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According to audited financial statements, BC Hydro’s debt for future energy purchases was $7.9 BILLION in 2006, not including Powerex. In 2012, that number had gone up almost seven fold,…
October 2012
Climate Denialist Aussie Radio Host Must Take Fact-Checking Course, Says Authority
IT’S not been a great few weeks for Alan Jones, arguably Australia’s most influential radio personality who believes global warming is a hoax and that climate change science is “witchcraft“.…
Will Anybody Demand Peter Kent’s Resignation?
Would someone who didn’t have prior knowledge of this please demand Peter Kent’s resignation? This, of course, is the deliberate dumping last July of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide into…
Presidential Election: The Battle of the Pollsters
Nate Silver – 538 pollster While most Americans are focusing on the battle between Obama and Romney, hardcore political junkies (such as you) are also darting from one poll to…
NatGeo Sheds Light on Queen Charlotte Iron Dumping
Russ George is a man on a mission to come up with some scheme that will allow him to create, and sell, a fortune in carbon credits. His scheme of…
Canadians moved the CRTC
The beginning It started with Stop The Meter. The CRTC’s 2011 decision to allow Big Telecom to impose punitive extra fees across the entire Internet service market was the breaking…
5250…A True Conservative Gets Caught Cheating
CBC.ca reports that “Labradorians — including former MP Todd Russell are using some harsh words to describe Peter Penashue’s overspending on his federal election campaign. ‘Peter was a cheater. It’s…
Fidel Castro is Dead (is What You Will Soon Read, maybe)
María Valverde I went to the Miami Herald’s web site for confirmation that Fidel Castro was almost dead and got seriously distracted by the news that María Valverde is starting…
Campaign Capers: Peter, Paul and Provincial Airlines
Two months ago I added Peter Penashue, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, to the list of people I was keeping an eye on for this series of posts. He finally surfaced…
Best Buy/@BBYCEO and CEO Secession Planning
@BBYCEO, when it was controlled by former CEO Brian Dunn When Brian Dunn resigned as CEO of Best Buy, he switched his Twitter name from @BBYCEO to @briandunn, taking all…
Perth-Smiths Falls: Big cuts for a small hospital
The peer review is done, but the details around the 6 per cent in cuts to the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital are still somewhat sketchy. The cuts are…
Please Just Go Away
Justin Trudeau — and Marc Garneau — have what it takes to be prime minister, says Michael Ignatieff. Now I’m going to have to vote for that Borys guy.
Weekend Watch: Babes For Breasts
Since Ottawa songtress Ana Miura founded Babes For Breasts (B4B) in 2003, the musical collective has raised over $50,000 for breast cancer charities. Miura enlisted fellow Ottawa singer/songwriter Amanda Rheaume…
Another Scurrying Rat – This Time He’s NDP
NDP MP Nathan Cullen says the federal government should have done more to prevent the experimental dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphide in the waters off the Queen Charlottes. Oddly…
First Nation: Bill C-45 allows tar sands industry to destroy vital waterways and treaty rights
by Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Today the conservative government tabled a new version of Bill C-45, a 443-page bill, to implement its federal budget. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN)…
No Woman Dies in Childbirth, Another Republican Fable
This time it’s in Illinois where Republican congressman Joe Walsh attacked the abortion exception for “life of the mother” on the basis that no woman today dies from childbirth. In…
FTA’s Assumed Benefits Can’t Be Found
Last month’s over-the-top “celebrations”of the 25th anniversary of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement seemed strained, to my mind. The self-congratulation and back-patting struck…
Soccer in Canada if you have a penis?
I’ve been holding back posting this for a few days until my utter anger dissipated. Well, that ain’t really happening… If you are serious about soccer as a career. if…
Health Facility License Auction Health Cost Driver
It seems so obvious in hindsight: if you want to know what is going on in business-side of community medicine look where doctors look – the classified section of The…