Make history — meet us in Niagara-on-the-lake July 24-25
It’s the last meeting of the provincial Premiers before the 10-year 2004 health accord expires. With the expiry of that accord, so too goes any concerted effort to implement a…
June 2013
Cathy Bennett to seek Liberal leadership #nlpoli
SRBP expects that Cathy Bennett, chair of the Bennett Group of companies, will announce her bid for the provincial Liberal leadership next week. More to follow… -srbp- .
Is Obama’s Faith in Carbon Capture a Technicolor Dream?
President Obama’s climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option. But carbon capture and storage (or CCS) continues…
W@AL: I was wrong. About everything.
Outside Sun News studios, following an appearance on Brian Lilley’s show, I am struck by a proverbial lightning bolt on the way to Damascus. Clearly, I was wrong about Dalton…
Stay Motivated: A Short Caution.
I was originally going to title this “stay angry.” Sometimes, it seems like that’s what’s needed to keep people motivated and engaged in activism, networking, and a sense of community,…
June 26: Mr. Editorial Writer – ignorant? stupid? lying? All three?
It’s a bizarre editorial even without the possibilities of ignorance, stupidity or lying. It’s an editorial about all the advantages for us in the declining value of the Canadian dollar.…
Responsible Government? No, Thanks.
An extraordinary thing will happen in British Columbia today. The legislature will resume sitting for the first time since the spring election. Now, normally, that wouldn’t be exceptional. But in…
Just a Little Bit of Global Warming Goes a Long, Long Way
Chain of Fools A little warming goes a long way. That might be the real message from the floods that have wracked Alberta over the past week. It’s a message…
6185…Senator Wallin She No Vote
Says so right here in today’s Globe and Mail. “…the Saskatchewan senator did not vote in the last federal, provincial or municipal elections because of her schedule.”Too busy to vote?…
Today’s Water Lilies
Filed under: art Tagged: blue, closeup, green, water, Water Lilies
Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell discusses the inevitable collateral damage to our planet from the Cons’ war on science: Over the past 200 years, Canadians built…
Deep Conspiracy: Naomi Wolf on That Snowden Guy
As I think I’ve said here before, why should anybody be surprised that various branches of US intelligence has been following us. They’ve done it for a long time, as…
The Calgary Herald Discovers the Polar Jet Stream
It’s a newspaper so far right that, to steal a line from Lawrence Martin, it should be delivered in a holster. A couple of weeks ago the Calgary Herald scribes…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 26, 2013: Tips Tuesday Did Alito roll his eyes during Ginsburg dissent? European court advised to…
Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act and municipal politics #nlpoli
You mean the Hell’s Angels won’t be deterred by a committee of people telling Doc O’Keefe what they think he should do? -srbp-
Privately-developed London mental health hospitals justified by massive “risk” calculations
Evaluating value-for-money on a privatized public infrastructure project has always been a bit of a mugs game. A value-for-money (VFM) assessment is produced every time the province engages the private…