WARNING – Excessive Exposure to Harper Conservatism Can Be Harmful to Your Health
Another Tory backbencher succumbs:
October 2013
Burnaby residents complain of fumes from Kinder Morgan oil terminal
Some Burnaby residents are noticing intense fumes emanating from Kinder Morgan’s oil terminal Read this Oct. 22 story from the Burnaby Now, profiling several residents of the city’s Westridge neighbourhood…
Will new Water Act rein in groundwater use for fracking, LNG?
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate…
Harper Government’s $16.5 Million Canadian Energy Ad Campaign Gets Underwhelming Response in US
It seems that the start of the Harper Government’s $16.5 million advertising campaign to push the US to turn to Canadian energy, specifically by supporting the Keystone XL pipeline and…
Now It’s Brazeau Getting Under-theTable Deals
Senator Patrick Brazeau marched out of the Senate today after accusing current Tory Senate leader Claude Carignan of offering to see that the suspension hearings would “go easy on him”…
8 Years Later: Autism Youth & Adult Residential Care & Treatment Still Abysmal in New Brunswick
In May 2007 I commented on this site about the abysmal state of Youth and Adult Residential Care in New Brunswick. That commentary included the October 2005 article by then…
What If WE Demand Answers?
There are a number of aspects of the Wright-Duffy-Harper-Perrin-LeBreton-Tkachuk-Stewart Olsen-Novak affair that seem tinged with possible criminality. What if we prepared a shopping list for the RCMP and the public…
Shell predicts end of oil in 2070
Read this Oct. 18 piece from MNN.com on an interesting new report from one of the world’s largest oil companies, envisioning the end of oil and future of renewable energy.…
Oct. 25: there are two…
count them, two important and well reported stories in Section A. (Okay. It’s not great. But it’s two more than usual.) One is actually on page 1, “Chief calls for…
The senate: imagined and real
It’s human nature to cling to institutions. They are what stands between us and anarchy. People tend to think it’s radical to question them. Yet if we didn’t, we never…
Climate Policy Already Headlining 2014 Midterm Elections
The U.S. may still be more than a year out from the 2014 midterm elections, but Republicans in Congress are already making the Obama administration’s climate policies a key issue…
Behold: Rob Ford thug David Price’s destruction of public property
When you reward a thug psychopath who likes to hang out with criminals by electing him mayor, low and behold said thug recruits his thug friends and their destructive, impulsive,…
Vengeance Is Mine, Sayeth Harper Regime: An Update On Sylvie Therrien
This past July I wrote two posts on Sylvie Therrien, the government employee suspended because she leaked documents that revealed federal investigators were told to find $485,000 of Employment Insurance…
Unlocking the benefits of contract work and unpaid internships
I have outlined on several occasions why I believe a guaranteed minimum income would have an overwhelmingly positive effect on a range of economic outcomes. For instance I have argued…
Benjamin Perrin’s Awkward Situation
Former PMO chief counsel and Harper personal legal advisor, Benjamin Perrin, has been laying low since he abruptly left Ottawa and hightailed it back to the security of his teaching…
Video: No Prairie Pipeline
TransCanada Pipelines’ proposed “Energy East” pipeline project, which is intended to transport Alberta tar sands crude to eastern Canada, is meeting growing opposition from First Nations, environmentalists and citizens who…
Senate scandal, international edition
The newspaper of record notices. To wit: “It began as a seemingly mundane dispute over expense claims from four members of Canada’s Senate, an appointed body rife with patronage and…
Andrew Leach Lays Out The Odds
“We see Northern Gateway as the most vulnerable,” Samir Kayande, vice-president at ITG Investments, said during a panel discussion on the Financial Post website this week. “ Energy East and…
Friday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Halfway through the first quarter of last weekend’s contest against B.C., nobody would have been surprised to learn that the game would be decided by a team giving the ball…