February 2014
California Dreamin’, er Praying for Rain
Two pictures that pretty much tell the tale of the California drought, courtesy of The Guardian.The first is a sign on the front fence of a California almond farm. The…
Feb. 26: Two weeks in Oct., 1960….
I shall never forget them. The fear was so high that students sometimes burst into tears in class. I remember a teacher who broke under the strain, and fled her…
Climate Change Comes Roaring into 2014. Brace Yourself.
We’re just two months into 2014 and already the world is being tossed by severe weather events of almost every description in almost every corner of the planet. According to…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Your news links for today: Copyright Board of Canada on Copying a Few Pages: It’s Insubstantial and Not Compensable | Michael Geist Voltage meets resistance from Federal Court: new safeguards…
The IMF Wades In on Inequality
The hard Right have transitioned seamlessly from the fight to thwart action on climate change to their even more desperate rear guard effort to defend inequality from nasty, money-grubbing reformers.…
Troy Thomas – a First Nations’ Voice on Climate Change and Geoengineering and Change
Troy Thomas, who occasionally leaves comments on this blog, is a brilliant observer and a fine writer. He’s of a British Columbia First Nations’ band up near Salmon Arm. Yesterday…
Indigenous Food and Cultural Protection
Food and ecosystem knowledge which has been passed down for centuries is constantly threatened by the modern mechanical market. To stymie this change in food (and knowledge) consumption there is…
The Stintz Line: Soknacki On Stintz
Click on it to see it better. As I’ve mentioned previously, David Soknacki is an intriguing candidate, and I predict that his anti-Scarborough subway stance will prove to be surprisingly…
His Hands Are All Over It
Like an ugly stain that resists the most determined efforts at removal, Bill C-520, a ‘private member’s bill’ proposed by Conservative MP Mark Adler, has Stephen Harper’s signature and paranoid…
Obama, Time to Wash Your Hands of Afghanistan
If the United States cannot come up with one scenario in which it would return American troops to Afghanistan in large numbers, it should fold its tent and leave by…
Corporate Olympics: Profit Sprint vs. Investment Crawl
Statistics Canada reported today that private and public investment intentions are up by 1.4% for 2014, even weaker than Canada’s investment growth of 1.5% in 2013. Private-sector investment intentions are…
Security for costs and merits of proceeding
Ataliotis v. Assiniboine Credit Union Ltd., 2014 MBCA 16: Consideration of Merits of Action One of many factors a Master or motion judge is entitled to consider in exercising their…
Massive sun flare
It is amazing. The sun fired off a major solar flare late Feb. 24, making it the most powerful sun eruption of the year so far and one of the…
Putin Mobilizes His Troops. Is He Bluffing?
It’s just the thing that pro-Western Ukrainians have been fearing – but also anticipating. Russian president Vlad Putin has ordered combat units to mobilize, supposedly for a snap exercise. It…
Time to get serious with distracted drivers
In March, the fine for being caught texting, talking on your cell phone, or tinkering with your MP3 player while driving will jump from $155 to $280 in Ontario. That’s…