April 2014
B.C. Removes Mandatory Environmental Review of Natural Gas, Ski Resort Developments
Major natural gas projects and ski resort developments now have the option of being built in B.C. without environmental assessment after the Liberal government quietly deposited two Orders in Council…
Globe and Mail: Do Canadians really want Big Telecom to crowd out the alternatives?
How will the CBC stay relevant in a media climate increasingly dominated by arrogant Big Telecom giants? Share your thoughts in the comments. Article by John Doyle for The Globe…
90% of B.C. Hates the Grizzly Hunt, So Why Are We Still Doing it?
This is a guest post by Chris Genovali, executive director of Raincoast Conservation Foundation. We want these bears dead. This is the message the B.C. government’s “reallocation policy” sends to…
New blog affiliate
Please welcome Right-Wing Observer to Progressive Bloggers (from Saskatchewan)
Heartbleed SIN breach suspect ID’d by RCMP
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/heartbleed-sin-breach-suspect-id-d-by-rcmp-1.2610803
Industry Funded Politicians Hope To Thwart Pollution Penalties In North Carolina
On March 6th of this year, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway handed down a ruling that Duke Energy must immediately prevent toxins from their coal ash ponds from…
About those people without jobs …
Statistics Canada released their latest job vacancy data today, giving us the three month average ending in January 2014. There were 6.7 unemployed workers for every job vacancy, higher than…
Wine and Milk vs. Oil and Gas: Existing Industries Go Up Against Fossil Fuel Job Promises
Ken Stanton’s 400-cow dairy farm lies in the path of the proposed Constitution Pipeline, which would carry fracked natural gas from Pennsylvania to New York. Three generations of Stanton’s family…
Separate But Not Equal
That would probably pretty much sum up the religious fundamentalists’ attitude when comparing science to their literal interpretations of The Bible. The people at Funny or Die decided to run…
Pierre Poilievre says he has open mind
And it is full of crap and it stinks. Read the story here. You may consider to read this story also here.
Proportional Representation: beginning of real majority government
Although I probably disagree with everything Andrew Coyne has to say on economic issues, he has great insight on Proportional Representation: “It’s true, as opponents point out, that PR would…
Haunted House Case properly decided by summary judgment
1784773 Ontario Inc. v. K-W Labour Association Inc., 2014 ONCA 288: Counsel acknowledge that there is no direct evidence of economic loss or damage as a result of the stigma…
Flaherty’s Legacy: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
The unexpected, shocking death of Jim Flaherty, the Conservative Party of Canada’s only finance minister until his retirement less than a month ago, has resulted in hundreds of tributes for…
More Maroc Messaging For BC NDP’s John Horgan
An Addendum to A Public Letter to John Horgan, MLA, Next Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition Don Maroc You’re right John. the original letter was loaded with enough responsibilities…
Big Oil, Big Media, governments work together in ‘Corporatocracy’
Top corporate leaders gather at the annual Bildergberg conference in 2010 “Freedom” and “democracy” are useful words, but very bankrupt: useful because they serve to advance imperial/corporate agendas, bankrupt because…
OLDaily Over the Years
Still messing around with statistics. Here’s the graph of the production of posts on OLDaily over the years since the first posts in 1995: Until 1999 the only posts produced…
Joe Oliver’s Transparency Rule a Parting Gift to Canadian Mining Companies
On March 3rd, former Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver unveiled a new transparency initiative that will require Canadian mining companies to report significant payments made to governments both abroad and…
Because There’s A Difference…
@reporterdonpeat A “Free Ford Nation” t-shirt or a free “Ford Nation” t-shirt? Is he raising money for Mayor’s campaign or bail?— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) April 15, 2014