The right response to Obama’s climate push
The R Street Institute, which split from the Heartland Institute after the billboard fiasco, has released a response to Obama’s renewed commitment to tackle climate change. Unsurprisingly, given R Street’s…
July 2013
RSS Changeover Day Experiences
So today is the day Google Reader is vanishing from the web. What next? Well, I’ve done my duty and saved my Google RSS data, and now I’m looking for…
Integrity And Dishonour On Display
It there were two people in a room, a politician and a private citizen, and you were told that one was deeply dishonourable and one very principled, you would naturally…
HAPPY CANADA DAY!
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B.C. residents off to Fort McMurray to witness impact of the tar sands
by: Council of Canadians | Press Release: Photo Credit: www.healingwalk.org VANCOUVER, June 28, 2013 – On July 4th, dozens of residents from Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley will be…
My sons are away for the next two weeks
…And my daughter is at camp for the entire summer. When I told my youngest boy how sad that made me, this was his visual response.
everything else is either public relations or a misattributed quote
I saw this: and thought: that doesn’t sound like Orwell. I have read almost everything Orwell ever published, and will eventually read everything, including all the published letters. While no…
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…
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?