Subsidy Spotlight: Paying the Price of Tar Sands Expansion
This is a guest post by Anna Simonton, on assignment with Oil Change International. Carolyn Marsh was in her living room watching television on a Wednesday night in August when…
October 2014
In Friday’s Sun: disasters are in the eye of the beholder
Rudy Giuliani’s second term was not going well. It was a disaster, in fact. He’d been diagnosed with cancer. His signature tough-on-crime policy was rounding up more hot dog vendors…
We All have To Stand Against This Blatant Reign Of Intimidation And Tyranny
Although I have written many posts on this topic, each new incident once again evokes in me a visceral reponse bordering upon hatred for this government. The Harper regime is…
Blog Action Day 2014: Examine Inequality
This year for Blog Action Day they are tackling inequality, which is great to see! Inequality manifests in various ways that aren’t alway obvious. By having so many global participants…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Looking towards childcare in Canada, with lessons from Sweden
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/podcast-141016-childcare.mp3 This week, the federal NDP reignited a national debate over childcare by proposing a universal $15 per day childcare program. This is the focus of today’s episode, which features…
Court Files: Coal CEO Robert Murray Unearths Lease from Aubrey McClendon’s New Fracking Company
DeSmogBlog has obtained a copy of a sample hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) lease distributed to Ohio landowners by embattled former CEO and founder of Chesapeake Energy, Aubrey McClendon, now CEO of…
Bolivia’s Transformation
Photo by Yves Picq It is a sometimes overly rich recipe, starched with violence and populism, but Latin American politics is something to behold. In the Americas, experiments have been…
The old tuxedo
Our 17 or 18 year old tuxedo sleeps a lot. It’s hard to get a pose where he doesn’t look dead. Filed under: digital, drawing, iPad Tagged: Cat
New report from CRTC confirms Canadian telecom sector remains dominated by large conglomerates, keeping prices high and blocking Canadians from new affordable options
UnblockCanada_fbshare.jpg Despite promises from government to encourage greater choice and affordability, new report confirms Canadians are still being price-gouged by telecom giants October 16, 2014 – On the heels of…
Video: The war in Eastern Ukraine and the New Cold War
In April 2014, the government that had come into power two months earlier in Ukraine launched what it termed an “anti-terrorist operation” against the people of Eastern Ukraine. The easterners…
Toronto and more
I’ve updated the graphic with new polls, as well as increased the vote total expected for the 4th though 67th candidates. I expect just under half of this to go…
Canadian-American feminist cancels talk after “Montreal Massacre style” threat
Anita Sarkeesian, a prominent Canadian-American feminist cultural critic, was forced to cancel an appearance at Utah State University after receiving threats of a Montreal Massacre-style attack. The post Canadian-American feminist…
Leaked draft confirms TPP will censor Internet and stifle Free Expression worldwide
NewLeakedDraft_TPP.png October 16, 2014 – This morning Wikileaks published a second leaked draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The draft confirms people’s worst fears about…
Mein Gott, This Actually Got On FOX News?
You gotta give it to Shep Smith.
Cutting video in short pants is easy: When asked he would
Filed under: Making fun of Harper, Videos
The Big Question Now is When?
Several years ago a non-governmental organization, the Global Footprint Network, came to my attention. GFN’s purpose was to monitor the state of the biomass around the world on a global,…
Dara Quast is Running to be Cobble Hill’s New CVRD Director
Dara Quast has lived in Cobble Hill for 25 years. She built her home and raised her family here. Like the local family farms and agricultural areas she has long…
Cold Mountain Poems
I first became aware of the Tang dynasty poet, Han Shan, in the late 1960s, when I was engrossed in reading the poets of the earlier Beat generation. It was…
The Folly of Harper’s Economic Emphasis
While no reasonable person would suggest that Canada should immediately turn its back on it resources, the folly of self-described economist Stephen Harper is the undue weighting his regime has…