UN Pleads for Arctic Protection
The United Nations Environment Programme warns that the Arctic is about to get gang raped and it’s going to be ugly. The Arctic needs to be better protected from a…
2013
Climate Change Petri Dish
It’s not a couple of low-lying islands about to sink under a risking sea. It is the 7th-most populous country in Asia, 12th in the world.Its 92-million people are scattered…
Feb. 18: hurry, hurry, hurry, getcher piplines….
This weekend saw demonstrations across the US, the largest one of 35,000 to 50,000 in Washington, DC. They were protesting against the Keystone Pipeline, the one that is proposed to…
OpenMedia’s Steve Anderson – Crafting a connected future
In this volunteer-made video Steve Anderson, the Executive Director and founder of OpenMedia, explains why he stands with citizens to fight for an open Internet. read more
Canadian Progressive Voices
Canadian Progressive Voices: I am now also an affiliate of Canadian Progressive Voices. Check it out at http://canadianprogressives.ca/
Meat Kills Our Environment
A United Nations Environment Programme report urges people in wealthy countries to become “demitarians” by cutting their meat consumption by half. The reduction is said to be necessary to curb…
Iraq Runs Dry
Just what a country riven by ethnic and religious conflict needs – a water crisis. The country is Iraq where Shiite and Sunni struggles overlap into Arab, Persian and Kurdish…
On Corporate Propaganda and Tax Avoidance
It is the fashion among our corporate overlords and their rabid right-wing courtesans to utter a trite phrase that, because it is repeated so frequently, is taken as truth by…
Son Three come third
He’s in lane two. But he comes first with Daddy-o. Your browser does not support the video tag
A Haunted Meowloon
A Haunted Meowloon laments the Bliffles Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: Monster
Canadians growing weary of Harper’s “Economic Action Plan” propaganda
“Canadians may be growing weary of — even hostile to — all those Economic Action Plan ads the Harper government has been pumping out for the last four years.” By…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellanous material for your Monday reading. – Will Hutton recognizes that an unregulated market can lead to disastrous results for everybody concerned – and that conversely, effective regulation can help…
BBC Changes Monday Morning Programming Schedule Amid Journalists’ Strike by Georg Szalai
Other programming replaces flagship TV morning show “Breakfast” after a union of journalists calls for a 24-hour protest against job cuts.
BBC Changes Monday Morning Programming Schedule Amid Journalists’ Strike by Georg Szalai
Other programming replaces flagship TV morning show “Breakfast” after a union of journalists calls for a 24-hour protest against job cuts.
NOT a “threat to national security”
The Conservative government is out of control. The Guardian UK newspaper confirms what environmentalists have already suspected (since the Conservatives have openly accused them previously): This Conservative government regards environmentalists…
Stephen Harper’s Canada is reminiscent of Orwell’s Nightmarish “1984″ World
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 18, 2013: Allan Gregg, a prominent media commentator, chairperson of polling firm Harris/Decima, and strategist for the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney,…
Ekos Canada Poll: 29.3% Con, 26.3% NDP, 24.6%
In what I hope is the last Ekos poll out this week, Frank Graves’ polling company has released new results showing a hilariously low result for all three main parties,…
Scaramouche
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. That has to rank among the best opening lines in a novel, up there…
The Epitome of Folly
The Edmonton Journal reports that Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver knows about the damage being done by mining the tar sands: Tailings ponds from oilsands production are leaking and contaminating…
Ask General Kang: When is it okay to call someone to a Nazi?
I suppose it’s not a problem if the person is a Nazi, but I can’t think of a lot of other circumstances where it would be helpful. Presumably, you’re doing…