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…
The last Parl. Sec. for Stephen Harper is being charged with election fraud. The present one isn’t a bright bulb either. Harper govt's response to our new CBC story RT…
Alberta’s ‘Sunshine List’ – mostly moonshine? Below: Premier Alison Redford. Today’s the day the government of Alberta is supposed to publish its “Sunshine List” of its supposedly most highly paid…
Every voice helps. The man who may yet be King has dismissed climate change denialists as a bunch of ‘headless chickens.” The Prince of Wales has launched an attack on…
From CBC News, amazing photos of the luckiest family in Italy. A landslide in Ronchi de Tormeno dislodged a couple of monster boulders that rolled downhill. One took out a…
This is pretty succinct – “Heed the warnings in extreme weather – or risk losing Earth.” The idea is that when Atlanta, Georgia is frozen to a standstill and yet,…
Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. v. 6470360 Canada Inc. (Energyshop Consulting Inc./Powerhouse Energy Management Inc.), 2014 ONCA 85: I agree with Shoppers that the motions judge did not refer toFleischer. Fleischer…
So, how was your long sleep? In this week’s newz, the Biebs turned himself in on an assault charge, and the media circus we shall call Cirque’DUH! Rob Ford is…
Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due: Justin Trudeau just pulled a brilliant tactical move with his unexpected and unceremonious dumping of all former Liberal Senators from…
You might remember Switzerland, the country that played banker to some really evil dudes in the 30s and 40s. And banker to a whole bunch of lying, cheating but very…
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here’s the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here's the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
Below is a blog I posted in December of 2008. Here’s the scoop … we need more Senators. More specifically, the Conservative Senators need help. Being so few, they are…
As health care providers news of the increase in minimum wage is important – as we stated in 2013, poverty is the second leading cause of death in this country.…
This has been pinging around the Internet this morning – I first saw it on the Twitter feed of someone I follow who is out in Vancouver. Anyway – dunno…
It’s no secret. The Senate has, for all of its history, been a collection of political toadies and hacks A few senators, but only a few, have had anything noticeable…
Today’s La Presse has an excellent and thought-provoking story about Denmark and its long term plans to quite using fossil fuels by 2050. And this in a country which has…
The 3-member panel reviewing Site C Dam has complained about the volume of documents from BC Hydro Read this Jan. 27 letter to the editor in the Vancouver Sun by…
Good news folks – it looks like Parliamentarians are taking notice of our rapidly growing campaign against Internet censorship in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Thanks to a massive outcry from…
It has been one of those weeks where I think about feminism lots. And basically as a married, white woman living a rather isolated life as a homeschool mother and…
