Keystone is Still in Limbo, and that’s Good for Canada
U.S. President Obama is again signaling he’s in no rush to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and that offers a sliver of hope for Canadians hoping to put the brakes…
February 2014
McGill Petrocultures Protest Aims to Reframe Fossil Fuel Debate
If Canada is to seriously confront its addiction to fossil fuels and fight climate change, we need to reframe the entire debate. That’s the message a group of protesters aimed…
DRONES – DEATH by Metadata
Feb 10, 2014 - Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ Death by Metadata - Feb 10, 2014 &nb...
FINALLY THE DRONES !!! And hopefully A LOT MORE to come about them !
First Look Media: The // Intercept – LAUNCHED February 10, 2014 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ Feb 10, 2014 – Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S.…
FINALLY THE DRONES !!! And hopefully A LOT MORE to come about them !
First Look Media:The // Intercept - LAUNCHED February 10, 2014https://firstlook.org/theintercept/ Feb 10, 2014 - Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn GreenwaldThe NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Programhttps://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ More:Death…
Exploding BC LNG Myths – Part One
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor In this post Kevin zones in on BC Liberal Government claims of prosperity ahead. Recently the BC Government published an online quiz to “test the knowledge”…
Is the CRA reacting to political pressure?
Not being a conspiracy theorist and having great faith in the integrity of our civil servants, I find it hard to believe that the current spate of audits of environmental…
If You Value Democracy, Call Your Nearest Conservative MP, NOW!
Call your nearest Conservative MP right now, until 330pm today, west coast time. Let them know that their Orwellian-named “Fair” Elections Act is clearly designed to further erode democracy and…
They Could Have Been Speaking of Stephen Harper
As I pored over these observations on tyranny, I thought each of these men and women could have easily been speaking of Stephen Harper. “Withholding information is the essence of…
Stephen Harper’s Secret Plan to Try to Destroy Justin Trudeau
If we had any doubt how far Stephen Harper will go to try to destroy Justin Trudeau now we know. For here is their secret plan to try to undermine…
Non-Muslim Removed From Islamic Preaching Course A Hard Core Fruit-loop
From Jen Gerson’s rather gormless piece: A London, Ont., university is defending its decision to restrict access to a course that teaches Muslims how to proselytize.The Huron College course —…
DRONES – DEATH by Metadata
Feb 10, 2014 - Article By Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/02/10/the-nsas-secret-role/ Death by Metadata - Feb 10, 2014 &nb...
Obamacare Chuckle
The rabid Right has made much of a Congressional Budget Office analysis that upwards of 2-million Americans might give up their jobs due to Obamacare. The Right depicted it as…
Unreasonable Verdict
R v RAS, 2014 ABCA 56: In assessing whether a verdict is unreasonable, a court must, to some extent, re-examine and re-weigh the evidence, but ultimately the test is whether…
Political convention hijinx: not news
Seriously? Big deal. When Dalton McGuinty was around, we did this kind of stuff at every single PC convention. If they were organized enough, they’d do it at ours. Here’s…
Marine Migration is the Bellweather of Climate Change
For the past couple of years I’ve been noticing the arrival of newcomers to our local waters. Humboldt squid, the denizens of the Sea of Cortez, washing up in their…
Van Jones of CNN debunks myths behind the Keystone Pipeline
He points out the lies about the Keystone Pipeline.Good one and worth watching.
Have Humans Become a Climate Change "Feedback Mechanism"?
In case you’re wondering, we’re considered a “positive feedback” From Australia to California, Atlanta to London, climate change has settled in as a more or less permanent fixture. Australia is…
Who should be more worried?
The guys who are the focus of all this attention – or the guys whose top-secret memos are leaking all over the place? And if the leaks are deliberate, are…