Review: Globalization and Militarism
Among the hardest books to review (and even to read, at least for me) are those that score high in both the plus column and in the minus column. Globalization…
February 2013
Earthships Taking Off in the Netherlands
Earthships are a type of house that are built using reused materials to construct a structure that is sustainable. Often the earthships are off the gird and can function autonomously…
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
This is a balsa and tissue paper model of the Nieuport 17 aeroplane flown by Billy Bishop during WWI. Well. Technically, this is the completed fuselage of said aeroplane. In…
Shale Industry Moves to Ship Fracking Waste via Barge, Threatening Drinking Water Supplies
It was meant to go unnoticed. A small announcement out of a commissioners’ meeting signaled plans to transport fracking wastewater by barge down the Ohio River. But it caught the…
Harper Rigged the Game and Stacked The Deck. Natives Withdraw From Enbridge Hearings!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger You have to hand to our neocon Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He can manage a straight face and studied and affected ‘cool demanour’ as he jams ‘Omnibus…
Restrictive covenants
Martin v. ConCreate USL Limited Partnership, 2013 ONCA 72 is an important case upholding strongly the principle that, generally, restrictive covenants are unenforceable: (1) Framework Covenants in restraint of trade…
Stephen Harper – U.N Speech
What is Stephen Harper saying? Hint: He was in a hurry.
Something In The Water
BCL on the chutzpah of Jonathan Kay, junk science enabler debunker: here’s a real lack of self-awareness here. Jonathon , after all, is comment pages editor at the National Post,…
Feb. 5: Let’s live a little…
Today’s Moncton Times is the usual crapola. Not only does it not report on an important meeting at Moncton City Hall (concerning Moncton High), it doesn’t even mention there was…
A Monocellular Unresolve
Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: Monster
Apology by Matt Hopkins
“On January 18, 2012 I made allegations that Warren Kinsella was fired from Sandra Pupatello’s campaign for leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. The allegations were false. Mr. Kinsella was…
#skndpldr Candidate Rankings – February 5
Once again, there’s been relatively little to shift the respective rankings of Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. So I’ll use this post to point out a few points of interest which…
SHOCKING: Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Suppress Democratic Votes
The NY Times: Several recent polls and studies suggest that long waiting times in some places depressed turnout in 2012 and that lines were longest in cities, where Democrats outnumber…
Erin Weir: PotashCorp Royalties Remain at Rock Bottom
“… Erin Weir continues to ask the hardest questions of any candidate in the Saskatchewan New Democrat leadership campaign. The governing Saskatchewan Party is led by Premier Brad Wall and…
‘Paying’ For Their Crimes?
It doesn’t take a cynic to realize that justice can be anything other than even-handed. We all know, for example, that there is a disproportionate percentage of people populating North…
Shilling For Benefits
Last week the press was all a twitter — because Stephen Harper was tweeting. It makes you wonder what kind of critical thinking skills our press barons possess. Michael Harris…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The CP reports on the Canadian applicants rejected by HD Mining as it chose instead to staff its Murray River coal project…