Takeover_210x150_120816.png CRTC denies Bell’s bid to take over Astral; finds deal to be counter to public interest October 18, 2012 – Today the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) listened…
In Pennsylvania – a state that sits in the heart of the Marcellus Shale basin – the concept of “frackademia” and “frackademics” has taken on an entirely new meaning. On…
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Romney running mate Paul Ryan really doesn’t like the poor or their soup kitchens. In fact, if he had his way, he’d slash the very social spending they depend on.…
For a good while now, B.C.’s provincial Conservative Party has been a laughingstock. Now with the party’s hopes for renewal in tatters, members of its disaffected wing say they’ll back…
Download: earthgauge-podcast-oct-18-2012.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we continue our discussion on the limitations of technology in solving environmental problems and we learn about Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. I…
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by Obert Madondo (@Obiemad) Green Party leader Elizabeth May is calling for a “Guaranteed Livable Income” as a strategy to eradicate poverty in Canada. In a press release commemorating October…
The fact is Canada does not make economic sense — looking at economics only Canada would be far better folded into the North American market. If we want a nation,…
61-year old Colin Farmer (above) is blind and, due to two strokes, walks at a snail’s pace using the standard white cane. Enter the local cops in Chorley, Lancashire, where…
Much has changed in Iraq since the Americans invaded in 2003. Saddam Hussein is gone, replaced by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki who appears to want to replace Saddam’s one-party…
Metro Vancouver is quite far along in a proposal to harness hydro power from our drinking water spillways at the Capilano reservoir’s Cleveland Dam and also at the Seymour reservoir.…
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Well, well, our cousins down under have succeeded where Steve Harper utterly failed. Australia has been given a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Not that it matters to…
Researchers in Malawi have found a way to free farmers of dependency on expensive and destructive fertilizers. Farmers there grow maize, corn, and their crops require large quantities of nitrogen…
Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez has teamed up with actually.org to set Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney straight. Romney was secretly taped in May at a Florida fundraising dinner joking that…
Newsweek will be ending its print edition and becoming an online only publication. Is this good news? A sign of moving forward in the digital age? A sign of a…
Once you have a thoroughly corporatized mass media, rife with concentration of ownership and cross-ownership, your democracy is in peril. It’s not a question of if but a question of…
Being American these days is becoming something akin to sharing bathwater – it’s no fun if you know the previous occupant is too damned dumb to wipe his butt. A…
This post is second in a series on the Canada-China Investment “Straitjacket:” Exclusive Interview with Gus Van Harten. You can read the first segment here. Right now Canadians stare down…
