Consumer-ready renewable energy can destabilize the traditional energy utility structure in a similar way to how the internet destabilized a lot of other old school industries. This is a good…
If the province’s Liberals live up to the promise made in a news release issued Monday, they’ll make local legislative history. Andrew Parsons, MHA for Burgeo-La Poile, announced today that…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 10, 2012: UK Law Society gives lawyers social media guidance Parental abductions go unpunished, Canadian dads…
“The Upper House remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister,” a righteous Stephen Harper proclaimed back in 2004. As is always the case with this…
… off this site until I return, but it is our last day down here, so I’m taking some liberties. This is the Con Natural Resources Minister: Oliver says the…
Pro-Internet community, We’re hearing a lot about the Big Three cell phone giants’ terrible treatment of customers, and about their plans to take more control of the market. We’re getting…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Stephen Maher and Barbara Yaffe have learned to be duly skeptical of the Cons’ motives when it comes to Senate patronage. But…
It’s only 10 days into January of 2012 and already we have a sure winner for lack-of-self-awareness wingnut quote of the year. Thank you, Joe Oliver and congratulations. Your clueless…
It’s not enough that this edition of Collingwood Town Council had to resolve the downtown patio issue, the Admiral Collingwood Place debacle, and the general financial mess left by the…
Responding to Cooperative Catalyst, Metrics and “Success” I think data is important (it’s the only evidence we have!) but I think that people take a very narrow view of data,…
Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will…
Apparently Santorum’s Iowa momentum is dead and is no longer helping him in New Hampshire. Jon Huntsman keeping his 3rd place position, and Paul Solid at around 20%. While Mitt…
…it will be important to keep a level head. The GreenPolicyProf blog is a good place for a level headed assessment of the situation on the ground in B.C.. Incidentally,…
Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, is apparently mad that his government’s plan to dump an oil pipeline through some of British Columbia’s pristine wilderness and have oil tankers come…
Ottawa – Liberal Caucus (PLC), relegated to the third party in the Commons by the orange wave that swept the last elections, may well have robbed a member of its…
I first heard the idea of using a primary type system to choose the next Liberal leader in April, 2011. By then it was pretty clear we were not going…
That is what Le Devoir is reporting is the subject of a Bob Rae press conference this morning. If so, it’s big news: Le caucus du Parti libéral (PLC), relégué…
The CBC online account is on the Ceeb’s website (here). That’s pretty much what everyone has been reporting, namely the impact fisheries minister Darin King’s comments on Friday had on…
Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2007 Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2011 There are many news reports concerning possible connections between obesity and medications prescribed for children and adults with autism and…
