The brutal lessons of 2013.
2013 has been a rather tough year for this blogger. I ran for the Vice Presidency of the Alberta Liberal Party and was unsuccessful. Quite quickly I found I had…
2013 has been a rather tough year for this blogger. I ran for the Vice Presidency of the Alberta Liberal Party and was unsuccessful. Quite quickly I found I had…
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Oh no. Duck and cover. Two weeks ago I accused the Cons of waging a real War on Christmas, by laying off people and killing jobs at this time of…
R. v. Snelson, 2013 BCCA 550 (CanLII): If an accused person has a right to silence, it is an empty right if the Crown is permitted to seek an inference…
With the holiday season around the corner, your OpenMedia.ca team is starting to wind down to spend some time with our loved ones – so we won’t be around online…
If governments gradually defeat themselves, then the imbecilic boss of Canada Post dramatically accelerated that process this week. Didn’t catch what Canada Post “CEO” Deepak Chopra told a Parliamentary committee?…
1988 image of effluent from Teck’s lead and Zinc smelter in Trail, BC (photo: Joel Rogers) by Dene Moore, Canadian Press VANCOUVER – A Washington state woman has filed a…
Omar Ha-Redeye shared a panel on Newstalk 1010 with John Wright of Ipsos Reid and Cal Bricker of Waste Management to discuss the future of federal, provincial and municipal politics.…
This was taken in a Cuzco grocery store, which a month ago was already decked out for Christmas. Love the idea of locals dancing to Andean harps while it’s summer…
Jeffery Simpson laments that Harper is only going to focus on 10 percent of voters over the next 2 years until the next election. Harper is at 30% in the…
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A little slice of history of Christmas Past. In 1912, philanthropist August Belmont, created a new club, The Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving, or SPUG. Even a century…
The city of South Portland, Maine banned the export of oilsands crude from local port facilities this week. Portland, the suburban community of 25,000 is the Atlantic terminal of the…
A Canadian court this week granted a group of Ecuadorian fishermen and farmers the right to seize Chevron assets to enforce an $18-billion judgment they won against the company in…
Several hundred members and supporters of Idle No More gathered at the centre court of the Polo Park Mall in Winnipeg Friday evening to sing and to dance. Some are…
Just about every year there’s some form of influenza outbreak in China. Swine flu, avian flu, Hong Kong flu – it always seems to be something. Over the years there…
This post is an appendix of sorts to my article, “Fired by Walmart for Christmas”, to be published this weekend by Common Dreams. In the article, I describe the stresses…
There’s been no end of talk from climate science denialists that global warming has slowed in recent years. Yes, global land surface temperatures have risen somewhat more slowly than they…
This just came across my email via Michael Roberts who has been doing great work in this space. Open Data for Development Challenge January 27–28, 2014 — Montreal, Canada Do…
Chicago has got an Athabasca problem – mountains of petcoke, the standard detritus of refining Alberta bitumen. According to Chicago’s mayor, it’s time to store that crap indoors. Mayor Rahm…