The U.S. Coast Guard has been ordered to investigate and report on the implications of large scale bitumen supertanker trafficking out of Vancouver. A legislative amendment proposed by Washington state…
The President of the Royal Society of Canada, Yolande Grise, warns that the relationship between public policy and science is broken within the Harper regime. Policy and science are in…
Is America caught in a shale fracking bubble? An article from TruthDig.com claims it is and that it’s set up the same way as the last one only with bundled…
Wegelin bank – tax criminal Swiss financial circles are reeling from the closing of Switzerland’s oldest bank (founded 1741), after it pleaded guilty to assisting wealthy Americans evade US taxes.…
We’re in the battle of our lives and we’re almost as indifferent to it as our adversary, the science of physics. Bill McKibben, writing at tomdispatch.com, says time is not…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Frank Graves’ review of the current state of Canadian politics focuses in on the growing gap between the Cons’ waning interest in listening…
Given the visceral and sometimes racists attacks on the Idle No More movement and its supporters, I think it is important for me to continue to address, in a little…
Our long, recurring nightmare is over … hockey is back! Yes, the National Hockey League and its skating concussion candidates reached a deal Saturday to end the lockout that threatened…
If you wondered why the Harper government has gutted Canada’s environmental legislation, Frances Russell provides the answer: The North American Free Trade Agreement was the first of a New World…
That the Harper regime uses a myriad of tactics to exploit, manipulate and deceive the Canadian public through its propaganda, demagoguery, and demonization of those with contrary policy views has…
…at the NHL and NHLPA have figured out how to the split the billions and millions. And it took these bozos months to come to an agreement. Months of no…
I’ve abandoned the NHL for the UFC over the past couple of months. No chasing little rubber disks. No cold rinks. Just straight to the punch-ups.
Michael Moore: These young men and women sign up to risk their very lives to protect us — and this is what they get in return: 1. They get sent…
Much has been written about the Idle No More movement in recent weeks and I will not attempt to define it here for like the Occupy Movement before it the…
Naomi Wolf, in The Guardian: Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence agents who committed crimes against Guantánamo prisoners out of jail. It makes heroes and…
If Stephen Harper thought his grudging offer to meet with the AFN Chiefs would defuse the Idle No More movement, he couldn't have been more wrong.From Sydney to Cornwall to…
Idle No More doesn’t speak to a grievance. It doesn’t speak to two or three. What it speaks to is defined solely by how broadly and deeply it resonates both…
Louis ck does Lincoln. I hadn’t seen this until tonight. Very fun.
Well, now that we’ve entered 2013 to the best of our abilities, I think it’s high time we got the blog rolling again. As promised, we will take a closer…
