Anti-tax business lobby is fed up with special interests (like us)
The Alberta Enterprise Group is a anti-tax business lobby, a good number of them involved with that province’s oil patch. It’s board of directors is entirely made up of men…
January 2013
Where’s Our Corporate Tax Referendum?
The big news today is that New Brunswick Premier David Alward is willing to consider a referendum on the HST. CBC News reports, “the provincial government could hold a referendum…
Is Harper Begging for Trouble?
A nagging worry I’ve had about the plans to ramp up supertanker traffic through Vancouver’s inner harbour and Kitimat and the Douglas Channel is their extraordinary vulnerability to sabotage or…
BB10 is finally here
This post at Engadget was interesting because it gave a snapshot of several editors opinions. I think things can be summed up like this, from my own look at the…
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Liberals Infiltrating the Tea Party?
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is in trouble. Kentucky Tea Party activists want him out and could spoil his re-election bid. That’s got McConnell lashing out, claiming his opponents have…
BC Hydro-BC Liberal’s Send Mixed Messages About ‘Smart Meter’ Installations
‘We Won, We Won, They won!’ Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Yes the thousands of British Columbians who resisted ‘Smart Meter’ installations have dodged that bullet, at least for now. The…
Review: Ghostly Matters
This is mostly a book about how we know things — about epistemology. It is, in particular, about how we know the social world. Despite its spectral title, it is…
Available pleas
R. v. R.P., 2013 ONCA 53 deals with potential pleas available in Canada: Section 606(1) describes the pleas available to an accused who is called upon to plead. The section…
Two Aspects of Power: Consciousness and Physical Force
Left: A Freedmen’s school, a place of learning established by New Afrikans who had escaped the slave-system in the south of the united states. Right: a mob of euro-americans burns…
China is burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined
Time Magazine published a sobering article recently that provides some idea of the daunting challenge facing activists around the world who are trying to build a movement to confront the…
Nonsense Alert: When Canadian journalists succumb to climate denial folly
I don’t want to be one of those grandpas who spoils the grandkids with a habitable planet. It’s the same reason I will not buy life insurance. I get hit…
Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: Obama the climate hawk?
This week on Earthgauge Radio we’re talking about President Obama’s inaugural address in which his commitment to action on climate change was given special prominence. Will this translate into concrete…
Will The Bizarre Weather In Ottawa Wake Up The Climate Zombies In Parliament?
* Paul Beckwith is a part-time professor and PhD student of abrupt climate change in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. He recently wrote this paragraph in…
All Three Senators Who Voted Against John Kerry Are Pro-Keystone XL, Anti-Science, Climate Deniers
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Sen. John Kerry as the new Secretary of State, by a vote of 94-3. The three “no” votes were cast by infamous…
How to Petition the CRTC against Sun News’ Mandatory Carriage
Photo source: Globe and Mail Remember this? Well, you’re about to see a lot of more of Sun New’s hateful and inflammatory programming if Quebecor Inc. gets its way. The…
Our Race to the Bottom
Rarely have I read a more accurate and succinct chronicle of what the last few decades have done to the people of this country. Enjoy, compliments of The Toronto Star:…
Mali, Chuck Hagel’s Cautionary Tale
If Chuck Hagel does become America’s next Defense Secretary he plans to steer clear of entanglement in the war against Islamist insurgents in the Sahara. In prepared questions to the…
What Can You Build in Canada in 90 Days?
A Chinese company has announced plans to build the world’s tallest building which, of itself, would be an enormous achievement. But, from start to finish, they claim it will take…
You Know You’re In Trouble When
An enterprising, multi-millionaire starts selling clean air in soft drink cans. Chen Guangbiao, whose wealth is estimated at $740 million according to the Hurun Report, sells his cans of air…