VANCOUVER—The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a terminally ill woman is allowed to have a doctor-assisted suicide. Story here The stunning decision Friday gives Gloria Taylor, a 64-year-old woman…
The message couldn’t be clearer: if you want to continue to receive funding, don’t produce data that contradicts Dear Leader. Recommend this Post
Pfizer.png The Heartland Institute has had a rough time the last couple of months. The climate denial shop has endured the release of embarrassing leaked documents. Then it launched a…
Have you ever been composing a text message and wanted to insert a generic and practically microscopic representation of a gay couple only to discover that all available visual iconography…
That China’s waterways are badly polluted, is common knowledge. Less well recognized is the increasing pollution of its land. Zhou Jianmin, director of the China Soil Association, reports that, “More…
Premier Dalton McGuinty has been saying that Andrea Horwath and the NDP have reneged on a deal. This is completely false. QUEEN’S PARK — Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP…
Years of desparately bad journalism in The Moncton Times and Transcript have dulled me. This morning, I could only look at it and wonder – what can I say that…
Interesting article today by Simpson in the Globe & Mail. He virtually writes off the Liberal Party of Canada, seeing little hope for it in its former stronghold of Quebec,…
Many Liberals, displaying the stubborn arrogance that moved their party from Sussex Drive to Stornoway to Motel 6 in just three election cycles, are fawning all over Justin Trudeau as…
Thirty Fortune 500 companies didn’t pay any tax in the last three years. Ever wonder why corporations continue to pay less or no tax while governments become more and more…
Download: charles-hodgson-ottawaghgs.mp3 Click the audio player to hear my interview with Charles Hodgson of Ecology Ottawa who produces the excellent blog climateottawa.ca. Right click here to download the interview. We…
From a second rebuttal to justice minister Felix Collins, right (not exactly as illustrated) from the Center for Law and Democracy: In a speech to the House of Assembly on…
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has issued a report saying that increasing commodity prices is creating an uneven economy in Canada. This, of course, is what Thomas…
Dalton McGuinty is threatening to pull the plug on his own government after the opposition parties amended his budget bill yesterday in the legislature’s finance committee. Like the Harper government…
For those living in my neck of the woods, the following may be of interest. Unfortunately, due to a prior commitment, I can’t attend. And, although it will come as…
As the proverbial dust settles on our raped and pillaged Canadian democracy, there are outcries everywhere about this drastic rewrite of our country’s laws and protections.. How many of the…
This is Update #7 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. Red…
In light of the horror show taking place in Ottawa, this would be the perfect time to post notes from “Can We Stop the Harper Agenda,” the big panel discussion…
I wrote a few weeks ago how an increasing and deliberate polarization of the political debate in Canada by the Conservatives and the NDP was having the effect of both…
America’s historic bread basket, the Great Plains, is just about finished. Like the Canadian prairie, the Great Plains was a massive expanse of grassland inhabited by migratory creatures and native…
