Another Day, Another Warning, This Time from the World Bank
World Bank president Jim Yong Kim had a blunt message for G20 finance ministers meeting in Moscow, telling them it’s time they “tackle the serious challenges presented by climate change.”…
2013
Chrisopher Monckton, Climate Skeptic Hero
This post provides the sources of a series of claims I am making over Twitter. My main points are two: 1) Christopher Monckton is the leading climate “skeptic” and is…
5644…A Senator With Moxy Steps Up
Tom McInnis is the lad’s name and he is a Tory from Nova Scotia. The newly minted Senator was down home and The Canadian Press says that while he was…
5643…Thomas Mulcair Prairie Dog
Tommy Douglas would be spinning in his grave if he knew how many Members of Parliament his party, the Dips, had from his province, Saskatchewan. Zero. To rectify that the…
Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: Twitter Stream
Forward on Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: Twitter Stream Tweets by @ClimateForward The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17 Canada’s tar sands are the…
Liberals Supporter category vital. What happens after the leadership race?
I first realised that my old friend, the Liberal Party of Canada was on the path to recovery when they introduced the Supporter category early in 2012. Canadians were invited…
Inspired by news stories of the last week or so: What do the…
Inspired by news stories of the last week or so: What do the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Vatican, the Canadian senate, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and…
Rube, Rube, Rubio
Maybe they should have stuck with Bobby Jindal. Up and coming Republican Marco Rubio of Florida was picked to give the GOP rebuttal to president Obama’s State of the Union…
GTA debate aftermath
Dan Veniez has a column up this morning worth noting: Only three can legitimately claim to have earned the right to stay for the next rounds: Trudeau, Garneau, and Murray.…
Tuesday: Pop-up Job Fair at the Elmdale!
So, you may not have heard that the Webgeek’s bro (known here as Chefgeek) will be running the kitchen at the revamped Elmdale Oyster House and Tavern. We’re pretty excited…
Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM
Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the combination of increasingly concentrated wealth and deteriorating has eliminated any pretense of equal opportunity within the U.S.:…
Deep thought
Brad Wall’s contrived outrage over foreign interference in domestic policy might be a bit less laughable if he didn’t make so much of a show of trying to dictate the…
Feb. 17: Bring the little children……
Together, Canadian and American governments spend well over 500 billion dollars on education. That’s a lot of money. What a pity to waste it all on children! That realization several…
The Surveillance Arms Race
There is a new arms race emerging between people who want to communicate freely and securely and governments that want to monitor and limit this communication. In democratic countries, this…
The Synchronous Decline of Peter Mansbridge and The CBC
I admit that I stopped being a regular viewer of the CBC years ago; I think the catalyst for my disaffection was its transparent policy of appeasement (under the pretext…
Will our ‘watchkeepers’ be watching in the future?
As the frustration level builds with the ongoing lack of accountability and response to concerns about various watchdog departments and officers the number of articles condemning this ‘governments’ approach to…
Liberal Leadership Race: Cutlery Edition
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a "front runner", despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…
Liberal Leadership Race: Cutlery Edition
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a “front runner”, despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…