Musical interlude
Sam Roberts Band – Let It In
June 2012
Alberta Provincial Budget Supports NDP Leader Mulcair’s Argument On Dutch Disease … Ooops!
Alberta Provincial Budget supports New Democratic Party Leader, Tom Mulcair’s argument on Dutch Disease: “The Canadian dollar remains elevated, buoyed by high commodity prices. An appreciation of the Canadian dollar…
In Sunday’s Sun today: the world is beyond saving
The photograph, posted by a famous journalist, isn’t just horrible. It is beyond words. CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour tweeted it to her 325,000 Twitter followers. The photograph shows three dead…
Be it resolved…
…that the European Union is dead… Or at best, on life-support. Discuss. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
MAN!
That is a big bird! Airbus 380 that had to make an emergency landing at YOW today! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Reality Check
Don’t worry! A solution is coming I just can’t tell you what it is. Energy and economics have much in common, in fact economics is just a system to organize…
Friday Night Flicks: Pigeon Impossible
No pigeons were harmed in the making of this short film. Filed under: Friday Night Flicks Tagged: animation, Short film
Jean Charest Doesn’t Car Much about Montrea, It Seems
Just had an interesting conversation with a local muncipal politician (opposition party, natch) about the way the provincial government walked out of talks with student groups over the tuition hike…
The Religion Factor in Canada’s Environmental Politics
Stephen Harper’s seemingly anti-environment and anti-science agenda has prompted Andrew Nikiforuk, a prominent Canadian journalist, to search for the root cause of this behaviour. In his quest for an explanation,…
Friday night: RIP Doc Watson
Arthel “Doc” Watson passed away on Tuesday at the age of 89. During a long career in music he earned 8 Grammy awards and a reputation as a master at…
Vancouver Secular Parenting Meetup
While I don’t have kids of my own (yet), I see the need for a larger secular parenting support within the freethought/humanist movement. This is why I’m excited to be…
St. Catherine’s Standard Sacks A Dozen
So say the rumors. Die Sun Media Die.
It’s the tar sands, stupid!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Act II, Scene ii, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The Athabasca tar…
Families as Lobbyists to Get What They Need
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I will be teaching a workshop with Ottawa’s Advocacy School. My workshop will be titled “How to Know What You Want and…
Your Daily Nazi: Kanuck Kannibal Killer Also Hung With KKK?
You can settle for the MSM version , or you can go straight to the horses mouth: Luka Rocco Magnotta was posting to North America’s premier Neo-Nazi forum StormFront a…
Massey WV Coal Battle Take Two: Erie, CO Citizens Fight Fracking
shutterstock_15465343 (1).jpg Erie, CO meet Naoma, WV. Though seemingly different battles over different ecologically hazardous extractive processes — hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for unconventional gas versus mountaintop removal for coal —…
Tar-sands
There are people who insist on calling the monstrous mega-project in northern Alberta the “oilsands”. I insist on the historically used “tarsands” since I try to reject all rebranding efforts…
Greater Sudbury at a Crossroads, Part 2: The Importance of the Decision-Making Process
Looking backwards and moving forwards to identify significant trends at local, regional and global levels, we can make some assumptions about the future in which we are likely to find…
NAFTA and Hebron #nlpoli
ExxonMobil and Murphy Oil have won a North American Free Trade Agreement appeal of a 2004 offshore board regulation that sets the amount of research and development money oil companies…