Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The presidents of Canada’s provincial Federations of Labour highlight how the provinces need to respond to the Harper Cons’ efforts to push down…
August 2012
Clark’s ‘Tough New Stand’ on Enbridge Not Only Meaningless but EPICly Duplicitous
EPIC is the Energy Policy Institute of Canada, the organization building the Energy Strategy “Framework” on behalf of a variety of our corporate overlords, led by former Canfor CEO and…
Let’s Skip the 5th Generation F-35 and Put Our Money on the 6th Generation Option
The F-35 was a good idea that simply kept going downhill. Lockheed was going to build the F-22 stealth fighter and the F-35 stealth light attack bomber. But it was…
Good Days and Bad Days in Harper’s Canada. . . .
Politically speaking, I exists in two extremes these days. On the one hand I am intensely pessimistic. It is now clear that Harper has de facto control of Elections Canada…
Yes There Are Some Things That Should be Left In the Ground
Asbestos is one, that’s a no-brainer. We should not be exporting a product we prohibit from use at home. There’s no moral ambiguity there. Bitumen is another. With climate skeptic…
“Canada has become a risk for Quebec”
Right on cue. I didn’t know Marois was going to say this, but I certainly anticipated it in my Sun column, filed this morning and out on Sunday: Two: global,…
Charlottetown Transforms a Street for People
Residents of Charlottetown, P.E.I. decided to make their city nicer, more sustainable, and more fun by transforming one of their streets from car-dominated to people-friendly. They’ve made a great video…
Canadians: Farewell, Bev Oda!
Disgraced ex-Durham MP, Bev Oda, begins her private life today, after a scandalous public life defined by profligacy, scandal, inefficiency and controversy. Canadians offer their final word on the former…
The CVRD Must Stop Contaminated Waste Being Dumped In Our Watershed! Will They?
Uncovered, unattended & abandoned! Richard Hughes Poitical Blogger Is it possible for this group of CVRD politicians to actually get it right for a change? The community has once again…
Hundreds of Canadian women join RCMP harassment lawsuit
In March, Janet Merlo, a 19-year with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), filed a lawsuit against Canada’s national police force. In May, Corporal Catherine Galliford filed a claim of…
Overruling precedents
Canada v. Craig, 2012 SCC 43 was just released. It holds that a lower court may not overrule a higher court but may point out why the higher court’s precedent…
The Consensus is Sound. We Have Much to Do.
The conversion of UC Berkley climate skeptic, Professor Richard Muller, to global warming believer has rocked the denialist community. Muller’s project took three years to prove the IPCC wrong and,…
Wind Concerns Ontario Speaks Out On Death Threats
I have received the following message (reproduced below in its entirety) from the WCO’s current president Jane Wilson re the recent threats directed against wind turbine worker Jeff Damen: WIND…
A "War on Shale Gas"?
Since late 2009, there’s been a slowly-growing wave of attacks from the unconventional oil and gas industry on media outlets that cover the controversies surrounding hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and other…
4964…Greatfully Dead He Is
But it is still his birthday. Jerry Garcia, the leader of the band The Greatful Dead, would have had 70 candles on his cake today. WFDS
Chilling on a bench…
… in downtown Parry Sound… not much has changed here in the 18 years since I last lived here. And that’s ok. (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
There’ll Be No Shelter Here! Part II of II
Batman: A Tale of Two Gothams “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,…
4963…Pauline Marois Takes Shot At Jean Charest
In this morning’s Globe and Mail the leader of the Parti Quebecois pointed out that “I don’t need a police escort every time I go and meet Quebeckers on the…
4962…Jean Charest Gears Up For Battle
The premier, er, Premier of La Belle was nominated last night in his own riding of Sherbrooke and told reporters that the election was around the corner. Jean Charest is…