UBB_Meter_101101.png CRTC responds to Canadians after big telecom companies attempt a “backdoor price hike” using their control of digital infrastructure February 21, 2013 – The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission…
PFC Manning, the source of WikiLeaks’ massive expose of U.S. foreign policy, has been in jail without for close to 1 000 days. By Nathan Fuller | Bradley Manning Support…
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/02/19/pol-ambassdor-office-religious-freedom-announced.html
Athabasca University – safe for the moment, president says. Major executive changes have been made at Athabasca University, with the departure of several senior executives widely rumoured among university staff…
Alongside yesterday’s news of Erin Weir’s withdrawal to support Ryan Meili in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race (also discussed by Scott and Brian) came a few other noteworthy developments –…
Joyce Murray’s campaign for Liberal leadership gets a nice boost today: DAVID SUZUKI OPEN LETTER February 20, 2013 “An open letter to Canadians: I am writing this as an individual…
A report on the Sask. Party’s IPAC-CO2 project has revealed a conflict of interest scandal that appears to have cost taxpayers millions of dollars — despite the Sask. Party’s false…
Two things. The city is reviewing its key policies on land use, transportation and infrastructure – the Official Plan, Transportation Master Plan, Infrastructure Master Plan, Cycling Plan and the Pedestrian…
Having just spent a day with my own grandkids, I am perhaps particularly open to this kind of story. The New York Times reports that a small group of Revolutionary…
Meat fraud is taking place all around us. Most people probably can’t tell the difference between similar looking meats sold in stores, were it not for the labeling. Fish fraud…
Yesterday, Finance Minister Charles Sousa started his first round of pre-Budget consultations in Mississauga, listening to the concerns of everyday Ontario families as he works to prepare a budget focused…
I’ve been seeing some things lately that have substantially altered my opinions about how things are going to go in the medium future, yanking them first in one direction and…
The lot of immigrant women is particularly hard, and to honour them as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations, NDP Outremont is organizing another film forum for Monday March…
..”Snowy weather challenges N.B. road-clearing crews.”…”Baby born at Dieppe home.”….”Impact of federal job cuts debated.” ( meaning – We don’t know anything because nobody knows what’s going on.) Will federal…
China does not seem able to come to grips with the pollution that is inexorably poisoning the country. While Beijing talks about green energy, including 5th generation reactor technology, it…
Eve Adams is no Mara Carfagna but she will do. And now she is off the market. Elizabeth Grey-Smith in iPolitics reports that the 38 year old rookie Conservative MP…
A team of researchers, led by Oxford University scientists, has concluded that global warming of just 1.5 degrees Celsius will trigger the melting of the world’s permafrost and, with it,…
Ah, geez, this could be bad, eh?Lawrence Martin at iPolitics Insight tells the world that “It’s his first official visit to the U.S. capital as NDP leader and it comes…
The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association used its clout with the sleazy government of Sideshow Steve Harper to modify the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Greenpeace used the Freedom of Information Act…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The present turmoil and uncertainty regarding Cowichan School District school closures and restructuring of the entire system is being driven by the Christy Clark governments appointed…
