Media Ignores Damaged Oil And Gas Tanks In Colorado Floods
This is a guest post by Alisha Mims, cross-posted from Ring of Fire. As the devastating flooding in Colorado continues, some Colorado residents are wondering why no one is talking…
September 2013
What’s the real risk and cost for Regina’s wastewater P3?
The City of Regina is engaged in a controversial debate about a proposed public private partnership (P3) for the city’s wastewater plant. Residents formed a Regina Water Watch group to…
Fraser got it wrong — StatsCan says little real difference in public-private absenteeism rates
Contrary to the much publicized Fraser Institute press releases accusing the public sector of abusing sick leave allowances, earlier today Statistics Canada issued a report suggesting there is in fact…
Pope Franky Spanks the Vatican
Pope Francis continues to rock the Vatican. Pope Francis, in the first extensive interview of his six-month-old papacy, said that the Roman Catholic Church had grown “obsessed” with preaching about…
More Ontarians per job vacancy than rest of Canada
Kathleen Wynne should pay attention to recent reports that jobs are becoming a growing issue in Ontario. Earlier this week Statistics Canada noted that the number of unemployed people per…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani: Iran has no plans to build nuclear weapons
Ann Curry of NBC interviewed Hassan Rouhani. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “We have never pursued or sought a nuclear bomb, and we…
Are We Medicating Ourselves to Death?
A report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) wades into the tens of thousands of lives claimed in America each year from overuse of antibiotics. Each year in…
Guess Who’s Gone From Sun TV HomePage?
David “The Menzoid” Menzies show has been “on summer hiatus” the last couple of months. Now his pic is off their “full schedule page” and his twitter feed just redirects…
Antawa was warned about Arctic patrol ships’ high price
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-was-warned-about-arctic-patrol-ships-high-price-1.1859387
More on alternate measures of unemployment
I’ve mentioned differences between Statistics Canada’s R8 measure and the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics’ U6 measure before, but I think it’s worth covering again. R8 is Canada’s broadest measure…
Please Sign This Petition
While many of us know that the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is being conducted in unprecedented secrecy (except, of course, in the case of the corporate sector that has full access…
Trickle Down Would Work If It Weren’t For The Sponges At The Top
This piece was first published in the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. Five years after a global economic crisis unleashed chaos on markets everywhere, income inequality has become an inescapable…
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Avast ye landlubbers!
It be talk like a Pirate day! Confuse yer friends! Amaze yer cohorts! Someone pisses ya off? Swab the decks with em! Happy International Talk like a pirate day!
Ottawa: Doubledecker bus and train collision
TRANSIT ACCIDENT: An official photographed the scene of an accident involving a bus and a train in Ottawa Wednesday. Six people died and at least 11 others were critically injured…
Daily Digital Digest for Thursday 19 September 2013
Here are your daily news links: ‘Fair for Canada’ was fear of Verizon: Industry Minister (Globe & Mail) Industry Canada mum on how many deposits received for wireless spectrum auction…
Tony Abbott’s Australia Will Have Nothing to Do With Climate Commission
Australia has just come through its hottest twelve months on record in time to sweep into power Tony Abbott’s wonky coalition government. And, true to form, Tony’s been busy doing…
No right to serve foreign prison sentence in Canada
Divito v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2013 SCC 47: Date: 20130919 Docket: 34128 The ability of prisoners to serve their sentence in Canada is therefore a creation of…
Whenever I See the Gathering Clouds of Nihilism, It’s Strangelove For Me.
At times it can seem that, as a species, we’re backsliding. Egalitarianism seems to be in rout. The drive for equality has stalled and is quietly reversing. We now focus…