BC’ers Turn Out to Say No to Northern Gateway.
Organizers of the Defend Our Coast protest were hoping a thousand people would turn up outside the BC legislature to say “no” to the bitumen pipelines and supertanker initiative. The…
2012
More Trouble for Old Massett Village
They say it was a salmon restoration project. The banking documents suggest it was really about flogging lucrative carbon credits. “It” was the dumping of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide…
The Indian Act – Finally, we’re doing something
Many Canadians know the sordid history of our First Nations peoples here in Canada – and most of it we rarely hear or read from our history teachers and textbooks.…
I think therefore I am
Just heard the news that a beluga whale can speak, or at least imitate a human voice.Maybe Gary Larson wasn’t so far wrong after all:
Women are hiding somewhere in there!
You just can’t see them. But I bet that Mitt can! (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Ontario Shores fined $37,000 after worker suffers concussion
Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences has pleaded guilty and fined $37,500 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured cleaning and replacing ventilation hoods…
Conrad Black – convicted criminal, bully and Lord – Part 2. AKA Buy Theives of Bay Street.
What distinguishes this scandal is Black's jaw-dropping sense of entitlement. By almost every account, he thought of shareholders as sharecroppers, bugs on his corporate windshield. He ran Hollinger as a…
Conrad Black – convicted criminal, bully and Lord – Part 2. AKA Buy Theives of Bay Street.
What distinguishes this scandal is Black’s jaw-dropping sense of entitlement. By almost every account, he thought of shareholders as sharecroppers, bugs on his corporate windshield. He ran Hollinger as a…
Against Our Will, Without Our Consent
The only thing Steve Harper can count on if he tries to ram through the Northern Gateway pipeline/supertanker project is a united British Columbia determined to stop him. Even our…
Your Cell Phone Horror Stories
Andrew from Whitehorse: On September 16, 2012, my Bell mobile phone suddenly stopped working. When my friends and family called my phone number, a stranger answered. I contacted the person…
Get fired up and share your story
The CRTC decision on stopping Bell’s takeover has shown that Canadians are being heard. Now let’s continue to push forward in fixing our broken telecom market. Share your horror story…
Encouraging Early Political Engagement: I Have the Right to Be a Child
Early political engagement is a hot button topic for a number of us here at Politics ReSpun. As parents and/or political animals, we spend a lot of time contemplating methods…
Letter to PMO
Over on Twitter, I made repeated attempts to ask Gerry Nicholls about what Harper did at the NCC, since Nicholls is clamouring about what he didn’t. He repeatedly refused to…
Canadians are taking back the CRTC and our communications
Professor Michael Geist talks about how Canadians are taking back the CRTC and our communications system. For more on the historic StopTheMeter.ca UBB campaign click here. Join OpenMedia.ca at OpenMedia.ca/allies.…
Justin Trudeau: Bald-men are more successful as politician
A while ago I read an article that bald men make more successful politicians. Let us take Justin Trudeau as an example. What do you think? I could not find…
Suzuki On the Broader Issue at Stake in the Northern Gateway Battle
David Suzuki and the executive director of Coastal First Nations, Art Sterritt, write in today’s Globe and Mail that the upswelling of opposition among British Columbians to Harper’s Northern Gateway…
What To Expect When You’re Electing – The Candidates’ Energy Plans
With only a few weeks left for American voters to decide between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, more and more attention is being paid to the candidates’…
David Suzuki: ‘We’ve got to be ready to put our bodies on the line’
Environmental activists, climate justice organizers and Indigenous people are preparing the Defend Our Coast rally on Monday (Oct. 22) in Victoria, B.C. But as people voice their opposition to oil…
Huffington Post: Fight The Right “well worth picking up”
There haven’t been a lot of reviews so far – book pages are becoming a lot less plentiful, sadly – but Matt Price at the Huffington Post gave it a…