What Can You Say?
Today has been a blogging day where I seem to be writing little of my own thoughts but mainly linking to other sites. And I can’t think of a single…
2013
The Internet Insider | Big Telecom is Bad for Business
Hello, Big telecom is bad for business! 35 leading innovators have sent a letter to Industry Minister, James Moore, asking him to stop restricting Canadian economic innovation by coddling the…
Please bear with us while we put you on hold… (a guest post by Ben Klass)
(A guest post by blogger Ben Klass – you can read more from Ben at http://benklass.wordpress.com) No one knows how vital mobile phones are more than Winnipegger Garrett Kolsun, who…
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May supports Canadian Innovators
It’s so great to see decision-makers speaking out for authentic choice in our broken telecom market. Thank you to Elizabeth May for spreading the word about our Innovators’ Campaign. Learn…
Mission accomplished
Toby Sanger has a post up at The Progressive Economics Forum discussing the effects of changes the Harper government made to the census. Specifically, the Conservatives eliminated the mandatory census…
Watch As Our Prison Costs Go Up
Travis Baumgartner was sentenced today. He was sentenced to the equivalent of “40 years to life” for a bloody robbery that left three dead. Previously, the standard sentence that Baumgartner…
Whales thriving on coast, threatened by oil tankers: study
VANCOUVER – The number of humpback whales on the northern coast of British Columbia nearly doubled in eight years, but possible oil spills could seriously hamper recovery efforts involving the…
Think I’m Joking About Corporate Feudalism?
Perhaps you think that I’m being somewhat Pollyanna about the issue of corporate feudalism and its rise in both Canada and the US. I’m not kidding. This is possibly the…
Elizabeth Warren Attacks’s America’s ‘Bought & Paid’ For Supreme Court
Former law professor and Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t pulling any punches when she speaks of America’s highest court: Look at the increasing corporate capture of the federal courts. According to…
Dix on way out? NDP awaits leader’s announcement
Adrian Dix may be mulling stepping down as BC NDP leader (photo: Jonathan Hayward/CP) Read this story from CBC on the BC NDP’s upcoming caucus meeting to discuss the future…
The Conservative Party of Canada Continues To Do Everything In Its Power To Strangle The Life Out Of Democracy In Canada …
Conservative Party lawyer directed robocall questions during investigation: documentsOTTAWA – The Conservative Party lawyer who attended interviews related to the May 2011 robocalls investigation at times spoke for witnesses and…
Eyewitness identification
R. v. Yigzaw, 2013 ONCA 547: In R. v. Jack, 2013 ONCA 80, 294 C.C.C. (3d) 163, at paras. 12-17, Epstein J.A. provides a useful summary of the applicable legal…
‘Massive’ rate increase coming for BC Hydro customers, leaked documents show
Read this Sept. 11 story from The Vancouver Sun, confirming what The Common Sense Canadian has been predicting for years: massive rate hikes for BC Hydro customers due to the…
Pat Roberston Commemorates 9/11
And he does it in his inimitable way by offering his ‘insights’ on Islam and the consequences of godlessness: Recommend this Post
Are We Exporting a Weapon of Mass Destruction?
Just what is Dilbit anyway? Well it’s bitumen together with high-sulfur petcoke mixed with a light liquid diluent and piped to refineries in distant lands. Now, if you had put…
You’ll pay more to BC Hydro to Balance the BC Budget
There were reports this morning that BC Hydro would be raising its rates by up to 26% to meet its revenue targets for the coming year. Why? Because the BC…
The Making of Global Capitalism
The Making of Global Capitalism A groundbreaking account of America’s role in global capitalism By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of…
Breaking: First Marcellus Fracked Gas Export Permit Approved by Energy Dept
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted the first ever LNG export permit license to Dominion Resources, Inc. to export gas obtained from the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) process…
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown By Philip Mirowski After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead—stronger than ever At the…