Louisiana Residents Gear Up For Fracking Fight Just Outside New Orleans
In mid-April, word started spreading like wildfire among Louisiana residents: Helis Oil & Gas LLC wants to drill a well in search of oil and gas on a 960-acre tract…
May 2014
What kind of activist do you want to be? Reflections on One City moving into the fore
Yesterday One City launched their party with RJ Aquino front and centre. There are some suspicions about some of the startings of One City, and I, myself, am keen on
My Vote for the NDP in Ontario’s Election
Think about it: the NDP deserves an opportunity to run Ontario.
John Tory’s top secret strategy
His entire strategy – his entire plan – was this: Wait for Rob Ford to be thrown in jail. Wait for Rob Ford to be forced out of the race.…
Ford: get back to where you once belonged
Could this… …be related to something like this? Betcha it is. .
Justices of the Peace to conduct civil hearings in Australia
The Queensland, Australia Attorney General has introduced a trial period where select Justices of the Peace will conduct certain civil hearings. Justices of the Peace selected had applied for the…
Climate Change: Look At The Big Picture Or Nothing
For this TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, climatologist and climate modeler Gavin Schmidt from NASA’s Goddard Institute For Space Sciences discusses climate modeling. You can’t understand climate change in pieces,…
Baffin Correctional Centre – from today’s National Post
From the Three Little Pigs we learn that it does not make a lot of sense, in a dangerous and scary world, to build a house out of straw or…
HVP controversy deepens #nlpoli
The controversy around Humber Valley Paving got worse for the provincial Conservatives on Monday as transportation minister Nick McGrath confirmed that he actually released $19 million in performance and goods…
Economics, by and for lay people
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, boasted recently about his nation’s modest economic growth. If expansion continues, Britain will soon…
Lost boys
Stephen Harper has lost Andrew Coyne: It is one thing to savage a political opponent or beat up on a distinguished civil servant. But to accuse the nation’s highest judge…
Pension bill delayed as Hancock softens ground for next PC Party leader
TweetIn another move suggesting the spring sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly could end within days, it appears that the passage of the Progressive Conservative Government’s controversial public sector pension law…
Pondering a palatable pipeline…
I guest-hosted TWiE podcast episode 137 a few days ago, an episode devoted to the Alberta oil sands / tar sands. If you ask me (and I realize none of…
Greek statistics are back: Primary deficit presented as surplus, with Eurostat’s seal of approval
Originally posted on Yanis Varoufakis: Have you heard the one about Greece’s Eurostat-approved 2013 primary surplus? Well, you should not believe it. Here is why: View original 760 more words…
Pension ‘reform’ bills likely dead as PC government and all opposition parties refer Bills 9 and 10 to committee
With the car in the ditch, wheels spinning and headlights pointed skyward, the Progressive Conservative government of Premier pro tempore Dave Hancock agreed this afternoon to send its two controversial…
Della and the Dealer-Hoyt Axton
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Saw a post on Facebook from Katie Stewart reminiscing about Hoyt Axton and a concert we went to in Victoria. Captain Ralph Hull, aka Captain Rosta and…
In Tuesday’s Sun: elections are good, not bad
The great thing about living in a democracy is, well, living in a democracy. Characteristics of a democracy include things like power exercised by citizens, or officials elected by citizens.…
Global Fossil Fuel Companies Running Multiple PR Campaigns Targeting Australians
Both online and on television, one of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers is telling Australians that it cares more about the environment than energy. How this message might…
On this day – May 5, 1877 – Chief Sitting Bull’s Sioux Cross Into Saskatchewan To Escape Genocide By American Troops
On This Day (May 5, 1877) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Sitting Bull refused to surrender to genocidal American troops and led his band across the border into what is now Saskatchewan,…