Working on recent history – some reflections
In my professional life, I usually find myself researching and writing on topics that deal with the last fifty or so years of Canadian history. This sometimes leads to people…
March 2011
Japan Nuclear: Spent Fuel Containment Pool May Be Open To Atmosphere; Sattellite Images Appear To Show Missing Roof
"...the total amount of long-lived radioactivity in the pool is at least five times that in the reactor core...""The spent fuel produced by reactors has been a challenge since the…
Japan Nuclear: Spent Fuel Containment Pool May Be Open To Atmosphere; Sattellite Images Appear To Show Missing Roof
“…the total amount of long-lived radioactivity in the pool is at least five times that in the reactor core…” “The spent fuel produced by reactors has been a challenge since…
Japan Nuclear: Spent Fuel Containment Pool May Be Open To Atmosphere; Sattellite Images Appear To Show Missing Roof
"...the total amount of long-lived radioactivity in the pool is at least five times that in the reactor core...""The spent fuel produced by reactors has been a challenge since the…
Japan Nuclear: Spent Fuel Containment Pool May Be Open To Atmosphere; Sattellite Images Appear To Show Missing Roof
“…the total amount of long-lived radioactivity in the pool is at least five times that in the reactor core…” “The spent fuel produced by reactors has been a challenge since…
HUMANITARIAN COALITION: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: DONATE NOW!
Canadian aid agencies, under the banner of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, are urging Canadians to support the relief efforts in Japan after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the…
HUMANITARIAN COALITION: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: DONATE NOW!
Canadian aid agencies, under the banner of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, are urging Canadians to support the relief efforts in Japan after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the…
HUMANITARIAN COALITION: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: DONATE NOW!
Canadian aid agencies, under the banner of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, are urging Canadians to support the relief efforts in Japan after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the…
HUMANITARIAN COALITION: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: DONATE NOW!
Canadian aid agencies, under the banner of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, are urging Canadians to support the relief efforts in Japan after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the…
Stéphane Bédard plaide pour une meilleure représentation des arbres
Dans le nouveau système électoral à deux vitesses que propose le Parti Québécois, les arbres de l’Abitibi ou de la Gaspésie auraient plus de poids à l’Assemblée nationale que les…
The Star: Parents must witness their children’s murder to receive compensation
I'm wondering if the young man who had been beheaded on a passenger bus in western Canada had been beheaded in Ontario, would his family not receive victim compensation because…
Radio Topics, Ides of March edition
It’s a good thing I’m not Caesar. This week at 8:00, we’ll speak with Professor Mark Van Vugt about his new book Selected. We’ll also touch on some of the…
Let me tell you who Omar Alghabra is
Omar is one of the reasons I started to blog back in March 2008. I was reading Progressive Bloggers a lot back then and got so pissed at Stéphanne Dion…
What’s Good for the Goose
It's an abstract post today, so brace yourselves.In watching Power & Politics on the CBC this afternoon, I was given what they call 'The Firing Line', only because of technical…
Les paradis fiscaux américains
Je parie qu’il vous vient des images d’îles exotiques quelque part dans le sud en lisant le titre de ce billet. Eh bien, vous êtes dans l’erreur. Les paradis fiscaux…
GOP Can’t Wait To Strip You Of Your Rights
In their battle against a woman’s right to choose, anti-choice Republicans have adopted a new tactic to enforce their agenda: deem any anti-choice bill an “emergency.” In Texas, Gov. Rick…
E-mail Leak of Alleged Bank of America Fraud
Deepsouthdoug at dailykos have published initial batch of Bank of America leaks that shows alleged fraud. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/14/956153/-BREAKING-Operation-LeakS-Releases-Initial-BofA-Emails zerohedge blogged about the leak: this appears to be a concerted effort from…
Anti-Abortion Thought Police
This is not a debate about abortion. This is about a fundamental right to make choices about our sexuality — without the encroachment of a president, the Supreme Court, and…
Japanese Earthquake Facts
Japan is geographically in the worst position possible. Right on the border of the tectonic plates. There are a lot of facts that we don’t know about Japan that they…
Provincial nomination progress, NDP and Greens
Neither the ONDP or GPO have nominated a particularly large slate so far, so I combined them here.The NDP haven't nominated a whole lot of candidates so far as I…