Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Barrie McKenna comments on how far too many governments have bought into the P3 myth with our public money: Governments in Canada have…
December 2014
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, December 15, 2014
Your news links for today: It’s been a bad year for internet freedom – Gigaom 2014: The year in privacy failures – Canada.com State surveillance is enabled by our own…
Bishop Henry, Bill 10 … Lies, Lies and More Lies
If there is one thing that I find infuriating, it is when grown men like Bishop Henry lie. In today’s Calgary Herald, there is a copy of a pastoral letter…
Loopholes threaten Ontario Greenbelt
The Greenbelt Alliance wants better protection for the ecologically sensitive area, which remains at risk from sprawl, mega-highways and contaminated soil. Map of Greenbelt and other protected lands in Southern…
Immigration and Terrorism Will Increase With Climate Change, Says Military Leader
Climate change will lead to terrorism and increased immigration into the UK as millions are displaced by rising seas, a senior military figure warned as the Lima climate talks entered…
On unjust cause
Shorter Peter Kent, Stephen Harper Talking Point Dispenser Level Infinity: The Dear Leader fired me for making some effort to do a job with the work “environment” in the title,…
Izzy Iz Awesome
Psst! Hey you! Come here, I want to tell you a secret. Promise you won’t tell anybody, though. Okay, so, you’d never guess this, but OpenMedia’s team consists largely of…
Causing premature election.
We always knew that having fixed elections in Canada would cause the same problems as in the United States. You end up in an almost permanent condition of premature election.…
Calls to Ban Bomb Trains Ramp Up While Communities Await New Regulations
Earthjustice has challenged the Department of Transportation’s denial of a petition by Sierra Club and Forest Ethics to ban the transportation of Bakken crude oil in DOT-111 tank cars. “Most…
Painting Neighbourhoods
Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn create community art by painting entire neighborhoods, and involving those who live there — from the favelas of Rio to the streets of North…
Stephen Harper’s Word
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca Newfoundland Premier Paul Davis was not happy after his meeting last week with Stephen Harper. “It really solidifies that you can’t trust the federal government, you can’t trust Stephen…
The End Of The Harper Bounce?
Rest of the poll is here. The coalition talk is so much chin music; most important thing is that the red line has stopped falling and the blue line has…
Lima Accord For Climate Action Approved
Citizens’ Climate Lobby report from COP20: Lima Accord for Climate Action Approved By Joe Robertson At 1:22 am, on December 14, 2014, the Closing Plenary session of the 20th Conference…
Stephen Harper’s Hugely Embarrassing Jewish Problem
The fuse has been burning ever since Benjamin Netanyahu set out to make Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people.A controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the nation-state of…
Sorry poor people, we have other priorities
Source: British Columbia Public Accounts Source: British Columbia Public Accounts Clearly, government revenues from natural resources have declined substantially in recent years. This is in spite of rising metals and…
Province increased CETA demands after crucial agreement #nlpoli
Almost a year after reaching an understanding with the federal government on a joint federal-provincial fisheries fund related to the European trade talks, the provincial government tried to alter the…
More Japan results
I’ve created a results map, using more “Canadian” party colours. This is adapted from the Wikipedia map on the Japan election page. The LDP is shown in Conservative Blue, while…
Is It Time YOU Write With Politics, Re-Spun?
Hello! It’s time. Time to consider writing with us. We’re expanding our crew and you may be the kind of person we’re looking for. How would you know? Here are…
What Would You Tell Stephen Harper If He Tried to Shake Your Hand?
It's a horrible thought, and it could only happen in a nightmare.But what if you were wandering through a deathly dreamscape, and suddenly there was Stephen Harper, offering to shake…
Oh, you shouldn’t have!
Just a little bloggy roundup of some really bad gift ideas from here and there on the web.First, a jolly old elf, from Mock Paper Scissors: From Dr. Grumpy, a…