Tim Ball’s Balls Burned?
It looks like Tim Ball’s legal defense in the defamation suit brought against him by climate scientist Michael Mann has gone entirely off the rails. Its a long story, and…
2012
UPDATE-1: Chinada
China’s state oil company is offering $15 billion for Calgary’s Nexen. At this point I’ve really lost count of how many Chinese acquisitions have been made in the last few…
Magical Thinking and the Muskrat Falls Tax #nlpoli
Muskrat Falls seems to be intimately connected to magic, at least in some people’s minds. For a while there, the gang at Nalcor sounded like they had found a way…
New Federal Party
The Online Party of Canada is now eligible for registration from Elections Canada. This means if they run a candidate in a by-election, they become a fully-fledged registered party. From…
Another Arthur Topham Update
The fight against hate continues, section 13 or not. h/t. Some background here.
Referendums: The Perils and the Possibilities
Direct democracy is to representative democracy what extra-virgin olive oil is to refined olive oil. The latter is more cost effective and, perhaps according to some, just as good. But…
Crabs got cars
Bird Box Crab – YouTube:
Questions for Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson
Now that Rex Tillerson, the CEO of Exxon Mobil has admitted that CO2 emissions will cause warming David Appell thinks some follow-up questions are in order: Last month, Exxon Mobil…
The Conservative Armed Forces of Canada
Once again the Canadian Forces have been caught playing partisan politics, shilling for the Conservative government. A program to educate parliamentarians about the work being done by the Canadian military…
When We Leave Afghanistan, We Leave It to Monsters
The guys we’re leaving in charge in Afghanistan are liberally peppered with butchers and mass-murderers. An 800-page report from the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission lists some 180-mass graves and…
Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges, ” “Capitalism’s Sacrifice Zones”
via: Mainstream Baptist
B.C. Bitumen Busters! Who ya gonna call? Greg Selinger?
Alberta and British Columbia Sheriffs see who can stomp the highest at the increasingly tense inter-provincial border near the disputed town of Field. B.C. and Alberta peace officers, of course,…
In today’s Sun: death by gun
Whenever a lot of people get murdered by people carrying guns – as they have, recently, in Toronto and Denver – other people ask: “How did this happen? Why do…
Why Boy Scouts of America is allowed to discriminate: Comparing US and Canadian human rights laws
I recently expressed outrage over the Boy Scouts of America’s decision to continue banning members who were LGBT or atheists/agnostics. Ideally, groups like BSoA would be able to figure out…
Family (values) feud: Wildrose so-cons start sniping at Wildrose neo-cons
Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith: in trouble with her party’s social conservatives. Below: House Leader Rob Anderson. And so it begins: Rob Anderson, an ambitious social-conservative in the Wildrose Opposition’s shadow…
Stephen Harper’s Desperate Makeover
Uh oh. This could be ugly. I mean pretty. It looks as if Stephen Harper is badly in need of a major makeover. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s public approval ratings…
Ireland Bike Tour Overview
In recalling our wonderful bike tour of Ireland at first it seems like one long uphill ride in the rain, the green being the only constant. But actually every day…
Voting Morally, Not Strategically in Melbourne and Etobicoke Centre
Ahhh…the summertime! Long days spent pushing the stroller through my community. Hot nights spent drinking beer on the front porch. What better time to think / talk politics? Well, maybe…
Sounds like a planetary council in formation, to me…
Open Letter About International Organization for a Participatory Society (IOPS) The following is being sent to many people and institutions. Anyone in IOPS can send it, as well, to media…