Muskrat costs at $7.4 billion … and climbing #nlpoli
After 13 days, Nalcor boss Ed martin finally responded to a simple request from the Telegram’s James McLeod for an explanation of what impact a delay in construction might have…
2014
Stephen Harper and the Big Brother Cons
We know he seeks total control. We know he would be our very own Big Brother.We know he's out of his mind, but would make us pay to make him…
Occupy Vancouver Reboots Tonight!
Occupy Vancouver reboots tonight to join the worldwide #WaveOfAction that began on April 4 and runs to July 4, 2014. We will meet in Grandview Park on Commercial Drive in…
Two senior planners resign from the City of Vancouver: Analysis and questions
Originally posted on CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions:Matt Shillito Scot Hein News spread quickly on twitter about the departure of two senior planners from the City…
Rob Ford and the Downfall of the Moron Nation
Well I suppose it was inevitable. But it sure took long enough. And the damage he did to Toronto and Canada's reputation was incalculable.He's a bully, a bigot, a beast.But…
Explosive Virginia Train Carried Fracked Bakken Oil, Headed to Potential Export Facility
Platts has confirmed CSX Corporation’s “bomb train” that exploded in Lynchburg, Virginia was carrying sweet crude obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in North Dakota’s Bakken Shale basin. CSX CEO Michael…
Israel gets a plug: Don Sterling cites Israeli racism in justifying his racist views
Above right: Don Sterling and V. Stiviano / Beneath: Israelis protesting against African asylum seekers Affirmation of Israeli racism can surface in the most unlikely of places. In the taped…
Some Canadian content for Mayday (International Workers’…
Some Canadian content for Mayday (International Workers’ Day): This video is a documentary about the Toronto folk music group The Travellers, who started out in 1953, mixing traditional folk songs,…
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) – Benchmarking Working Europe 2014 / Books / Publications / Home
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) – Benchmarking Working Europe 2014 / Books / Publications / Home. The report Benchmarking Working Europe 2014 reviews the crisis and EU austerity policies in…
Stephen Harper is offering us the Blue Pill
Stephen Harper has created a magical world around him, not unlike that of the rabbit hole described in Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix in the Wachowski brothers’ Sci-Fi masterpiece.…
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Passed-out cats.
In Case Anyone Cares Anymore
Rob Ford has embarrassed both himself and the city he was elected to serve yet again and again. Recommend this Post
Toronto needs a mayor
A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack-cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister’s basement early Saturday morning.…
Will Canada one day vote OUI? and a Teddy announcement.
This is less of a post full of maps and analysis and more of a question I am posing. Will Canada one day vote OUI? That is, will “English Canada”…
Karen Stintz?
She’s done. .
On skewed perspectives
Shorter anonymous Conservative MP: Of course we want nothing more than fairness out of Canada’s electoral oversight bodies. And by that, we of course mean they should stop damaging our…
160 Faculty Members Join Call for Fossil Fuel Divestment at B.C.’s University of Victoria
Professors at the University of Victoria (UVic) are demanding the school’s administration freeze all new investment in fossil fuels and initiate a three-year divestment of all fossil fuel holdings. The…
Canada’s Tuned-Out Electorate
Many Canadians don’t give a damn about what goes on in Ottawa. (I’m using “Ottawa” as a euphemism for Parliament and the government rather than the city. You probably figured…
Nancy Leblanc for Parkdale-High Park! ( #onpoli #olp )
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
Nancy Leblanc for Parkdale-High Park! ( #onpoli #olp )
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…