The Big LNG Tax Regime Vomit Bucket
Cue sweet new day political campaign music, invoking images of a unicorn flying over our quaint village, then Robert Redford in voiceover: “LNG will be a $ trillion sector, reaping…
October 2014
Clean-Tech Is Good For The Economy And Environment
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. What’s the fastest-growing sector in Canada’s economy? Given what you hear from politicians and the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s…
Restraint, BC Government style
Nearly half a million children are missing school days this year because government believes that spending restraint is imperative. Restraint in collecting taxes, at least from ordinary citizens, is not…
Alberta Diary is closed, but, like Gen. MacArthur, we (I) shall return…
Yeah, we’re closed, but we don’t plan to be closed for long. Below: Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Below him: Alberta Diary’s crack research staff scouring the Internets, looking for blog ideas…
No surprise: Liberals slash public revenues from BC LNG
Premier Christy Clark’s election promise of big public revenues from BC LNG are evaporating (Canadian Press) Read this Oct. 21 story from Justine Hunter at the Globe and Mail on…
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Post by Eugene Plawiuk.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Post by Eugene Plawiuk.
Liberal estimates and guesstimates
BC’s Minister of Energy and Mines says the $7.9 billion budget for Site C is “reliable” and the estimate of “direct construction costs” of $3.8 billion has “an 18% contingency.”…
Bad News Out of Quebec for the Green Party of Canada
Uh-oh. There’s bad news for the Green Party of Canada coming out of Quebec today. It looks like Jean-Francois Larose, MP for the Quebec riding of Repetigny, has quit the…
Help shape Canada’s Privacy Plan
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Twelve national medical associations join call for Conservative government to drop reckless appeal of refugee health ruling
More national medical associations join Canadians’ call on the Conservative government to respect the Federal Court’s refugee health care ruling, urge it to drop its “reckless appeal.” The post Twelve…
No change! No change! Jim Prentice’s ‘new management’ is offering the same old Tory stuff
New management … same old owner. It’s all about marketing. Below: Jim Prentice and Fred Horne, advocating the same health care policies. Sustained, uninterrupted privatization of health care, a senior…
Express yourself, don’t repress yourself
This article is a part of a series on the Our Digital Future report, our crowdsourced roadmap for Free Expression that proposes fair and balanced copyright reform for the 21st…
Say What? How Bad Is It?
To quote Sverker Göransson, Sweden’s top military commander, “it’s fucked up.” Referring to Sweden’s so far fruitless search for a suspected Russian sub lurking somewhere around the islands off its…
Josh Penry and Kristin Strohm: First Couple of Colorado Fracking Front Groups
This is a guest post by Jesse Coleman, originally published at Huffington Post. A Greenpeace investigation has uncovered close ties between a Colorado political couple and at least six oil…
SFH at the Garrison Wednesday night!
For Shift! For Chris Turner! For Evan Solomon! For civil liberties!
Another Group Shames Harper
It is to be hoped that the closer we move to next year’s election, more and more Canadians will be wagging their fingers at Stephen Harper for his various acts…
7 THINGS TO WATCH IN ALBERTA BY-ELECTIONS
By-elections are being held in four ridings across Alberta on October 27th. This mini-election, of sorts, is needed to elect Premier Jim Prentice and two of his cabinet ministers to…