Friday night blues blogging
This is Sonny Landreth playing a solo instrumental and showing off his technique. Just Got Back From Baby’s is originally a ZZ Top tune from their first album. This is…
2013
Friday’s session with Ian Jessop on CFAX 1070
Today, we talked mostly about provincial revenues from natural resources. I’ll be back with Ian next week to talk about BC Ferries. You can listen at the CFAX 1070 website…
Unexpected Side Effects
It’s about teaching again. We used to deduct 5% each day an assignment was late, and after one week, it gets a big fat zero. Typically I’d get almost all…
Stephen Harper and the Latest Porky Senate Scandal
Well he wasn't in Question Period today, to answer questions about the porky Senate scandal. Or tell us why he now admits that a "few" people knew about the Duffy…
How to Break Your Election Promises
Taxman: I was thinking of this Beatles’ song, recently, after council received the pre-budget report from the treasurer at last Monday’s council meeting. It’s dated, the song that is, but…
Wildrose can grow from Tory seeds of doubt
TweetDo you drain a Lake of Fire or do you dam it? Whatever it takes, Wildrose Party activists are expected to moderate the tone of their policies at their weekend…
Same old politics or revolution?
Progressives are buzzing after British comedian-turned-revolutionary Russell Brand released his revolutionary manifesto as guest editor of the latest issue of New Statesman and went on an anti-capitalist rant when interviewed…
You are Welcome to Come Into My Living Room
For all those interested in reading good caregiving articles of all sorts, please do visit and ‘like’ my facebook page, also called The Caregivers’ Living Room! The page is curated…
WARNING – Excessive Exposure to Harper Conservatism Can Be Harmful to Your Health
Another Tory backbencher succumbs:
Burnaby residents complain of fumes from Kinder Morgan oil terminal
Some Burnaby residents are noticing intense fumes emanating from Kinder Morgan’s oil terminal Read this Oct. 22 story from the Burnaby Now, profiling several residents of the city’s Westridge neighbourhood…
Will new Water Act rein in groundwater use for fracking, LNG?
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate…
Harper Government’s $16.5 Million Canadian Energy Ad Campaign Gets Underwhelming Response in US
It seems that the start of the Harper Government’s $16.5 million advertising campaign to push the US to turn to Canadian energy, specifically by supporting the Keystone XL pipeline and…
Now It’s Brazeau Getting Under-theTable Deals
Senator Patrick Brazeau marched out of the Senate today after accusing current Tory Senate leader Claude Carignan of offering to see that the suspension hearings would “go easy on him”…
8 Years Later: Autism Youth & Adult Residential Care & Treatment Still Abysmal in New Brunswick
In May 2007 I commented on this site about the abysmal state of Youth and Adult Residential Care in New Brunswick. That commentary included the October 2005 article by then…
What If WE Demand Answers?
There are a number of aspects of the Wright-Duffy-Harper-Perrin-LeBreton-Tkachuk-Stewart Olsen-Novak affair that seem tinged with possible criminality. What if we prepared a shopping list for the RCMP and the public…
Shell predicts end of oil in 2070
Read this Oct. 18 piece from MNN.com on an interesting new report from one of the world’s largest oil companies, envisioning the end of oil and future of renewable energy.…
Oct. 25: there are two…
count them, two important and well reported stories in Section A. (Okay. It’s not great. But it’s two more than usual.) One is actually on page 1, “Chief calls for…
The senate: imagined and real
It’s human nature to cling to institutions. They are what stands between us and anarchy. People tend to think it’s radical to question them. Yet if we didn’t, we never…
Climate Policy Already Headlining 2014 Midterm Elections
The U.S. may still be more than a year out from the 2014 midterm elections, but Republicans in Congress are already making the Obama administration’s climate policies a key issue…