New Brunswick frozen in time
We will have more to say later, as will everyone, as counting has been frozen in the province. I decided to take the frozen results and map them, as well…
September 2014
A tweet about New Brunswick’s election
…offered here with tremendous respect and affection.
In Tuesday’s Sun: warm, with a chance of scattered extinction
Media expert on climate change, I am not. You want columnist climate connoisseur? Go read Lorrie Goldstein or Ezra Levant. “Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels is having a warming effect…
Trouble getting SRBP? #nlpoli
Some people have been reporting problems getting SRBP through their Internet service provider or IT support team. It isn’t clear what’s going on, but one of the problems seems to…
exploring the possibility of taking the bus
It is World Car Free Day, and city transit was free today – for those who have vouchers they downloaded and printed or picked up at the one of the…
Someone save me from another NHL season.
So here I am, basking in the late September sunshine, relishing a 27C day. That can only mean one thing — it’s hockey season! Oh God, no! Didn’t it just…
The Artists Behind the People’s Climate March
48 hours before the People’s Climate March, DeSmogBlog ventured out to Brooklyn to see the preparation for what would become the largest climate march in history. (Check out some photos…
Report: Renewables Break into Mainstream Energy Market
Renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies are now a successful mainstream business with investors spending $207 USD billion in the sector last year, according to a report released Monday by…
Taking a Call for Climate Change to the Streets of New York City
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Read Lisa W. Foderaro’s comprehensive New York Times report that saw 100,000 demonstrators that hit the streets of New York city calling for action on ‘Climate Change.’…
Senate Republicans Go All In On Keystone XL
Six years have passed since TransCanada originally sought a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and Republicans in Washington have not given up fighting for the project. In spite of…
The Forgotten Gulag
In the introduction to Anne Applebaum’s Pulitzer-prize-winning book, Gulag: A History, she ponders why the “crimes of Stalin do not inspire the same visceral reaction to the crimes of Hitler.”…
Tainted reminds us why we should never forget Canada’s greatest public health disaster
It’s been more than two years since we said goodbye to the staff and donors of Canadian Blood Services’ Thunder Bay plasma collection centre. October 30 we will be returning…
Race and transit
Interesting. Hopefully nobody says any of this, you know, out loud anywhere in Toronto. “In short, the community got the burdens, but not the benefits, of all that investment. This…
What’s the rush, Saskatoon?
I guess the idea is because the city administration has failed to negotiate a contract, then City Council should just implement the pension changes by fiat.Yeah, that’ll calm things down.Saskatoon’s…
NB election: on the one hand, and on the other
On the one hand, it’s Forum. You know, as in, Forum. On the other hand, there was this. Many of you said I was worrying too much. Sure hope you’re…