No Charges Filed Against Gleick
As readers may remember, Peter Gleick is the hydroclimatologist who suckered the Heartland Institute out of some of their budget documents, which act has, directly or indirectly, resulted in HI’s…
May 2012
As Though We Need Another Reason to Ditch the F-35
Listen up, this is serious. The American Warfare State, the very one that any country buying the F-35 is signing on to serve, has achieved a degree of madness that…
If It Walks Like A Duck
Isn’t it interesting, that with all this talk about “foreign interests” infiltrating environmental charities- attempting to influence our political discourse- the ONLY organization on the top ten list that can…
Mitt Romney – Bully? Hell Yes! Homophobe? Maybe, Maybe Not.
Mitt Romney admits bullying a classmate but swears he never thought the guy was a homo. There’s plenty of rich character detail in Jason Horowitz’s profile of Mitt Romney, prep…
4622…Happy Birthday To A Leprecaun
The elfin rocker from Eire is 52 today. Happy birthday to Bono. I hope someone got him a new pair of sunglasses for his birthday. WFDS
Harper Government wants to watch you naked
First it was Vic Toews who wanted to watch over you especially what you do on the internet. Now Harper government wants to strip you naked if you decide to…
Smoke in the Metro Means Fire under Agents Provcateurs, Me Thinks
This morning after Montreal’s Metro was closed during rush hours because of smoke bombs planted in several stations, I spent far too much time looking for references to “agents provocateurs”…
Extending Habitability
What does “extending habitability” mean? It explains “sustainability”. I prefer to sometimes call it “survivability”, because without the delicate balance our ecosystem and societies are teetering on, there’s no possible…
How To Resolve The Transit Fare Evasion Problem
Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom is bringing in new legislation to crack down on fare evaders, allowing collection agencies to go after people who don’t buy tickets. If Lekstrom really wants…
Oooh, This Could Get Nasty
China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea. The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations…
Oil Sounds Mean "Game over" for Climate
Oil sands exploitation means the end of hope for controlling climate change, according to James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In op-ed piece in today’s…
The Syrian saga
The Syrian situation is extremely complex this being the result of its history, its diverse ethnic groups, its long-lasting repressive regime, and compounded by a decade-long desire of the USA…
Switzerland, My Sincere Condolences
The Swiss have a new countryman, er countrywoman. She’s Michelle Bachmann who, thanks to her marriage to flamboyant, gay-curing psychologist, Marcus Bachmann is entitled to claim Swiss citizenship. The kids…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 8 Discussion
In chapter 8 of A Healthy Society, Ryan Meili discusses how to improve our democratic system, distinguishing between the participatory action research model which is helping to drive development work…
Left Over 2012-05-10 11:09:10
Today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp, to the center of PBS or Knowledge Network) posted an article about the fact that although promised, there is still no Senior`s Advocate…
Dutch Diseased Labour Markets
If one reads the G&M and NatPo business sections one is treated to a steady stream of largely rosy and pompous pronouncements on the structural shift in the Canadian economy…
Peeling back Ornge to reveal Tory hacks
I’ve written about this before, but an Ottawa friend suggested I get more specific: I should spell out for my readers, he said, the astonishing number (and in some cases…
Cornering Rupe With His Own Words
Poor Rupert Murdoch, will his demons never go away? Unfortunately, for him, no because the demons plaguing him at the moment poured out of his own mouth at the Leveson…
Prized Ontario PC candidate: we’re going to be humiliated
I love it when an opponent is, you know, honest. My hat’s off, therefore, to putative star Ontario PC candidate Jeff Allan, who candidly admits Tim Hudak’s Tea Party North…
The Liberals: From Natural Governing Party to an Uncertain Future, 1984 to 2012
Since 1984, when Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives won a large majority of federal ridings in Quebec, the federal Liberal Party has failed to win a majority of seats in Quebec…