Memo to Obama: Canada’s carbon problem IS the tar sands
Canada’s Harper-ment is getting increasingly desperate. The quest to double production out of the Alberta tar sands needs new pipelines (or rail). In recent months, we have seen new proposals…
September 2013
Perram House – Oct 5 public memorial of services lost
Public services are lost one at a time, often incrementally. Take the Shelburne Hospital. Once a partner site of Headwaters Health Care, services were removed from the community one-by-one until…
What UBC and SMU’s rape chant scandals say about women in the Canadian economy
The news of UBC Sauder Business School students chanting about rape of underage girls during a FROSH week event has generated much outrage. As it should. While the chant might…
From My Blog Cupboard: Tony Blair & Prince Charles
About Prince Charles: Shortly after their first meeting, I bumped into Prince Charles. “I had a meeting with Mr. Prescott recently,” he said. “Ah,” I said, “how did it go?”…
With all this Oil and ‘Energy Security’, where’s the Money?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, discussing trade on a visit to China (Sean Kilpatrick/CP) Ask yourself this: why, if Canada has the third largest proven oil reserves in the world, is…
Nina Berman – Fracking
Methane flaring from gas-drilling wellsNina Berman/NOOR This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like by David Rosenberg Photographer Nina Berman had just started focusing on climate and environmental issues when she…
A Better Look at George Zimmerman
Shellie Zimmerman’s 911 call Well it’s hard to be sympathetic to her. She covered for him at the trial for his killing of Trayvon Martin.
Issa: The Syrian 10 years old boy who works in a weapon factory 6 days a week – more pictures
Issa assembles a locally handmade mortar shell.Hamid Khatib / Reuters 10-year-old Syrian boy works 10-hour days, six days a week alongside father in weapons factory. See more pictures here.
Huffington Post Canada: Canadian innovators are speaking out against Big Telecom’s stranglehold on our wireless market
Canadian Innovators continue to speak out against Big Telecom’s stranglehold on our wireless market. Check out this top story in the Huffington Post’s Business Section. If you’re an innovator, business…
Climate change is ruining my tea
This is really too much. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, all aggravated by climate change, and now the cruelest blow of all—it’s ruining our tea. India produces one-third of the world’s tea…
Three Years and Counting on the Kalamazoo
Three years after a major dilbit spill on Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, pipeline operator Enbridge is still at work on the cleanup. If it can’t clean a shallow river in three…
Living Large Chemically
China is taking a page out of North America’s book, discovering that antibiotics are the key to industrial livestock production. Already half the antibiotics used in China go to keeping…
Do you ever feel like you are losing your country?
This is one of those days, for me.
You Wouldn’t Knowingly Throw Plastics Into Our Lakes and Rivers, Would You?
Well, if you’re fond of those exfoliant cleansers, you might have been doing it unknowingly. Researchers trying to assess the magnitude of waste plastic debris in the Great Lakes in…
The Hidjab Files: Banned Sign Is Also High Fashion
The current Quebec government just released its plan for a “Charter of Quebc Values.” Chief among them is the “neutrality” of the state when it comes to religion. Sounds pretty…
Senator Pam Cashing In
It might be she’s hoping to stay one step ahead of the law or at least out of jail but Pam Wallin is flogging her Manhattan condo and taking a…
Bashar al-Assad’s perception of democracy
In times of tragedy it is refreshing that cartoonists provide the humorous perspective.
Mental health – is living in the park really an improvement?
KINGSTON – Tracey Newton has worked at the old Kingston Psychiatric Hospital for 25 years. In that time she has seen many changes, including the tightening of access to the…
Syria – What is our interest?
I find myself more than a little conflicted about Syria. On one side, I hold a dislike of tyrannical governments and their actions. I detest the loss of life in…