Whistler clears the air around Asphalt Plant
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Yesterday the Mayor and Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (...
May 2011
Why Buy Local
This info-graphic was assembled by elocal.com and makes an exceptionally compelling argument as to why people should at least consider buying local when they’re in the grocery store and elsewhere:…
Rap on Rapid Transit
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Anyone interested in rapid transit in Vancouver has until this Friday, April 22nd to tell Translink what they think about the propos...
Environmentalists outgunned by oil industry lobbyists
Monday, April 18, 2011 An article in La Presse demonstrates that oil industry lobbyists get about ...
The debate you didn’t hear on climate change
Thursday, April 14, 2011 Last Tuesday’s English Language leadership debates are over with ha...
Stephen Harper will ^NOT be balancing the budget.
If you were wondering how the Conservatives were planning on filling that $11 billion hole in their platform? Apparently, they are planning on using Stephen Harper and Jim Flaherty’s massive…
Controlling gas prices is a bad idea
Listening to the radio over the last few days, there’s been more talk of getting the government to step in and control rising gas prices. I don’t think anyone understands…
Overdue Post
My apologize for the lateness of this post...As previously mentioned, I was going to be indisposed for sometime after the election (light surgery, and I'm fine in case anyone is…
Why Cats Elect Dogs
Alternate Voting - or AV - will have massive implications with respect to voting in Canada (and will hopefully marginalize all of those who vote for dogs instead of cats).
Polar Bear to visit Mount Allison for Convocation
In case you haven't subscribed to Mount Allison University's RSS feed here's the recent post about Ursula coming for Convocation (4 days away). Polar Bear to visit Mount Allison for…
Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15
LOL. Edit: Hey, good for the Tories on deciding to make good on their promise.
Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15
LOL.Edit: Hey, good for the Tories on deciding to make good on their promise.
Fiscally Reposible? Yeah Right
The Conservatives are going to reduce the Corporate taxes by more for next year. If this years budget passes (which of course it will) the corporate taxes will be 16.5%…
Courage Unfolds Campaign promotes equal human rights in Asia
The Courage Unfolds Campaign and video highlight the challenges faced by LGBT people in Asia and promotes equal human rights through the use of the Yogyakarta Principles, which address the…
Requiem For A Lightweight….
..."How Can Someone Possibly Be Less Popular Than Gordon Campbell?"From our good friend Mr. Beer 'N Hockey on last night's (almost) live blog of the feature bout between challenger David…
Point Grey By-Election (Almost) Live
Eby v. ClarkThrillaOnBlancaVille8:01pm...Polls closed...Pretty heavy late turnout at two polls I passed in rain on ride home outta CremeVille on way home to near Eastern Townships this evening.8:06pm...Looking for....Did Greeniacs…
Know Your Lines – Center for Urban Pedagogy’s latest poster tackles redistricting
The Center for Urban Pedagogy's latest issue of Making Policy Public takes you behind the scenes of the largely invisible redistricting process in which politicians often get to choose their…
Duped
Again. All I know is I sure as hell didn’t vote for these guys.
Three weeks late and a hundred bucks short
This might explain a lot. When I got home from work today, there was a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada in my mailbox, in a fairly large envelope.…
A brief history of a long Liberal history of talking about reform
We've all been absorbed since the election with issues of Liberal Party reform, and over the last week I've made my own contributions to the debate:May 5, 2011: Renewing the…