Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, August 29, 2014
Your news links for today: Paper billing fees add up to over $500M a year, study finds – CBC News New PIAC report, “How to Pay the Piper: A Primer…
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Clean Coal Does Not Exist
…or at least is a deceptive term, according to the UK Advertising Standards Authority: The ASA understood that the phrase “clean coal” was the term given to a branch of…
Wine, spirits to move more easily between B.C., SaskatchewAnt
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wine-spirits-to-move-more-easily-between-b-c-saskatchewan-1.2750311
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ralph Surette suggests that Nova Scotia’s tax and regulatory review pay close attention to the fact that it can do more than simply…
Floods Come and Go But Drought Likes to Climb Onto Your Back and Stay There
We hear lots about California and it’s three-year-running drought that has left the State in severe water stress. Wells are running dry, emergency bottled water has to be brought in…
Performance Art – High Voltage
Photographer Patrick Hall reveals human emotion at 300,000 volts
World’s Largest Private Bank, UBS, Says Fossil Energy is Toast
The Swiss banking giant, UBS, says renewable energy is the hands down winner and conventional power generation is finished. In a briefing paper sent to clients and investors this week,…
Interviews galore coming
Hello folks: Sorry for the delay on new blogposts, but I didn’t feel like regurgitating news you can find elsewhere, such as more polls from multiple pollsters showing good Liberal…
But when does the PC contest begin?
We are missing some fun here. Sure MPP Christine Elliott is going to run for the Ontario Conservative leadership. That is not a race, it is a leisurely walk. We…
What Do They Do Now?
http://www.pinterest.com/ Justin Trudeau said recently that the biggest threat to global security is “the kind of violence and misunderstandings and wars that come out
A Documentary Recommendation: Blackfish
Once again, I am writing a post that, in one sense, has nothing to do with politics but in another sense has everything to do with it and much more.…
NB Adult Autism Residential Care Facility Needed: "It Is More Than Overdue" "When Will They Ever Learn?"
My 18 year old severely autistic son Conor waits for his slow poke Dad while we were out on a trail walk (Fredericton North Riverfront Trail). NB has known for…
Stealth Carbon Bombs Stopped In Their Tracks
North America is now the biggest producer of oil in the world thanks largely to Canada’s tar sands and North Dakota’s Bakken shale, and West Coast refineries are looking to…
Postmodern Jukebox: Maps
It’s the Friday before a long weekend. Enjoy some music. And if you like Morgan James, you can find more of her work at her website: www.morganjames.com. -srbp-
The Con Clown John Baird and the Dangerous Ukrainian Crisis
The situation in Ukraine couldn't be more ominous, with reports that some Russian troops have crossed into that country.World leaders like Obama are calling for calm, refusing to call it…
Is This the Ultimate Zero-Emissions Urban Transporter?
They can move you along at speeds upwards of 20-miles an hour for distances up to 30-miles at a stretch. They’re computer controlled and host features too numerous to list.…
The Scottish Referendum and the Patronizing NO Lady
With just three weeks to go before the independence referendum things are definitely heating up in Scotland.Especially since the leader of the YES side was declared the winner of last…
Immigration Watch Canada Benign Name, Malignant Views
Meet Dan Murray, founder of Immigration Watch Canada: This past April we posted a story concerning the efforts of Immigration Watch Canada to draw attention to what they claim as…
Stephen Harper’s Deranged Thought Process Is Based On Highly Flawed Right Wing Ideology
By: Jakeet Singh Tue Aug 26 2014 Stephen Harper really seems to have it out for sociology. In 2013, in response to an alleged plot against a VIA train, Harper…