P3 hospital debts threaten quality of health care
Patients in Britain could see their health care services cut as a result of botched public private partnership (P3) hospitals. The Public Accounts Committee of the British House of Commons…
October 2012
This Story Could Blow Sky High
TORONTO – The Federal Conservatives rejected the suggestion on Tuesday that they sat on an extradition request from the United States for a businessman who is close to senior cabinet…
Maroc Has Dusted Off His Keyboard And Is Out After The Frackers!
Political Blogger Don Maroc longtime journalist and historian pops up on Cowichan Conversations as a valued contributor from time to time. Many will recall his many years as a Cowichan…
No Economic Need for Terminal 2 at Roberts Bank
Port Metro Vancouver (PMV) is moving forward with plans to extensively dredge the environmentally-sensitive estuary of the Fraser River to build another man-made island for a new terminal with 3…
Everyman Ozymandias
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a…
Supertankers, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis, Oh My: Enbridge Has No Spill-Response Plan for Northern Gateway Pipeline
Earlier this month British Columbians were surprised to hear that Enbridge, the main proponent of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline, was unable to explain how the company’s world-class spill prevention…
Ontario Shores: Pushing worker mental illness back into the closet
Recently the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) posted bus shelter ads that noted two of three individuals with mental illness suffer in silence. The stigma of mental illness…
Hurricane Sandy relief?
Is the Canadian or any provincial government helping out at all? I know we have sent crews to the States to provide assistance before, and I know it’s still early,…
5281…This Is Odd
Ottawa = great weather. While the rest of the north east and Ontario suffer Ottawa, the city that has the worst weather, has the best weather. May be these are…
Calgary-Centre By-Election: Forum Poll has Tory at 48%, Harvey Locke (L) at 28%, Greens and NDP at 8%-11%
Forum Research released a poll of the Calgary-Centre byelection to gauge the support of each candidate in the riding. Conservative candidate Joan Crockatt sits at almost half of the support…
Has Mr. Katz done Alberta democracy a favour?
Alberta has the laxest election funding rules in the country, rules designed to favour the rich. Toward the end of this spring’s election campaign, billionaire Daryl Katz nicely illustrated this…
Wildrose MLA’s “panties” comments recorded in Hansard.
TweetNearly every word uttered during debates on the floor of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly is recorded into the official transcript known as Hansard. Sometimes, Members of the Legislative Assembly make odd…
Government Releases DG3 and a Natural Gas Teaser
Today the government released the Decision-Gate 3 numbers, the key analysis before sanction of the Muskrat Falls mega-project. While we’ve all been looking forward to these numbers for a long…
Albert Eistein’s view on God
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Clarification: While the New York Times noted that “Einstein consistently characterized the idea of a personal God who answers prayers as naive, and life after death as…
Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay
C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor. Tell us you had no idea that there was…
The view from CBC in Calgary
Snowy, looking out towards my folks’ old place off Memorial. Lots of memories. Snow, too.
Lindberg rejoins Pennywise!
Forget about the book tour, the US election and everything else: Lindberg has come back to Pennywise! Oh my Lord, this makes me so happy! Yes, yes, I am weird.…
Steve Harper’s Betrayal of Canada
David Suzuki is credited with pointing out that you cannot have a healthy economy without a healthy biosphere. The first is utterly dependent on the second. A corollary. If you’re…