Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin
By: Paul Brown, Climate News Network This piece first appeared at Climate News Network. The Mackenzie River Basin showing how it drains north to the Arctic Ocean. Image: Rosenberg International…
June 2013
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Criticizes Privatization of Water at World Environment Forum
By: Fórum Mundial de Meio Ambiente | Press Release: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo: Daniel Schwen) SAO PAULO, June 22, 2013 – Privatization is currently the most troubling issue we…
Sunday Afternoon ‘Rider Blogging
I was going to post about the ‘Riders’ offseason…until Stephen LaRose said pretty much everything I planned to say. So instead, I’ll stick to pointing out where I’d question or…
Steve Wozniak calls Edward Snowden a hero
What does the co-founder of Apple have to say about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden? Article by Tania Branigan for The Guardian: The Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has backed NSA whistleblower…
The Importance of Forgetting in the Digital Age
We live in an Information Age so we should be able to adequately inform ourselves, make thoughtful decisions and act on matters of importance. We certainly have enough environmental problems…
Medicine Hat Next To Face Flooding Fury
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Calgarian’s are returning to their still soaked homes many without gas or electricity but at least they can start the long process of putting their homes back…
Racing is Hard. Racing to the Bottom is Easy.
This may come as a jaw-dropper to you, but the country our Conservative leadership so wants to emulate is a pretty impoverished state. This chart gives median wealth, by nation.…
Inside the Saddledome?
Sent this morning by my best friend (and former Hot Nasties guitarist) Pierre. Somebody time me it’s photoshopped. True?
Saddam’s Hangman Assassinated
Iraq’s outlawed Baath Party has claimed responsibility for executing the masked man (in the blue shirt) who placed the noose over Saddam Hussein’s head. The hangman, identified as Mohhamed Nassif…
Review: Adventures of Unemployed Man
The Adventures of Unemployed Man is a comic book about the modern economy. How can an unemployed superhero believe in himself? How can the superheros fight against against the Just…
my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew, part 1
The Self-Hating Jew. This is what I am, according to some. There’s a line from an Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical: “I’ve been called many names, but they’re the strangest.”* I think…
Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson Speak Out on the NSA and PRISM Spy Project
We got to know them when they stood defiant against the Bush/Cheney/Scooter Libby cabal over their government’s cooked up claims about Saddam and his supposed arsenal of weapons of mass…
It’s Time For Some New Democrats To WAKE UP!!!!!
B.C.’s New Democrats have only themselves to blame for throwing away their chance to win the recent provincial election. ‘We’re going to fight a positive campaign” …. that was the…
6177…Design A [Bacon] Doughnut
QMI reports that for the first time ever Tim Horton’s is going to let you design your own doughnut. And win 10K. Just go to duellingdonuts.ca or TimHortons.com/DuellingDonuts. You have…
Alberta Warned – Stop Development on Flood Plains – Nobody Listened, as Usual.
My view of Alberta’s Conservative government were formed decades ago when the issue of mandatory infant car seats came up in the legislature. Car seats – for kids – huge…