Today’s (Oct 12, 2012) Burnaby Now has an article on how we came to purchase our Plug-in Prius. Many thanks to Jennifer Moreau for making me sound articulate, and to Jason Lang for doing his valiant best with a not-quite-photogenic subject. 🙂 The photo was taken at a bank of
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Eclectic Lip: Muslims in America and other hidden ethnic histories
Yves at Naked Capitalism cross-posted a wonderful Alternet piece by Lynn Parramore, eviscerating the idea that Islam is new or alien to America. In truth, the Muslim faith has had a long (if lightly-populated) history in the United States. Islam arrived in America so early, the Puritans hadn’t even burnt
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Most BCers Support Northern Gateway Pipeline
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to British Columbians that they support an oil pipeline that endangers ecologically sensitive terrain, after all they continue to financially support every other pipeline that does the exact same thing. Opinion polls may consistently show that a majority of BCers oppose Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
Continue readingLeft Over: Divide and Conquer…
Logging of old-growth forest mulled by B.C. government CBC online Oct 10, 2012 Can anyone think of a more emotional hot point to distract BCers from the resumption of the Enbridge talks? No, didn’t think you could..divide and conquer was always their agenda, and this proves that Crusty
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Is BC breaking its GHG law by pursuing natural gas development?
Today CCPA’s Climate Justice Project released a new report by yours truly, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was just five years ago that BC brought in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a signal that BC was serious about climate action. The
Continue readingLeft Over: You Had Me (Choking) at Affordable…
This morning, I had to control my urge to laugh while reading: Affordable Housing Canada: Housing Boom, Government Cutbacks Create ‘Rent Squeeze’ by Rachel Mendleson in HuffPost Oct 4, 2012 I knew, the minute I read the headline, that the author probably lived in Ontario, or, at least, definitely not
Continue readingLeft Over: Crusty Does Alberta…
B.C. premier heads to Alberta for pipeline talks Christy Clark and Alison Redford to discuss Northern Gateway concerns CBC online, Saturday Sep[t. 29, 2012 I cannot believe how delusional this woman truly is..why would she go to Alberta to discuss this issue when she knows that the majority
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: There is no BC Liberal Party..
…there is apparently just a party pretending to be Conservative-lite using that particular name. Faced with continuing dreadful poll numbers, BC Premier Christy Clark has decided to postpone the Fall Sitting of the legislature and won’t recall it till probably February 2013. That means the legislature will not have sat
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No, gaffe seeking has been outsourced, and political organizations have learn how to manipulate it. Great video from MSNBC’s Rock Center
Continue readingArt Threat: Vancouver Fringe brims with political plays
The Troubles (Resounding Scream Theatre) The Vancouver International Fringe Festival is underway in Canada’s westernmost metropolis, with 97 shows on offer during a program that lasts over two weeks. This year there are several plays that tackle political issues, touching on themes like human trafficking, homelessness, teen suicide, bilateral relations,
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: What’s Next for BC’s Carbon Tax?
The Minister leading up BC’s Carbon Tax Review, Kevin Falcon, may be gone – his departure came just as the deadline for submissions was closing – but the carbon tax lives on. For now. Back in 2008 when the carbon tax was announced, it was scheduled to rise from an
Continue readingLeft Over: Justice vs Collective Guilt-What Else is New?
Today in the CBC online media is an article about the quick response to a racist joke or two that appeared in a Legion newsletter; the perpetrator was quickly dismissed from his ‘volunteer’ job on the newsletter after complaints about these offensive jokes regarding First Nations. Much pearl-clutching ensues, and everything
Continue readingLeft Over: Dis-honouring Our Homemade Monsters
Here’s a headline from CBC online today, talking about a sticker campaign to point out the hypocrisy of naming things after history’s deviates. In this case, the target is former Lieutenant Governor of BC Joseph Trutch..someone who purposefully practiced his evil on our First Nations people, for a start…. Sticker
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canada’s Emissions Deception
The federal government released an updated Canada’s Emission Trends 2012 report today. In a remarkable shift in federal rhetoric just this past week, the Harperites now appear to be more sensitive to concerns about the Enbridge pipeline and climate change more generally. But appearances can be deceiving and there is good
Continue readingTerahertz: On the Simi Sara show
On Monday I did a brief interview about Christy Clark’s recent bible comments on 100 Huntley Street and the BC Humanist Association’s response. Ironically enough, the interview was on Clark’s old radio station, CKNW, with host Simi Sara. 1:30-1:40 CHRISTY CLARK’S RELIGION COMMENTS SPRARK CRITICISM FROM B.C. ATHEISTS Last week,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Private Employers Access Police Database
Here’s the really strange part… the employers didn’t hack the system to gain illegal access. The police give sometimes false positive criminal record checks to B.C. citizens seeking jobs. “The best thing about PRIME, from my perspective, is the sharing of knowledge across North America,” says Insp. Bruce Imrie, who
Continue readingLeft Over: Fishing For an Alternative….?
How You can Have Your Healthy Environment and Eat Farmed Salmon Too Sue Scott, from the Atlantic Salmon Federation, has a column under this heading, in HuffPo today. It’s a bright-eyed discussion of dry-land closed-pen salmon farming, and considering who she is representing, I had to read it and comment.. I
Continue readingTerahertz: Bible no basis for public policy, declare BC Humanists
BC Premier Christy Clark recently went on 100 Huntley Street and explained that she finds her courage to make tough decisions from what the Bible teaches (~5:30 mark in the video) This story prompted me to quickly throw together a press release with some input from the BCHA members. That
Continue readingTerahertz: Support the World Cerebral Palsy Challenge
One of the projects that I’m working on right now is to raise awareness and recruit teams for the upcoming World Cerebral Palsy Challenge in support of the Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia. The Challenge started two years ago among a network of CP associations in Australia. It was
Continue readingLeft Over: Alberta Adds the Royal “We”…..
Alberta dismisses B.C. demand for more pipeline revenue Just like Dear Leader Harpo, Alberta is taking on the royal “we” in declaring that BC’s cop out Liberal greedbag of demands are “not in the national interest”…who are they to pontificate on the national interest? Crusty Clark’s ridiculous capitulation aside, you
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