Gerry Hummel Cartoon: Private Power Thieves
In the wake of the panel report on BC Hydro and the media firestorm over costly private power projects we plainly don't need, our cartoonist Gerry Hummel gives us his…
In the wake of the panel report on BC Hydro and the media firestorm over costly private power projects we plainly don't need, our cartoonist Gerry Hummel gives us his…
via blogs.smithsonianmag.com Fascinating short article on same-sex pairings among a variety of animals. Filed under: Miscellany
I admit to a love-hate relationship with nuclear power. One day I am all for it because of the large amounts of relatively green power it can provide. I wonder…
ReeseWitherspoonIsNotOurPremierFlickThisVille Yesterday, when the stinger-free hive mind that is BC's Legislative Press Gallery tried, ineffectually, to get Ms. Christy Clark to state whether or not she had any intention of…
This is what Adam Radwanski said in today's Globe & Mail:It should be humbling to his contemporaries that this was enough to make many Canadians acutely feel a void as…
Indeed she is, so are others in her field today, sadly. But before I go into that. I will do a little review of the past few days of others…
Another Irene song - Good Night Irene by Nat King Cole. It is a good one. Enjoy!
More of Beck’s hyperbole and wild talk. According to him Irene is a blessing. He says, "It is God reminding you, as was the earthquake last week...you're not in control."
As reported on this blog earlier this week, and reported by the mainstream media today, Joe Anglin has been nominated for the Wildrose candidate in Rocky Mountain House-Sundre. Mr. Anglin…
For those looking to join the celebration of Jack Layton's life with others, the NDP has put together a list of events happening across Canada. Or for those who can't,…
There is no person on Canadian airwaves who is more vile than Ezra Levant. The photo above is a screen capture of his show on SunNewsNetwork that attacked Jack Layton…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission: The Cry Ottawa is live as we speak. Faytene Grasseschi might say that the Jack Layton memorial services might be a…
Following up on my post about the groups the NDP will want its candidates to reach during the upcoming leadership campaign, I'll follow up with a brief look at some…
Think of the new Libya as the latest spectacular chapter in the Disaster Capitalism series. Instead of weapons of mass destruction, we had R2P (“responsibility to protect”). Instead of neo-conservatives,…
The Government of Canada has a website for its funerals. Here’s a bit of history trivia for you to catch up on. Many of the names I do not know.…
This is probably the most eloquent pair of pictures before and after the fire. The small photos are what the staircase looked like the day afterwards, and the large one,…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. - Adam Radwanski astutely recognizes that the outpouring of sympathy and grief following Jack Layton's death speaks to the gap between what most political…
I just had to feature this quote from another post because it so perfectly encapsulates everything that is sad, funny and totally mockable about the right's reaction to Jack Layton's…
The provincial Liberals included a handy table with their Friday news release on the joint federal/provincial environmental panel’s report on Muskrat Falls. The chart compares what the environmental panel said…
Irene is the storm of the century and already millions of people have been evacuated in the State of New York and many other eastern states. She is so famous…