Download: earthgaugeradio-podcast-may31-2012-sharkconservation.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’re taking a look at shark conservation and the Ottawa bike festival called Capital Velo Fest. The award-winning film Sharkwater will be screened…
From Len Berman’s That’s Sports: A former English soccer player who is black has warned his minority countrymen not to travel to the European Soccer Championships this summer. The tournament…
Newly minted Premier Kathy Dunderdale from her 20 Questions interview in the Telegram, December 24, 2010: Still, Dunderdale maintains being premier was never on her radar. She says she’s not…
Although one wouldn’t know it by listening to the predictable, hysterical, and politically-motivated campaign Harper Inc. is mounting against Thomas Mulcair for his ‘Dutch disease’ comments, there is a growing…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 31, 2012: Lawsuits slam ‘natural’ claims from OJ to chips WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Loses Another…
Here, on the importance of public libraries – and why the powers that be may be entirely happy to tear them down through a contrived war against their workers. For…
I don’t actually doubt Joe Oliver’s sincerity in claiming that as far as he’s concerned, people will soon be able to drink from tar-sands tailing ponds. But I do suspect…
Editor’s note: In the past, Bilderbergers kept the list of conference participants secret. Now they publish the list on their “official” website. The list of participants to this year’s…
When David Wilks backed down last week — declaring that, despite his previous comments, he supported the Harper government’s Omnibus Budget Bill — Canadians got an inside look at how…
Why didn’t Toronto Police take this tip seriously? How could the video be online for days, and the authorities didn’t know, or care? How can web sites like “Best Gore”…
There’s a new article up over at YouSustain called How To Become More Sustainable that turned out well. I think it’ll give a lot of people some perspective on where…
So, I had this great post all ready about an amazing album that just came out and then something happened: a foot was sent to the Conservative party HQ. And…
Though most famous for his poetry, war heroics, and womanizing, Lord Byron’s greatest achievements all took place in the water. He was born with a deformity in his right foot,…
… in Alta Vista. Last year, this was a 50 year old, 40 foot tall tree with perhaps an 18 inch girth. Now even the stump is gone and this…
According to this site, Storseth’s private member’s bill to repeal Section 13 (the hate-speech provision) of the Canadian Human Rights Act was debated again in the HOC yesterday. Not a…
Something to watch for today as the Conservatives keep digging their democratic deficit, the Commons public accounts committee meets to decide the future of the F-35 hearings. Not in public,…
At one time the argument might have been made that Canada led North America in terms of provision of evidence based treatment for autism. Strong parent advocacy had made gains…
Mr. Speaker, if the members opposite think that the level of scrutiny that we do over a $3 billion expenditure in health care is to take every single health authority…
A couple people have written me recently, and one has commented, asking me whether I know much about the entry into Canada of private prison contractor GEO Group, on a…
