The Tory’s Hudak is now an illusionist.
Ontario Opposition Leader Timmy Hudak has a new career in mind. He wants to be a carnival illusionist. In an op-ed opinion page article yesterday in the Toronto Star, he…
January 2014
Taking Goebbels’ Advice
The CBC reports this morning that the Harper government spent $2.5 million to promote its non existent jobs program: CBC News has also learned that that advertising cash came from…
I Knew There Was a Reason Dept: Sleep Is the Cleaner
Give me a chance and I’ll go to sleep. There have been times in my life when I’ve slept badly–waking up at the time one of the kids should be…
Future Proof: Ice Storms
Last year Shane vlogged about ice storms. Let’s not wait until a big storm hits Saskatchewan before we future proof our homes being built today. You can check out Shane’s…
Neil Young Rocks
Neil Young’s war of words against the Tar Sands defenders (aka Stephen Harper and Dirty Oil Money) is welcome.
Stephen Harper and the Economic Conapocalypse
Well as you know Stephen Harper isn't just running from the Senate scandal these days. And from Neil Young.He's running from the burning wreckage of his disastrous economic record. And…
Reimagining Crisis As Opportunity
When young anthropologist and social entrepreneur, Cynthia Koenig, reframed the world’s water crisis as an opportunity, she “reinvented the wheel”. Here’s her talk at TEDxGateway: * WelloWater.org
If Nalcor got the peak load wrong #nlpoli
The rolling blackouts on the island of Newfoundland could warn of bigger problems to come, if a new paper by the analyst JM is correct. Underestimating peak load and the…
Curing Gender Imbalance in Media? MONEY!
Movies that pass the Bechdel Test…make…more…money. The best things in life are free, but you can give them to the birds and bees. Media corporations love their money. And in…
Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria opens school for kids in Daraa
Screenshots from al-Qaeda school video Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, isn’t just in the business of jihad. It has set up “education” programs to indoctrinate Syrian children. On the…
History Lessons – The Commonwealth Fund
The Following link provides a pertinent perspective on Obamacare and the ridiculous treatment it has been receiving from right-wing media in the United States (and, I am sorry to say,…
Tim Hudak: Scott Walker wannabe
Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s pledge to create one million new jobs sounds like a direct rip-off of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s promise to create 250,000 new jobs in a…
Neil Young Beats Up Stephen Harper. Again.
Uh oh. It looks as if the slugging match between Neil Young and the Con regime isn't going to last very long.Not with King Harper already lying on his back.…
Coyne Sees Harper in Chris Christie
Andrew Coyne sees ugly similarities in how Americans see Chris Christie and Canadians see Steve Harper. We have people in power like Christie and Harper because we’re willing to condone…
Audio: Why Site C Dam is a bad deal for taxpayers, environment
The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis discusses the economic and environmental drawbacks of the $10 Billion proposed Site C Dam on Vancouver Co-op Radio – January 8, 2014. Public hearings…
Scouring Alberta
Alberta takes pride in being Canada’s #1 Have province and it has the scars to prove it. A new study has found that Alberta has no equal when it comes…
The Poor Are Always with Us: The Trap of Charity
The Pope has just named 18 new cardinals. His choices supposedly show how he is refocussing the Roman Catholic Church’s energies on its mission to help the poor. Seeing as…
Neil Young-Diana Krall To Help Bankroll First Nation’s Tar Sands Battle
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Could this be a ‘Canadian Spring’- an awakening to the fact that ‘Thugs in Suits’ are hijacking our country, selling out our natural resources to the Chinese…
In Tuesday’s Sun: keep talkin’ in the free world
OTTAWA — So a rock star popped up in Toronto on the weekend and pronounced on politics. People noticed. Some got upset, some were happy. Happens all the time. This…