NDP Ups its Game: One Green’s Take on Tom Mulcair’s Energy Vision
What’s a Green to make of New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair’s December 3, 2013 speech to the Economic Club of Canada, which lays out his party’s vision for Canada’s…
December 2013
Stink Tanks: State Policy Network Internal Budget Documents Revealed by The Guardian
It’s been a rough week for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The “corporate bill mill” group’s annual States & Nation meeting was overshadowed by damaging evidence of misconduct revealed…
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My name is Jason Hjalmarson and I’m OpenMedia.ca’s Grassroots Development Coordinator. Part of my job at OpenMedia is to lead our December Fundraising Drive. Since joining the team last summer,…
Personal Appeal from Steve Anderson
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Info Commissioner says environmental info should be more available
Thursday, December 5, 2013 If a disaster strikes in the forest, the question is not does it make a sound, but does the government have a legal duty to tell…
Why Canadians Need to Lead the Road to a New Order
Every day more of us are realizing that growth-based capitalism and neoclassical economics have failed. Adam Smith gave the growth paradigm two hundred years and he was right. Mankind has…
RIP Nelson
We shall never forget you!
RIP Nelson
We shall never forget you!
RIP Nelson
We shall never forget you!
Why we should hope that Bitcoin doesn’t succeed
Most people who currently own bitcoin don’t own it to use it in the short term. The amount of uses for people to spend bitcoins is trivial in comparison to…
RIP Nelson
We shall never forget you!
The World’s Loss
Nelson Mandela, dead at 95. The world is a poorer place.
Rest In Peace
We are all the poorer today. Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95. My personal hero, his greatness of soul will not be seen again for a very…
Inequality grows as CEOs blackmail the rest of us
Last week in Switzerland big money staved off an important challenge to big paychecks. But the sentiment that spurred a Swiss effort to tie executive compensation to common workers’ wages…
nelson mandela, 1918-2013
“The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not…
Bloggers will be officially accredited at the Montreal LPC Biennial Convention
The official word has come from the LPC: bloggers will be accredited to the Convention, and they are inviting applications for accreditation. Since they’ve sent out a press release, and…
Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics
Svend Robinson: A Life in Politics ( Nww Star Books, 2013) is both a tribute to a true Canadian hero and a reminder that once, not so long ago, an…
Ocean acidification accelerates in Arctic, threatening food web: study
Ocean acidification affects shell growth for marine life (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) Research conducted at an ice camp high in the frozen North – part of the Catlin Arctic…