Register cellphones, not guns …
Interesting idea – I wonder if we could extend it to other items, such as, for example, guns… . On second thought, a nation gun registry is far less important…
June 2012
And Now, In Other Pipeline News…Wait For It!…
…a pipeline catches fire in Fort St. John, B.C.!
The first robocalls victim – again
The Ottawa Citizen published an op-ed by former Saanich-Gulf Islands Liberal candidate Briony Penn on Tuesday: “I was the first robocalls victim.” It tells the story of the 2008 federal…
OC Transpo… stay classy
This incident where an OC Transpo driver refused to stop and let off a mom who was accidentally separated from her child is almost too appalling to be true. But…
Nortehrn Gateway Joint Review Panel Decision…
…between April and December, 2013. And then, presuming a rubber stamp from the panel, it hits the court system, and becomes a national issue in 2015.
Refugee health care protest actions
Cuts to the Interim Federal Health program kick in this weekend yet protests will be ongoing. The doctors who are leading the opposition to the cuts, Canadian Doctors for Refugee…
Shifting from non-renewable to renewable #nlpoli
Scan through the official record for the House of Assembly for the spring 2012 session and you will find example after example after example of a variation on this theme: …
History’s mistakes repeated
A Manifesto for Economic Sense, Paul Krugman, Princeton University, and Richard Layard, LSE Centre for Economic Performance “More than four years after the financial crisis began, the world’s major advanced…
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
The level of Star Wars geekdom involved in this bends the needle. I mean, writing the parody lyrics is one thing, even the notion of making it a rock opera.…
Crystal Cathedral Interim minister a Winnipeger
ChristianWeek chats with Lawrence Wilkes, interim minister of the troubled Crystal Cathedral. Wilkes first joined the staff at the Crystal Cathedral in 1991, serving as pastor in the church’s evening…
Budget crisis? Civil service raises? Go pop a Valium, Smith!
Hey Marge! Danielle Smith says there’s a budget crisis and this is no time to be giving raises to civil servants! Marge? Typical Albertans may not be exactly as illustrated…
The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #14
This is Update #14 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. Alberta…
4804…Domestic Penis News
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald is proud to tell the world that a Liverpool, Nova Scotia man who’s fiance bit his penis during an argument is going to jail for 7 years.…
Fracking Industry Enjoyed Privileged Access To Controversial New York DEC Environmental Review
Don't Frack Sign.jpg Documents obtained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) show that bureaucrats within the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NY DEC) granted the oil and gas industry…
Little research on effects of diluted bitumen
A Dilbit Primer: How It’s Different from Conventional Oil, Lisa Song, Inside Climate News, June 26, 2012 “Bitumen extracted from tar sands has the consistency of peanut butter and must…
The Con Assault on Via Rail
Ever since I was a boy, trains have been my favourite way to travel. I love gliding along, stretched out in a comfortable seat with plenty of leg room, reading…
Opposing Supply Management & Economic Principles
While supply management is bad for our economy, the discussion around it has at least managed to supply how the majority who oppose it are intellectually dishonest. For the Conservatives,…
The Rio +20 Earth Summit and the Emerald Ash Borer beetle infestation on Earthgauge Radio tomorrow
On tomorrow’s show, we’re taking a look at the recently concluded Rio +20 Earth Summit and discussing the increasing problem of the Emerald Ash Borer beetle in Ottawa. The Rio…
Ethnic radio broadcasters fight CRTC licence choices by Amanda Stephenson
Three ethnic radio stations are asking the federal government to overturn a decision by the CRTC that saw them passed over for a broadcast licence in favour of an out-of-province…