Make It Stop
“Unlike Big Oil, are not transparent about their motives.” – Financial Post complaining about American environmental groups who oppose leaky pipelines destined to spoil freshwater and the Pacific coast. And…
2012
Mitt Romney Pays $6.2 Million on $45 Million: This is Obscene
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs: them’s radical words, of course. But I always thought they were just, right, and what we need to…
Fraser Institute Slams Alberta’s Decision to Kill Bogus School Testing
Predictably, the Fraser Institute is not happy that the Albertan government is moving to abolish elementary school provincial achievement tests (PATs), which it uses as fodder for its dubious and…
What Is With Conservatism And Global Warming Deniers?
Tom Flanagan will carry the Wildrose banner in the next provincial election, running alongside his leader, fellow climate change sceptic Danielle Smith. For a province fighting an intense public relations…
Happy Anniversary Liberal Party of Canada
I remember that day as if it was just yesterday. Started in the morning in Niagara Falls at the Burroughs campaign. Hit the Valeri campaign in Stoney Creek in the…
Leadership 2012 Roundup
A quick look at just a couple more days of developments in the NDP’s leadership race… – Niki Ashton proposed an increase in immigration, particularly when it comes to family…
Inuit Country
This year ’s “Indian Country” theme issue of Canadian Dimension deals with a specific group of indigenous people in Canada, the Inuit. Inuit are indigenous occupants of the arctic in…
A follow-up to my post yesterday…
… about Tim Thomas being an idiot. I don’t usually copy and paste an entire text, but this letter by former Chicago Bear Tim Wrightman is an example of how…
A sign
Yesterday morning I was walking to work along Gladstone Avenue when all of a sudden a dead bird came hurtling out of the sky and crashed head first into a…
Kremlinology 37: United in Differences
As the Newfoundland and Labrador news release noted, the energy ministers from the four Atlantic provinces got together on Monday for a gab session. Those who stood waiting for Jerome!’s…
Harper to First Nations: Bother my MP’s, not me, with your issues.
I’ve not seen another article come out yet on the meeting that Harper had with the First Nation’s Chiefs other then this one, but from the First Nations perspective, their…
Why I Am Putting All My Eggs In The Citizens Climate Lobby Basket
Citizens Climate Lobby is a well-organized grassroots organization made up of Canadians and Americans who want a sustainable future for their children, and are willing to work on creating the…
The coming public service job losses
There’s a new study out by the CCPA on federal public service job cuts. The study suggests between 11,000 to 22,000 jobs could be lost in the Ottawa area and…
Corbella Story Collapses Utterly
In a story a week or so back, Licia Corbella intimated that someone in the environmentalist camp was signing fake names to the list of people asking to make oral…
Adjournments of criminal matters
An adjournment is re-scheduling of a court appearance. The granting of an adjournments is at the discretion of the judge, but in practice is a frequent occurrence. The judge must…
You can call it what you like
Fun exchange from last night’s train wreck Republican debate. Newt looks like he wants to strangle Romney. Seriously.
Wading through Locke on Muskrat (Part 2) #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Oil Prices In Slide 20, Locke turns a comparison of the cost elements of Muskrat Falls and Nalcor’s isolated island scenario into a chart. Locke notes in red at the…
The likely uselessness of today’s Gathering
Harper’s big Crown-First Nations Gathering happens today, for as much as he’ll be there (which will be until lunch, at which point he takes off for Davos). And while Harper…
CasaPound: Ezra Pound’s daughter defends fascist papa
Top: Ezra Pound/Mary de Rachewiltz The daughter of the American poet, Ezra Pound, is demanding that the Italian extremist organization CasaPound stop using her father’s name. Mary de Rachewiltz was…