Mark Carney: Banker by day, Whistleblower by night?
Don’t count on it, despite: Mark Carney says he’s willing to blow the whistle on misbehaving banks If that is true, you’d think he would start with our own: TD…
August 2012
"Been to the Stampede yet?"
I’m just glad they didn’t ask this visiting American gun enthusiast for a smoke. Recommend this Post
Radio Interview: The CBC We Want
FRIENDS spokesperson, Ian Morrison, speaks on the Bill Good Show about the future of public broadcasting and The CBC We Want town hall meetings.
Radio Interview: The CBC We Want
FRIENDS spokesperson, Ian Morrison, speaks on the Bill Good Show about the future of public broadcasting and The CBC We Want town hall meetings.
When Nukes Just Weren’t Enough
Those of us who lived through the Cold War were painfully aware that the Soviet Union was prepared to thoroughly devastate the West with nuclear weapons. We didn’t know they…
Russia Reacts to Perceived Chinese Threat
Russia is growing concerned about Chinese designs on Russian territory and resources. Russian president Dimitry Medvedev said it was essential to defend it’s eastern territories against “excessive expansion by bordering…
Batman joins the police to take on Occupy Wall Street – thestar.com
Batman joins the police to take on Occupy Wall Street – thestar.com Political implications are not unlike those in the Showcase TV series Continuum, but, unlike the TV series, there…
German Banks Take Food Off Commodities Exchange
Do banks actually have a conscience? A few German banks apparently do. Germany’s Commerzbank, the country’s second-largest, has removed agricultural products (food) from its commodities index fund, following similar moves…
Sisters of Charity and Other Things: Nuns on the Firing LIne
One of my prouder moments came during my trip to Africa in 2001 when I was out walking on morning in the West Usambara mountains. I’d left the lodge where…
SFH on iTunes!
May not be a massively big deal to anyone else, but the geriatric punks in SFH are delighted: we’ve hit the big time, baby! Groupies, drug habits and garishly expensive…
Arctic Sea Ice Isn’t Just for Polar Bears
The Arctic is about more than ice and polar bears. Much, much more. Most of us by now have become familiar with El Nino or his ugly stepsister, La Nina,…
Tell them all to go to Hell
Suits my mood. Epic song of this part of this Summer. ‘The House That Heaven Built,’ Japandroids: When the soul of the city was laid to rest, and the nights…
About That Other Shoe, The One That Just Dropped
There is an enormous amount of water stored underground in aquifers. Or, at least, there used to be. A lot of it is actually “fossil” water, H2O that’s been trapped…
Stephen Harper finds Science – Well Not Really
Could it be that Prime Minister Harper has discovered the existence of science? The headlines across the country are declaring the PM says that "Science, not politics, will determine outcome".…
Stephen Harper finds Science – Well Not Really
Could it be that Prime Minister Harper has discovered the existence of science? The headlines across the country are declaring the PM says that “Science, not politics, will determine outcome”.…
Stephen Harper finds Science – Well Not Really
Could it be that Prime Minister Harper has discovered the existence of science? The headlines across the country are declaring the PM says that "Science, not politics, will determine outcome".…
Stephen Harper finds Science – Well Not Really
Could it be that Prime Minister Harper has discovered the existence of science? The headlines across the country are declaring the PM says that “Science, not politics, will determine outcome”.…
A number of people should go to jail for what has been done to BC Hyrdo!
Good Morning, Damien Gillis from the Commonsense Canadian produced and has made available this excellent interview that is shocking to say the least. In it Rafe questions economist Erik Anderson…
More About Our Prime Paragons of ‘Virtue’
Just a few reminders about the moral thugs within our midst: Tides Canada’s charity status attacked Pro-oilsands group accuses it of illegal political activity Thomson: In the end, pipeline is…
Labour Law and Jobs: A Tale of Two Provinces
Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak claims that union busting right to work laws would create jobs in hard hit industrial Ontario. I have already noted that there is no evidence…