Assorted content to end your week. – Jeremy Warren reports on the latest Canadians for Tax Fairness events working to ensure that Cameco and other megacorporations pay at least their fair share. And Sheila Block and Kaylie Tiessen point out that Ontario could do plenty to reduce its deficit by
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Montreal Simon: The Battle for Burnaby Mountain and Kinder Morgan’s Day of Defeat
They have gathered on Burnaby Mountain to try to prevent the giant energy company Kinder Morgan from drilling a hole through its heart.Dozens of young and old activists have been arrested. But today they won a big court victory, and Kinder Morgan got a big slap in the face.Read more
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: Climate deals and pipeline steals
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/podcast-141128-oil-and-climate.mp3 Today’s episode is focused on the economics and politics of climate change, both more globally and locally. To get a global perspective on the state of climate negotiations and the recent US-China climate deal, I speak with Leigh Phillips, a science writer and journalist who has written for Nature,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Citizenship That Speaks Loudly
Although we live during a time when the term ‘citizen’ has been largely supplanted by corporate misnomers like ‘stakeholders’ and ‘customers’ and ‘taxpayers,’ the concept of citizenship still lives in the hearts of many. And while we hear all the time about the ‘rights’ of stakeholders, not often are we
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe: Tough on Kinder Morgan, Corrigan & Robertson My Kind of Mayors
Rafe Mair stands with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Derrik Corrigan fighting for land use jurisdictional authority against Kinder Morgan and the Prime Minister Harper’s Federal Government. Kinder Morgan’s plans are to dramatically increase the flow of bitumen that they wish to ship from the Alberta Tar Sands to Burnaby
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something We Can Surely Agree On.
No secret I’m opposed to both Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway. A sizeable majority of British Columbians are of the same mind but a significant minority supports the pipeline initiatives. In situations like this it can be helpful to seek out areas of agreement, common ground. Here’s an idea we
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Now, A Word From David Susuki’s Grandson
Tamo Campos, David Susuki’s 24-year-old grandson, was arrested Thursday for defying an injunction granted to Kinder Morgan, which is currently conducting drilling tests in preparation for the much-contested proposed Trans Mountain pipeline. Back at the site on Friday, at the base of Burnably Mountain Campos gave an impromptu speech, the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This is Going To Be A War-Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has gone to court challenging Kinder Morgan’s efforts to proceed contrary to Burnaby’s bylaws. If the court upholds the by-laws then Kinder Morgan will have to cease their work and leave the area. This is going to be a war-says Corrigan.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Kinder Morgan: Message From Ralphie
This is my mad face: Kinder Morgan wants him charged with assault. Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Government Corrupted
There’s no trace of hyperbole in denouncing Stephen Harper as the Great Corrupter. He is corrupt and he corrupts whatever he touches whenever and however it suits him. The proof is pretty much everywhere but a shining example is the National Energy Board. Take it from Marc Elieson, an energy
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Good News – For a Change
Last week I wrote about how Kinder Morgan/Trans-Canada Pipeline was using its corporate muscle and deep pockets to intimidate anti-pipeline protesters in the Lower Mainland. The term for this sort of thing is “lawfare” and it’s pure, head office sleaze. The good news. After the four targeted protesters were sued
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Kinder Morgan Slaps Burnaby Residents With A Multi-Million-Dollar Lawsuit
Richard Hughes-We are being occupied! Whoever thought that in Canada our Prime Minister and the Premier of BC would sell us out as is being done by Harper and Christy Clark? They have made a deal with the devil eager to play in the LNG game and we are all
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: RCMP + CSIS – Add Water and Stir. Voila, the Stasi Lives Again
They were East Germany’s dreaded secret police. They spied on ordinary East Germans, tapped their phones, intercepted their mail, assessed their ‘reliability’, used informants, kept dossiers on persons of interest and ordinary citizens alike. The hated Stasi fell with the Berlin Wall but they live on – in
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rick Smith discusses the growing public appetite to fight back against burgeoning inequality – along with the need to make inequality a basic test for the fairness of any policy: (I)t is significant that a finance minister of our decidedly right-wing government showed
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Vancouver Marches National Energy Board into Court
The City of Vancouver is going to court. It’s goal is to get an order requiring that climate change impacts be considered by the ersatz-National Energy Board hearings on Kinder-Morgan’s pipeline expansion application. The city will ask the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday for a judicial review of the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper blasted for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4B oil pipeline
In a strongly worded letter, Lower Nicola Indian Band Chief Aaron L. Sam blasts Stephen Harper for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion oil pipeline, ignoring climate change. The post Harper blasted for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4B oil pipeline appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: First Nations ‘ecstatic’ over historic Supreme Court ruling
Richard Hughes- Blogger The days of PM Steve Harper running roughshod over First Nations peoples, their land and culture may well have come to an abrupt end! Of course the mistreatment and short-changing preceded Steve but he has done more than his share and now, finally it appears that some
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gar Alperovitz suggests in the wake of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century that it’s long past time to reconsider who controls capital – and make a concerted effort to democratize that control: The name of the game — Piketty’s book fairly
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan And Kinder Morgan On A Collision Course
‘GreenUp or Brown Out’ Skirmishes over access for Kinder Morgan and Spectra to Lower Mainland properties show the debate over Canada’s energy future is washing up on local streets. Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis covers the latest developments that has Kinder Morgan spinners altering the proposed route and now want
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Parsing Justin Trudeau’s Words
Like many, I have real reservations about Justin Trudeau’s capacity for the kind of leadership that reflects a mature and nuanced mind. While many praise him for his spontaneity and unorthodox pronouncements, I look for substance and an indication of policies that suggest a significant departure from the mindset of
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