Marc’s Enbridge Testimony
Testimony to the Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project By Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives January 16, 2013 My name is Marc Lee, and I…
January 2013
We need a more competitive cell phone market.
With three big telecom companies controlling 92% of the Canadian mobile market, Canadians have been dissatisfied long enough for a separate group, the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services, to…
Beelzebub’s Minions Have Done His Bidding.
By Beelzebub I mean the Prince of Darkness himself, Stephen Harper. His minions are today’s corporate media cartel outlets – the warlords of information messaging – Sun News, G&M, PostMedia,…
“The people have said that enough is enough”: ACFN Chief Allan Adam
By Chief Allan Adam, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Jan 15, 2013: January 15, 2013 – Fort McMurray, AB: In the wake of Idle No More and the AFN’s calls for…
Let’s Have a War
I’m going to be honest: I know virtually nothing about Mali. I could find it on a map and I could find it on Wikipedia, and that’s pretty much it.…
VIA Rail has been forced to stop passenger trains between Toronto and Montreal and Toronto and Ottawa because of a blockade on the tracks near Marysville, Ont.
VIA Rail says ground transportation will get passengers through the site of the blockade, which is one of several protests across the country as part of a national day of…
5517…Google Anything
And you will see a tribute to the immortal 112 year old Frank Zamboni. Not literally immortal coz he is dead but you know wot I mean. WFDS
Gerard Kennedy answers 5 Q’s on what he’d do if elected Ont Liberal leader/Premier
This took longer then I thought it would initially, but Mr. Kennedy and his team have sent through their response to my 5 questions about his wanting to be Ontario…
Toronto Uses Billboard Tax to Fund Arts
many years ago, local Toronto artist and activist Devon Ostrom started Beautiful City to get more funding for the arts in Toronto and since then the project has grown to…
5516…Lance Armstrong Is Going On Oprah
I don`t know if you heard but she has her own network now, OWN. It has wickedly poor numbers but the whole world seems to talking about this interview with…
Idle No More protests “have the ability to paralyze” Canada: Ontario Provincial Police Chief
The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Christ Lewis, has taken to YouTube to silence self-righteous racists who are urging the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to…
Pushback on EI Changes
It has been a week and a half since changes to the definition of suitable employment and reasonable job search have come into effect. Already, a single mom in Prince…
How Can You Torch A Burned Out Building?
This Tory blogger asks: why would Tim Hudak promise to enact the very same reforms Mike Harris already enacted 15(ish) years ago? What would Mike Lite do that Mike Heavy…
Records Upon Records
In 2011 the United States set a record for record-breaking weather-related events. Record rainfall, record snowfall, record temperatures, record FEMA-declared natural disasters, record wildfires, and record drought. There were 3,251…
Underwhelmed – First initiatives around seniors strategy more politics than transformation
Yesterday Health Minister Deb Matthews announced the first specific initiatives following the release of Dr. Samir Sinha’s summary of recommendations for Ontario’s Senior Strategy. You may have missed the headlines…
Breaking: Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, TX Shale Gas Water Contamination Study
The Associated Press has a breaking investigative story out today revealing that the Obama Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored a smoking gun scientific report in March 2012 that it…
5515…Boycott Over
Before it started. If you are in a major Canuckistanian city like Ottawa you know that two weeks ago they, they being hockey fans, were going to show them, them…
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: what big oil wants, Harper gives, plus reducing your home energy bill with SwitchHop
Earthgauge Radio returns with our first show of 2013! Tomorrow on the program, we have an interview with Keith Stewart of Greenpeace who will tell us about the December 2011…
Does a single judge have jurisdiction to determine leave to appeal a summary conviction matter? Yes
R. v. Metin, 2013 ONCA 21 holds: Does a single judge of this court have jurisdiction to determine an application for leave to appeal? The starting point for answering this…