Hudak job cuts impact on communities
Today the Ontario Federation of Labour and CUPE Ontario published calculations I prepared of how Ontario Conservative leader Tim Hudak’s promise to eliminate 100,000 public sector jobs will be felt…
May 2014
Should Chevron Pay For the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic?
This is a guest post by Andrew Gage, staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law. According to the BC Government, the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic – a direct result of…
Should Chevron Pay For the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic?
This is a guest post by Andrew Gage, staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law. According to the BC Government, the Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic – a direct result of…
Only Four in 10 British Columbians Have Heard Of This $7.9B Mega Project — Have You?
Fourteen hours. That’s roughly how long it takes to drive the 1,220 kilometres between Vancouver and Fort St. John, B.C. If you drove the same distance straight east, you’d be…
Christy Clark: BC LNG “The Cleanest Fossil Fuel on the Planet”…Really?
In the keynote address kicking of her government’s second major conference on liquefied natural gas (LNG), BC Premier Christy Clark billed the resource as nothing short of “the cleanest fossil…
World of Tanks
Tanks are a long distance weapon, you know. They are best used in concert with one another to provide cover and overwatch fire, and are best placed in a covered…
Conservative Governments AND Soiled Diapers Should Be Changed And Thrown Out Often ! (for the same reasons)
… just sayin’ …
Is El Niño Set To Return?
Although he is taking a hiatus from his blog, The Mound of Sound is keeping very active in his research and studies. Those who read him regularly know of his…
New Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Front Groups Behind Attacks on Renewables
Fossil fuel exploitation in the United States has reached a fevered pitch. Oil production is at a near-record high, and fracking activities have made the U.S. the number one producer…
BC LNG: Promised Land of Prosperity or Gas Fueled Race to the Bottom?
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor On this the first day of BC’s much ballyhooed International LNG conference, it is worth noting, comparing and contrasting BC’s LNG “model” and that of competing…
University of Saskatchewan Fires President Ilene Busch-Vishniac Over Professor Buckinghams Dismissal
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, May 22, 2014
Your news links for today: Who’s Watching Whom: An Examination of Canadian Privacy and Surveillance – Michael Geist Federal privacy law faces constitutional challenge – CBC News Privacy law focus…
Mass Collaboration Workshop, Day Two
(My presentation will appear separately) Collective Knowledge in Social Tagging EnvironmentsJoachim Kimmerle, KMRC Even though it is hard to find good definitions of knowledge, most psychologists would agree that knowledge…
May 22 "Events generate $7M in Metro"
My, it gets tedious to read a paper every day when it has nothing in it. Today, alas, is no exception.The title of this blog is, in fact, today’s banner…
Shilling For Oil
Big Oil has always been behind Stephen Harper’s agenda. That was made clear once again this week when the RCMP revealed details into accusations against Bruce Carson, the disbarred lawyer…
The Next Step In Harper’s Police State
So, Harper wants to connect the CRA with the RCMP. Chantal Bernier, Canada’s interim privacy commissioner, says she is concerned by the government’s proposal to allow Canada Revenue Agency officials…
Dangerous buffoon
In short, the remaining weeks of this campaign are going to be fought in large part around the character of Tim Hudak. Is he a bold visionary? Or is he…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, May 22, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, May 22, 2014: Farmers Insurance sues City of Chicago for allegedly failing to adequately prepare for the…
New Speed Limit in Paris: 30 km/hr
This week Wired published an article about the 20 deadliest US cities for pedestrians and they write: There, low-density neighborhoods “rely on wider streets with higher speeds to connect homes,…
NDP health platform review: What do you get if home care isn’t delivered within five days?
We have to self-declare here. Whenever we have wanted to raise an issue in the Ontario legislature, the NDP has been more than willing to go to bat for us…