The Epic Rise and Fall of Don Blankenship, former Massey Energy CEO
Three years ago, 29 miners died at the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch mine. It was the worst mining disaster in decades, caused by a methane-fueled blast that was so…
June 2013
“Weirdos” Make Cities Better
Joi Ito, the director of the Media Lab at MIT, proposes that one way to make cities a better place for people and economies is to let weirdos flourish. What…
#RobFordLooksAtThings – 00002
Yup, thats’ the ground Rob Ford Looks at the ground
First Nations & Tar Sands: “Our Backs Are To The Wall”
From the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance: * More links: Indigenous Environmental Network Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance NoKXL Tar Sands Action
Why I Run
When Redford’s Conservatives cut persons with developmental disabilities programs, I can only look on aghast as funding for my three handicapped siblings is cut. When Redford guts palliative care nurses…
Sun News: wherein I defend Ontario and federal Libs, and rip Harper and Ford
All in a day’s work.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, June 6, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, June 6, 2013: Osgoode Society honours five scholars John Edwards looking to open new law firm (CNN)…
New column day
Here, on how the recent Munk Debate has helped to highlight Canadians’ preference for a fairer, more progressive tax system – and on a couple of the most important steps…
“I fear we have morphed into what we once mocked”
After quitting the Tory caucus, MP Brent Rathgeber pens one of the most devastating and pointed critiques of the Harper government I have ever seen. One is left wondering how…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Frances Russell makes the case for mandatory voting as an antidote to vote suppression: At first glance, entrenched opposition to mandatory voting…
Tonight! Oak Ridges and Markham and Newmarket! Come one, come all!
From Liberal.ca: Please join us for a lively and enlightening evening with guest speaker Warren Kinsella who will explore the social and economic implications of the disturbing trend toward income…
More Cracks in the Conservative Monolith
Hannah Thibedeau’s report gladdened my heart this morning as she detailed the events behind federal Conservative M.P. Brent Rathgeber’s decision to leave the Harper caucus over changes to his private…
Rebellion On The Right
Stephen Harper’s most loyal supporters are deserting him. Tom Walkom writes in The Toronto Star: The latest stress point is a damning critique of Harper’s economic policy by the head…
The Campaigns That Tried To Break The Climate Science Consensus
So just in case anyone wasn’t sure, a major study of almost 12,000 scientific papers on global warming between 1991 and 2011 finds less than one per cent disagree that…
There Is No "Rathgeber" In "Team"
Frankly, quitting over a crappy little Private Member’s bill that was little more than a gratuitous shot at the public doesn’t impress me. But, as usual when we have these…
Get Worried #nlpoli
Not surprisingly, a band of familiar faces turned up at Nalcor’s annual public meeting to put questions about Muskrat Falls to Ed Martin, the man more and more people are…
Major study shines light on Nunavut’s suicide crisis: First extensive study about suicide in Nunavut released by McGill University researchers
People who died by suicide in Nunavut were more likely to have experienced childhood physical or sexual abuse, and were more likely to have been diagnosed with depression, according to…
" Some people have a way with words, other people just…uh…don’t have a way, I guess"
So you want to be a writer or an actor or a musician? Go read THIS. Twice. Commit it to memory. Have it tatooed on your chest if necessary. It…