Asbestos Trader sits on Board of Governors of the Canadian Red Cross
That’s right folks as difficult as that is to believe. Roshi Chadha a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Red Cross is also an asbestos exporter. Since…
January 2012
Saturday Photo: No Holly, But Some Ivy
It’s January 14 and the end of year holidays are over for everyone (although Russian Orthodox Epiphany will be next week and the Asiatic New Year is just around the…
Presidents and Busineesmen
Mitt Romney, whose reported net worth is somewhere north of $200 million, argues that he knows how to make all Americans wealthier. In what is perhaps the deepest irony of…
Canada’s Access to Information Act
Let’s get some information out concerning the access to information process currently available in Canada. For those looking for intimate legal details here is the Access to Information Act itself.…
If You’re not Watching Tapscott
At the Liberal Convention, you’re really missing something special.
The "Ethical Oil"/Tony Clement connection
While I’ve been regaling myself at LibCon 2012, it seems that a dynamite story has escaped the notice of the corporate media. Perhaps they’re at the same convention. In fact,…
2011 Autism Progress or Back to the Future?
Was there any progress in addressing autism disorder issues in 2011? In the humble opinion of this father of a severely autistic 16 year old there was very slight progress…
Saturday At the Movies: The Bible Tells Me So
This video is an excerpt from the powerful documentary titled: For the Bible Tells Me So. The movie looks at Biblical literalism, a 20th Century creation that has been used…
Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall has meltdown on Power & Politics. Goes viral. UPDATED
When I looked yesterday afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It’s now well over 26,000 and quickly rising. Word…
What I Learned In One Day
As a politcal junkie conventions are one of the most exiciting events I can go to. This convention so far is no exception. At the convention is one of the…
Muskrat Falls, the kamikaze venture #nlpoli
Not surprisingly Nalcor’s Ed Martin latched onto a pretty superficial argument to dismiss economist Jim Feehan’s critique of Muskrat Falls. "I go over to see my Dad, an 80-year-old gentleman…
Zero Growth
Is ‘zero growth’ achievable? Maybe so if we set our minds to the idea.
Sarah Ferguson orphanage film: Turkish court files charges
The Duchess of York aka Fergie has been charged by a Turkish court in connection with an ITV documentary she participated in that investigated conditions in Turkish orphanages. She has…
Where There’s Smoke There’s Sure To Be A….
…BC Ferries Spokesthingy Something happened on the Queen of Oak Bay Thursday night that caused it to limp (not drift, as shown above from a few years back) into Horseshoe…
Will only NDP and Wildrose mount full slates to challenge Alison Redford this spring?
Alison Redford: Why is this woman smiling? Why not? Below: NDP Leader Brian Mason: the next leader of the Opposition? Even with Alberta Premier Alison Redford in a mood to…
Hot or Not: Liberal Biennial Convention Edition
Hot: Lanyards: This fashion accessory is hot, hot, hot. They will literally take you places (John Ivison didn’t have the right kind of lanyard so he couldn’t get into the…