For a while, I was feeling very energized about the NDP leadership race. We on the left were going to get six months or so to have a real and refreshing discussion of values and policies about where to go from here. With a relatively new One Member One…
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Impolitical: Environment Canada cuts expand beyond ozone monitoring
Good reporting at iPolitics this afternoon, following the trail of the government’s Environment Canada cuts: “Oilsands monitoring plan threatened by cuts: experts.” The looming job cuts at Environment Canada spell trouble for the federal government’s…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberal scorn for sustainability
Before joining the Vancouver Sun, Fazil Mihlar was Senior Policy Analyst at The Fraser Institute. In his years with the newspaper’s editorial board, Mihlar has continued to serve philosophical goals of the reactionary foundations that finance his for…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Environment: low on the totem pole for this Conservative government
Just as a brief followup to Impolitical’s posts/observations on the controversy brwewing surrounding cuts to ozone monitoring, I remember a time when opposition leader Stephen Harper was in his “climate change controls are a socialist schem…
Continue readingImpolitical: Ozone monitoring cuts backlash
Let’s check in on how it’s going since government cuts to Canada’s long time ozone monitoring program made news and the international scientific community took note. Karen Dodds, the assistant deputy minister in the Environment department is claiming t…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Horwath downplays coalition talk; asks Toronto Council to halt TTC cuts
Anyone hoping that a recent plea from provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath to Toronto City Council to hold off on transit cuts will make a difference is kidding themselves. Or the have a lot more faith in Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s desire to listen to left-wing politicians than I do. According to Horwath as reported … Continue reading »
Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Munir Sheikh writes (PDF) about good data and intelligent government. I’ll add the subtitle, “and other perceived threats to the Harper Conservatives”.- Aside from the occasional expose on working cond…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Unfunded mandate galore, courtesy the Fed Cons
No surprise that the Cons reintroduced, yet again, their “omnibus” crime bill. And no surprise, again, that the Cons refused to say how much it will cost to implement — much less if there will be any commensurate transfers to the provinces…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Ontario NDP Platform
Pollsters tell us that Ontario’s New Democrats may double their seat total in next month’s provincial election. It’s also entirely conceivable that they could be part of a coalition government at Queen’s Park. But what’s actually in the party’s election platform? One central feature of the NDP’s proposals is to implement a tax credit for companies that hire new workers. The tax […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Letter to Councilor Regarding Regina Recycling
Regina has no curb-side recycling program in place. Residents can pay $93/yr for a private recycler to pick up by-weekly. Hi Louis [Browne], I hope you had a good Summer. Assuming Regina makes 1/4 as much waste as Edmonton, we should get $2,000,000 to employ people who sort/sell trash at our landfill. I’ve been realizing […]
the reeves report: Ontario Green vote projected to drop – but it doesn’t have to
Just about the only thing that all parties and observers can agree upon about the upcoming Ontario election is that the high vote percentage gained by the Green Party of Ontario (GPO) in 2007 will not be maintained in 2011. And it is expected to drop for a number of reasons, but not all of … Continue reading »
Accidental Deliberations: Next year country, Year 5
Yes, we should be due for the Cons’ annual declaration that they’ll get around to regulating greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands, just not this year….right about now.
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Conservation must be our central order of business
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the
price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
(Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of U.S. Forest Service)
In 2008, the energy-giant Enbridg…
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Guest Post re Enbridge Northern Gateway
Hi Friends,
I just registered to make an oral submission to the National Energy Board panel reviewing the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. I encourage you to do the same.
Enbridge plans to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to our salmon rivers…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: As The World Warms, Environmental Protections Put On The Back Burner
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After a year that has so far produced record-breaking snowstorms, droughts, floods, and violent hurricanes and tornadoes, environmental protections are once again being scaled…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janet Bagnall discusses Canada’s steadily-growing income inequality:In the last 20 years, the income of 80 per cent of Americans has stagnated while that of the richest one per cent has nearly doubled. …
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Ontario Liberals protecting the environment and moving Ontario forward
Ontario Liberals are taking the next steps to safeguard our environment for Ontario families. Liberals are protecting precious water resources for future generations with a Great Lakes Protection Act that will be the next chapter in clean water for Ont…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Manitoba Election: Tory drops the nuclear ball; Green kicks it out of the province
When asked if her party would support a moratorium on transporting radioactive nuclear fuel waste through Manitoba, Progressive Conservative candidate Heather Stephanson equivocated, saying she would not answer a “hypothetical question.” By contrast, Green Party Leader James Beddome answered with a thunderous denunciation of allowing nuclear waste on Manitoba soil and declared the possibility of […]
the reeves report: AMO hopes to move waste discussion beyond eco fees
The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) has released a special insert into newspapers across Ontario that stresses the importance of having a proper debate and discussion on the future of waste management in the province. They stress the importance of “safe disposal of our increasingly complex, and potentially toxic, garbage.” AMO argues that after … Continue reading »
Paul S. Graham: Video: 2011 Manitoba Election Environment Forum
Manitoba citizens will elect a new provincial government Oct. 4, 2011 and environmental issues will play an important role in determining which political party forms that government. Where should Manitoba Hydro construct its planned Bipole 3 transmission line – or should it be built at all? How should we save Lake Winnipeg from choking to […]