In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt. January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario. Full details are available via the Facebook event.
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The Progressive Right: Town Hall Event – "Ontario’s Greenbelt Under Threat" ( #onpoli )
In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt.January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario.Full details are available via the Facebook event.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Town Hall Event – "Ontario’s Greenbelt Under Threat" ( #onpoli )
In partnership with Ontario Greenbelt Alliance, Land Over Landings presents a Town Hall Meeting to expose the threats to Ontario’s Greenbelt. January 28th – 7 – 9 pm, Brougham Town Hall, Brougham, Ontario. Full details are available via the Facebook event.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Alberta faces recession…
Because of falling oil prices. I predicted this about a two years ago. Right here. … and Ontario bounces back. With the lower price of oil and a lower dollar,it was inevitable. And I bet the short pants in the PMO are beginning to regret their short-changing and put-downs of Canada’s most
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Ontario’s Craft Brewers Should Reject the Beer Store Proposal ( #beer #onpoli )
It’s not often that two of my favourite things collide, but somebody got politics in my beer and beer in my politics. People who know me, know that I enjoy trying and sampling new beer. I like variety and I think we’re living in a tremendous time when lots of
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Ontario’s Craft Brewers Should Reject the Beer Store Proposal ( #beer #onpoli )
It’s not often that two of my favourite things collide, but somebody got politics in my beer and beer in my politics.People who know me, know that I enjoy trying and sampling new beer. I like variety and I think we’re living in a tremendous time when l…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Ontario’s Craft Brewers Should Reject the Beer Store Proposal ( #beer #onpoli )
It’s not often that two of my favourite things collide, but somebody got politics in my beer and beer in my politics. People who know me, know that I enjoy trying and sampling new beer. I like variety and I think we’re living in a tremendous time when lots of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Sam Pizzigati interviews Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett about the fight against inequality and the next piece of the puzzle to be put in place: [Pickett:]…In The Spirit Level, we have all these correlations between inequality and social problems, and we have
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What’s a Single Issue Prime Minister to Do?
These are not good times for Canada’s petro-prime minister. Harper’s Holy Grail, Canadian energy superpowerdom, has sprung a leak. Even The Globe & Mail, says bitumen no longer makes any economic sense. If $40 a barrel still seems a ways off, consider that the benchmark price for oil sands crude
Continue readingNew Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff program and selected another 99 MW of solar power projects to receive payments from it. This comes from 330 new
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Superior Court of Justice, Here Come the Non-Payment Claims
A recent decision by Justice Nordheimer confirmed that Lawyers can no longer bring claims for non-payment against their clients to the Ontario Small Claims Court. They must now be assessed at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.An excellent article by Yamri Taddese of the Law Times, details how this will
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Ontario Auditor’s damning report on P3s
The Ontario Auditor General’s 2014 Report includes a chapter on Infrastructure Ontario’s P3 program that is particularly damning–and corresponds with many of the criticisms made on this blog and elsewhere by myself and others. While the headlines were that P3 projects cost the province an additional $8 billion than if
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne Blasts Harper New Anti-prostitution Law
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne says Harper’s new anti-prostitution law, Bill C-36, will protect neither exploited sex workers nor communities. The post Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne Blasts Harper New Anti-prostitution Law appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Monica Pohlmann interviews Armine Yalnizyan about the undue influence of our corporate overlords in setting public policy: What’s your sense of the state of our democracy? We have a troubled relationship with our democratic institutions. We need to get over the idea
Continue readingCarbon49 - Sustainability for Canadian businesses: From Ground to Store: We Look at Carbon Neutral Wines
When you see a product that says carbon neutral, what does it mean? I recently enjoyed a bottle of Italy’s number one selling wine in Canada, Santa Margherita’s Pinot Grigio. Each bottle has a green label that says “Carbon neutral from ground to store. Measured and offset with Carbonzero”. It
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
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
Continue readingEh Types: No Doug, No Problem
If at first you don’t succeed, try something you’re even less qualified for? Not exactly conventional wisdom, but very little of that applies when talking about the Fords. For example, holding a press conference to announce you’re not running for office. Doug Ford announced earlier he will not seek to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tom Sullivan’s advice for Democrats south of the border that it’s essential to reach out to dispossessed voters of all types of backgrounds with a compelling alternative to the status quo is equally relevant to progressives in Canada. – But the good news
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Election-Eve Racist, Sexist Attack on Olivia Chow
If this cartoon were published, say, 2 weeks before the election, it would have been debated as a tool of racist, sexist propaganda and yet another blemish on corporate media. Her support would likely have grown after such a brutally immature attack. But because politics is a dirty, disgusting, sociopathic
Continue readingJoe Fantauzzi: Rob Ford’s Political Body
Toronto’s Rob Ford lives a political life. Both his bare existence and his public personae have taken on a politicization since he entered municipal governance. Plainly said, his weight and other biological issues have become just as political as his public life as “mayor” of the City of Toronto. The Ancient
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