Gun Pigs Fly Again
A squadron of venerable A-10 Wart Hogs is heading to the Middle East to help the fight against Islamic State forces. The aircraft are from the 122nd Fighter Wing of…
September 2014
Desmond Tutu raises climate compensation ahead of UN Climate Summit
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Last week Nobel Peace Prize winner, and one of the spiritual leaders of our time, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on governments to make fossil fuel companies…
Unaffordable to Buy, Unaffordable to Fly
The overdue, overpriced and under performing F-35, light strike bomber, has hit another major snag. The US government accounting office has released a report showing the F-35 will be upwards…
CBC: Fightin’ words at CRTC Future of Digital Services hearings
Netflix and CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais got in a heated exchange over the future of digital services in Canada at a recent hearing. What do you think of the idea…
Catching CSEC off guard
Woah – looks like you folks really like videos about how CSEC is charging taxpayers billions of dollars to invade our privacy. I mean, we probably shouldn’t have been that…
California Farmers File Suit Alleging Oil Companies’ Faulty Wastewater Injection Caused Crop Loss
A farming company in Kern County, California, has sued four oil producers over claims that their faulty wastewater injection methods led to the contamination of groundwater it uses for irrigation.…
Do People Really Watch This Crap?
Five minutes was my limit for this video. And apparently Justin Trudeau has reached him limit with Sun News. His decision to boycott the network, I’m sure, will send the…
On Wente’s "It Girl" Article
It’s curious that Margaret Wente is so clear about the errors Klein commits in her new book, when it appears from Wente’s article today, “The It Girl of climate change…
#NBVotes 2014 – Rise of the Tabulators (and Brian Gallant)
So that was fun, wasn’t it? I don’t know how many people stayed up last night to watch the New Brunswick election results come in, then wait around two hours…
Justin Trudeau vs. Sun News
This story is a bit misleading: Trudeau didn’t talk to Sun News Network already. Some months ago, as you may recall, I was asked to ask him if he wanted…
Tory Hot Air Worsens Climate Change
Watch this video and you’ll know what I mean: Recommend this Post
Big Telecom releases its army of lobbyists
Important news from Washington, D.C.: OpenMedia has learned that Big Telecom lobbyists are “sweeping the halls of Congress”, intimidating elected representatives into supporting their Internet Slow Lane plan. As our…
Sept. 23: Well, what can you expect…
….. in a province in which two-thirds of the voters are functionally illiterate, and both the newspapers and the two, traditional political parties are owned by the same people? That…
A Small Clip Reveals A Big Truth
The National Post’s Jonathon Kay on the people he works with: Recommend this Post
Critics Call Harper Government’s New Climate PR Campaign ‘Orwellian’
Facing criticism in the lead up to today’s UN Climate Summit, which prime minister Stephen Harper is not attending, the Harper Government released a new public outreach campaign through Environment…
Naomi Klein-This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
The tide is turning as citizens stand up and speak out on a global scale. 360 thousand hit the streets in New York City and thousands more protested in cities…
Large hydro dams aren’t “green” – they actually drive climate change
BC’s WAC Bennett Dam (Photo: Damien Gillis) Read this August 14 EcoWatch column by Gary Wockner, which explodes the myth of “green” hydro dams – food for thought as Canada…
Sunrise
Photo by Lilian (click to enlarge) And then this: a gift freely given every day. Clouds floating on a sky like water. Fire above, mysteries of home below. Filed under:…
To end homelessness in Canada, systemic change is needed
Molly McCracken, the Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Manitoba Office, argues that the current federal response to homelessness in Canada “is disproportionate to the scope of the…
Reflections on the BC Teacher Strike
Teachers are reflective practitioners. And just as we reflect on a lesson to judge what worked and what did not, we ought also to reflect on our struggle to improve…