50 calibre rifle found in Mountie shooting suspect’s truck
It’s a shame that the Harper Tories don’t think that rifles like the one described in this story need to be registered: The rifle was hidden inside, police say. It…
February 2012
The Harper government’s us vs them mentality resurfaces in Internet privacy laws
“He can either stand with us or with the child pornographers” So says Public Safety Minister Vic Toews defending the proposed Lawful Access legislation which would give sweeping new powers…
As the Harper Tories prepare to deep six the life saving long gun registry
A couple of readings on law abidingness: Police use the long gun registry Police use the long gun registry Gun collectors don’t always use the long gun registry
4222…Peyton Manning Update
Coz that is why you troll Progressive Bloggers, to find out what is happening in football in Indiana. I will tell you. The Peyton Manning Saga is starting to play…
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change
This is a book I have yet to read. The author has extensive academic credentials and has written about the issue of climate change politics over a period of some…
From the Preface to "The World Set Free" – H.G. Wells (1913)
This book was written in 1913 and published in 1914, just at the beginning of “The Great War”. The piece below was written in 1921 and is from the preface…
some Valentine’s Day advice
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Journalistic negligence
…there oughta be a law. Those Canadians — me included — who favoured the get-tough law when it passed, never imagined it would be implemented so ridiculously. A gun crime…
Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax
heartland.png Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals. Tobacco anti-science is…
Five Orders of Human Consciousness
David C. Korten in his book “The Great Turning”, lays out five Orders of Human Consciousness which I have greatly condensed and which are presented below — GET THIS BOOK…
Five Orders of Human Consciousness
David C. Korten in his book “The Great Turning”, lays out five Orders of Human Consciousness which I have greatly condensed and which are presented below — GET THIS BOOK…
Parliament in Review: December 8, 2011
Thursday, December 8 saw debate on four separate bills – though once again, the Harper Cons were most conspicuous by their silence on a bill they were in the process…
Romance or misogyny?
Sometimes, it’s SO hard to tell, eh? No, this is not to make 18-year-olds look particularly appealing, or older-than-thou women especially alluring. It relies on some pretty mindless stereotyping of…
On the Younger Trudeau
I think Justin was just trying to make a rhetorical statement about the direction the government of Stephen Harper, rather than it being a serious statement about thinking Quebec should…
Creepy "love" exchanges
It was all hands on deck today, with Turmel, Harper and Rae all in the House. We were spared the worst of mawkish MP tributes to their spouses during Members’…
QP: Creepy "love" exchanges
It was all hands on deck today, with Turmel, Harper and Rae all in the House. We were spared the worst of mawkish MP tributes to their spouses during Members’…
Get rid of the car
Get rid of the car. That’s the message put forth in Stop Signs by Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler, two longtime friends and activists who took a road trip by…
As Canadians Lose Control Of The Internet To The Harper Conservatives …..
Available without a warrant Under the new bill, the six identifiers of telecommunications subscribers that police, intelligence and Competition Bureau officials can obtain without a warrant from their telecommunications service…
Heartland Insider Exposes Institute’s Budget and Strategy
heartland.gif An anonymous donor calling him (or her)self "Heartland Insider" has released the Heartland Institute's budget, fundraising plan, its Climate Strategy for 2012 and sundry other documents (all attached) that…