American Nomads
Beneath the America we think we know lies a nation hidden from view – a nomadic nation, living on the roads, the rails and in the wild open spaces. In…
July 2013
Song of the Kauri: a Documentary Feature Film from the Heart of New Zealand
Reblogged from Sustainability Studies: The Honolulu Museum of Art featured a film this month, Song of the Kauri, directed by Mathurin Molgat. The film, a part of the Aotearoa Film…
What is the deal with Methane?
Recently a comment published in Nature made the case for a catastrophic release of the methane (a very potent GHG) in the Arctic which in turn could cause sudden warming…
6281…Make Justin Trudeau Be Quiet
We are down in the polls, eh? Methinks it is coz Justin Trudeau and his cabal have lost sight of their purpose. Their purpose being to run Canada. Headlines like…
GMO whistleblower: Canadian federal scientist speaks out
An interview with a whistle-blower doesn’t happen every day. I spoke with Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former soil biologist and genetic scientist who for 35 years worked for Agriculture Canada,…
What God Wants You to Know This Week
More Tweets of God: I get too much credit for Friday and not enough for Saturday. If women didn’t want to be sexually harassed they shouldn’t have been born with…
BC’s wheelchair fee for seniors in long-term care facilities not fair: Researcher
Janine Farrell, a seniors care researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, explains why the recently announced $25/month user fee for wheelchairs used by people in long-term care facilities…
In Paris
Circumstances dictate that I will be in France and Italy until the middle of August. I am keeping a journal in Paper by 53 images will be posted on my…
Stephen Harper’s new dance moves
He is getting ready for the fall session of Parliament. So far he has managed to dance off all scandals.
The price of a dam #nlpoli
If crap was electricity, Nalcor would have the market cornered. Da byes running the Muskrat falls project are very good at spewing words but very bad at saying things that…
I Believe This With My Whole Heart
“Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.” -Chris…
Abuse of process and improper purpose
Doe v. A & W Canada, 2013 HRTO 1259 is an interesting decision where an application was brought on openly bogus grounds to raise issues with human rights legislation. In…
Industry Pressure Shuts Down EPA Fracking Investigations, Watch our Ring of Fire interview
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent countless taxpayer dollars and man-hours over the last few years investigating the environmental threats posed by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in many regions…
Stephen Fry’s Excellent Take on Being Gay
There really is nothing to add to this wonderful statement by English actor Stephen Fry on being proud to be gay. How can anyone listen to this and not be…
Premiers focus on cuts and ignore falling federal health care funding
As feared yesterday— the premiers have rolled. They didn’t even dare to beg for better federal health care funding in their media release on health care from their meeting (“The…
No, It’s Not a Holiday…
Who says that Grandmas aren’t useful. Jeanne has a fever so she’s chez nous today. As a consequence lots of stories are being read, but not much writing done.
Admission for truth of prior inconsistent statements
R. v. Youvarajah 2013 SCC 41: B. Admissibility of Prior Inconsistent Statements Historically, an out-of-court prior inconsistent statement of a non-accused witness was admissible only to impeach the credibility of…
Electron democracy
A long-belated companion to Steven Chu’s “Time to fix the wiring” essay I posted earlier, this is the white paper I co-authored for the same McKinsey & Company series. Given…
Porn opt-ins, soft censorship and buttbuttinating personal responsibility
On Monday, British Prime Minster David Cameron announced that internet service providers in the U.K. would be required to filter out online porn as part of several new rules to…