Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom writes that the Harper Cons’ much-hyped economic record in fact offers ample reason to demand a change in government: The Conservatives…
2013
Ohio Clean Energy Still in Koch & ALEC Crosshairs
Crossposted from Greenpeace’s blog: The Witness. Ohio is currently fighting this year’s final battle in a nationally-coordinated attack on clean energy standard laws, implemented by the American Legislative Exchange Council…
Oct. 30: Just another day for the TandT
The first page has the not unusual propaganda story to boost the “events centre” which, it seems, will create a pupulation and business boom (while the rest of the world…
The Halloween Mayoralty Massacre
Story here.
Jonathan Chait’s Puzzling Defense Of Keystone XL
He writes: Keystone is at best marginally relevant to the cause of stopping global warming. The whole crusade increasingly looks like a bizarre misallocation of political attention. My view, which…
Mulcair Seems Not to Care…
NDP vows to keep pressure on PM over Senate expenses NDP’s caucus chair speaks to media after meeting with MPs CBC News Posted: Oct 30, 2013 11:07 AM ET Last…
Tarsands are disgusting, but not the real threat
It wasn’t long ago pundits were talking of the impending peak oil disaster (caused when demand outstrips supply.) It turns out we got worse: an endless supply of unconventional oil…
It’s getting dark out there
Fellow cyclists of the world, I implore you to start putting lights on your bikes. Around these parts, the sun doesn’t rise until about 7:30 or so at this time…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Your news links for today: Ottawa rejects Telus’s second attempt to buy Mobilicity (Globe and Mail) CETA Technical Summary (Canada’s Economic Action Plan) Why can’t Australian citizens read the Trans-Pacific…
Harper Is Revising History For His Political Gain
I’ve said in this space before that Harper will lie through his teeth if he thinks that it is to his political gain. Yesterday, Harper threw form Chief of Staff…
Campaign capers: As Del Mastro’s day in court approaches…
The key question in the investigation into alleged overspending by the Dean Del Mastro 2008 election campaign has been the amount of campaign-related work performed by a company called Holinshed…
It has begun…
I wish I believed in God so that when I say “Dear God” it carried some kind of punch. That aside: Dear God, it has begun. CBC has started it’s…
Voters hardly deserve our governments.
It is a mindless statement of politics that the voters get the government they deserve. That is such a false statement that it should be declared illegal to even say…
A Shocking And Inconvenient Truth
It is a statistic that should disturb even the most unflappable among us. It is also a window through which we see the bald lie in the Harper claim that…
Wow! Conservative Party Of Canada National Council Officials Move To Issue Gag Order On Party Members / Convention Delegates
Subject: Fw: CBC Requests for Interviews Gord Elliott wrote: Fellow Conservatives I and other members of the party have received emails from the CBC fishing for people to interview about…
His Luck Is Running Out
There’s a scene in It’s A Mad, Mad World where Jonathan Winters destroys a gas station and two of its attendants. As the Senate debacle unravels, the prime minister —…
Even Moderate Exercise Can Stave Off Depression
There’s a bunch of scientific evidence that already proves the benefits of exercise for one’s mental health, and now we know that even moderate workouts can have a huge impact.…
So Hauntingly Familiar
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