The Globe & Mail: Canada’s Plagiarizing Tabloid of Record
The Globe & Mail’s evidently terminal decline has accelerated to the point where it can now practically be measured by the day. It’s not just that they’ve abandoned the integrity…
2013
Keystone XL North: TransCanada’s Controversial Shale Gas Export Pipeline Plan
The battle continues over the future of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, with the Tar Sands Blockade continuing and a large forthcoming President’s Day anti-Keystone XL rally set to…
Ontario Liberal Leadership Convention 2013 Coverage (#olpldr)
I will be attending the Ontario Liberal leadership convention as an accredited blogger. You can follow my coverage here, on Twitter (@progright), and on Google+. I’ll also work out something…
Oil Change International: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands
Thanks to Alberta’s tar sands, coal-powered energy production just got cheaper, and dirtier. That is largely due to an often overlooked byproduct of bitumen upgrading: petroleum coke. The byproduct, commonly…
Idle No More: Baseless Stigmas Are An Unwelcome Distraction
by Sara Mai Chitty I wanted to let people know a couple things about my heritage as a First Nations woman, about what is being said about the Idle No…
Am I An Abuser?
All this talk of torture in my last post got me wondering about the most awful times of pain and suffering in our own Nicholas’ life. When Nick was small,…
Climate Change Is Here
Do you know those coal plants powering Saskatchewan? What if they became legislatively ‘stranded’. How would that hurt the pocketbook, eh? Would SaskPower’s claim that they are looking out for…
EnviroCan’s Blunt Warning
The Tundra is Burning Over the past 65-years, Canada’s average winter temperature has increased 3.2 degrees Celsius. This reaffirms what many suspected. Canada is getting hotter faster than ever before…
OpenMedia’s Lindsey Pinto: Showcasing the pro-Internet community.
Check out this volunteer-made video of our Internet-born Lindsey Pinto! Don’t miss her chatting about *you*, our pro-Internet community, and your help in fighting for the open and affordable Internet.…
Buying music online is a bad deal
In the United Kingdom, music retailer HMV is on life support. Although HMV Canada’s parent company is mounting a rescue attempt, the brand responsible for 35% of the CD market…
Sugar Man’s Sweet Kiss
Imagine a shy man dressed in black, guitar slung over his shoulder, making his way to a waterside bar of questionable repute. There sits a motley crew of down-on-their-luck, up-on-their-illusions,…
Arms Race Update – India Warns Kashmiris to Prepare for Nuclear War
Indian officials are warning residents in their part of Kashmir to dig bomb shelters and gather a two week supply of food and water in preparation for a possible nuclear…
Forfeiture or fine?
R. v. Dwyer, 2013 ONCA 34 deals with forfeiture of proceeds of crime and fines in lieu thereof. Section 462.37 of the Criminal Code provides for the forfeiture of the…
Hiatus for health reasons
For those of my readers who have wondered why I haven’t posted since early December, let me assure you I haven’t greatly extended my holiday season nor have I run…
Will the Democrats Fix the U.S. Senate Today?
There’s a window that is open today that will be closed tomorrow and, by the time it closes, we’ll know if the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate has the…
More from the emails
Thought I’d pass this one along too for the Toronto politics junkies. The Munk School’s Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance has a new report out on Toronto’s mayoralty power…
Pupatello wins support of 100 ex-officio Ontario Liberals
Not bad. Now, maybe someone on another campaign can call a reporter and complain about how mean it is to, you know, talk about it.
The dubious case for casinos
I got way off my usual research agenda this morning for a business panel on CBC radio. The topic was the economics of casinos, the result of the City of…