PWU (Power Workers Union) Winds Down Social Networking Campaign
...kills their Flogs, fires their Facebook pseuds. Congrats to Mike De Souza from PostMedia for doing the digging on this story. I'd visited Enviralment years ago and figured it was…
October 2011
RIP Steve Jobs
Whatever your thoughts about Jobs, his company Apple or the products he shepherded into existence, Jobs was an innovator and a visionary. His kind is getting rarer and rarer to…
Bummer. Palin not runnin’ for president.
What could have been one of the most amusing, mock-worthy gaggle of candidates in the history of the United States is now one nutter short. Sarah Palin announces she will…
Okay, This Is The "Last Poll"
This morning I read the Angus Reid poll that showed the PC's in the lead and was a bit surprised they hadn't captured any Liberal move, it reeked outlier. Dubbed…
Busy London Rail Station to be Solar Powered
Blackfriars station has been under some major construction in the past few years and it’s about to reopen to operations next year. While that’s happening construction has begun on installing…
QP: Regarding that Champlain Bridge announcement
As Nycole Turmel was in St. John’s attending the funeral of Nancy Riche, it was deputy leader Libby Davies who kicked off Question Period by asking about manufacturing jobs and…
Manitoba 2011 – How My Projections Faired
Not as well as 308.com's, where Eric Grenier pretty much nailed it. Of course, people will still call him a left-wing hack.However, this left-wing hack didn't do too bad either.Of…
A Best Practice a Day Keeps the Feds Away: API Workshop on Fracking "Excellence"
Picture 2.png The ongoing American Petroleum Institute (API) workshop “Commitment to Excellence in Hydraulic Fracturing” could be more simply titled “Commitment to Hydraulic Fra...
Trials of the Century
"There are very few trials that are of any interest at all outside the legal community," Morton said. "The things that lawyers would think of as the 'trials of the…
"I Like You, But I Don’t Like Your Leader.’”
Simply amazing comment from PC candidate Cheryl Miller, particularly since it was made just after said leader exited their JOINT radio appearance. Another convert to DUD nation:Speaking Wednesday morning to…
Le Devoir on How to Fill That Growing Hole in the Ozone Layer
This morning Le Devoir's cartoonist took a swing aat both Stephen Harper's disdain for the facts pointing to the effects of human activity on the atmosphere and his passion for…
U.S. Self-sufficient Oil Production would be a Threat to both the Tarsands and the Keystone Pipeline XL
U.S. Oil Production a Threat to Canadian Oil Industry So let's say the U.S. becomes relatively oil self-sufficient by 2017, as some argue, and let's say that self-sufficiency does not…
Koch Brothers Dishonest About Keystone XL, Tar Sands Interest
Kochtopus money bags.png On the heels of a 21-page investigative article by Bloomberg Magazine, which covered the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Koch Brothers, Koch Industries,...
What is a criminal proceeding?
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation v. Ontario, 2011 ONCA 624 decides that for a matter to be 'criminal' so as to fall under criminal procedure there must be some ongoing criminal matter before the Court.…
Pembina comments on the federal environment commissioner’s report
I intended to comment on the October Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, offering as it did yet another disappointing, if not depressing, account of the…
Bernake Would Seem to Get It. Does Flaherty?
http://goo.gl/CXd0Y Bernake would seem to get it: laying off government employees creates more unemployment. He also knows that any budget deficit should be constricted over a longer term, that cutting…
Congratulations, Erin!
In the midst of all this strum, drang, gloom, and doom let us pause for just moment to applaud a terrific achievement by a Friend of the Dawg. Erin Bow…
A ban on cosmetic pesticides is scientific and smart
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 The Premier and the opposition agree that there should be a ban on cosm...
Reasons to vote NDP in Ontario on Oct. 6, 2011
Here is what the NDP will do for the people of Ontario:Economy, Taxation, JobsRolling back corporate tax cuts. History has shown that lowering corporate taxes does nothing to create jobs.…