Time For An #EndFossilFuelSubsidies Twitter Storm
350.org has teamed up with over a dozen other citizen advocacy groups to organize a twitter storm event to coincide with the week of the G-20 summit, followed by Rio+20:…
2012
The Beard Wars, an Oral History
“Captain Chiggerson, can you hear me? Captain?” “I can hear you! I’m blind not deaf.” “Sorry Captain, but you didn’t seem to be responding,” the historian asked. He was a…
Forum Poll: 37% NDP, 30% Con, 22% Lib, plus Trudeau polling!!1!
And fun what-if scenarios with Justin Trudeau (that are highly speculative)! But, to the un-fun stuff first, these Forum numbers, which show the largest lead for the New Democrats so…
Anything you say can and will be used against you!
Airports and border crossings in Canada are being wired with high-definition cameras and microphones that can eavesdrop on travelers' conversations, according to the Canada Border Services Agency. A CBSA statement…
Book Review: The Darien Gap
In the 21st Century, we have maps of the Moon and Mars, with names assigned to mountains and canyons. In this era of Google Maps and GPS’s, I find it…
Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives Finally Acknowledge Their Progressive Side
Alberta Premier Alison Redford took part in Edmonton’s annual Pride parade earlier this month, making her the province’s first premier to ever participate in a Pride event. While this might…
Tories involved in violation of privacy act #nlpoli
The temperature in the House of Assembly is not even cooled down and Tory legislator Paul Lane (Mount Pearl South) is likely to find himself in the middle of a…
Day of action on refugee health care
There are demonstrations happening across the country today organized by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care. On Monday, June 18th, 2012 in cities across the country physicians and other health care…
Fun with headlines, etc.
“Liberal leadership: Justin Trudeau could lead Liberals to first place, new poll shows.” Um, what? I read this report twice. But nowhere do I see in that Star report anything…
No news is likely bad news
With the first quarter of British Columbia’s current fiscal year ending, public agencies and crown corporations will soon release annual reports and audited financials for the year ended March 31,…
Canadian Climate Survey 4: Climate Change Denier’s University is an Oasis from Climate Change
As usual, the highlight of the National Post’s Junk Science Week, in which the paper features and defends the finest in bogus pseudoscience, was an attack on climate change. (This…
Quebec and the Betrayal of the Young
I like the words on this mural at the East side gallery in Berlin. "If they don't let us dream, then we don't let them sleep." Because the day we…
Pesky people’s politics plague premier’s petroleum pipeline plans
The Gardner Canal, a Pacific Ocean inlet near Kitimat, B.C., planned terminus of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. What’s in the project for British Columbians? Not much, and they know…
Pesky people’s politics plague premier’s petroleum pipeline plans
The Gardner Canal, a Pacific Ocean inlet near Kitimat, B.C., planned terminus of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. What’s in the project for British Columbians? Not much, and they know…
alberta liberals choose to keep raj sherman as leader.
Tweet Liberal leader Raj Sherman at Edmonton’s 2012 Pride Festival. Edmonton-Meadowlark MLA Raj Sherman will keep his job as leader of Alberta’s Liberal Party after a vote at the party’s…
Harper on merger/coalition/cooperation
Tim, not Stephen. Here. Will any leadership candidate take up the mantle of unity? I doubt it. Despite the polling numbers, the contenders will be wary of being too controversial.…
Free Post-Secondary Education Makes Money
Free post-secondary education would increase incomes, and income taxes would not just recover the initial cost to government but would actually generate additional public revenue. This paper from the Canadian…
Smyth tells part of the story
I wonder if Province political columnist Michael Smyth spends only some of his time in this province and the rest on an isolated beach of Molokai. Occasionally, he seems plain…
Brittany Koper interview with Jackie Alnor
Brittany Koper, granddaughter of Paul and Jan Crouch, the founders of Trinity Broadcasting System, recently did an interview with Jackie Alnor of Apostasy Alert, on Rapture Ready Radio. Orange County…
Harper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”
In Stephen Harper’s Canada, we’re all potential terror threats. Until proven otherwise. So suggests a recent study by Queens University’s Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby, published in the journal Policing…