Isn’t It Time You Gave the Geezers a Push Back?
I don’t like it, not one bit. If you read enough decent newspapers and journals over enough time you may catch an unwelcome awareness of changes underway across our world.…
December 2014
More on Japan
Japan, the world’s third largest economy, goes to the polls this sunday in an election focused on economic recovery. The governing LDP has a right-wing stimulus package known as “Abenomics”,…
CIA Tortured For Bad Info
Don't worry folks, no one will go to prison for the massive torture program we ran, but we'll still condemn other countries for injustice. — Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) December 9,…
The Hunt For Red November
It’s called the “law of the instrument” and is sometimes put this way – “to a man who has only a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” With that, let’s…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Your news links for today: Why Canada’s Communication Policy Misses the Forest for the Trees – Michael Geist Netflix Releases Canada ISP Speed Index for November – iPhone in Canada…
Imagine The Damage
http://firstdegreepr.com/ When Mike Harris became premier of Ontario, he appointed John Snoblen as his first Minister of Education. Ironically, Snoblen had dropped out of high school in grade 11 and
Video: Coalition challenges NEB to consider the climate impacts of the proposed Energy East Pipeline
Map of Proposed Energy East Pipeline route. Source: National Energy Board Energy East Pipelines, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Oil Pipelines (Canada), has applied to build the Energy…
SaskPower, How’s That 14 Year Test Going?
Dear SaskPower, I’m interested in seeing the statistics regarding the electricity generated by the test panels installed on the Saskatchewan Science Centre, in the attached picture, and as mentioned in…
Shell’s Top Climate Advisor Says Company “Values” Relationship with Climate-Denying ALEC at COP20
David Hone, Shell’s top climate advisor told an audience at the COP20 climate negotiations underway in Lima, Peru today that the company enjoys its relationship with the American Legislative Exchange…
Shell’s Top Climate Advisor Says Company “Values” Relationship with Climate-Denying ALEC at COP20
David Hone, Shell’s top climate advisor told an audience at the COP20 climate negotiations underway in Lima, Peru today that the company enjoys its relationship with the American Legislative Exchange…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Hair drug tests: A mother’s anguish over losing her girls May a lawyer call another lawyer unethical? Spate of…
Call For Crude-By-Rail Moratorium In California After Train Derailment
A train derailment last week has prompted a California state legislator to call for a moratorium on crude-by-rail shipments through the state’s “most treacherous” passes. Twelve cars derailed on a…
No Need to Deforest the Planet for More Food
One of the leading causes of deforestation right now is food production. As population levels grow we need more land to feed more people and this as resulted in the…
Too Busy to Post
The world swirls on, and there are many event that beg to be commented on, but I’ve been just too busy lately. Once the dust settles from this inense period…
Did you think Gordon Gibson was a Liberal?
Life is a journey and Gordon Gibson’s travels from the Prime Minister’s Office of 1968 to 1972 to being a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute in 2014 were unusual.…
C’Antada-U.S. price gap measures to be announced
Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-u-s-price-gap-measures-to-be-announced-1.2865235 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/information-commissioner-pleads-poverty-tory-mps-say-raise-fees-1.2861052
C’Antada-U.S. price gap measures to be announced
Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-u-s-price-gap-measures-to-be-announced-1.2865235 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/information-commissioner-pleads-poverty-tory-mps-say-raise-fees-1.2861052
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The OECD reports on the relationship between equality and growth, and concludes that rising inequality is as toxic for economic development as…
C’Antada-U.S. price gap measures to be announced
Satire inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-u-s-price-gap-measures-to-be-announced-1.2865235 http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/information-commissioner-pleads-poverty-tory-mps-say-raise-fees-1.2861052
My First CBSC Complaint, Part II
So, when you first approach the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council with concerns over one of the tv/radio stations they regulate, they forward those concerns to the station in question and…