fracking-photo-drink.jpg Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.org (a fantastic site that you should bookmark and visit often) Authored by Mackenzie Schoonmaker and Mike Dulong from Riverkeeper Every time the gas industry…
The Harper regime’s latest round of Crown appointments have been posted online, and the Sixth Estate Patronage List has been updated accordingly. Around 37% of new appointments outside the existing…
Not one of the Jeopardy Contestants knew who Stephen Harper was. He sold his soul to Americans and maybe he is more often on T.V in the U.S than Canada…
One by one, the doors are slowly closing shut on the climate change denialists. They’ve had a good run. They have perpetrated a highly-successful scam and have bought a great…
I suspect that with the exception of her employer, few believe The Globe’s Margaret Wente is a subtle thinker who deserves a forum in the self-proclaimed ‘newspaper of record.’ Her…
Others have already drawn parallels between the Cons’ plan to require Employment Insurance recipients to accept whatever low-paying temporary work might be available as a condition of receiving the benefits…
A teacher wrote on our Facebook page the other day asking what the connection was between Bill 22 and US education reforms. I had posted an article about a teacher…
He wants to tax the poor and give a big tax break to the rich. It is about time that the 99% wake up to the exploitation by the 1%…
Source: MSNBC Actually it is Moscow seen from the International Space Station.
Afghan security forces seem to have derailed a major terror attack against civilians in Kabul. They intercepted a truck laden with 10-tonnes of explosives hidden underneath a load of potatoes.…
They rail on about Darwinism. They argue for Creationism rather than evolution. They claim to be devout adherents to the Bible, particularly the New Testament, and worship Jesus. Why, then,…
Adam Huras of the Legislature Bureau is the reporter. First, it’s on shale gas, a topic the Moncton Times should have been reporting on about a thousand times more than…
Several times over the last decade we’ve been in the middle of preparing to go to France for a while. I’d love to be doing that right now, but there…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Imagine an election where radio stations were forced to run small-c conservative and Christian radio ads against their will. The idea…
A few weeks ago, I was talking with a colleague, whom I will call Jean Hill, and by-the-by the conversation fell to nurse bloggers. Several prominent ones were mentioned, like…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tim Harper gets somewhat closer to the mark than most pundits in recognizing that any talk an NDP/Lib merger is neither timely nor…
It may be the #hashtag that will ultimately will do it in. Or perhaps, it’s just that it’s still sniggeringly funny to our latent kindergarten brains when someone says the…
Some clever person used Xtranormal to create a great video addressing climate change denial and correcting common myths held by global warming skeptics. It sounds a lot like a Skeptical…
One year ago today, we adopted Diego. I had just gotten home from my spring New York visit. Allan and I had been looking at dogs online, and had decided…
There is a core attraction to libertarianism, although scholars differ on definition and expressions take different paths, almost all of us can relate to certain articulations. In North America, libertarianism…
