on my last article in thetyee.ca in which I had congratulated the Vancouver Sun for printing an op-ed piece by Dr. Marvin Shaffer of SFU which stated the elementary truth that …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Did Harper Suppress DND’s Climate Change Warning?
A study prepared by Canada’s Department of National Defence sounds the alarm on climate change. The report concludes that energy shortages coupled with the rapidly spreading freshwater crisis and compounded by the impacts of climate change have p…
Continue readingopenalex: Kunstler on The City of the Future and "Yesterday’s Tomorrows"
I’m no apocalypse junkie; visions of the end of days don’t do much for me. But I am going to recommend James Kunstler’s most recent article anyway. Kunstler is a major figure in discussions of both Peak Oil and New Urbanism. In the July/August edi…
Continue readingLeDaro: Meet your new neighbour
Steve HerperOkay he is an alien and in 20 years’ time you may be meeting him. According to Russian scientist Andrei Finkelstein it is highly likely that it will happen by 2030.Read the story here.
Continue readingthe reeves report: Army 2040: First Look moves away from humanity vs. The Environment outlook
I feel as though every decade in North America another article, report, or paper emerges in which The Environment (note the capital letters) is pitted as public enemy number one. The latest of such reports was issued just recently by the Canadian Armed Forces entitled Army 2040: First Look, which sounds like an awful Michael … Continue reading »
The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Wealth transfer
As nottawa noted on Tuesday, the net effect of a provincial tax cut on electricity and a rate hike for the province’s Crown energy company isn’t what might appear at first glance. First, there’s not going to be a drop in cost for consumers, as s…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Sun News reporter’s conduct results in thousands of complaints
Complaints over Sun News interview overwhelm watchdog – The Globe and MailNo surprise here.Excerpt from article:Viewers have sent in more than 4,350 complaints since the interview aired on the Sun News program Canada Live on June 1. The CBSC receives o…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Greek Austerity Vote Is Just The Beginning
There was a certain amount of hand-wringing by the business press and politicians internationally that the PASOK government of Greece might not be able to pass the second austerity package in a year. However, it seemed unlikely that more than a handful…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Bike Lanes Create Jobs
The University of Massachusetts has completed a new study that shows that bicycle lanes create jobs. As a cyclist, this seems obvious to me since whenever I see a store or restaurant I want to go into I just hop off my bike and I’m in there spending money rather quickly.
It’s good to see that […]
Enormous Thriving Plants: Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having to broadcast an apology. I’ve said it here before: The simplistic, binary “If it’s not positive propaganda for us, it’s
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds: The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having to broadcast an apology. I’ve said it here before: The simplistic, binary “If it’s not positive propaganda for us, it’s
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Bachmann, Wallace, & FOX NEWS continue to illustrate contemporary conservative "news" expectations.
Wallace asks the obvious question that’s on most rational people’s minds:The aftermath: Wingnuts go apoplectic that Bachmann wasn’t given an even gentler soft-ball interview and Wallace ends up having to broadcast an apology.I’ve said it here before: T…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The vertical integration hearing is getting curiouser and curiouser
Cross-posted from The Globe And Mail
In the first of two column’s last week I offered evidence and argument as to why the CRTC’s current vertical integration hearing is not likely to deal effectively with the question of telecom, media and Internet…
Mini-hiatus.
Have a work-related project to get done this week, then out of the country next week. Hopefully, by the time I’m back, the Ontario Libs and Greens will have released their platforms. I’ve got the NDP and PC platforms and am hoping to do a complete seri…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: CUPW will challenge the back-to-work legislation
Canada Post union to challenge back-to-work legislation in court – thestar.comAs I was pointing out, the legislation is illegal, and the union is going to challenge it in court. Now the decision will depend on if Harper has stacked the Supreme Court wi…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: ministers mel knight and luke ouellette crash landowners rights meeting.
This cleverly edited video does not cast a very flattering light on Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight and Transportation Minister Luke Ouellette as they crashed a presentation being hosted by landowners rights advocate Joe Anglin. The video does highlight the pressure that rural Tory MLAs are feeling from landowners rights advocates, many of whom […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Taken up by the ferries
With a tender call to build six more ferries,the provincial government is still not finished sorting out problems with its last ferry contract. Earlier this year, Kiewit Marystown delivered two ferries originally contracted in 2008 at a cost of …
Continue readingSenator Elaine McCoy Hullabaloos: Canada’s Democratic Deficit
Speaking of Senator Lowell Murray, he recently spoke at a conference in New Brunswick to honour Donald Savoie, the esteemed professor of public administration and regional development. The Senator’s keynote speech included an assessment of …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: When Facts Don’t Matter: Proving The Problem With Fox News
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My two posts about Fox News and misinformation are probably the most popular items I’ve contributed here. They’ve been widely linked, Twee…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for June 29, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge Explains 150-Year Sentence for Madoff – http://goo.gl/dgS5jState to dead man: No need for jury duty – http://goo.gl/1Nj2LTampa retiree says he lost belongings in foreclosure blunde…
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