According to the Liberals, Lynda Tarras, head of BC’s Public Service Agency, conducted a thorough investigation into Ken Boessenkool’s admitted misconduct with another political appointee. Premier Clark’s Chief of Staff…
This morning I went on Krista Erickson’s show to talk about Ontario MPP severance packages. I pointed out that MPPs haven’t received pensions since 1996 and rules guiding severance packages…
Happy Halloween! On Earthgauge Radio this week, a huge youth conference climate conference took place in Ottawa and Gatineau this past weekend called PowerShift 2012. This was an historic gathering…
Private funding of health care is increasing faster than public funding. Now the Canadian Institute for Health Information reports that public funding is expected to fall to 69.7% of total…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Another of the spinoff “Special Editions” of Playboy has announced that it is shutting down. I was at my corner store…
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It strikes me that the set of climate deniers who say “yes the earth is warming, but it is natural causes not human behaviour” think somehow this is a sufficient…
Justin Trudeau has written (or someone from his staff wrote for him while he dictated it, or something) an interesting, if overall general feel-good/bland op-ed for the Toronto Star (of…
Four months ago, the Northern Insights article What’s the next dump of grungy news? included this: “In a May internal memo, Commissioner Bob Paulson warned that several salacious incidents were…
The other night, I saw a great documentary on the exploitative economics known as globalization. I really must recommend you watch it, I’ve made it available down below and it’s…
2008 Electoral College With opinion polls ahead of next week’s election showing the two candidates for President approximately tied, but giving Barack Obama a slight edge in the Electoral College,…
Conference Board of Canada: Economic Benefits of Tar Sands Hinge On Climate Inaction (via Desmogblog) By 2035 operators in Alberta’s tar sands expect to produce 5 million barrels of the…
There’s a question I often pose to my undergrad students after discussing the many implications of climate change: “Do you think we’ll be able to change before it’s too late,…
Watch video from today’s press conference on the release of the long-awaited final report from the Cohen Commission into disappearing sockeye. Justice Bruce Cohen focused much of his attention on…
‘Tis that day again, little goblins all ramped up on sugar, fog in the air… Trick or Treat? With the news of the storm called Sandy, it is hard to…
Video from the press conference on the release of the final report from the Cohen Commission into disappearing sockeye. Justice Bruce Cohen highlighted several key recommendations to protect wild salmon…
The Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) may be ratified as soon as tomorrow, November 1. This despite a massive demonstration of Canadian opposition to the investment trade…
It’s a national disgrace that 18 months after the criminal phonecalls that ruined the 2011 election, there have been 0 people charged with the fraud of misdirecting voters to fake…
… there’s, uh, more smoke… Jeez, it’s getting smoky in here… So, I’m reading Steve Berman’s latest blog post on Five Questions Collingwood Should Ask About Ed Houghton, thinking eventually…
Or may be it was just an observation. I don’t know if you recall but when this cover came out 37 months ago the whole of Quebec was beside itself…
