John Oakley Hosts Harper Clone
Many thanks to The Salamander, who, in his response to a post from last evening, sent along this link to the John Oakley Show. On the show, the Reverend Charles…
August 2014
Bloodbuzz, Ohio, CBC Radio, Indie 88 and me
In the mornings, I listen to CBC Radio. Always have. But when they start playing “music,” I turn them off. Calling the “music” on CBC Radio is inaccurate. It is…
Save the Oceans!
What’s a marine biologist doing talking about world hunger? Well, says Jackie Savitz, fixing the world’s oceans might just help to feed the planet’s billion hungriest people. In an eye-opening…
It’s Getting Worse, Fast, and We’re Not Getting Ready
“It” refers to severe storm events of the type that flooded Toronto and Calgary in 2013 and that deluged Burlington just days ago. Environment Canada’s senior climatologist David Phillips warns…
Cost Driver #nlpoli
Companies large and small in the province are under considerable stress as a result of Nalcor’s Muskrat Falls project. The cause? This CBC story from Labrador mentions “steep wages” as…
Stephen Harper and the Failed Smearing of Justin Trudeau
It has been said of Stephen Harper that you can put him in the prettiest places on earth, you can surround him with cute children and/or kittens.You can use a…
Hurricane Redford shook Alberta to its foundations – the place may never be the same!
Her era drawing to a close, Alison Redford is sent out of a Progressive Conservative Caucus meeting on March 13 while Tory MLAs argue over her fate. Below: Premier Dave…
Activists Refuse to Leave Enbridge’s Line 9 Construction Site
On Tuesday, peaceful “Dam Line 9” activists occupying an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline construction site in southwestern Ontario defied a police deadline to leave. The post Activists Refuse to Leave…
Life Saving Is Their Daily Work
I got to tour EMS Headquarters in Regina while meeting most of the EMTs and Paramedics involved in rescuing me from my cardiac arrest incident on July 1st. (Jordan, was…
Duke Point Cited As LNG Shipping Point For Island Fracked Gas
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Several months back Cowichan Conversations contributor Don Maroc posted this story about potential LNG fracking on the island. Stories in Nanaimo media point to an ambitious future…
NRDC Action Fund Working To Hold Climate Change Deniers Accountable
Before members of Congress departed Washington, D.C. for their month-long August recess, senators attempted one final vote on a resolution that did nothing more than state that the Senate accepts…
Clearly, There Is No Depth The Harper Regime Won’t Plumb
I believe this is ample testament to my heading. Happily, many readers have seen through a cheap, demagogic ruse that once more demonstrates the unfitness of the harper regime to…
Implied term of contract
First Elgin Mills Developments Inc. v. Romandale Farms Limited, 2014 ONCA 573: Fifth, the application judge effectively implied a term where the normal conditions for doing so are not met.…
Toronto Star: John Tory’s legacy
His greatest mistakes, the paper says: Attacking Jean Chretien’s facial disfigurement. Trying to introduce negative-option billing. Pushing for funding of private religious schools. That’s his legacy, says the Star. I…
Wind Turbines And Groundwater Contamination In Ontario
Last week this warning appeared on Reddit Ontario, and later got picked up at Ontario Wind Resistance: You notice that it names one G.W. Tomlinson, who’s Senior Environmental Officer in…
Washington Post: Obama comes out against Internet Slow Lanes
Our efforts to prevent the Internet slow lane are having a powerful effect, as support to save net neutrality is emerging from the highest levels of power in the U.S.…
State of Emergency Called for Cariboo Regional District After Mount Polley Mine Tailings Pond Breach
Officials with the Cariboo Regional District declared a local state of emergency Wednesday after millions of cubic metres of contaminated tailings water from the Mount Polley mine flooded Hazeltine Creek…
Morton seeks answers from Grieg over farmed salmon die-off
A “mort-sucker” removes dead farmed salmon from a Grieg pen in Nootka Sound (Alexandra Morton) The following is an open letter from independent salmon biologist Alexandra Morton to the Norwegian…