The World Health Organization sets the safe level at 25. The U.S. EPA puts the emergency level at 300. For days Beijing has been at anywhere between 600 and 900. The figures are for PM2.5 or particulate matter tiny enough to be absorbed into human tissue. Air quality has long
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The Disaffected Lib: Since Steve Is Selling Out to Beijing, You Might Want to Look at These Numbers
When it comes to foreign investment and takeovers, China is only getting started. According to Professor Yiping Huang of Peking University, writing in the September 2012 issue of East Asia Forum, what we have seen to date is only the beginning: Chinese outward direct investment is a relatively new phenomenon.
Continue readinggay persons of character: Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study, Pan discovered that almost every emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) had or was suspected of having
Continue readinggay persons of character: Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study, Pan discovered that almost every emperor …
Continue readinggay persons of character: Study reveals same-sex relationships in China over millennia
Sociologist Pan Guangdan has found plenty of historical documents bearing evidence to the existence and tolerance of homosexuality in China over thousands of years. For example, during his groundbreaking study, Pan discovered that almost every emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) had or was suspected of having
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Broadbent responds to the Fraser Institute’s attempts to minimize the importance of growing inequality: Economists tell us the chances of finding and keeping a good job today depend more than ever on a high level of education and skills required by
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: We Must Restructure Canada To Save It!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger How long is it going to take before some of the Conservatives MP’s wake up and stand up for Canada? Our PM Steve Harper lies to us with an ease uncommon, even for politicians. Canada is being drained and our nation is up for sale, but why?
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Mass Shootings by the Numbers
Over three-quarters of the firearms used to carry out mass shootings in the United States since 1982 were obtained legally. How on Earth can there not be a national discussion on gun control? And to those gun advocates who say that tragedy ought not to be politicized, that we need
Continue readingArt Threat: Amnesty International goes Gangnam Style for Chinese dissidents
I’m tired of Gangnam Style. Especially so since Psy denounced his past anti-war performances in South Korea — presumably because criticizing the US military doesn’t jive with his newfound pop celebrity status in America. Even more exhausting are the endless Gangnam Style parodies and rip-offs, most of which are simply
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Large majority of Canadians opposed to takeover of Nexen by China’s CNOOC
The takeover of Canadian energy firms by foreign state-owned companies got the Ottawa green light even though polling indicates a large majority of Canadians oppose the move. China’s CNOOC has been given the go-ahead on the purchase of Calgary-based petroleum producer Nexen Inc. – a $15 billion dollar deal; Malaysia’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Heather Sticks Her Bitumen Boot Up Harper’s Backside
It’s gradually setting in. Harper’s capitulation to China’s Communist rulers on Nexen is an admission of how much trouble the Tar Sands are really in. The Toronto Star’s Heather Mallick wades into the Bully Boy’s blunder on Nexen. Harper couldn’t say no to China because he wants quick money for
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper in His Christmas Uniform
Stephen Harper: A Scrooge for Canada but a Santa for China. Gifts: Tar Sands: A source of wealth for China but a source of more pollution for Canada.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Steve Harper, the Manchurian Candidate
In the course of but one week Steve Harper deals a massive blow to America’s biggest and plainly distressed defence contractor and approves the transfer, to America’s biggest geopolitical rival, 300,000 acres of prime Albertan Tar Sands. This is the same guy who came to power having nary a good
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: When Is A Private Sale Public?
Conservatives tell us that state ownership of industry is bad… if it’s Canadian state ownership. Their actions tell a different story. “Canada is just barely holding the reins“. S.E. writes, “You probably don’t need me to tell you that selling a controlling stake in this country’s largest energy resource to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Big Sellout
Historians will probably debate whether it was the strange smile, or the way he opened his mouth and showed his teeth, that gave the game away.Or whether it was the spiffy straw hat.But nobody will be able to deny that Great Helmsman Leader tried to do the impossible today.Read more
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Week of Hell #RoboCon
The Conservatives have had a (deservedly) rough week, and it’s about to get more rough next week. The Council of Canadians’ court challenge is Monday. The Prime Minister closed out the final news cycle hour this week by actually taking questions from the press, (which has hardly ever happened before).
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – Indian Navy to South China Sea
India has served notice that its navy is ready to sail into the South China Sea to protect the country’s oil interests there. Indian Navy Chief Admiral D.K Joshi said that, while India was not a territorial claimant in the South China Sea, it was prepared to act, if necessary,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Things Heating Up in the Himalayas?
For a while, India and China even claimed to have finally settled their dangerous border dispute. If they ever had a deal, it seems that deal is in doubt.The land in question is the northernmost Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Him…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On precedence
There’s not much doubt that Canada’s debates over the FNOOC/Nexen takeover bid and FIPPA investor privilege treaty with China have become intertwined. But it’s worth noting that some observers seem to be misreading how the two will relate to each other…
Continue readingcalgaryliberal.com: Liberal Leadership 2013: Deborah Coyne Interview (44:29)
Vincent sat down with federal Liberal leadership candidate Deborah Coyne (website, wikipedia) on Wednesday to get a better feel about her ideas, her policies, and her vision for Canada. In this interview she touches on important issues like what it tak…
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