“For the record, the oil industry is not a jobs machine. It is the world’s most capital-intensive industry and earns more than 10 per cent of the world’s GDP. But…
It’s clear: online action can be hugely effective when people participate and spread the word. We know this from experience, and from something unprecedented that happened this week. Over 13…
So Obama has sunk the Keystone XL pipeline—at least temporarily. He has said Trans Canada can apply again, so perhaps he’s just being an election-year tease. Nonetheless, it’s a victory…
Today’s editorial in The Moncton Times and Transcript brought a tear to my eye. A highly successful developer (land, stadia, hockey teams, hotels) is rumoured to have bought land around…
Last week, House Speaker John Boehner’s office released a video that tried to make the case to build the Keystone Pipeline. Mr. Boehner has taken millions of dollars from oil…
Continuing with our new initiative of highlighting at least one Indiegogo project each month, one of this week’s Friday Film Pick is Don’t Mine Me – a doc looking at…
Occupy Ottawa activists are expected to join thousands of Canadian Occupy and labour activists in London, Ont., on Saturday, January 21, for a massive rally against Electro-Motive Diesel Canada. The…
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Sometimes those creatures in the illustration are real. An email from my friend Gödel Noodle: Thanks for participating in the SOPA/PIPA strike! I’ve been following this since late November or…
One of the Toronto police officers now being charged for excessive force during the Adam Nobody arrest at the G20 protests is described this way by his lawyer: This kid…
From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board : The C-NLOPB has received a request from Corridor Resources Inc. to issue a prohibition order under the Atlantic Accord legislation, which…
suntv_news.gif Just over a week before the Northern Gateway Pipeline hearings began, EthicalOil.org and its allies launched a pre-emptive PR offensive on environmental and First Nations groups who oppose the…
This Rick Mercer video started making the rounds several days ago, but in case you missed it, it's a hilarious skewering of the "radical foreign interests" talking point that the…
The above title, taken from both The Bible and the title of a Morley Callaghan novel, suggests the possibility of redemption. There was a report in yesterday’s Star amply demonstrating…
I’m not much of a video lover, myself, but I know most of our culture is and so I’ve been amassing a few links that may be of interest to…
“At a time when global competition is growing and our crime rate is falling, it is smarter to invest in education than jails. – Dalton McGuinty After two days of…
The Justice Department’s position that same-sex marriages of foreigners in Canada are invalid is bunk, but the law does not need changing. Apologists for the Department of Justice’s argument—including journalist…
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape.…
I’m not writing much here these days, but since it generated a few emails yesterday, here’s a link to a piece in yesterday’s Western Star with a very general overview…
