Doing What’s Right Doesn’t Always Look Cool
“Finish your food; there are children starving in… Regina.” When I first started recovering items from dumpsters, I was of course keenly aware of the social stigma implications. I consoled…
March 2013
Co-operation Plan Silliness, Part Gazillion
An interesting thing popped up today in the Vancouver Sun: For those inclined to believe anything is possible in politics, Tom Mulcair or Justin Trudeau could be Canada’s next prime…
CAW Owned and Operated Wind Turbine Begins Operation in Port Elgin, ON
By: Canadian Auto Workers Union | Press Release PORT ELGIN, ON – A CAW owned and operated wind turbine started operating today generating clean wind energy to the electrical grid…
5780…30 Years Ago Tonite
Rolling Stone picks up the story: Thirty years ago tonight, the world first saw Michael Jackson moonwalk. The big moment came during the end of his performance of “Billie Jean”…
A consumer battle guide to cell phone mistreatment.
Canadians sent us their cell phone horror stories, and with them, we’ve created a road map to fix our cell phone market and helped to create a tool kit to…
5779…Today’s Reason To Drink/Go To Church
On this day in 0 Mary, the Virgin Mary, got pregnant. The father was, of course, God. The kid did okay for himself. WFDS
5776…Gay Marriage And Sunday Shopping
Let’s face it. Folks don’t like change. That is the problem, when you deconstruct it, that we, Canucks, had with gay marriage a few years ago. And Sunday shopping. I…
Building a Winning Advocacy Team for Family Caregivers
At first, advocating for care seems like a daunting, almost impossible task. But like any unwieldy job, the trick is to break it down into manageable building blocks. I’ve tried…
Dirty Energy Lobby Looking To NRA For Guidance
The Wall Street Journal recently opened up their editorial pages for noted climate change denier David Deming, allowing him to publish a “call to action” for the dirty energy industry.…
Welcome to Vancouver Island’s Bubbly Gulch.
Deep beneath the ocean surface, in Bubbly Gulch off Vancouver Island, a crab doing an inadvertent backflip has given scientists new information about the world’s largest source of untapped fossil…
Stephen Harper in Love with Pandas
Stephen Harper is in love with Chinese pandas. Besides giving away Tar Sands to China he will also pay $10 million for a five year rental of two pandas. “Prime…
A Warming Ocean and Albion Freezes
The British Isles have been plunged into a sudden deep freeze and researchers are blaming a rapidly warming Arctic Ocean. The Arctic, which has seen a loss of 80% of…
Final #LPCLdr Debate: My Very "Strategic" Ballot
The fifth and final Liberal leadership debate was held in Montreal this past Saturday, a mostly-French affair that followed the format of the last couple of debates with its three-way…
Further “Yellow Peril” Reading
Our friends at The Mainlander have an excellent piece on the racially charged rhetoric on housing today. From the Georgia Straight, an article on the Chinese community’s concerns over the…
Are passengers in cars that have been stopped by the police detained? Maybe
R. v. Johnson, 2013 ONCA 177 holds: The interesting issue of whether passengers in cars that have been stopped by the police are detained has been considered in a number…
The top four things we care about, according to the Harper Conservatives
Tacked onto the end of an unrelated news release from FedDev Ontario about investing in Ottawa-area technology companies was this seemingly unrelated paragraph. And it illuminates the top four things…
Feb 2013 Canadian plug-in electric vehicle sales
Been a bit quiet on the blogging front recently, due to some gratifyingly awesome progress on separate writing projects — a trend likely to continue for another couple weeks at…
March 25: somtimes, I’m….
….unpardonably slow to connect the dots. The pieces were all there – Irving’s declaration of being in coalition with the government following his great conference on the economic future of…
Ask me
I have a question for you. Here is the preamble: people are, in general, awesome. Most people in the world are lovley, caring, giving humans. They want to share; they…
A Year Ago Thomas Mulcair Became NDP Leader
The picture was taken a year ago when we all were waiting for the results of the balloting during the NDP leadership convention. Our man Tom Mulcair has done a…