Boycott Apartheid ft M1 (Dead Prez) and Lowkey
The faces in this powerful video represent the millions around the world who are united against Israeli apartheid. The faces represent all of us… the eyes, the ears, the collective…
May 2013
Can the BC Liberals win?
Teddy here to answer a simple question: can the BC Liberals win. The answer, which might surprise some, is yes. A few things need to happen though to make this…
Tomorrow on EG Radio: the Kalamazoo River oil spill
This week on Earthgauge, we’ll take a look back at what happened in Michigan in 2010 when an Enbridge pipeline ruptured spilling roughly 1 million gallons of oil into the…
Talk About the Company He Keeps: Part VI
Okay, this is hardly a new revelation, but given some of Paulie's friends have said they have never heard him say anything racist and that there is nothing wrong with…
5969…Sixty Eight Years Ago Today
The big one, WWTwo, ended. At least the Euro version did. Took a bit more to end things in the Pacific Theatre of War. WFDS
Lisa’s guide to voting in 10 easy steps
(I liked this so much, I copied it in its entirety.) As you may have heard, Christy Clark is the premier of British Columbia. As such, she is alleged to…
Lisa’s guide to voting in 10 easy steps
As you may have heard, Christy Clark is the premier of British Columbia. As such, she is alleged to be a politician. If they know anything at all, politicians are…
Stephen Hawking withdraws from Jerusalem conference – backs boycott of Israel
Reknowned British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has withdrawn from a conference scheduled to be held in Jerusalem in June. The conference – Facing Tomorrow – is to be hosted by Israeli…
Durham Police Abuse Of Authority
I’m not sure what is more disquieting, the conduct of constable James Ebdon or the very timid sanctions Durham Police Chief Mike Ewles imposed on the errant officer. Neither exactly…
Wanted: strong provincial action to protect our coast and rivers from tar sands oil
Thursday, May 9, 2013 On Earth Day (April 22nd) we joined many other environmental organizations in applauding Adrian Dix and the NDP for standing up for our coast, and expressing…
Wanted: strong provincial action to protect our coast and rivers from tar sands oil
Thursday, May 9, 2013 On Earth Day (April 22nd) we joined many other environmental organizations in applauding Adrian Dix and the NDP for standing up for our coast, and expressing…
Actually, jury is still out on efficacy of Attack ads against Trudeau
Hmm, this is a bit embarrassing. Yesterday I posted that the Ipsos Reid poll commissioned by postmedia and CTV demonstrated that the attack ads were not working. The word I…
CN1376 AcadMOOC
7:54 pm Stephen Downes T -5 minutes 7:55 pm Mary Zedeck Hi Stephen! 7:55 pm Janesh Sanzgiri Excellent. Almost midnight here. 7:55 pm Javier Benítez disconnected 7:57 pm Susan Dixon…
Someone’s Sleeping, Lord
We tend to surround ourselves with like-minded thinkers; people who understand, if not agree with our politics, our, as Ignatius J. Reilly would say, “world view”, and our humour. By…
ConCalls: Gone Since December #RoboCon
The verdict for the Robocalls Federal Court challenge is still not in, after the judge started deliberating and writing back in December. No rush, I guess. Why hurry when we’ve…
I Voted for Justin
I just voted in the LPC Leadership race. It has been five months since the race officially started, and nearly a year since the first potential candidates started talking publicly…
5968…Canada Loves Mothers
Just in time for Mother’s Day comes this from The Washington Post. Who got it from Save The Children which is a London based NGO. That would be the other…
The Harper Conservatives have no choice but to table all related documents to find where the ‘missing’ $3.1Billion tax dollars went
Today, the New Democrats are upping the ante with a motion that, if passed, would force the government to show its work by delivering to the House all related annual…
Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble
On Sat., April 27, I met up with energy investor Bill Powers at Prairie Moon Restaurant in Evanston, IL for a mid-afternoon lunch to discuss his forthcoming book set to…
Guest Commentary From the Salamander On The Harper Regime
The other evening I put up a post on Kellie Leitch, the erstwhile physician turned Conservative M.P., enthusiastic sycophant and prominent apologist of all things Harpereque. As he occasionally does,…