Brazil: Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Natural Gas
In Brazil a recent energy auction has shown that wind power is cheaper than natural gas in the country, and also a better investment opportunity. The competitiveness of sustainable energy…
August 2011
Putting the Blatchfords of the world in the proper context
Activist Communique: An open letter to Christie Blatchford by Alice Moran | rabble.caNOW Magazine // Daily // News // A vainglorious, partisan spectacleSad part is, Blatchford and her enablers probably…
Pitiful: Canada can’t even afford to attend Expo 2012 in South Korea
Under the guise of ‘belt tightening’, Canada has turned down an invitation to attend Expo 2012 in South Korea. Or, is it a case we simply can’t we afford it…
Snapshots of Nursing History
Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada. Filed under: Our Proud History, Public Images of Nurses and Nursing Tagged: Hospital for Sick Children, Nurse uniform, Nurses, Nursing, Toronto
A Future Obituary For Christie Blatchford
Christie Blatchford died, alone and unloved, surrounded by her cats.
A monstrous abuse continues #nlpoli
While there will be a general election in Newfoundland and Labrador this fall, there isn’t one at the moment. And yet, the province’s chief electoral office is proudly encouraging people…
A Response to Christie Blatchford
Layton’s death turns into a thoroughly public spectacle Yes, the sexist tweetstream against Blatchford is "horrid," as Don Gardner, purveyor of all things empirically true, tweeted last night, and, yes,…
Keith Olbermann’s worst person in the world
The usual suspects are Glenn Beck and Allen West. Both of these sure have crossed the line of sanity into the la la land a while ago.
Parents and Teachers Should Not Be Misled: Autism, For Now, Includes Those With Intellectual Disability
Stephanie of Autism and Oughtisms has posted a guest comment on the site Teaching the Teachers, Educating an Autistic Child is an Opportunity, in which, like many other parents and…
Whale Stew
Since we’re taking an interesting domestic turn this week, let me contribute my salute to the successful Bowhead Whale hunters in Iqaluit, who harvested the community’s first Bowhead in over…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. - Lee Berthiaume and David McGrane both discuss the team and the strategy that helped the NDP to build to its current level of…
‘Contempt of cop’ no crime
So read the headline in today's Hamilton Spectator in a story by Ken Peters.In yet another blow to the patina of respect that used to envelop the police,Ontario Court Justice…
(3) The Challenge: The Media Hates Us: The Four Challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party
There are challenges to the Alberta Liberal Party forming government in Alberta. In this series of posts I’ll write about some of the challenges that Liberals face in this province…
Nicolas Sarkozy: The Perks of Power
It is obvious from the picture above that why Sarkozy doesn’t want Muslim women to wear veils - so that he can pick and choose whose breasts he is going…
Jack
Jack Layton will lie in state for public visitations in the foyer of the House of Commons from 12:30 to 8 pm today and 9 am to 1:30 pm tomorrow.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for August 24, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Strauss-Kahn free after courts let prosecutors drop case -http://goo.gl/AzMhCFacebook Does Circles-Like Sharing - http://goo.gl/gyooq Federal judge rules music file-sharing site…
New Democrats Have A Broad Field Of Candidates To Consider For Leader
"The shoes are really big to fill."Nycole TurmelActing Leader of theNew Democratic Party of CanadaI didn't want to do this post now ... I'd rather have waited until after Jack…
Layton’s Legacy
Much will be written in the days to come about Jack Layton's legacy. Lawrence Martin writes that Jack Layton was "the left's great hope. The great hope is gone and…
Jack Would Approve: Radio Nederlands Series on Protest Songs
One of the brief uncomfortable moments at Monday night's vigil at the foot of Mount Royal in memory of Jack Layton was the interminable version of "This Land Is Your…