Fixed Election Date #FAIL
WTF does not even begin to convey my complete and utter shock and disgust… Today, in the House of Commons, during Question Period, the interim leader of the Liberal Party…
June 2012
Greenpeace Clean Energy Billboard Rejected by Pattison
Greenpeace Rejected Billboard.png After a Plains Midstream Canada pipeline spilled between 160,000 and 480,000 liters of oil into Jackson Creek near the Red Deer River in Alberta this month, premier…
Spotted along Highway 3 in BC
Two yetis.
Time to turn our transportation pyramid right-side up
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Copenhagen is the world’s poster-child for bicycle-friendly transportation. But that’s partly because they have aggressive goals for what transportation should look like. Check out Copenhagen’s Transportation…
CBOBC has impressive Facebook launchnow expanding its capacity in other areas
With every passing week of Stephen Harper’s destruction of the fabric of our country, more and more Canadians are following the development of the ‘Campaign to Build One Big Campaign’…
More from the Mommy Wars: Diane Johnson Reviews Books about Motherhood
The review of four books on motherhood in the latest New York Review of Books by Diane Johnson, are worth reading even if you aren’t a mother, and never expect…
Special program dedicated to solar energy on tomorrow’s edition of Earthgauge Radio
On Earthgauge Radio this week (7:00-8:00 AM on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online at www.ckcufm.com), I’m presenting a special program on the coming solar power revolution. Ever…
4756…The Devil Is In The Details
Case in point comes from your local Apple Store via BoingBoing.net. Before Apple stores open in the morning, employees use an iPhone app to ensure that each MacBook screen is…
Presto! Like magic, it’s gone!!!
Well, sort of. I don’t want to rag on this – plenty of naysayers will do that in fulsome manners, I reckon. But I really do have to wonder why…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Dan Gardner draws some parallels between the Cons’ attacks on Europe and the well-worn (and entirely false) Reagan-era “welfare queen” line of spin.…
4755…Saddest Baseball Story Of The Year
May be ever. As if Brien Taylor’s story wasn’t sad enough when injuries from a bar fight turned him from elite pitching prospect to bust, the former Yankees No. 1…
4754…Happy National Aboriginal Day
Unless of course you are an Aboriginal. Coz if you are an Aboriginal you are more likely to be poor, homeless, in jail, undernourished and undereducated. While you are all…
Clean electricity, conservation and a zero-carbon future
Today we released a new Climate Justice Project report, Clean Electricity, Conservation and Climate Justice in BC: Meeting our energy needs in a zero-carbon future, co-authored by John Calvert and…
But hasn’t Tim Hudak been using them for years…
… and at the same rate of success? (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
June 20: The forgotten summer heat of 1814
Not sure what today’s column will be about or, as I write, even what the title will be. But I am struck by two items on the editorial page. the…
Harper Mentors McGuinty
It is very interesting to note that despite their often uneasy relationship, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has learned some lessons about how to use budget omnibus bills to gut environmental…
Beyond Harper: Rebuilding community
Of all the appalling abuses of democracy and ruthless dismantling of the country represented by Bill C-38 one stands out of as representative of the right wing dystopia that Stephen…
Strong public support for financial transaction taxes
An international poll commissioned by the International Trade Union Confederation found very strong support in many countries, including Canada, for the introduction of Financial Transactions Taxes (FTTs), such as the…
Dear Mr. Dix: A Letter From Rafe Mair to BC’s Future Premier
The recent polls show that you and your party have a wide lead over the Liberals and Conservatives – something which gives many of us who care deeply about the…