FOX News Admits Global Warming Science is Legit
This FOX News panel has stumbled upon a breathtaking discovery - apparently this anthropogenic global warming theory is true. Yep, the facts do seem to back it up. Why they've…
August 2011
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Heather Mallick highlights the dangers of the permanent unemployment which regressive politicians around the globe are so vociferously demanding in the guise…
Hurricane Irene, Climate Change, and the Need to Consider Worst Case Scenarios
Irene Track Aug 25.gif In May of 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina, I wrote an article that nobody noticed. It was entitled “Thinking Big About Hurricanes: It’s Time…
New column day
Here, on Jack Layton's political legacy of choosing principle over political expediency.
Education Makes White People Dumb
You will eat, bye and bye,In that glorious land above the sky;Work and pray, live on hay,You'll get pie in the sky when you die- Joe Hill song This interesting…
Doer Shills for Tarsands and Sells out Environment
"Gary Doer sells oil sands from coast to U.S. coast" Yeah, and in the process is selling out the environment and, eventually, the planet. How sad to see Gary Doer…
Happiest Commuters Walk or Cycle to Work
Many cyclists can go on for hours about how great riding a bicycle everyday is (I know I can), and it has been proven that walking can make you happier…
Compounding the abuse #nlpoli
It wasn’t bad enough that the province’s special ballot laws make a mockery of democracy. For the 2011 general election, the province’s elections office is opening 12 special offices across…
The Canadian Manifesto: 3. Religion Goes Corporate
Rick Warren is considered to be one of the most important Evangelical leaders in the United States. He turned the small Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, with a congregation…
Media Links: All-encompassing surveillance or 21st-century citizenship?
Photo from Quevaal on Wikipedia It's time to re-imagine the role of both citizens and government. We need a future where governments are more permeable and where citizens are better…
Tantrum on the air
We live in a crazy world and it is becoming crazier as time goes on. Read more here.
A Post-Jack NDP: If the NDP were a stock I’d be shorting them
Jack Layton, long time NDP leader, died on August 22nd. He brought the NDP from 13 seats and 8.9% of the vote under Alexa McDonough to his stupendous 2011 results…
Jack Layton, in Pictures
Although most of the tributes to Layton have focused on his role on Parliament Hill, he will be missed from coast to coast - cycling with Olivia, attending local festivals,…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 25, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Edwards Asks For Delay Of Trial - http://goo.gl/tWeNS Editorial: First nations grossly under-represented on juries - Vancouver Sun - http://goo.gl/3HdGBODR,…
On green job schemes
As a counter to Margaret Wente today, "Message to McGuinty: Most green-job schemes have been miserable failures," who relies in part for her view on a New York Times report…
Ontario Projections 2011
For any of those interested in the upcoming provincial election, there's now a few sites so far that provide some pretty detailed projections based on recent polling that you should…
Climate Mama: I Need To Be In Washington This Week For My Children
Harriet Sugarman, a policy analyst and economist, is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Mama which, according to its website, is: …about the facts, about getting the straight scoop,…
jack layton memorials are more than grief: they’re an affirmation of the ndp’s vision
The enormous outpouring of emotion on Jack Layton's passing continues unabated. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians are leaving messages and flowers, and making donations to the Broadbent Institute. Millions more…