coal-wall.jpg This is a guest post by N. Jonathan Peress, VP and Director, Clean Energy and Climate Change, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). It originally appeared on CLF's blog. On February…
Hungry as an archway through which the troops have passed I stand in ruins behind you With your winter clothes, your broken sandal strap Take this longing from my tongue…
LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March…
Wearing a matching sweater vest, Foster Friess, the billionaire investor backing Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s frothy campaign to be Theocrat-in-Chief of the Free World, introduces his pet candidate at…
SnookiDon’tDoNoMath TheSituationVille Remember how we took issue with the following statement from British Columbia’s current (not)Premier when she used it as a rationale to give $125,000 to Geoff Plant’s former…
This morning I had a humorous item up on the F-35 brouhaha that occurred in the House of Commons yesterday. The superficial political excitement was focused on this statement from…
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and…
The premier whose government was responsible for directing the search effort for a young boy in Makkovik is now calling for an investigation into the actions of the people who…
Justice Durno. He played a goalie.
…may I and the rest of the 60% who voted against Harper in 2011 fire warning shots over the heads of Conservative cabinet ministers?
With the appointment of a so-called “fact finder”, the BC government is apparently orchestrating its plan to legislate BC teachers and impose a contract. I say “so-called” because the government…
That’s the only inference I can draw after reading about the report by Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page that there is no crisis in the current funding of Old Age…
Winners Free speech is only defensible when it is not libel, defamation or injurious to another human being. Goldwater’s attack was a baseless assault on other humans already called indefensible…
I believe that John Hodgman may have achieved the apotheosis of Internet-type mash-ups. The following YouTube clip is video evidence of Dana Gould, doing his impersonation of Maurice Evans, portraying…
A man is Tasered for walking two lapdogs off-leash. Apparently the park ranger thought it would be educational. When the park ranger confronted Hesterberg and asked for his identification, for…
I was made aware a few days ago that HRM is enduring a transit strike – a few people I know don’t own vehicles and have some level of dependence…
… follow the rumours about the assassination of Kim Jong-Un in Beijing. Amazing. In all likelihood untrue, but very demonstrative of the power of social media. Me? I think he…
By Kady O’Malley for CBC As the Chamber prepares to shut down for the weekend, the time allocation hammer drops on the contentious C-11 — the copyright bill, to its…
In October, Paul Crouch Jr. abruptly left Trinity Broadcasting Corporation. The explanation given was vague. This may have been the reason why; his daughter, Brittany Koper, former TBN CFO, is…
Okay, now it all makes sense. According to PostMedia’s howler, Matthew Fisher, Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canada against the creeping Red Menace, China: Despite its staggering cost, the…
