April 26: one step back…..
I was in a bit of a rush yesterday, and didn’t comment. on an item on B3 “Warning sounded on shale gas.”This was a follow up to a story on…
April 2014
Ukraine: One possible Russian-driven solution
Bill Clinton: Ukraine Saviour? Ukraine is in turmoil, with positions apparently hardening on all sides, since the Geneva Agreement outlining a method of resolution was agreed upon a short while…
BC Wolf Killing Plan Based on ‘Unreliable Data’
Following the recent killing of ‘Solo’ in the Mill Bay area Cowichan residents are expressing both concern and sorrow. Have we slashed budgets to the point that meaningful conservation is…
Decision Making and Pregnancy
Think that the Harper Government doesn't have an anti-woman agenda? Think again. From LifeSite: Conservative MP Kyle Seeback openly admits that he was once “fairly comfortable” with the viewpoint that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Edward Greenspon’s report on the Keystone XL review process is well worth a read – particularly in exposing how the Harper Cons have…
McDonalds Canada CEO and Foriegn Workers
How did this guy become CEO? Or maybe it’s his kind of attitude, insensitivity, which is required of a McDonalds CEO. Unbelievable listening to this, how he dismisses the controversy…
Favorable Court Ruling Lets Americans Breathe Easier
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scored a huge court victory recently, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruling that the agency’s Mercury and Air…
The Corporate Tax Regime In Canada Is Corporate Welfare
… and it is being done at the expense of Canadians. Corporate Canada Pays Low Taxes But Contributes In Lots Of Other Ways Consider the following: PricewaterhouseCoopers did its own…
Worth repeating on the Supreme Court Senate ruling
As those of you who follow politics in Canada know, the Supreme Court of Canada told Stephen Harper on Friday that if he wanted to either reform (7 provinces/50% of…
Less Than Meets The Eye
Were average citizens given to much political reflection, they would realize that from start to finish, the ‘Fair’ Elections Act has been almost exclusively about both discouraging people from voting…
Pseudo-patriotic madness
This is news, right from the CBC, not April Fool or The Onion: The Massachusetts House of Representatives has finally granted initial approval to a Bill naming the Fluffernutter the…
The fat lady has yet to sing.
Public opinion polls can never replace voting. And the provincial election is not going to happen until New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath says it will. So, you might as well…
It Takes Sunny Ways
Yesterday — for the second time in a month — the Supreme Court reminded Stephen Harper of two truths about Canada. The first is that, as prime minister, he is…
EU Election, 2014
First things first, I want to make clear just how large and confusing this election is. What we have is 28 independent countries holding elections, and in many of them,…
Kyle Seeback, CPC MP For Brampton West, On Abortion And Rape
“If life begins at conception then abortion is taking a life. I don’t think that is an appropriate response to a terribly traumatic event (rape),” he said.“To say that because…
Saturday At The Movies
A love story. Get your hanky ready. * If you want to watch a longer version of this story, check out the video below.
More problems for proposed Trinity Western University law school
The Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) and Nova Scotia Barristers Society have voted on whether future graduates of the BC evangelical university which recently received permission from BC to…