Is YOUR Boss Telling You How To Vote?
It’s Calgary, 2013. I thought we had a fairly mature democracy. Certainly one above the kind of political shenanigans that the builders are pushing. In today’s Calgary Herald, an article…
October 2013
CBC: Rogers Wireless is under fire over its billing practices
Earlier this week, we learned that someone’s credit rating was ruined by Rogers Wireless despite never having been a customer. Now we learn that a collection agency contracted by Rogers…
For Caregivers: Three Tips on Protecting Elders from Neglect
Guest Post As only a part-time caregiver to my grandmother, I feel fortunate that her caregivers are both caring and attentive to her needs and respect her as an individual.…
Ezra The Censor
From Joe Brean’s piece in the NP: Mr. Levant has not always been the defendant, however. A few years ago he sued a small newspaper and a letter writer for…
RCMP clash with Mi’kmaq fracking protestors: Who provoked whom?
photo: Jen Choi/CBC They may call themselves the Mi’kmaq Warrior Society, but from all indications, this group of indigenous peoples was leading a peaceful protest against fracking in their territory…
Day to Get Rid of Stuff: A Trip to the Eco-friendly Dump
Got rid of three dozen old batteries, a Mac that dates from 1995, several cans of paint and paint thinner, a dozen rotten planks that Lee took out of the…
Don’t Say This Question Hasn’t Crossed Your Mind
Is our system of government incapable of meeting the challenges we face? A very simple question raising a point that has been addressed here at length several times. It gets…
“The Lowest Price is the Law, Unless Someone Else Offers a Lower Price”
David Johnson reads marketing slogans It’s easy to criticize throne speeches, especially throne speeches by governments that have fallen on tough times. Truth be told, I actually think there was…
Harper picks CETA over H of C
I couldn’t believe it when I heard it on the radio this morning. On the first day of the debate regarding the Reply to the Speech from the Throne, Stephen…
Monarch Butterflies in free-fall: How you can help
What weighs less than a paperclip, tastes terrible and can travel thousands of kilometres without a map? Hint: this delicate critter is tawny-orange with black veins and white spots and…
How Racing Cars Helps Babies
For the most part, Formula 1 is just entertainment, but every now and then something really nifty comes out of it. Using models and algorithms developed to monitor an F1…
Britain Targets Arctic Fossil Fuels
Britain may not have a territorial interest in the Arctic but it wants a major piece of the polar oil and gas action. The government wants the UK to be…
Fracking protestors clash with police in New Bruswick
Two vehicles burn near a fracking protest in Rexton, N.B. (Courtesy of Gilles Boudreau) Read this breaking news story from CBC.ca on today’s clash between fracking protestors and police in…
Duffy Taking Medical Leave of Absence from the Senate
Tory senator and Harper appointee, Mike Duffy, is seeking treatment for angina. Your punchline here ____________.
Harper Is Choking Off Canadian Democracy
Never have Canadians been so cut off from their government and that’s just the way Harper Inc. likes it. Information Commissioner, Suzanne Legault, has slammed government secrecy and warns that,…
Canada Could Have a Government Shut Down
I won’t lay odds on it, but this is entirely possible: Liberals/NDP/coalition wins the 2015 Federal Election Currently the Senate is 60 Conservative out of 105, plus 6 vacancies Harper…
Blaming the media is the number one whine conservatives prefer
They say that good taste is timeless. Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than the lack of taste demonstrated on both sides of the border the last few days.…
Laraque Deserves the Green Party’s Continued Support, but should Step Aside for Good of the Party
The Green Party of Canada prides itself on doing politics differently. Often, that’s what sets us apart from the other old-line political parties, and our progressive approach to politics is…
We are being fracked and occupied by the Oil and Gas Industry!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Deep down a great many of us knew that this Enbridge pipeline would be jammed through come hell or high water. The hell and high water part…