A Clean Federal NDP Campaign …
A quick summary of what the NDP need to do now to win a majority in the 2015 federal election and free Canada from Dirty Oil and appeal to BCers…
2014
Tackling Global Warming Would Increase GDP (And Save 94,000 Lives a Year): World Bank Report
Aggressively tackling global warming through better public transportation and increased energy efficiencies could increase global GDP by between $1.8 trillion and $2.6 trillion annually, a new report has found. Released…
Tackling Global Warming Would Increase GDP (And Save 94,000 Lives a Year): World Bank Report
Aggressively tackling global warming through better public transportation and increased energy efficiencies could increase global GDP by between $1.8 trillion and $2.6 trillion annually, a new report has found. Released…
An Interview With Me About Caregiving and Writing About Family Life & Ideas
Recently, I gave an interview to Kris Bone, a writer with the Puritan Magazine (a Canadian literary journal). Here’s his article about my book, “The Four Walls of My Freedom:…
On talking about priorities: Oil spills and teachers strikes
On the same day one week ago, teachers in British Columbia began a full strike and the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline was approved by the Canadian government. With such telling…
June 24: The most important news story – ever…..
…..No, it doesn’t get a lot of space It has almost no information in it. And it’s hidden in yesterday’s (June 23) paper in a small section at the bottom…
Northern Gateway pipeline: B.C. Conservative MPs put on notice
Earlier today, citizens reacting to Stephen Harper’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline put B.C. Conservative MPs on notice. The post Northern Gateway pipeline: B.C. Conservative MPs put…
A dangerous lurch to the extreme Right: India’s new Prime Minister
This piece was originally published on Dissident Voice and was republished here with permission. The landslide election earlier this month of Narendra Modi does not bode well for the 800…
Frackquakes in Colorado? Scientists Probe Fracking Wastewater Link to CO Earthquakes
At 9:35 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, Greeley, Colorado was struck by a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. Earthquakes are highly unusual in eastern Colorado, raising speculation that it was a “frackquake”…
Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson tally cost of climate change
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson By Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press NEW YORK – Climate change is likely to exact enormous…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Your news links for today: Police Story: Hacking Team’s Government Surveillance Malware – Citizen Lab Researchers publish secret details of cops’ phone-surveillance malware – Boing Boing Researchers Find and Decode…
Lisa MacLeod’s Ambition
I’ll say right off the top that I am no fan of recently re-elected Ontario Progressive Conservative Lisa MacLeod, and not just because she is a member of what has…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Suzanne Goldenberg discusses the World Bank’s findings that a smart set of policies to combat climate change can actually improve global economic…
Edmonton Has a Massive Waste to Biofuel Facility
The province of Alberta is usually only mentioned on this site when people are campaigning against the tar sands and the destruction of the environment. Today though, the capital of…
B.C.’s Natural Gas Hypocrisy Leaves Consumers Paying the Price
One of the thorniest issues raised in the joint review panel’s report on BC Hydro’s Site C dam proposal is that of the B.C. government’s hypocritical policy on the burning…
See? See? No one is reading your bloody PDFs
Forum One, a Washington and Seattle based digital communications consultancy has found a report on a World Bank report on… usage statistics on its own reports which are distributed in…
Oh The Dumbf …
Over at “Crosswalk.com” (no, it’s not a site about crossing roads), we find a Dr. White going off on gender identity in the wake of Time’s June 9 article “America’s…
Warren is a “faggot”
From regular reader SJ: “Reading your column this morning brought back a memory I didn’t even know I had. The first time I ever met you was at some smokey,…
The Soaring Profits of the Military – Industrial Complex and Casualties
The launch of two major wars by the US government had two major beneficiaries, one domestic and one foreign. The three major weapons manufacturers, Lockheed Martin (LMT), Northrop Grumman (NOG)…