Pro-Keystone Vote Fails in US Senate
More good news on the climate front, after last week’s announcement of a US-China climate agreement. A few years ago, pro-Keystone XL pipeline legislation was depicted as a “no-brainer” by…
November 2014
About that rumour: three questions
1. Have some folks suggested I offer myself up as a Liberal candidate in the next federal dust-up? Yep. 2. Am I a candidate for anything yet? Nope. 3. Should…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 19, 2014: California: If We Empty The Prisons, We Lose Our Cheap Labor New rule of…
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa might not have been born a banker. He probably decided on that profession when the other kids picked on him in the school yard. He…
NDP to refuse support for Rouge National Urban Park bill
Everyone wants the 10,500 acres in the Rouge Valley to be made into a national urban park, yet few but the Harper Tories think their plan for the green space…
Electric Vehicles Gaining Traction in Canada
WWF-Canada wants to get car drivers off their addiction to oil by getting consumers to buy electric cars instead of gas-powered ones. To encourage this switch in car-depender living they…
Despite the end result, a good night in Whitby-Oshawa
I’ve sufficiently recovered from lack of sleep Monday night to comment on the byelections Monday evening and specifically the Oshawa-Whitby byelection, where LPC candidate Celina Caesar-Chanvannes came up just a…
Constitutional Challenge By Anti-Wind NIMBYS Is A Desperate Hail Mary
All they can point to in regards to negative health effects is “annoyance”: some folks find the presence of wind farms annoying. And being annoyed all the time is, generally…
Ontario set to beat deficit target – despite media reports
There was much gloom in the corporate media’s reports on the Ontario government’s Budget follow-up, the Fall Economic Statement. The Globe and Mail headlined their front page report on the…
Coming Home To Roost
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca The Canadian Press reported yesterday that former Conservative MP Bill Casey wants to run for the Liberals in his old riding: Former Conservative and Independent MP Bill Casey says…
Revera’s shallow hypocrisy on PSW compensation
Home and residential care giant Revera say they are proud to support Ontario’s wage stabilization initiative for personal support workers (PSWs). Now that their home care workers have received the…
LIFE GETS EASIER WITH CONNECTION TO A CIRCLE OF CARE
This week, I was honoured to contribute an article to The Home Care Technology Report, a publication of Rowan Consulting Associates. Tim Rowan is a consultant and information broker on…
God Save Justin Trudeau: the fight
I haven’t seen the film, but Ashley Csanady (I love her name, it’s like a Pynchon character’s name) and she has a hilarious review of it, here. Personally, I think…
Oklahoma Ignores Link Between Record Number of Earthquakes and Fracking Wastewater Disposal Wells
As Oklahoma continues to experience more earthquakes than California this year, residents are questioning why regulators haven’t taken any meaningful action to guard against increased seismic activity. The U.S. Geological…
Why The Harper Cons Must Pull These Porky Ads
As you know, I had a little fun yesterday with this latest Porky Action Plan ad, produced and directed by the Con Ministry of Propaganda and Disinformation.Because it's so misleading,…
Stephen Harper and the By-election Message Progressives Cannot Ignore
You'd think Stephen Harper would have been cheered by his two by-election victories in Ontario and Alberta.But he wasn't. In the Commons yesterday he was tense and irritable.And with good…
When the budget comes… #nlpoli
We’ve got a provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador that has been budgeting for years to spend more than it brought in. Way back in the beginning, way before the…
Canada: The Eternal Rebuilding Project
Personal relationships enrich us, work makes us feel useful, and goals give us purpose via Lecture 1 – Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC…
Hockey millionaires and pharmacare tell you everything you need to know about who the Canadian Taxpayers Federation really works for
The Montreal Canadiens in 1912-13. Now the highest-taxed hockey players on the continent, they’re still the best and likely to stay that way. Below: Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions President…
Dining Out in Dinkytown
Available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration If you are in Minneapolis, after a hard day’s night, the place to go for a morning pick-me-up is…