Criminal Injustice
Conrad Black speaking earlier this month to Allan Gregg, just days before the putative Lord of Crossharbour headed back to a Florida prison to serve the remainder of his sentence…
September 2011
4040…And They Didn’t Get To Hull Or Vanier
They would be the people at MSN who put Your Nation's Capital at 8th on the list of Worst Dressed Cities in the world.Number two was Vancouver and number one…
living in the one party state of alberta: “vote today. today is election day.”
Today is election day in Alberta, but not the kind of election day that would dominate the airwaves and twitter streams in most other provinces in a modern liberal democratic…
David Suzuki Confirms That NDP Is No Longer The Party Of Environmentalists
Dear NDPers,When I was young and growing up in B.C. I used to vote for you people. Then, Mike Harcourt sold out over Clayoquot Sound, went from being a Green…
Harry Bloy’s Entabulator
A source in Victoria leaked information to me explaining why Harry Bloy wants to redirect government spending away from small scale projects like the Richmond Recycling Depot. Bloy thinks that…
Shades of Green: The Sockeye Salmon Murder Mystery
The puzzle of British Columbia's disappearing Fraser River sockeye is unfolding like a classical murder mystery. Suspects abound. Suspicion has fallen on such culprits as atypical ocean predators, unusual algae…
Exceptionalism
Sometimes I find if very hard to understand Americans. Why wouldn't they take this man's death seriously? Do they really believe that "you can just go to the emergency room"…
Because it’s Saturday
When Amazon set up their website to allow Customer Reviews of the psychotic myriad of products they flog, I wonder if they knew those reviews would become such a source…
Horsefeathers discovered in Alberta
(Ottawa, September 17) DawgNews has learned that an unprecedented collection of horsefeathers has been found at the University of Calgary, encased in several fossilized copies of Alberta Report. Representing early…
Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required…
Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required…
Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required…
Embrace Innovation People
I think conservatives are just scared that the clean energy act might be successful. Any educated person knows new technology costs start off high and go down as inputs required…
Sliding into Fall
Oops, it did it again…. The Fall term 2011 has managed to sneak up on me, like its 2010 predecessor. All of a sudden, it’s all back. I am facing…
The IMF Comes to Its Senses – Income Inequality is Ruinous
It's about time. The International Monetary Fund, it seems, has opened its eyes and discovered that income inequality, the growing gap between rich and poor, is ruinous to modern economies.IMF…
Liberal Party fundraising – plea for directed donations
The party needs to raise substantially more money than it has in past years, from smaller donations and from a much wider donor base.At the same time, the party is…
On strategic considerations
While most media discussion of the NDP's leadership race so far has focused disproportionately on the effect of a couple of early endorsements, the obvious reality is that any candidate…
Lest We Forget Those Who Die For Canada’s Economy
Although the following video was made to protect B.C. workers, perhaps it could be included as a warning to all the unprotected workers who are exposed to the asbestos that…
Next week Kelowna celebrates the fetus
I spent Labour Day weekend camping near Vernon, touring wineries, and enjoying the good life. I highly recommend Arrowleaf Cellars. The trip left me with a longing to live in…
"Doubt" Video On Fossil Fuel Industry’s Tobacco PR Tactics To Undermine Science
doubt.jpg In case you didn't manage to catch all 24 hours of the Climate Reality Project (I mean, what the heck else were you doing?), I wanted to flag this…