A Brit MD Blows the Whistle on Big Pharma
The allegation is simple. Pharmaceutical companies provide doctors with studies favourable to their products but don’t publish studies that show the drug to be worthless or worse. I did everything…
2012
BC Ipsos Poll: 49% NDP, 32% BC Lib
Ipsos Reid has a new poll out for the provincial scene in British Columbia, showing a marked increase for the BC Liberals… but the NDP still soaring at great heights,…
Creating His Own Reality
Some of the best and most insightful reporting on the Harper government has been done by Stephen Maher. Yesterday he wrote: Stephen Harper took a bold step forward this week…
Sometimes It Is Hard Not To Feel Smug
Many years ago, the singer Mac Davis wrote and performed a satirical song entitled “It’s Hard To Be Humble,” about a man so impressed with himself that he has no…
Robert Manne: How Vested Interests Defeated Climate Science
Watch this thoughtful presentation by Professor Robert Manne at the University of Melbourne earlier this summer. It’s a concise review of the whole climate change denial movement as chronicled in…
thinking of the riveras, today and always
My grief for the Rivera family and my rage at this cruel, anti-democratic government roils unabated. I am haunted by thoughts of my dear friend Kimberly Rivera, who has given…
Saturday At The Movies
Via Upworthy.com (thanks Curtis) comes this powerful speech from a man known for his humbleness; President José Mujica of Uruguay gave this speech at the Rio+20 summit this past June.…
Saturday morning laugh
Go visit this Tumblr page: RomCom 2012. Hilarious. h/t to Mother Jones and deBeauxOs1 who suggested Mother Jones’ Tumblr to me in the first place. An excellent web stop during…
Renewal without reform?
A skilled and practised word hunter, Ian Reid can flush out sources from behind stone walls. Thursday, he scooped the Legislature’s press gang and published Mea culpa, mea culpa, the…
Ontario and New Brunswick Need Adult Severe Autism Care Facilities
Ontario and New Brunswick Both Need Adult Severe Autism Care Facilities Where will our 16 year old son with severe autistic disorder and profound developmental delays live as we grow…
Stephen Harper and the Dead Parrot
When I first started portraying Stephen Harper and his Con Regime as a sinister freak show, I took a bit of heat even from some of my friends. The MSM…
Adoration of Peter Lougheed moves beyond canonization into deification
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s message at Peter Lougheed’s state funeral. Below: Premier Lougheed with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who haunts us still. With his state funeral yesterday afternoon, the official…
MSM all over a nothing defection to the BC Liberals!
So, John Martin, a right wing criminologist who ran third in a recent election in one of the most conservative constituences in BC left the sinking Conservative ship and swam…
National Post: Climate Change is Bogus. Warp Drive, on the Other Hand…
You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer.…
Musical interlude
Jonas Steur – Sonrisa
Liberal leadership buzz
Some people down east and in Ottawa tell me that unless I run there is not likely to be a LeBlanc in the leadership race. More to come in the…
Canada’s housing bubble bursting ‘right now’ – CBC story
Robert Shiller of Yale University predicted the US housing crash in 2005, a year before it happened. He is quoted by the CBC as saying that he is worried that…
Friday night
Brand new Tegan and Sara. My friend, here at the house, says it is “way too girlie.” Good enough for me! It’s a little different for them, more upbeat. Have…