What Could Bring the Tar Sands to Heel and Cost Canadians a Gazillion Dollars
A Saudi prince once quipped, “the Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.” His point was that the Oil Age will end long before the world runs…
2012
How the LPoC Can Win a Few Extra Voters of Inconsequential Value
I hate to say it but I disagree with BCL over this post: A formal ban would kill that cursed pipeline; an informal ban suggests opposition to it but plays…
Don’t Waste A Minute
Waste 30 minutes just walking to no place in particular, and you’ll accidentally help your health, energy level, and mood. It’s a doctor approved prescription that is denied to too…
A dense fog covering seven city blocks, to a depth of 100 feet, is composed of something less than one glass of water
I read this on-line (it was part of a motivational blog; “so much confusion from so little a source so don’t worry be happy” sort of thing) and thought that…
HALI #NDPLDR #NDPDB8 HOLLA
Trying to decide whether to do this all in caps. 10:46 No, don’t think so. Not feeling belligerent enough. I have to say, one of my new favourite twitter accounts…
Fools are my theme, let satire be my song – Byron
CBC Programming To Highlight “New” Standards? Harv Oberfeld, Keeping it Real
Adbusters: Occupy May 2012 NATO and G8 Chicago Summit
Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there, Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8…
Leading Citizen Engagement Groups Call on Canadians to Reimagine the CBC
CBC_Square_120127.jpeg CBC seen as a opportunity amidst Canada’s “digital deficit” Sunday, January 29, 2012 – OpenMedia.ca and Leadnow.ca are set to launch a national campaign to “Reimagine the CBC”. This…
4161…Le Wheels Have Le Fallen Off In La Belle
For the PDN or whatever way the NDP groups their initials in La Belle. A poll done for CTV and the Globe and Mail by Nik Nanos says that “The…
4160…It’s A Dog Day For UK
Coz it is the ‘net I ended up at WKLY.com, they are a TV station in Louisville, Kentucky, and I see this piece on a dog writing a fan letter…
Establishing motive
Why are the Harper Tories hell bent on destroying data from the life saving long gun registry? A high profile Toronto lawyer thinks he knows why: It’s like throwing a…
Friends of the Bloedel Conservatory
I’ve been greatly honoured by being invited to join the Board of the Friends of the Bloedel Conservatory. You might recall that the last Park Board tried to close this…
Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012. Rodney Kirkland Sr. edition.
Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night. UPDATE: Dr. Dawg has the goods on an Oakland cop, annual salary $202K and unbelievably works for the Youth and Family Services…
How The LPoC Can Win In B.C.
Rae told a Vancouver audience Saturday he still sees a need for his party’s informal ban on oil tankers along B.C.’s north coast, which is right where Enbridge wants tankers…
NEB: "ally", First Nations: "adversaries"
Confidential federal tar sands strategy targets Aboriginal and green groups, Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012 “As controversy increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups, Greenpeace Canada today released…
Dumb on crime indeed
Much of Harper’s “tough” on crime agenda has been described as dumb and that is particularly true in the area of parole or supervised release. Inmates in our prison system…
Super Saturday Nomination Results
Nation, with Daveberta away from his blog (and its comprehensive coverage of the nomination races taking place across the province) for the next week, someone has to step up and…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Stephen Maher reminds us that the Harper government now lecturing us about the need to attack social programs because of a federal…
Oakland: violent cop identified
Last evening the Oakland, CA police used high levels of violence to break up a demonstration by members of #OccupyOakland. One officer, badge #119, threw a young, 100-lb, pregnant woman…