Canada is divided, perhaps more than the heyday of the Quebec separatist movement. There’s a divide between generations thanks to the budget and there’s a divide between eastern and western Canada and the economic differences and difficulties each is facing. In many ways Canada is itself a mini-Europe; we are
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DeSmogBlog: New Poll: American Voters Very Concerned About Global Warming Pollution, Support Taxing Dirty Energy
global climate change.jpg A new poll released today shows that American voters take global warming pollution very seriously and want to see action from government and the private sector to curb emissions and support clean energy solutions. The new Yale-GMU survey found that 76% of Americans believe that regulating CO2 emissions
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Wells had previously theorized that the size of environmental demonstrations in Montreal might hint at the NDP’s ability to establish a long-term base. So what ended up happening? What happened in Montreal was a great big rally for Earth Day whose
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, following up on Sarah Schmidt’s report showing that an outright majority of tested food products are inaccurately labeled by noting that nutrition information is just one of many areas where we’re being told to take the corporate sector’s word as to what’s good for us. For further reading:– Joanna
Continue readingThings Are Good: Manila Uses Paint That Cleans the Air
This is groovy, a paint is being used on the walls of Manila that cleans the air. In the Philippine capital Manila, which is one of the most polluted cities in the world, a paint which it is claimed can purify the air is being used. A local company has
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Ethincal Oil Orders Canada Revenue Agency to Investigate the David Suzuki Foundation
During the 2012 federal budget, the Conservative government allocated $8 million to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to crackdown on charities engaged in “political activities.” The purge has begun. Yesterday, the right-wing Big Oil lobby group, EthicalOil.org, dispatched a 44-page … Continue reading →
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jared Bernstein discusses the effect of raising taxes on the highest-income households, featuring this in particular: Growth and jobs. History shows that higher taxes are compatible with economic growth and job creation: job creation and GDP growth were significantly stronger following the Clinton
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Deconstructing the Wildrose Effect
So what happened in Alberta’s election yesterday, other than people telling pollsters that they want change, then chickening out when it came time to mark an X. The Politics, Re-spun crew deconstructs the Wildrose effect here: Are you surprised that the Wildrose Party did not win? No. Discontent polls well,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Tempering My ‘Enthusiasm’
Despite postings I have made on both critical thinking and avoiding fallacies of reasoning, I am well-aware that my own thinking and writing sometimes fall far short of the standards they demand. In my deep and abiding contempt for the neoconservative agenda and the simplistic, uni-dimensional thinking of its adherents,
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?
Sex, Oil, and Videotape, Ted Genoways, Mother Jones “…Almost every day for more than a year, this had been [John] Bolenbaugh’s daily activity—shooting video of the slow-going cleanup of one of the worst inland oil spills in American history. And on that day he wanted me to see “ground zero,”
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Saturday reading. – As much sympathy as I normally have for Linda McQuaig, I’ll argue that her premise in discussing Andrea Horwath’s call for the wealthy to pay a fair share of taxes is entirely off base. Even if it is easier to discuss such ideas
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: A Genetic Justification For Liberalism
It’s little wonder that liberalism endorses science when no other ideology is more endorsed by it. Foundational liberal principles have been recently strengthened by new research, solidifying the ideology not just in abstract philosophy but empirically in human nature. The liberal belief in equality and that government has a role
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Musqueam Midden Burial Site Compromise
It’s very interesting to see the work that has gone into a possible compromise to deal with the competing demands around the Musqueam midden burial site. See below. Several weeks ago there was quite a contentious debate about what to do with the site from the Musqueam perspective and from
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Engage
Last night I was having several parallel conversations online, all pertaining to civic engagement (or the lack of it, more precisely). What comes first, the politicians willing to interact with “commoners”, or an engaged electorate that participates in our democratic systems? I think citizens have to make the decision first,
Continue reading350 or bust: A Plea For The Future Of Life
“Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley I’ve been away on holidays for the last 10 days, but the Canadian government and its soul mates south
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingJimBobby Sez: Harper Declares War!
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, Steve Harper reckons he knows who the enemy is an’ he declared war.
Continue readingwmtc: shorter wmtc: fraudulent government kills canadian environment
In case you haven’t seen it yet, the Council of Canadians’ investigation into election fraud has uncovered yet more damning evidence that the Harper GovernmentTM did not win its so-called majority government through democratic or legitimate means. The Council of Canadians today released two of the documents it intends to
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: US anti-immigrant group blames immigrants for global warming
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), an anti-immigrant group, blames Mexican immigrants for increasing carbon emissions in the U.S. The group bases its startling claim on a bogus report by the nativist Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which is linked the … Continue reading →
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