Super Industrial BC
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Positively Political Rafe Mair is back in the saddle and zoning in on issues of significance to all British Columbians. Mair is calling out to BC NDP Leader…
May 2014
Flip-flopper John gets the wrong kind of attention
Hey look, Flip-Floppin’ John Tory: Olivia Chow’s ad about you is running on TV! .
Nature And The Heavy Hand Of Humanity
As difficult as this is to watch, we all have a responsibility to bear witness to our collective folly: Post by HelaNada.com – A Brand New Experience. Recommend this Post
Groundbreaking Anti-Fracking Ballot Initiative Clears Key Hurdle in Colorado
The citizen-led anti-fracking battles in Colorado ratcheted up a notch May 22 when the Colorado Community Rights Network announced that Ballot Initiative #75, the Community Right Amendment (also known as…
All Eyes on Christy Clark as Northern Gateway Decision Imminent
With the federal government’s decision on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oil tanker and pipeline proposal set to come in the next three weeks, the political hot potato is set to be…
Stop. Collaborate and listen.
Only four days left to share your vision for sharing and collaborating in the 21st century. Do what Ice says – go to https://OpenMedia.org/CrowdSource right now and share widely! read…
Quick Facts – Dean of the House of Commons
Many of you will already know there exists a position called Dean of the House of Commons. The most important job of the Dean is to take to the Speaker’s…
“We hope the OPP is taking note” — Meagher
CORNWALL – Residents and laboratory staff at the Cornwall Community Hospital marched outside of city hall last night to try and save local histology services in the St. Lawrence Seaway…
WWHWWWH
WWHWWWH is one of two formulae I need to keep in mind when working through my scales on the ukulele and guitar. The other is 2122122. I see the musicians…
Teachers and On Why We Strike
Dear colleagues, During these difficult times, I would like to encourage everyone to remember the importance of our job, to remember the impact that we have on students, families and…
John Tory executes a whiplash-inducing flip-flop on his “NUMBER ONE PRIORITY”
Remember his “Number One Priority©” – the subway relief line? How he would say, over and over, it was “number one”? And how he’d even attack other candidates for not…
Is Red the New Orange?
The Ontario election has featured a deeply divided, ideologically intrenched split. Two polarized points of view on how our province should run which will determine who runs it. To be…
Reasonableness of verdict
R v Jacobs, 2014 ABCA 172: A reviewing court considering the reasonableness of a trial judge’s verdict must determine whether a properly instructed trier of fact could have, on the…
BC Teachers: Liability & the Lockout
The war of words between the BCTF and the BC Government, heated up this week as the government denied that their lockout prevented teachers from organizing and participating in extra-curricular…
Party Platforms – New Democrats pledge to address health care wait times
The New Democrats health platform is about addressing wait times. They say they will cut ER wait times in half and make health care a priority. This is their four-year…
Lisa MacLeod – her mouth runneth over…
Or…. should a candidate make unfounded claims about “dirty tricks”? Dirty tricks – Leaking secret information, digging into a candidate’s past (opposition research) or exposing real conflicts between the image…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Your news links for today: Privacy battle heats up over three controversial bills that allow more snooping – Yahoo News Harper government pushes ahead with controversial police powers legislation –…
The 7.9 Billion-Dollar Question: Is the Site C Dam’s Electricity Destined for LNG Industry?
Every day British Columbians flick on light switches, power up their computers and cook dinner, confidently expecting the power supply will not fail them. The expectation that reliable electric power…
Boy Stalin rides again
Robin Sears, who earned his nickname “Boy Stalin” as then NDP premier Bob Rae’s chief of staff wrote this stunner of a commentary trashing the people who signed that open…
Obama: “Remaking the Middle East”: The American Gulag
During the beginning of his first term in office President Obama promised “to remake the Middle East into a region of prosperity and freedom”. Six years later the reality is…