The snow advantage
A town in New Mexico has been buried in tumbleweeds, to the extent that some people can’t even get out of their houses.It had never occurred to me before that…
January 2014
Musical interlude
Econoline Crush – You Don’t Know What It’s Like
Horribly mixed up fonts aside…
Is this Ten Percenter surely a sign of the ReformCons knowing how they are oh-so-much screwed. But yeah, how about those fonts? (2) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The Gift of Treaties
Winnipeg, Jan. 21, 2014: Niigaan James Sinclair, speaking at the “Gift of Treaties” teach-in organized by Idle No More Manitoba. Photo: Paul S. Graham A standard dictionary definition of the…
Friday night blues blogging
I wanted to note the passing of Pete Seeger earlier this week, but I thought it called for more than just taking a few minutes in the midst of a…
NYC mayor poses with Lala and faceless Canadian
Not sure who the faceless guy is, but the two tall people look friendly enough.
Marc Lemire Goes Down in Flames and Paulie Comments on Free Dominion Suit
Back in November, our favorite misanthrope announced former Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire's appeal of his Sec. 13 conviction: Today the Federal Court of Canada made a decision regarding Marc…
Less than 2 hours left to tell the CRTC to ditch Big Telecom!
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR SPEAKING OUT! Over 25,000 Canadians have now told the CRTC to ditch Big Telecom deadweight in an unprecedented push to fix our broken telecom market.…
The Senate: Will Mulcair’s rabbits and doves flee in all directions as Mulroney’s did?
Constitutional twins? Thomas Mulcair gives the impression that he relishes the views of some of him as a tough guy. In Question Period, faced with a cornered Prime Minister Harper…
Morton: Marine Harvest lists on NYSE as Harper govt plans salmon farm expansion
In a blog posting today, independent salmon biologist Alexandra Morton calls attention to the recent listing of Norway-based Marine Harvest – the world’s largest salmon farming company – on the…
Chill up spine time #nlpoli
Two separate e-mails plunked the same article in the SRBP inbox on Friday. Both highlighted the same quote from this National Post story on Muskrat Falls financing: “The benefit of…
QOTD: On CSEC
Ron Deibert, the cyber-security expert quoted in the CBC story I posted about last night, has an op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail. It’s all worth a read but he…
Milton: A Master of Run-On Sentences
MILTON: A MASTER OF RUN-ON SENTENCES: I’m about halfway through the collected works of John Milton. It’s a project that’s taking some time. Mercifully the poetry is at the front…
Milton: A Master of Run-On Sentences
MILTON: A MASTER OF RUN-ON SENTENCES: I'm about halfway through the collected works of John Milton. It's a project that's taking some time. Mercifully the poetry is at the front…
Milton: A Master of Run-On Sentences
MILTON: A MASTER OF RUN-ON SENTENCES: I’m about halfway through the collected works of John Milton. It’s a project that’s taking some time. Mercifully the poetry is at the front…
State Department Releases Flawed Keystone XL Final Environmental Review In Super Bowl Friday Trash Dump
The State Department has released the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the proposed northern leg of the controversial and long-embattled TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. In a…
Cortes community forestry offers alternative to industrial logging
In a historic announcement last October, the BC government granted the Klahoose First Nation and the Cortes Island Community Forest Co-Op a Community Forest tenure on 3,700 acres of so-called…