Science + Good Policy = Averting Climate Breakdown: Go!
Can you do it? Can you be inspired by the strong possibility that we can move to a post-carbon energy infrastructure, like I wrote about yesterday? Can you not reject…
February 2014
So You Like Rock and Roll Music eh!
Keith Richards invited a roster of great musicians to honor Chuck Berry for an evening of music to commemorate Berry’s 60th birthday. Taken from the Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll…
Support and Care for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in New Brunswick – The Report of the University of Calgary School of Public Policy
“Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurological condition estimated to affect as many as one in 88 children. It is now the most common neurological disorder affecting children and…
Group calls on Harper govt to implement Salmon Inquiry’s recommendations
Watch this video produced by Watershed Watch Conservation Society on the largest investigation into missing salmon in Canadian history – the $26 million Cohen Commission – and the groups and…
John Tory campaign logo: the crowd-sourcing contest continues!
From a smart Liberal woman in my neighbourhood. Seems about right.
Alberta doctor to US senate: Canada ‘lying’ about Tar Sands health impacts
Dr. John O’Connor (photo: saveourmedevac.ca) Read this Feb. 26 story by Mychaylo Prystupa in the Vancouver Observer on Alberta doctor John O’Connor’s warning to US senators that Canada is concealing…
The Alberta tar sands’ criminal assault on water, Athabasca River
by: Obert Madondo A new study by Environment Canada confirms what First Nations and environmentalists have been telling us all along: the Alberta tar sands are increasingly becoming a threat…
Ben Klass complaint against Bell prompts CRTC to review mobile Internet rules
Several months ago, we let you know that Manitoba resident and OpenMedia community member Ben Klass had filed a complaint with Canada’s telecom policymaker, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission…
Cullen calls out Harper govt over climate change, dead scallops
NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen challenges the Harper government in question period over its failure to act on climate change and 10 million scallops that died in BC recently from…
First CBC’s Rex Murphy, Now Peter Mansbridge Making Big Bucks From Oil And Gas Corporations
The CBC Should Fire Peter Mansbridge And Rex Murphy CBC’s Peter Manbridge and Rex Murphy-The Money Is Good! Check out this Huffington Post Canada report by Michael BolenCBC anchor Peter…
Joe Clark blasts PM Harper for attacks on environmentalists
On a US book tour, Joe Clark had some strong words from one Conservative PM to another by Alexander Panetta, The Canadian Press WASHINGTON – Former prime minister Joe Clark…
CAPP paid Mantsbridge, defender of Murphy’s speaking fees
Inspired by this headline: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2014/02/revelation-capp-paid-mansbridge-defender-murphys-speaking-fees-b
As Big Telecom ramps up lobbying, will government cave?
It looks like Big Three telecom giants are fighting hard to maintain their stranglehold over our wireless market, and over Canadians’ wallets. The Big Three have been on the back…
Our Giant Prosperity I.O.U.
Never in our 50,000 year history have humans been so prosperous, so advanced, so wealthy. We owe a good deal of that to our mastery of cheap fossil fuel energy…
The next time John Tory calls the Fords a “disgrace,” print this off and pin it to his golf cart
Oh, and before I forget: print this one off, too. You know, how his campaign manager was the guy who was campaign manager to…Rob Ford.
Feb. 27: "Any kind of military intervention that would violate the. territorial integrity of the Ukraine….
would be a huge, a grave mistake.” US policy was aimed at helping people realize aspirations for freedom……” So says John Kerry, US Secretary of State. Donne-moi un break. This…
University Governance
This afternoon I spoke on a panel on university governance at a conference titled Future U: Creating the Universities We Want, organized by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations.…
Bureaucrat Ducks Vital Question on Flawed DOT-111 Tank Cars at Oil By Rail Safety Hearing
On Wednesday February 26th, the long-awaited congressional hearing on oil-by-rail safety finally occurred. The main portion of the hearing featured representatives from the relevant government agencies as well as industry,…
Loretta Saunders is not a singular case: Inappropriate and inadequate responses from Harper Government
… Let me be clear: Aboriginal women are TARGETS of violence because they are treated as disposable objects. How many ignored Pickton concerns were there before someone decided to take…