The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #6
This is Update #6 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. Plains…
2012
What the Future Holds: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Are pollsters going to muddle the cooperation issue yet again?
It seems that our pollsters have difficulty in appreciating that voters are sophisticated, and appreciate the differences between the choices facing them. Voters understand the differences between (1) an outright…
Plains Midstream Disaster Should be Wake-Up Call Re: Enbridge Proposal
I had this blood rush to my head the other morning morning when I read the Globe and Mail’s article on the Plains Midstream oil line burst into the Red…
Prairie Music
Saskatchewan is known for many musicians, and types of music. It has a provincial name that is a challenge to include in songs too. However, not many people have heard…
Ten Years Blogging
I may have marked this milestone in February, but Google doesn’t tell me I did, and I don’t remember. Old bloggers also repeat themselves. My blogging is ten years old…
Get Bob Rae A Sinecure!
BOOYAH! Bob Rae has chosen NOT to run for LPoC leadership, which is the best thing for the party and therefore, by definition, for the nation. If Stephen Harper won’t…
All day I’ve been like a hostage negotiator dealing with unstable maniacs
Has the entire world gone mad? Everyone is on a hair trigger fuse about the blow up!!! Is it a full Moon? Or is Venus in transit again?
British Columbia, Potemkin village style
Part of the plan to arrest dwindling BC Liberal support is to announce and re-announce program changes and capital projects, large and small. There is a flurry of proclamations happening…
Adler’s show last night: on Lib leadership
Charles and I react with shock as a shirtless Justin Trudeau and an unidentified crazed man in a Speedo appear on the set.
Ontarians Want More Sustainable Communities
Eight-nine per cent of Ontarians feel their communities would benefit environmentally and economically by incorporating green alternatives, according to a new survey conducted by Research House. Green product manufacturers and…
Someone fire John Ibbitson, please.
Long time Conservative sympathetic editorialist John Ibbitson recently wrote an article for the Globe and Mail which I thought deserved some righteous and vitriolic bashing. This article is titled: Harper’s…
Here’s What The CONs won’t tell You.
Here’s what the Conservatives won’t tell you: They are gutting Canada’s environment assessment process for big energy projects—leaving our air, land and water exposed and at risk. Canada can be…
Groundswell of Citizen Action for Nature and Democracy
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 On June 4th, the Black Out Speak Out day of action, over 550 organisations, representing millions of citizens, darkened our websites in a symbolic show of…
MPP Bill Mauro introduces 2,000 signature petition to Ontario legislature
Liberal MPP Bill Mauro introduced a 2,000-signature petition into the Ontario legislature today calling upon the government to use its influence to reopen the Canadian Blood Services Thunder Bay Plasma…
Lobbying from the GEO Group Inc. for privatized facilities and prions in Canada, inspired by the Harper Conservatives.
In emails between a Barbara Motzney – a staffer at Public Safety Ottawa – and Patrick C. Gagnon – a member of The Parliamentary Group, and a lobbyist for GEO…
what i’m reading / marxism 2012 program notes: "too many people?" population, immigration, and the environment
I’ve just finished reading Too Many People? Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis by Ian Angus and Simon Butler. Co-author Angus spoke at the 2012 Marxism conference; I wasn’t able…
It’s actually a class war
DougJ at Baloon Juice says the fighting about politics is actually about class: I used to think that the purpose of neoconservatism was to give some intellectual cover to the…
Bob Builds His Liberal Party Legacy
As in 2008 (above), Rae has stepped aside for the good of the party As I hoped would be the case, Bob Rae has taken a pass at the Liberal…