Ford Saga: Left Gives Cover To Right Wing Palace Coup
Cuts, what cuts? It's all about bad behaviour photo credit: @HeartsOnTheLeft Not one word about cuts. Not one word about privatizing garbage collection. Nothing about his refusal to ever attend…
November 2013
One step closer to reality four years later #nlpoli
The provincial government announced plans to build two new ferries on Wednesday. The first one will cost $51 million. The new ferry will replace the Captain Earl W. Winsor, a…
Ford Saga: Left Gives Cover To Right Wing Palace Coup
Cuts, what cuts? It’s all about bad behaviour photo credit: @HeartsOnTheLeft Not one word about cuts. Not one word about privatizing garbage collection. Nothing about his refusal to ever attend…
Subsidies for some, higher fees for others
Despite claims that natural gas will last almost forever and drop massive wealth into BC’s treasury, I’ve demonstrated here, with numbers taken from finance ministry documents, that natural gas production…
Rob Ford and the Slow Death of the Con Nation
At last he stands revealed, the Bubbah Lord of the Ford Nation, in all his grubby glory. The political thug, the violent rages, the dangerous drunk, the crude sexual remarks,…
Repeat after me: Justin Trudeau is making rookie mistakes… have you got that?
Justin Trudeau at left, with some boring white guy in a tie that’s too wide. Don’t ever underrate the power of pixie dust! Below: The same boring guy with Toronto…
JP Morgan’s Twitter Q&A trolled to death
And a snapshot of #AskJPM
Dancing Like Nobody Is Watch! But Everybody is!
Dave Sim posted this on Facebook. It was so cool, I had to share it.
Encana and Regulator Sued For Granting Water Licences For Fracking
Here is a video regarding a law suit being launched challenging the water approvals for the massive fracking operations throughout Northern BC–Courtesy of Damien Gillis from the Common Sense Canadian.
Their secret revealed
It’s worse – much worse – than we thought. A bombshell leak by Wikileaks just revealed how giant U.S. conglomerates are about to impose an extreme Internet censorship plan that…
Regulator, Encana sued over fracking, water
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for fracking. The…
Chinese state-owned oil company joint BC LNG hunt
State-owned CNOOC is making a play on BC LNG (Canadian Press) Read this Nov. 12 story from The Globe and Mail on the latest contestant in BC’s gas rush –…
Canada Again Seeks to Sabotage Climate Change Action
We’re at it again. The Guardian reports that Canada is trying to persuade other industrial nations to renege on their climate change commitments. Canada has dropped any remaining pretences of…
Should industry frack with our water?
Thursday, November 14, 2013 Hydraulic fracturing – which uses and pollutes a whole lot of water – should be a major discussion point within the public consultations on a new…
Listen to Chomsky’s Montréal discussion period
Listen to the discussion period from Noam Chomsky’s Montréal lecture in Oct. 2013, a discussion that touches upon the reality of growing police repression in Montréal under the municipal law…
Oh Lily Allen…no… just no
1) I’m sure you didn’t specify “Black bootylicious Twerkers” but I’m POSITIVE you casted for a “look” that your itsy bitsy -can’t-see-beyond-stereotypes- brain can’t comprehend at the moment. 2) Of…
Fort St. John landowner built rodeo on farmland, against Commission ruling
Controversial development of rodeo ground on farmland near Fort St. John (The Horse Park) Read this Nov. 13 story from CBC.ca revealing that northeast BC landowner Terry McLeod has built…
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Athabasca River contaminated by Canada’s largest coal slurry spill
Read this Nov. 8 story from EcoWatch on what is quite possibly Canada’s largest coal slurry spill, which happened in late October near Hinton, Alberta. A scary thing happened on…
Bert Bolin: The man who got the world to agree on climate
Andy Extance has written two particularly appropriate posts on Bert Bolin the first chairman of the IPCC and an instrumental figure in getting the world to agree to negotiate a…