Oil Industry Spending Big To Win Unfettered Fracking Rights In The Golden State
There’s a lot of money at stake for oil companies that want to frack California’s Monterey Shale, so it’s no wonder Big Oil is spending big to forestall any new…
2013
Moving Forward
Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Which is why I proposed the following motion in the…
Funny how all these Todd Bentley accounts happen where they can’t be confirmed Independently
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Hat tip to the folks at Right Wing Watch blog for spotting a new video by Todd Bentley this week. Todd…
Huffington Post Canada: Telecom complaints soar 31% in just twelve months
Canadians are increasingly raising their voices against Big Telecom according to this Industry watchdog. Let’s keep this going. Send a message to Industry Minister Moore at: https://OpenMedia.ca/Gatekeepers Article by LuAnn…
Four months after Lac-Mégantic disaster, river highly contaminated
Quebec’s Chaudière River (photo courtesy of Greenpeace Quebec) Sediment from the Chaudière River, near the site of the Lac-Mégantic train derailment four months ago, shows high levels of contaminants according…
Edmonton’s $3 Billion Super Lab: Where’s the business case?
Is there anyone left in the PC government with a lick of common sense? Last week the NDP revealed that the government intends to outsource lab services to a private…
The five elements of a financial crash
Financial crashes are common in modern market economies. The first notable one occurred in Amsterdam in the 1630s when a bursting speculative bubble on tulips caused enough financial ruin for…
Is education the key to a middle class life?
It is repeated so often in the media, you would think it is true: education is the key to social mobility…to a good job with decent pay and benefits, and…
NAFTA, “Free Trade” and the TPP: Fast-Track To Full Corporate Rule
“Twenty years ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed into law. At the time, advocates painted a rosy picture of booming U.S. exports creating hundreds of thousands…
BC is Sold Out Again: Christy & Allison
Northern Gateway Pipeline Pricetag: Enbridge CEO Lauds Alberta-B.C. Deal, Updating Price CP | By Lauren Krugel, The Canadian PressPosted: 11/06/2013 11:20 am EST | Updated: 11/06/2013 4:02 pm EST I…
Manitoba By-election Ridings
I had a great weekend in Whistler at the LPCBC convention with all my BC Liberal friends, and I’ll have a post up about that experience later this week. But…
Tonight’s the Night: Desire Lines Launch in Montreal
Be there or be square! Drawn and Quarterly Bookstore, 7 p.m. 211 Bernard West, Montreal
Filling the Moats and Raising the Drawbridges, The Developed World Establishes Walls Against the Rest
Welcome to the Walled World of the 21st century. In every corner of the globe, advanced nations are building walls and manning the ramparts to keep the hordes at bay.…
Strong winds, big waves, and the interconnectedness of life
When the waves are high, from my backyard I can hear the lake, which is just a few hundred feet away. It sounds like a great, strong wind, or a…
As Remembrance Day Looms in Canada, Germans Prepare to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Kristallnacht.
In Berlin this weekend, about a hundred businesses will be affixing decals to their storefront windows. The decals simulate broken glass, memorializing the shattered windows of Jewish stores attacked 75-years…
MEDIA ADVISORY: Telecom complaints soar by 31% in just twelve months, OpenMedia.ca available for comment
openmedialogo.jpg Canadians still waiting to see whether government lives up to promise to secure more choice and lower prices in broken telecom market WHO Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca David…
What Lurks Down Under
By some accounts Australians have become the wealthiest people on earth, largely from flogging massive quantities to coal to China. Yet not all Australians are well off, especially not the…
Justin Trudeau, Oil Man
Justin Trudeau addresses a progressive think tank in Washington, DC (photo: Chip Somodevllla/Getty) To Justin Trudeau, it’s not that Keystone XL is a bad idea, it’s that Stephen Harper can’t…
Why #LondonOnt needs a new PAC
Here’s the pics: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/what-the-world-will-look-like-if-all-the-ice-melts-20131107-2x2p9.html?rand=1383783792714 And here’s North America. London sits neatly in the middle of the Great Lakes Triangle in South Western Ontario. New Shorelines. SWO remains dry. And here’s…