Nightmare in Amerika, and the Lesson for Canada
At first sight it couldn't be a more depressing sight, or more of a nightmare.Team Mitch McConnell and his ghastly Republican tea baggers, seizing control of Congress, and promising to…
November 2014
Spending Comparisons #nlpoli
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released its annual summary of health care spending health care last week. This is a pretty basic collection of numbers that show how…
Careless or captured?
When you read or listen to resource industry advocates, especially ones masquerading as objective political pundits, compare their concerns in 2009 about burning natural gas to generate peak-demand electricity to…
Dean Del Mastro’s Hasty Departure From Parliament
Well it looks as if we won't have Dean Del Mastro to kick around anymore. For after beating his chest for a few days, like a wounded gorilla, the Deaner…
Said to be sought as candidate by Wildrose Party, ‘tax watchdog’ spokesperson’s intentions are for the moment unclear
CTF Alberta spokesperson Derek Fildebrandt last summer at the Legislature in Edmonton. Below: Premier Jim Prentice and political blogger Dave Cournoyer. Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith is “working hard” to recruit…
A Seasoned Banker has 9 Questions for Island Savings President Rod Dewar
David Indgehas 9 questions With regards to the proposed merger between ISCU and FW and having read comments on the subject by Mr. Dewar, one of the points he continues…
Rafe: Shell promises “green” LNG…we can trust them, right?
Christy Clark and Marvin Odum, President Shell Oil Company at recent BC LNG conference (BC govt flickr) I’m sure, like me, you were excited to read in the Vancouver Sun…
Some Thoughts on the Vancouver Election … Plus Endorsements!
With a week and a half to go before voting day in municipalities across British Columbia, the campaign here in Vancouver seems to have devolved into a veritable hatefest against…
Breaking: Denton, Texas Hit with Lawsuits After Landslide Victory on Fracking Ban
Less than 24 hours after Denton became the first Texas city to ban fracking within city limits, the city is being sued. The Texas General Land Office and the Texas…
Former Hydro head pulls out of NEB’s “farcical” Kinder Morgan hearings
Read this Nov. 3 story from CBC.ca on former BC Hydro boss Mark Eliesen’s decision to drop out of the Kinder Morgan The former head of BC Hydro, Marc Eliesen,…
Is the FCC about to betray 5+ million people?
We’ve just learned that U.S. FCC Chair Tom Wheeler is considering a plan that could fall far short of what 5+ million of you have spoken out for: strong, enforceable…
Coastal Tar Sands – Journey To Deleted Islands
What happens when a major corporation wants to build an oil pipeline over land to the west coast where it will be loaded on to supertankers that have to navigate…
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse gas emissions drop by at least 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. The…
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse gas emissions drop by at least 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. The…
The EU’s New Climate Commitments Make Canada and the U.S. Look Ridiculous
The European Union has reached a new legally-binding climate change agreement that would see greenhouse gas emissions drop by at least 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030. The…
In Canada, gender inequality has persisted or worsened: study
A new study says gender inequality in Canada has persisted or worsened in critical areas such as violence against women, women’s economic security, and the human rights of Aboriginal women…
Voters Ban Fracking In Texas, California, And Ohio
Yesterday’s elections sent several more climate deniers to a dirty energy money-rich Congress, where they’re already sharpening their knives and preparing to cut the centerpiece of President Obama’s climate agenda,…
Lest we forget
Sixteen million people died as a result of Word War One. Of these, as many as 64,990 were Canadian. One of them, a Manitoban named Sidney Halliday, was recently identified…
Area ‘E’ Candidates Participated in a Novel Format of Debate and Discussion
Don Maroc With about a hundred residents in attendance at the first of three all candidates meetings for CVRD Area E (Sathlam, Glenora, Cowichan Station), the organizers at the HUB…