Gleick.jpg Climate scientist Peter Gleick has acknowledged that he was the person who convinced the Heartland Institute to hand over the contents of its January Board package, authenticating the documents…
They’re nothing but a bunch of blue meanies.The Harper Conservatives are bound and determined to make Walmart greeters, drugstore cashiers, and cleaning ladies work for an extra two years. Now…
It’s not all electronic around here. Amazing version. (h/t)
Dr. Peter Gleick is the co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. His bio states that he is a hydroclimatologist by training, with a B.S. from Yale…
Thanks for the Family Day holiday — we really enjoyed it.
On January 31, in “The Silo Strategy: Part One,” I wrote about the exclusion of the for-profit laboratories from Ontario’s regional health authorities, the LHINs, and the negative effects of…
About a week ago I wrote a post in which I casually mentioned that Vic Toews was born in Filadelfia, a Mennonite colony in the Paraguayan jungle. I got the…
One who is constantly in fear is every day condemned: Publius Syrus
LouisvilleKentucky’sSecondFavouriteSon WasBothDecadentAndDepravedVille Hunter S. Thompson has now, officially, been dead for seven years. And, despite this fact, I do not think I made myself clear in my last post. Because….…
After 25 years in shuttered silence, the Al Quds cinema has reopened its doors in East Jerusalem. And it’s opening schedule was no blockbuster wasteland. Under the banner of “Freedom…
Economist Erin Weir digs up an interesting nugget about the results of the McGuinty government’s changes to corporate tax structure in the Drummond Report. The government claimed that adding HST…
Happy Tuesday, Family Day edition. Adam is back for the week, so tune in for some fine banter, puns, and discussion on some of the following: It’s all Drummond, all…
It may be carnival time (and thus, the silly season) in Bolivia, but apparently some don’t find anything funny about it…or at least, not the way the president comported himself…
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED: It’s coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what follows the…
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Televangelists in the US who encourage people to call in, aren’t doing a very good job of answering a salvation question, let alone even staffing their phone lines. A US…
Let me make this clear from the outset: I do not support Bill C-30, officially entitled the “Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act,” because I feel it is a…
La semaine de mode Ottawa est un événement annuel qui prend de plus en plus d’envergure dans la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau, en créant une occasion unique de promouvoir le talent canadien…
A Rachel Shabi article in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section titled False accusations of antisemitism desensitize us to the real thing discusses the absurd targeting of New York Times…
Today the BCTF made a request for the Labour Relations Board to appoint a mediator to help resolve teacher bargaining. Not only the LRB, but also the Minister can call…
