Teachers – let your leadership know it is time to hold the line
As teachers return to picket lines in BC there is considerable discussion as to strategy and tactics for the coming weeks. I argued in my last blog post that now…
September 2014
New Brunswick, new poll
A New poll by CRA puts the Liberals far ahead. I’ve decided to break it down and take out the undecided voters. Why? There are only 14% undecided, and with…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cuddled cats.
Financial Post: Netflix is rewriting the rules for Canadian cable giants
As Netflix struggles with telecom giants in the U.S., see how they’re revolutionizing the cable industry in Canada. Article by John Greenwood for the Financial Post Time was, Canada’s broadcast…
Canada’s Premiers Agree to Address Climate in Proposed National Energy Strategy
Canada’s premiers have agreed to expand the nation’s developing energy strategy to address climate change and green energy while acknowledging the Alberta oilsands are still an important part of Canada’s…
Canada’s Premiers Agree to Address Climate in Proposed National Energy Strategy
Canada’s premiers have agreed to expand the nation’s developing energy strategy to address climate change and green energy while acknowledging the Alberta oilsands are still an important part of Canada’s…
Seven Reasons to Walk Away From Keystone XL
This is a guest post by Mike Casey, originally published at Scaling Green. There is less than a month before the justices of the Nebraska Supreme court hear arguments in…
Stuart Mackinnon for Parks Board Fundraiser Dinner & Campaign Launch
Enjoy a fantastic meal and help me launch my campaign for Park Board! Dine at Graze Restaurant on September 9th, and Graze will donate 20% of all dinner sales to…
Daily Dot: The spinning wheel of death that threatens the entire Internet
Have you been worried about what the Internet slow lane will do to your favourite websites? A new action from a global coalition of Internet activists will show you just…
Connected Courses
This is a place-holder post to set up syndication for the Connected Courses course.
Harper Nobel Peace Prize nomination “a disgrace and insult”
A fast-growing online petition on Change.org is calling on the Norwegian Nobel Committee to reject Prime Minister’s Stephen Harper’s pending nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize for his unequivocal support…
Who Will Be Mark Steyn’s Witnesses?
Just noticed another piece on Steyn’s website re the defamation case climatologist Mike Mann has brought against him. Its largely the same old same old, but then there is this…
Kick Russia out of the Helsinki Accords
Is the Helsinki Accord of 1975 a worthless scrap of paper? Because Vladimir Putin sure seems to think it’s a joke. I was not even three years old when the…
Berated for not being able to predict Mark Driscoll’s and Todd Bentley’s futures
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission Blogger Jeffrey Yoder is even harder than I can be in the case of Todd Bentley, if that were possible. But…
NATO – You’re Not the Master of the Universe. Now, Stand Down.
NATO’s outgoing CEO, er Secretary-General, Anders ‘Foggy’ Rasmussen, should really send caviar and roses to Vladimir Putin. NATO hasn’t done all that well on Foggy’s watch – the cock-up in…
September 3: missing the point – and point….
Front page – read all about it…getcher papers now…. The jolting headline for September was “Students headed back to school tomorrow”. Wow! who would have guessed? Then there’s a big…
Stock Up on AK-47s. They’re a Hot Commodity.
They’re flying off the shelves of gunstores across the United States. Russian AK-47 assault rifles have become a hot commodity literally overnight since they were added to Obama’s import restrictions…