Stand Up with Ernst and Tell Big Oil to FRACK OFF!!
OK, so there is Chief Spence’s hunger strike and it coincides with the INM movement that was about to happen anyway. Well, turns out, she is not as pure as…
January 2013
Stand Up with Ernst and Tell Big Oil to FRACK OFF!!
OK, so there is Chief Spence's hunger strike and it coincides with the INM movement that was about to happen anyway. Well, turns out, she is not as pure as…
Stand Up with Ernst and Tell Big Oil to FRACK OFF!!
OK, so there is Chief Spence’s hunger strike and it coincides with the INM movement that was about to happen anyway. Well, turns out, she is not as pure as…
Alberta oil selling at 50% discount to world price…
…which explains why the Canadian government is Hell-and-High-Water-bent on building a pipeline, any pipeline, anywhere. First, the stats Over the past few months, new stories have noted that Canada’s oil…
Stephen Harper and the Lincoln Complex
OK. I hope you're sitting down eh? Because I wasn't when I heard the news, and I practically collapsed. So great was my shock, and my outrage.For it seems that…
Alberta’s health care queue-jumping inquiry finds itself at a crucial fork in the road
Is Alberta’s queue-jumping inquiry a real inquiry, or a kabuki play, as above? We’ll know soon. Below: Alberta NDP leader Brian Mason on the steps of the Legislature … with…
Some Notes on the Rosetown Debate
Video Link: LINK As promised, the party has put up the video link for the Rosetown debate, so we’re going to talk a little about it. As pointed out during…
Comics
Non Sequitur
Musical interlude
Wild Strawberries – I Don’t Want To Think About It
The Unintended Consequences of Military Intervention:
The Roots of Mali and Algeria Crisis in Libya. And let’s not forget Canada’s gung-ho involvement in Libya – which might partially explain the interest in Mali now. what was…
The Unintended Consequences of Military Intervention:
The Roots of Mali and Algeria Crisis in Libya. And let's not forget Canada's gung-ho involvement in Libya - which might partially explain the interest in Mali now. what was…
Friday night
Oh the bass! Yes. Have a good night!
The Northern Cree of Sturgeon Lake Saskatchewan First Nation were doing this long before Stephen Harper came along …
… and they will be doing the same a long, long time after he is gone.
The Unintended Consequences of Military Intervention:
The Roots of Mali and Algeria Crisis in Libya. And let’s not forget Canada’s gung-ho involvement in Libya – which might partially explain the interest in Mali now. what was…
Friday night
Let’s start with an instrumental: Bobby’s Bop by Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters. Honest I Do was originally written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1957. This is Mississippi Heat…
How global temperatures have changed since 1880 – video
Once again, indisputable proof of climate change! via The GuardianUK and YouTube: 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record, new figures show. This animation displays a progression of…
It’s snowing, snowing, snowing…
I was looking outside today as the snow fell in Collingwood (-11C when we awoke, -10C when I first walked my dog…) and thinking of my brother-in-law in England, where…
Forest minister’s changes will increase raw log exports, kill B.C. jobs, NDP say
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Are you ready for the 2013 May election? Hint, it is already underway judging by the outpouring of BC Liberal propaganda aka taxpayer funded Government bulletins…
Internet throttling complaints increased in 2012.
The CRTC recently found that companies like Rogers and Bell continued to slow down our online Internet use, resulting in more complaints about throttling being filed in 2012 than in…
A Not-So-Public Hearing
Yesterday I gave my testimony to the Joint Review Panel for the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project. Protesters in Vancouver January 2013 Some might argue it was an exercise in futility…