Heatland Institute Vs. Chinese Academy Of Science, Round II
Last week the Heartland got into it with Chinese Academy of Science. The academy had seen fit to translate HI’s Climate Change Reconsidered reports, and PR guy Jim Lakely from…
July 2013
Two Major Lawsuits Filed Against ExxonMobil for Arkansas Tar Sands Spill
Two major lawsuits were recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against ExxonMobil, the “private empire” behind the March 2013 Pegasus tar sands pipeline…
Happy Canada Day, Happy Moving Day
While everyone else relaxes today in the rest of Canada, in Queebec more than a million households will move. Any beer and pizza that gets eaten is likely to be…
Deadly Insecticides Kill Over 30 Million Bees in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger All right this is enough of the death dealing from our chemical companies. In Elmwood, Ontario- Canada, the devastation is frightening in its impacts. Recently in…
UPDATED! Cast announced for "Being Erica" spinoff" starring Mia Wasikowski as Erica Meekes
The much heralded yet ignored “Being Erica” series, re-tooled to feature the exploits of hapless Harper agent,Erica Meekes is set to debut this fall. Besides Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp has…
Juuly 1: awful, awful, awful….
A sample of awfulness is the big international news, “Syrian fighting has cost billions”. Gee! I thought it was being paid for by trading baseball cards. The big, front-page story,…
Why Don’t People Respect Canada Anymore? Reason #766, Egypt
A huge crowd of protesters stretched along an avenue near the presidential palace in Cairo on Sunday evening If you ever wondered why Canada is losing international respect, here’s a…
6199…Christian Values
This applies on both sides of the border. WFDS
6198…God Has A 50K Ask
The helicopter needs rotors. The Dailykos.com tells the WFDS that “Bishop I.V. Hilliard of the New Light Christian Church has his Texas congregation talking after he sent out a newsletter…
On Canada Day
On this Canada Day, I could write about all of the reasons I am very thankful for having been born and raised in this country. Instead, I will ask whoever…
Please God, please make Bargnani go away
Is that so much to ask on Canada Day?
The Great War and Newfoundland Nationalism #nlpoli
This is a revised version of post that originally appeared on July 4, 2012. ___________________________________ Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on…
July 1, 2013, Canada is 410 years young.
From that first explorer’s trip against the current of the St. Lawrence River, Canada began the transition to a country. And our ancestors came to build it. We were the…
Wedding countdown
My sister Deb came into town this weekend to help me shop for something to wear to my wedding (which is only 12 days away, tick tock tick tock). Unlike…
Canada Day Quiz
We all know him as “Justin Trudeau’s father” today, but there was a time when Pierre was just a lowly Justice Minister, needing 4 ballots to win the party’s leadership.…
happy canada day, a/k/a national stop harper day
This week, pollster Nik Nanos revealed that 51.5% of Canadian voters would not consider voting for the Conservative party, compared to 36.4% only seven months ago. I don’t play the…
Keep The Militarism Out Of It
It’s traditional to look back at our history on Canada Day. And on this Canada Day — our 146th — the Harper government has decided to review whether we teach…
Your Daily Nazi: McCorkell Collection Update
This clip from CBC brings the latest, in particular that the University of Ottawa, which got some of McCorkell’s artifacts after he moved East from Saskatchewan , is willing to…