Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, delivers a stark warning and a call to arms in this year’s Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute address. Monbiot warns that we’re about to feed the…
There must be an election due in the next year. Why else would the Harper government minions be running around in the heat of the summer pandering to Conservative interest…
…from a week ago, no less. But that’s majority territory, as the poll suggests. As for the pollsters, well, can’t find where he wrote it but 308’s Eric Grenier has…
The cheque’s been cash. There’s no more cash flowing. But the deal is not quite done, yet. (Read more…)
Meanwhile, in Chicago… Filed under: frivolity Tagged: Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, Jack White, resting bitchface, The White Stripes
Another day, more western endorsed Gazan deaths. “Self defense”, “Rockets”, and “Human shields” are really getting old fast in terms of the excuses Israel is using to justify it’s slaughter,…
British Prime Minister David Cameron, like our PM a cheerleader for Israel, posed a rhetorical question this week: how would those criticizing Israel’s actions expect their own government to react…
A worker in Fort McMurray prepares to drive this truck through the holes in the Fraser Institute’s “report,” which claims Alberta’s finances are in worse shape than those of places…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This piece by Tarek Fatah appeared in the Toronto Star’s Middle East Forum last week and was sent to Cowichan Conversations as a comment. Upon reading it…
If I lived here, I’d lay in a park and stare at the sky all the time. Taken by Lala on the way back to Moose Jaw, from Regina. .
The headline on The Australian newspaper’s story about a leak of a major United Nations climate change report read “We got it wrong on warming, says IPCC”. But an investigation…
Something has been simmering beneath the City of Lakes’ political surface for some time now, and as the summer temperature has started to rise, the issue appears to be bubbling…
MOOSE JAW, SASK. – As you head into town here, there’s bright yellow canola sprouting on one side of the highway, and bluish flax to be seen on the other…
Two of Canada’s biggest telecoms have done the right thing and publicly announced that they will not share subscribers’ private information without a warrant any more. It doesn’t seem like…
Except, that is, in Harperland. The latest Orwellian edict to come down from the Harper-directed CRA, reported by The Winnipeg Free Press, is as follows: The Canada Revenue Agency has…
Erin does a nice job of documenting the fact that the number of EI recipients is falling, despite the fact that unemployment is rising. But it seems to me that…
Vancouver is Canada’s climate leader (photo: Wendy / flickr) Amid the dire warnings about global warming’s impacts, what’s often overlooked is that actions to reduce or prevent them will lead…
A Newfoundland man says PM Harper and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird should be charged under Canada’s Criminal Code for inciting “genocide” in Gaza. The post Gaza Conflict: Canadian man…
Nothing is better than splashing around in the water on a hot summer day, but B.C. residents should be questioning whether that refreshing dip is going to make them sick,…
.@CBCNews – @calxandr HarperCON’s trained MP seal, announces Poverty has been eliminated in Canada. Yes, really youtu.be/ncUtF2E7D8Y— StopApartheid Israel (@NadineLumley) July 24, 2014 How Chris Alexander stacks up with James…
