No looming OAS crisis
The experts dissect Harper’s assertion that there is a looming “crisis” with OAS – and find it to be bunk. Small surprise that some people are betting that the government…
January 2012
How Pastors get rich
15 ways to be exact. Mark Vrankovich at Cultwatch: How Pastors get rich. Rick just put a post up on Todd Bentley’s latest begging – Australia banned me. Please send…
The tax court cometh – Winston Blackmore on trial
Winston Blackmore may have finally met his match: the taxwomen. It’s money – not polygamy, not a constitutional challenge to religious freedom and not criminal charges – that’s landed Canada’s…
Not Accounted For By General Developmental Delays: In DSM-5 Era Life for Autism’s Invisible Vast Majority Is About To Get Much Harder
DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Will Exclude Autism’s Vast Majority Of Intellectually Disabled While the New York Times, the CBC and other mainstream media giants debate the DSM5’s potential exclusion of…
Local Governments, Citizens Want More Scrutiny of Proposed Howe Sound Gravel Mine
A little-known proposed gravel mine at McNab Creek in Howe Sound could soon be digging tens of millions of tonnes of gravel out of sensitive salmon and wildlife habitat, which…
Blogging: A New Saviour in our Midst?
If you have seen the movie Contagion, you may remember a distinct line with mention to blogging spoken between a doctor and a journalist. “Blogging is street art with punctuation.”…
Chris Hedges: What Happened to Canada?
Monday 30 January 2012 | by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became…
Opposing the Enbridge Pipeline: Saying No to Corptocracy
According to the Earth Policy Institute direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry world-wide amount to half a trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000) annually. That’s a lot of zeroes for an industry…
Kevin Taft follows Alberta’s money and finds out where it all went
Your blogger, with another doomed politician, this time the author of Follow the Money, Where is Alberta’s Wealth Going? Just in case you’re thinking of being sarcastic, the sign says…
Gerald Amos on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
NO APOLOGY FORTHCOMING by Gerald Amos, January 8, 2012 “Recently there has been a lot of criticism by supporters of the tar sands, and oil industry front groups, of Canadian…
Van Loan’s ‘gridlock’ hypocrisy
A mere couple of hours into the debate on the bill to create the government’s new pooled registered pension plans, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan dropped the hammer…
Independent and original
I doubt if I can offer any deeper insight or more pointed advice to a tenure track assistant professor in the sciences, than what anyone can find on a number…
Does Stephen Harper Support Coalitions?
If coalitions are undemocratic and a threat to Canada, why hasn’t this strong stable Conservative majority government done anything to make sure they don’t ravage our nation? Simple, Stephen Harper…
It Was the Best of Times…Or Was It?
Source: CTV News Regina: Wall Warns of Austerity, Prudence in Upcoming Budget While there is a lot to talk about federally, especially considering the OAS and pension argument that Harper…
Radio Topics, January 31
Good morning all, and welcome to the end of January! This week, at 8:05 we’ll speak with Simon Cameron, one of the Carleton students that won the North American Debating…
What Enbridge will bring to coastal BC
Oil spill in Dalian, China, Boston Globe July 2010, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and…
Migration update: RPPE.ORG is up.
As this blog has migrated over to its own domain and server I will not be accepting any new comments. For those who have made comments over the past couple…
Does the "faint-hope" clause apply to the Shafia murders? Yes
The punishment for first degree murder in Canada is life imprisonment without chance of parole for 25 years. Until recently certain truly reformed offenders could seek release after 15 years.…
Rapping for Change in Senegal – Sister Fa takes the 2011 Freedom to Create Prize
Last November, Sister Fa took the Freedom to Create Main Prize in 2011 for her devoted work to raising awareness on the traumatic and harmful consequences of female genital mutilation.…
Australia banned me. Please send money
By Rick Hiebert All rights Reserved. Used by Permission Boy it costs a lot to be an evangelist. Just ask Todd Bentley. Earlier today, he sent an “urgent” e-mail asking…