2012
ConCalls: A Proof is a Proof #RoboCon
How do you show that a crime of statistics, like election fraud robocalls, is effective? Several ways. The Conservatives who benefited from the crime want ordinary citizens to come up…
Peace region changes
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China Investment Corporation Eyes BC Forests, Spells FIPA Danger
The China Investment Corporation (ICI), one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, is set to become a powerful landowner in British Columbia if a $100 million deal with Island…
Cleaning up the Niagara River
Niagara River © RokaB – Fotolia.com The Niagara River has come a long way since the 1980s. One would still be advised not to drink the water, swim in some…
At Chinese-owned B.C. mine, no Canadian hires for four years
by BC Federation of Labour “It’s clear HD Mining is in no hurry to hire Canadians and that the province of BC and Government of Canada have been complicit all…
When will Scalia just shut up?
Antonin “Nino” Scalia, the current dean of the US Supreme Court and a very staunch conservative, has always had a way with words especially in the opinions he authors for…
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New Suzuki Foundation Report Shows Staggering Longterm Industrial Impacts on Peace Region
Roads, dams, logging, mines, fracking, seismic lines, pipelines, transmission lines. The Peace Valley region in northeast BC has seen its share of industrial development over the past half century. Now,…
Earthgauge Radio December 13 2012: Cancer in the workplace and the crisis of ocean acidification
Download: earthgauge-podcast-dec13-20122.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, we’re talking about environmental health and ocean acidification. I have two interviews on the program today: Dr. James Brophy, co-author of a groundbreaking…
Christmas is Coming, Herring Are Bought
Sophie wants to make sil, Swedish pickled herring, this Christmas so on Tuesday she, I and Thomas went to the Poissonerie Jean-Talon to buy salt herring. On Saturday the gang…
Chancellor Merkel plumps for the domino theory over the ballast theory
Merkel and dominoes … One of the fascinating things about high level crises like the eurozone one, is the role played by the men and women who have the power…
The Con Plan for Total Chinese Domination
All hail Great Monkey Leader and his five fourteen year plan to make China richer !!!Where if you're Canadian we don't want you.The B.C. Federation of Labour says documents show…
The Campaign to Rehabilitate the F-35 Has Begun
If you felt relieved that the Harper authority had given up on the F-35, think again. That the stealth light attack bomber is still very much alive in the bosom…
Pupatello’s economic vision
Just got back from her speech to a packed house at the Economic Club of Canada. It was really, really good. Tory friends came up to me and said they…
Van Harten: Canada "Recklessly" Entering Trans-Pacific Partnership, FIPA
Last week Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada announced Canada had “officially joined the latest round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations” after more than two and a half years…
Lost Worlds, Lost Words
Moidered. It sounds like something from the Three Stooges. Or maybe something Tony Soprano would say.”I moidered him.” But it actually means “crazed,” according to Samuel Johnson in his famous…
Six million man!
I am told by Team Propellerhead that wk.com has passed the six million visitor mark! Thank you all! I hope it gives John Daly et al. a coronary! That’s me.…
Todd Bentley–MP died because he worked to have me banned from Britain
By Rick Hiebert. All Tights Reserved. Used by Permission. Don’t mess with Todd Bentley. He’ll have you “whacked” by the Lord. One of the local papers in Croydon, England–where Todd…
Alberta Liberals, as always, their own worst enemy.
There’s more a-feudin’ and a-fussin’ in the Alberta Liberal ranks. Here’s the background. Calgary MLA Kent Hehr posted a blog last week calling for the so-called ‘progressive’ parties (that would…