The Inconvenient Truth
If the Harperites read their own internally generated research, they know why Justin Trudeau is a threat. The Globe and Mail reports that a document prepared last October by Employment…
February 2014
Google Launches Deforestation Watch
Global Forest Watch is a new project from Google to highlight the deforestation that has been happening around the planet since the year 2000. Google is working with a lot…
Wynne’s policy picks are puzzlers.
Maybe some of us are a bit slow on the up tick. An e-mail arrived the other day saying that Premier Wynne now had a way forward. It came from…
Voter rips John Tory: an old one but a gold one
Voter to John Tory: “We have to know what your plans are.” John Tory to voter: “I’m doing my best.” Voter to John Tory: “You’re not.” It was true then…
#Tarsands Polluting Groundwater and Rivers
As scientists have demonstrated in the past, the strip mining and tailing ponds employed on a Mordorific scale in northern Alberta are polluting ground and river waters. Sorry #tarsand shills,…
Cold Weather Brings Wild Swings in Natural Gas Prices Despite Shale Gas Rush
Last year, natural gas prices hit record lows and shale gas promoters confidently predicted a bright future of stable low prices, making the fuel the best choice for home heating…
Economists and Education
Fred M Beshears writes, “Here’s an upcoming panel discussion that might address some of the issues we’ve been discussing. It will be interesting to see if the idea of ‘Open…
Ask General Kang: Um, is it time to panic?
You humans still have primitive brains, so I will try to be understanding about this need of yours to panic. One of your wisest humans wrote a book, upon the…
Thank You
A thank you to the Liberal Party of Canada for their hospitality in inviting bloggers to cover their Biennial Convention. The treatment of bloggers was second to none, and we…
Given Today’s Technology, Why Do We Continue To Elect Representatives From Political Parties?
Canada’s political institutions have not evolved significantly from their conception nearly 150 years ago. We still regularly go to the polls and choose between the candidates from various political parties…
Stephen Harper and the Cataclysmic Collapse of the Con Regime
Well I think we can safely say that Stephen Harper didn't have a very good weekend.First his plans for the total destruction of Justin Trudeau at the Liberal convention failed…
Budget consultations and other political insanity #nlpoli
This year it is Charlene Johnson’s turn to host a series of meetings across the province that the provincial Conservatives cynically tout as a way for people to have some…
Should We… Cut the Cord?
Guest blog by OpenMedia volunteer Micaela Evans Many Canadians in recent years have made a significant change in their lives, affecting how, when, and where they receive their visual media.…
Remembering Eric Buckley
My uncle died Friday. His more formal obituaries are here and here. But here are some of my less formal memories, some of which, happily, showed up in the official…
The Putin Games and the Fascist Circus
Like millions of others I was dazzled by the closing of the Sochi Games, for it was a spectacular display of the best that Russia has to offer.And I was…
Hope and hard work at the Liberal convention
If you just read the papers for your news, you would think that the only events at this week’s Liberal biennial convention in Montreal were that Trudeau didn’t hold a…
Advice to Canadian politicians and media: Proceed with caution on your support for Ukraine’s rebels
Anti-Government Ukrainians prepare to fight police in Kiev. Below: Rioters throw gasoline bombs at police in Ukraine; Alberta Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. (Wikimedia photos.) You can bet money that when…
Guest Post: Paul Pugh on Uruguay’s Fitting Recognition
Here is a guest post from Paul Pugh, from Thunder Bay, who provided us a couple of years ago with some interesting and encouraging data about Uruguay’s incremental successes in…