Bob Williams on Voice of BC- Vaughn Palmer
Bob Williams Bob Williams was the intellect and a driving force behind the BC NDP government that ran from 1972 to 1975. In that short time that Dave Barrett government…
2014
Corporate Bullies, Then and Now……
ANALYSIS Big box bullies: Discount pricing squeezes small suppliers: Dianne Buckner Selling to big chains like Target, Wal-Mart a mixed blessing when they demand a discount By Dianne Buckner, CBC…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Nicholas Kristof offers a primer on inequality in the U.S., while the Washington Post reports that a think tank looking to fund research…
About that floor thing
What am ? A dust bunny? Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, floor
Gangs of Feathered T-Rex
Imagine, if you will, an early morning scene in the late Cretaceous. The air is quiet as the day warms. At the edge of a large forest a plain of…
He Would If He Could
http://theinternetpost.net/ Stephen Harper and his minions have been complaining loudly about the power of “special interests.” But, Steve Sullivan writes:
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, July 25, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wise Law on Twitter: New U.K.-Canada tax treaty lets authorities do audits in other country Alabama man claims…
Bell silent on its subscriber information disclosure practices
Why has Bell Canada remained silent on its subscriber information disclosure practices? asks University of Ottawa professor and Internet law expert, Michael Geist. The post Bell silent on its subscriber…
Possibly The Most Important 60-Minutes You’ve Spent In A Good, Long While
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, delivers a stark warning and a call to arms in this year’s Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute address. Monbiot warns that we’re about to feed the…
Conservatives are covering their causes.
There must be an election due in the next year. Why else would the Harper government minions be running around in the heat of the summer pandering to Conservative interest…
Sure Its Only Forum
…from a week ago, no less. But that’s majority territory, as the poll suggests. As for the pollsters, well, can’t find where he wrote it but 308’s Eric Grenier has…
2019 should be interesting #nlpoli
The cheque’s been cash. There’s no more cash flowing. But the deal is not quite done, yet. (Read more…)
Trolling: Still An Art (Blues Rock Revival Edition)
Meanwhile, in Chicago… Filed under: frivolity Tagged: Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, Jack White, resting bitchface, The White Stripes
The stench of western hypocrisy is becoming hard to ignore
Another day, more western endorsed Gazan deaths. “Self defense”, “Rockets”, and “Human shields” are really getting old fast in terms of the excuses Israel is using to justify it’s slaughter,…
I’ll answer your question, Mr. Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron, like our PM a cheerleader for Israel, posed a rhetorical question this week: how would those criticizing Israel’s actions expect their own government to react…
You could drive one of those tar sands heavy haulers through the gaping holes in the latest Fraser Institute ‘study’ of Alberta’s finances
A worker in Fort McMurray prepares to drive this truck through the holes in the Fraser Institute’s “report,” which claims Alberta’s finances are in worse shape than those of places…
Muslim Double Standards Abound
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This piece by Tarek Fatah appeared in the Toronto Star’s Middle East Forum last week and was sent to Cowichan Conversations as a comment. Upon reading it…
I swear to God, Saskatchewan is so beautiful
If I lived here, I’d lay in a park and stare at the sky all the time. Taken by Lala on the way back to Moose Jaw, from Regina. .
Australian Press Watchdog Criticises Climate Report From Rupert Murdoch’s Flagship Newspaper
The headline on The Australian newspaper’s story about a leak of a major United Nations climate change report read “We got it wrong on warming, says IPCC”. But an investigation…
Lack of Attention to Lake Water Quality Contributing to Systemic Public Concerns in Greater Sudbury
Something has been simmering beneath the City of Lakes’ political surface for some time now, and as the summer temperature has started to rise, the issue appears to be bubbling…