In Friday’s Sun: don’t watch it
Man is the cruelest animal, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once said, and he might know: his works arguably served as an inspiration for later German militarism and National Socialism.…
August 2014
A hot summer: Updates on the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan projects
Thursday, August 21, 2014 It’s been a busy few months with a lot of new challenges and developments regarding the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines and tankers proposals. We thought…
Last day at Hebron Academy
Today marks my last day of work at Hebron Academy. It has been a great first full year working in marketing for an independent school. I’ve had the chance to…
Advertising Watchdog Says Peabody Energy ‘Clean Coal’ Advert Was Misleading
CLEAN COAL, it’s the two-word catch phrase the coal industry has used for years as it tries to convince the world its climate changing energy source has a future. While…
Globe and Mail: Are mobile TV apps the next battlefield in the fight against Internet slow lanes?
In response to a filing by our community member @Ben Klass, the CRTC is asking Big Telecom some tough questions about whether they give preferential treatment to their own data…
SFU, regional district expand Peace Valley water study re: oil and gas
Read this Aug. 20 story by Elaine Anselmi in the Alaska Highway News on SFU’s baseline studies Rural residents in the Peace River area are being asked to put their…
New Brunswick Conservative’s pull out of leaders debate – don’t want to talk about the David Alward record?
I'm in New Brunswick for a couple weeks, so might as well take a shot at the Tories while I'm here. With the writ formally dropping tomorrow, and signs going…
New Brunswick Conservative’s pull out of leaders debate – don’t want to talk about the David Alward record?
I’m in New Brunswick for a couple weeks, so might as well take a shot at the Tories while I’m here. With the writ formally dropping tomorrow, and signs going…
New Brunswick Conservative’s pull out of leaders debate – don’t want to talk about the David Alward record?
I'm in New Brunswick for a couple weeks, so might as well take a shot at the Tories while I'm here. With the writ formally dropping tomorrow, and signs going…
New Brunswick Conservative’s pull out of leaders debate – don’t want to talk about the David Alward record?
I’m in New Brunswick for a couple weeks, so might as well take a shot at the Tories while I’m here. With the writ formally dropping tomorrow, and signs going…
After Oregon Rejects Coal Export Plan, Long Beach Votes to Export Coal and PetKoch
Just a day after the Oregon Department of State Lands shot down a proposal to export 8.8 million tons per year of coal to Asia from the Port of Morrow…
Hillary Clinton—a very dangerous lady
During the Democratic nomination race for the 2008 U.S. presidential election, my preference was torn between a woman president or a black president. I was leaning toward the woman, Hillary…
All Aboard! Tar Sands Bitumen by Rail Set to Eclipse Pipelines Like Keystone XL
“Rail can get you just about anywhere. It’s like the Harry Potter stairway. You get on the stairs at one end and they move to wherever you need to go.…
In Which Pat Robertson Makes Even Less Sense Than Usual
I’m completely stumped by this one from my favorite crazed evangelical: Recommend this Post
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, August 21, 2014
Your news links for today: CSE commissioner’s annual report released – Lux Ex Umbra Spy agency mishandled information about Canadians: watchdog – CTV News Spy agency intercepted, kept 66 communications…
Cowardly Leadership: We All Pay A Price
As I have written in the past, poor leadership costs all of us dearly. Whether looking at local provincial, federal or international politics, the price we pay for leadership that…
Famine In the Americas
Red Cross food relief for central Mexico When we think of famine, we tend to think of Africa. Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan seem to come to mind. FEWS Net, the Famine…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Olga Khazan writes about the connection between lower incomes and obesity in the U.S. And Truthout discusses how poverty and other stressors…