On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the nuclear bomb “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. An estimated 130,000 people were killed. On August 9, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of America’s second atomic bomb attack. At 11:02 a.m., the north of the city was […]
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350 or bust: Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation Cree person. In April he wrote this column, Shape Up Or Ship O…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Canadians Embarrassed (Again) After Government Overestimates Its Carbon Reductions
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The Canadian government is again being called out for providing misleading information about its commitment to reducing carbon emissions. The National Round Table on the …
Continue readingLiberal party leaders need to engage in assisted suicide debate
Despite the fact that the election discourse is gravitating mostly around the economy here in Ontario, with the PCs and Liberals trading blows on who can manage money in better ways in the province, we, the foot soldiers and liberal campaigners need t…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Watch: Pink Balls in Montreal’s Gay Village – Summer 2011
This is a fantastic video highlighting landscape architect Claude Cormier’s “Les Boules Roses” (The Pink Balls), 170,000 pink resin balls fastened to wires strung out at different levels and through the trees forming a long pink canopy suspended for su…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: In Gas Driller’s Canadian East Coast Heartland, A Day Of FRACtion
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On August 1st and 2nd, a Day of FRACtion involving marches and protests is taking place across most of Canada’s Atlantic provinces in…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: EthicalOil.org: Canada Tar Sands Propaganda And Insult to Canadians
Former federal Conservative operative, Alykhan Velshi, is at it again. As Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s communications director, earlier this year, he stirred controversy when he used Canadian government stationery while canvassing for Pri…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Our Libya Policy Is Just What Islamist Extremists Prayed For
The most important thing in the fight against Gaddafi was the one we ignored – getting the job done quickly.Time was very much of the essence in this one. In neighbouring Egypt, Mubarak had only recently been toppled but the face of the governmen…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quebec Woo-Quackery Claims yet another Victim
Worried about Big Pharma and what corporate sponsored doctors are going to do with you? Worried your tinfoil hat is one size too small and “they” are on to you? Worried and misplacing your skepticism about science based medicine? This news article from the CBC is for you. “A Quebec woman rushed to hospital after […]
Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Heating Up Out There
What a week it has been! With the backdrop of the verging-on-farcical U.S. debt credit crisis brought on by the tea-baggers in Washington, and the pieing of Rupert Murdoch, a whole lot has been going on the global warming front, and not just the extr…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Wishing Jack Layton A Speedy Recovery
NDP Leader Jack Layton announced Monday he’s is taking a temporary leave of absence to receive treatment for a new cancer. The Canadian Progressive World wishes Layton a speedy recovery. Layton has not only been the public face of the federal …
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: What Jack Layton Sees In Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel
The intensifying scrutiny of Nycole Turmel, NDP leader Jack Layton’s choice to replace him while he’s away for cancer treatment is healthy for Canada’s democracy. But the negativity by the right-wing media misses the point. Self-rig…
Continue reading350 or bust: Is The Kremlin Now In Charge? Harper Government Silencing Canadian Artists And Scientists
The Harper Government is sending out a clear message at home and abroad that if your politics are not correct your art shouldn’t be shown, and if your findings are inconvenient your science doesn’t matter. A recent Vancouver Sun discussed t…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Opinion piece blaming food banks misses the point
It’s time to close Canada’s food banks – The Globe and MailElaine Power may be an associate professor, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t on crack. In her piece (link above)l, she goes to town blaming food banks for various problems and says they should b…
Continue readingIlluminated By Street Lamps: Jack Layton
Jack Layton’s news today was certainly upsetting. However, if anyone can fight an uphill battle it’s him. Best wishes for a speedy recovery, sir.
Continue readingTerahertz: “Not an inch of space”
Never mind that Europe is supposed to be all metric all the time, here’s a quote relating to yesterday’s tragedy: "That the perpetrator apparently comes from the far-right scene shows once again how dangerous racist and anti-foreigner ideologies are," Germany’s opposition Greens said in a statement. "We must not allow them an inch of space […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: And in addition to letting industry monitor itself…
…environmental compliance-wise… comes news that the Cons are looking at turning another vital public sector function over to the private sector: search and rescue. I really don’t get this one. Where’s the upside? They will piss off DND and the Coast Guard – which are two constituencies that the Harperites like to cow-tow to. They […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: Who needs EA’s?
Industry can police itself, right?
More bold-faced lies from the Cons during the May election campaign…
Sigh… environmental laggards indeed…
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PEI and Nova Scotia
Today we ate lunch at the Red Shoe Pub, owned by the Rankin Family sisters. We drove down the coast of Cape Breton to the PEI ferry at Caribou. Here is the sunset from Whale Cove Campground on Digby Neck. It’s a nice campsite, and the owners, the Tidds are nice people. We met Vaughn’s […]
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Ottawa names war crimes suspects in Cantada
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/21/pol-war-criminals-suspects-toews.htmland this too: http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/guergis-allegations/index.html
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