This and that for your Sunday reading. – Armine Yalnizyan counters the Cons’ spin on tax-free savings accounts. And Rob Carrick points out that raising the limit on TFSAs would forfeit billions of desperately-needed dollars to benefit only the wealthiest few in Canada: TFSAs are Swiss army knives – a
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The Disaffected Lib: You Can’t Feed Your Kids Oil, But Eating Is Overrated Anyway.
It’s been here for a while. It’s what happens when you begin to run short on something everybody needs. It’s America’s frackers versus America’s farmers. They both want water and there’s not enough to go around. Frackers want it to get oil and gas out of the ground. Farmers need
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Town Hall Event – "Ontario’s Greenbelt Under Threat" ( #onpoli )
In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt. January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario. Full details are available via the Facebook event.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Town Hall Event – "Ontario’s Greenbelt Under Threat" ( #onpoli )
In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt.January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario.Full details are available via the Facebook event.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Town Hall Event – "Ontario’s Greenbelt Under Threat" ( #onpoli )
In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt. January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario. Full details are available via the Facebook event.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the Cons’ secretive giveaway of what’s left of the Canadian Wheat Board can only be explained by their desire to eliminate collective marketing in favour of total corporate control. For further reading…– Janyce McGregor reported on the Cons’ refusal to consider allowing the Farmers of North America
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Rise of Urban Agriculture
Industrial agriculture is not kind to the environment and has been attributed to deforestation of the rainforest to the massive bee die-off. Yet, we find ourselves attached to this 20th century model of centralized production. Lucky for civilization, this is changing! Small scale urban agriculture is getting large enough as
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Sign the Petition, Tell Stephen Harper to Stop the #Pickering Airport ( #cdnpoli #NoPickeringAirport )
Land Over Landings have posted a petition to tell Stephen Harper to stop the Pickering airport development citing the following points. Building an unneeded airport is an inexcusable waste of taxpayers’ money. Putting an airport or other development on foodland is grossly irresponsible; farmland is permanently destroyed by development. Such
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Sign the Petition, Tell Stephen Harper to Stop the #Pickering Airport ( #cdnpoli #NoPickeringAirport )
Land Over Landings have posted a petition to tell Stephen Harper to stop the Pickering airport development citing the following points. Building an unneeded airport is an inexcusable waste of taxpayers’ money. Putting an airport or other development on foodland is grossly irresponsible; farmland is permanently destroyed by development. Such
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Sign the Petition, Tell Stephen Harper to Stop the #Pickering Airport ( #cdnpoli #NoPickeringAirport )
Land Over Landings have posted a petition to tell Stephen Harper to stop the Pickering airport development citing the following points.
- Building an unneeded airport is an inexcusable waste of taxpayers’ money.
- Putting an airport or other development on foodland is grossly irresponsible; farmland is permanently destroyed by development.
- Such development would eliminate important natural habitat and essential wildlife corridors adjacent to the new Rouge National Urban Park.
- Foodland close to Canada’s largest and fastest-growing city must be fiercely protected to ensure future food security.
- No government has a right to deprive future generations of an irreplaceable food and freshwater resource.
Politics, Re-Spun: Just How Many BC Government Comms Staff Are There?
Below are all the job titles of all the comms staff in the BC Government Communications and Public Engagement bodies as of last week. Count with me! 🙂 There are 278 people! 278. That’s more than a few. The records include folks in these two areas: Government Communications: which tends to
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Bill 24 – Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act: Undermining BC’s Food Security
Thursday, April 10, 2014 Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of the province’s most publicly valuable lands – in this case, its farmlands – to industrial development. Bill 24, the Agricultural Land
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Michael Hiltzik writes about the efforts of the corporate sector – including the tobacco and food industries – to produce mass ignorance in order to preserve profits: Proctor, a professor of the history of science at Stanford, is one of the world’s leading
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Range Wars, 21st Century-Style
It’s a classic theme of the ‘wild west’ – range wars where free-range cattle ranchers clashed with farmers whose fenced fields blocked their way. Today it’s a struggle between farmers and frackers and this time the struggle is over water, more specifically who gets it and who goes without. This
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – David Atkins emphasizes the need for progressive parties and activists to discuss big ideas rather than settling for the path of least short-term resistance: Both the poor and the middle class feel threatened and increasingly pessimistic. Opinions of elite institutions across the board
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: ‘Superweed’ Invaison – Agricultural Woes
What is profitable. What is right. Two categories that, if drawing a Venn Diagram, seem to overlap less and less these days: case in point the manufacture and use of genetically modified seeds produced by the Monsanto corporation. Back in 1990 the so called ’round-up ready’ crops came into being,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the basic economic lessons the U.S. has forgotten since its postwar boom: First, America’s real job creators are consumers, whose rising wages generate jobs and growth. If average people don’t have decent wages there can be no real recovery
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Erin Weir posts the statement of a 70-strong (and growing) list of Canadian economists opposed to austerity. Heather Mallick frames the latest Con budget as yet another example of their using personal cruelty as a governing philosophy, while the Star’s editorial board
Continue readingAlberta Diary: That ‘market freedom’? What a surprise, it’s wiping out farmers and enriching the 1%!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes a group of Canadians for a ride on his fully privatized model railroad. This doesn’t actually work in real life, though. Actual Canadian prime ministers may not appear exactly as illustrated, although, if I may say so, the number on the engine comes close to
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Rally Against the Pickering Airport ( #NoPickeringAirport #cdnpoli #onpoli )
On January 27th, a rally will be held at Pickering City Hall in support of a municipal motion demanding the federal government act with transparency as it pertains to the development in northern Pickering for a new international airport. You can RSVP to the Facebook event posting here. You can
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