David Suzuki announces support for Joyce Murray #lpcldr
Joyce Murray’s campaign for Liberal leadership gets a nice boost today: DAVID SUZUKI OPEN LETTER February 20, 2013 “An open letter to Canadians: I am writing this as an individual…
February 2013
Forensic Audit Reveals Sask Party Gov’t Carbon Sequestration Project Flawed And Potentially Fraudulent
A report on the Sask. Party’s IPAC-CO2 project has revealed a conflict of interest scandal that appears to have cost taxpayers millions of dollars — despite the Sask. Party’s false…
Liveable development?
Two things. The city is reviewing its key policies on land use, transportation and infrastructure – the Official Plan, Transportation Master Plan, Infrastructure Master Plan, Cycling Plan and the Pedestrian…
Choosing to Become Mothers, Women in Vietnam Break Barriers
Having just spent a day with my own grandkids, I am perhaps particularly open to this kind of story. The New York Times reports that a small group of Revolutionary…
ReThink Meat
Meat fraud is taking place all around us. Most people probably can’t tell the difference between similar looking meats sold in stores, were it not for the labeling. Fish fraud…
Hudak wants a $300 million election, vows to vote against a budget that hasn’t been written yet
Yesterday, Finance Minister Charles Sousa started his first round of pre-Budget consultations in Mississauga, listening to the concerns of everyday Ontario families as he works to prepare a budget focused…
Fracking, climate change and the world economy
I’ve been seeing some things lately that have substantially altered my opinions about how things are going to go in the medium future, yanking them first in one direction and…
To Mark International Women’s Day and Honour Immigrant Women….
The lot of immigrant women is particularly hard, and to honour them as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, NDP Outremont is organizing another film forum for Monday March…
Feb. 21: The news YOU need to know…
..”Snowy weather challenges N.B. road-clearing crews.”…”Baby born at Dieppe home.”….”Impact of federal job cuts debated.” ( meaning – We don’t know anything because nobody knows what’s going on.) Will federal…
China’s Water Woes
China does not seem able to come to grips with the pollution that is inexorably poisoning the country. While Beijing talks about green energy, including 5th generation reactor technology, it…
5663…Hottest Ottawa MP Getting Married
Eve Adams is no Mara Carfagna but she will do. And now she is off the market. Elizabeth Grey-Smith in iPolitics reports that the 38 year old rookie Conservative MP…
1.5C Enough to Unleash the Permafrost Greenhouse Gases
A team of researchers, led by Oxford University scientists, has concluded that global warming of just 1.5 degrees Celsius will trigger the melting of the world’s permafrost and, with it,…
5662…Mr. Mulcair Goes To Washington
Ah, geez, this could be bad, eh?Lawrence Martin at iPolitics Insight tells the world that “It’s his first official visit to the U.S. capital as NDP leader and it comes…
BC Navigable Waters Protections Gutted at Pipeline Operators’ Request
The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association used its clout with the sleazy government of Sideshow Steve Harper to modify the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Greenpeace used the Freedom of Information Act…
It is Time to Declare a Moratorium on School Closures In the Cowichan Valley
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The present turmoil and uncertainty regarding Cowichan School District school closures and restructuring of the entire system is being driven by the Christy Clark governments appointed…
Will John Kerry reject Keystone XL?
A very interesting post today by Joe Romm at ThinkProgress.org. Based on the recent comments of the new U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, Romm is speculating that Kerry “shows…
Timing is everything
Anticipated question at the next Ontario NDP caucus meeting: “How do we vote for the Throne Speech or Budget now? We live interesting times. Or, some people do, anyway.
Collaboration, Law Firm Style
My first co-post at SlawTips is now up. See: Collaboration, Law Firm Style: An introduction – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website:…
How do you know you live in a petro state?
From Andrew Nikiforuk in today’s Tyee. The full article, called ‘Why can’t Alberta break even?‘, is worth a read. How do you know when you live in petro state? Here…
More of Lafleche Main St. Destroyed
The last of the old Lafleche Red & White grocery store, and the former butcher shop that adjoined it to the north, has burned down. Most recently it was M.O.M…