Rafe Mair–Shell Game: Public being fooled by great BC LNG illusion
By Rafe Mair We are allowing ourselves to be mesmerized over Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). Perhaps we’re doing this to ourselves but the sad fact is that the government’s total…
2014
BC LNG takes another hit as UK gas giant BG Group gets cold feet
An open house for BG Group’s proposed Prince Rupert LNG project (princerupertgas.com) Read this Oct. 29 Globe and Mail story on BG Group’s decision to reconsider its investment in BC’s…
Oct. 30: You made me what I am today—
—I hope you’re satisfied.You dragged and dragged me down untilThe soul within me died.You shattered every hope and dream.You fooled me from the start.And though you’re not throughMay God bless…
National Post: New security powers warrant greater oversight says privacy commissioner
Canada’s privacy commissioner has urged the Conservative government to beef up oversight and review of security agencies – like CSIS and CSEC – if new powers are given to police.…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Focus on China
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/podcast-141102-china.mp3 The focus of today’s podcast is China: its development over the past several years, the situation of workers and unions as well as future directions. To get some perspective…
November Is the Cruelest month…
Unable to find affordable housing, 82-year-old living in Victoria shelter SARAH PETRESCU / TIMES COLONIST OCTOBER 29, 2014 09:58 PM All I want is a room somewhere Far away from…
Disasters Linked to Climate Change Could Cost Insurance Companies Billions
By Kieran Cooke, From the Climate News Network. Insurance is all about assessing risk, so you might expect companies in the sector to be intimately involved with one of the…
Words, Your Brain and Sex
One of the reasons I’m a dedicated librocubularist* can be found in a story on IFL Science that is headlined, “Learning New Words Activates The Same Brain Regions As Sex…
On The Passing Of Jonathon Kay: An Appreciation In Verse
Remember Jonathon Kay?Whose writing sucked back in the day. He has moved, foolishly, to mags literary.Will his writing improve there? No way.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 30, 2014
Your news links for today: Mulcair says Ottawa shooter a criminal, not a terrorist – Globe and Mail Peter MacKay suggests anti-terror laws don’t need overhaul – CBC News Canada…
Critical Thought: Net Neutrality will save the Internet
Big Telecom wants to build an Internet slow lane to squeeze more money out of Internet users. That’s bad enough. But there’s a much more troubling consequence of restricting Internet…
Is Ontario Doug Ford’s next campaign?
Former Toronto mayoralty candidate Doug Ford says he might want to go on to fame as leader of the Ontario Conservatives. This is serious folks. Doug Ford is the guy…
Jaime
I don’t know what is going on – Twitter is never a good place to look for context or truth – but I’ll say this: Jaime Watt is one of…
Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort Threatens Grizzlies in Southern B.C., Into U.S.: Scientists
Grizzly bears in the Central Purcell Mountains are more vulnerable than shown in 15-year-old research being used by proponents of Jumbo Glacier Resort and, if the resort is built, it…
Jumbo Glacier Ski Resort Threatens Grizzlies in Southern B.C., Into U.S.: Scientists
Grizzly bears in the Central Purcell Mountains are more vulnerable than shown in 15-year-old research being used by proponents of Jumbo Glacier Resort and, if the resort is built, it…
New column day
Here, asking what we can do to make sure that individuals who seek help for their mental health and addictions issues through the criminal justice system find more support than…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Oxfam studies the spread of extreme inequality around the globe, as well as the policies needed to combat it: Oxfam’s decades of…
Climate Change Fatigue or Eco-Depression?
I got an e-mail recently from a woman who said she was weaning herself off from environmental activism. She was burned out. The fight had just taken too heavy a…
A Dystopian Present And Future
Those of us who consider ourselves progressive bloggers are well-aware of the dystopian nature of the world we live in. It is a world where black is often white, white…
Desperate governments the best customers of multi-national corporations – conference
Canada has the dubious distinction of being a global leader when it comes to outsourcing and privatization of public services and infrastructure. The rush to outsource comes with very little…