James Hansen: How Climate Change Became Political
Climate science exploded into the political hemisphere on 23rd June 1988 and seemed to require huge government intervention in the markets. So how would the free market politicians react? In…
October 2014
Ten Questions about the Harper Government’s embrace of war with ISIS-ISIL-IS
Ready, Aye, Ready! Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird whips up the War Party in the House of Commons. Below: Stephen Harper, the prime minister, and Edmonton Centre MP Laurie Hawn.…
Playing with the big boys
I haven’t written anything about the Harper Cons enthusiastic support for Canada’s participation in Son Of Iraqi Freedom Part Deux because I haven’t really known where I stand on this.I…
Your Paul Fromm Mayoral Election Banner Choices
We apologize for not posting this update sooner. On September 28, we began a contest to see who could come up with the best banner for Paulie’s campaign for mayor.…
You can support the troops, but oppose sending them off to combat.
Putting aside the vote to authorize CF-18’s to fly combat missions to Iraq to try and stop ISIS (which has utterly failed to slow them or stop them so far…
Island Savings Credit Union Merger is Unsupportable-Bigger is Not Better!
Craig Meridith By Craig Meridith After reading Island Savings CEO Rod Dewar’s September 28 letter to editor, I am fearful of the Island Savings Credit Union merger with mainland based…
That Was Then, This Is Now
Brent Rathgeber, the independent MP who left the Conservative caucus last year, reflects upon the corrruption of Stephen Harper: Recommend this Post
Let’s Slow Down, For The Sake Of Ourselves And Our Planet
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The Amazon rainforest is magnificent. Watching programs about it, we’re amazed by brilliant parrots and toucans, tapirs, anacondas and jaguars. But if…
CHC Helicopters’ shitty public relations #nlpoli
“CHC Helicopters Canada is establishing a presence in St. John’s.” There is something about that comment from a spokesman for a company that, not so very long ago, had its…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lookout cats.
Conservatives urged to respect Federal Court’s ruling on refugee health care
A group of doctors dedicated to strengthening and improving Canada’s universal publicly-funded health care system is urging the Conservatives to drop their appeal against the Federal Court’s recent ruling on…
Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater
After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water and farm irrigation, the…
New Daisy Group web site!
Thanks to the prodding and design work of Bjorn, and the work of Lala and Babs, the new Daisy Group web site is up! Below, some screenshots from the new…
Canada’s Big Media wants to get even bigger – will Canadians pay the price?
One of Canada’s newspaper giants, Postmedia, has announced plans to purchase 175 English language newspapers and their associated online assets from telecom and media giant Quebecor. But late last night,…
NDP propose tough rules for importing Asian carp
On Oct. 1, New Democratic MP Brian Masse from Windsor, Ontario introduced a private member’s bill calling for tougher action and better coordination across Canadian governments in the fight against…
Watershed Moment: Damien Gillis on Fracking, LNG, Site C @ Capilano
Fracking operations in northeast BC use enormous volumes of water (Photo: Damien Gillis) Filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis takes us on a multi-media journey to northeast BC…
Wadena Derailment Crisis: Early Lesson
http://t.co/rSh4hfhlbN Let’s move to the post-carbon energy infrastructure NOW! Publicly-owned wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro is our future. No tarsands. No pipelines. No tankers. No coal. No LNG. No fracking.…
“No Overall Vision:” Scathing New Audit from Environment Commissioner Exposes Canada’s Utter Climate Failure
Canada will almost certainly not meet its international greenhouse gas emission reduction target by 2020 and doesn’t even have a plan showing how the nation might achieve its climate change…
The Trouble with Old Men: Coal
Most know that coal contributes to climate change and coal dust is an environmental problem. But old men skew far higher in supporting a coal terminal anyway. Are old men…
Pity the Americans—running an empire ain’t easy
Running an empire is tough. There are always tribesmen out on the fringes who fail to appreciate that you are bringing them civilization. In their lack of gratitude, they act…