From Moran Dam to Enbridge: The Danger of Focusing on Economics Over Environment
Robyn Allan is the former President and CEO of the Insurance Corporation of BC and is an economist by trade. I have enormous respect for Ms. Allan and concur with…
2012
What You Should Have Read About in Yesterday’s Unemployment Rate News
As usual, the moment StatsCan’s monthly jobs survey numbers go even slightly squirrelly, the media proves utterly unable to handle it. When news broke yesterday, Canadians were variously told that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lori Wallach discusses the corporate coup underlying the Trans-Pacific Partnership which the Cons are so eager to force on Canada: (T)rade is the…
Comrade Kinsellaski’s Son One
Everything that the National Post and Sun News have been saying for years is true: the Kinsellas are Kommunists. Proof, here, in the form of a cropped photo of Son…
July 7: I didn’t actually win the $50,000,000, but…
It was last night’s lottery. Fifty million plus fifty more of one million each. I had one number right. I took that as a good sign for things to come;…
4850…Ontario Leads The Way
July 9 1793: An Act Against Slavery law passed in the 1st legislative session of Upper Canada, what is now Ontario. It was the 1st anti-slavery legislation in the British…
4849…El Roundo Is Going To Meet W Elex Canada
Yaay!The Globe and Mail reports that the Parliamentary Secretary to our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Dean Del Mastro, is going to meet with Elections Canada. You may be aware…
Jason Kenney: Elie Wiesel is wrong, as usual
I wasn’t on Sun News, this week, because I was in Jamaica, where it is less hot than Toronto. While here, I heard from a friend at Sun News, who…
The Proof of the Pudding
Americans are catching on to the concept of anthropogenic global warming, finally. That’s mainly because from the Colorado wildfires to the sustained drought across the southwest to the flooding of…
Cushion cat 2 in colour
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: 100 cats
Stiglitz on Inequality
In Canada, there has not been much comment on an op-ed piece which Joseph Stiglitz published in The Washington Post two weeks ago. Stiglitz examines American economic policy over the…
Is This Really Negotiating?
While I have sometimes been critical of my former union, The Ontario Secondary Teachers Federation, both in this blog and my other one, I have always been a supporter and…
An Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793
An Act Against Slavery was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the first legislative session of Upper Canada, what is now Ontario. It was the first anti-slavery…
Zorg Report 2012-07-07 07:51:00
CTV.ca throttles down online content to support advertisers Canada’s CTV network, whose employees constitute a notable source of funding for the federal Conservative party, has now begun throttling back its…
Saturday At The Movies
The woman who posted this video of a baby hummingbird’s first flight a few days ago wrote: Anna’s Hummingbird Baby sits next to the nest for the first time (in…
Guess Who Said It
Most people do not have deep values. One person one vote, that is how Hitler was able to define his laws. Special points if you can parse it so it…
Proposed AB Boundaries Offer *Some* Opposition Hope
The new boundaries for Alberta – or at least, the new proposed ones – are fairly interesting, and Daveberta and CalgaryGrit offer up some insightful comments on them, so be…
The Happiness Index #nlpoli
Leave it to labradore to come up with a new way to look at poll results. He took the results of “satisfaction” questions in polls going back about a decade. …