Will Today Be the Day You Die at Work?
Do you feel lucky, punk? Well… do you? Every day, four Canadians will die as a result of a workplace accident, injury or industrial disease. If you make it home…
2014
When Blog Comment Spam Goes Bad
You know you want it! Someone really crossed the line from whoops, to nuclear codes. One of the15,000 weekly blog spam comments that never make it to the human eyes…
April 28—National Day of Mourning
In 1984, the Canadian Labour Congress declared April 28th a National Day of Mourning for workers who have been killed, or suffer disease or injury as a result of work.…
With friends like these… How much did gun lovers’ aid hurt Rob Anders’ candidacy?
Soon-to-be-former MP Rob Anders with would-be MP Melissa Mathieson. Did this photo help, or hurt, his unsuccessful candidacy? Below: Ron Liepert, the Conservative who beat Mr. Anders in the Calgary…
San Diego, Newport, Santa Monica
Saturday morning at 3:50 was wakeup time to be at the airport on time for the first flight to Calgary. Everything went smoothly and we were in San Diego by…
Adversaries Versus Enemies
In Fire and Ashes, the book he published after leaving politics, Michael Ignatieff writes of the difference between adversaries and enemies. He suggests that in politics you should have adversaries…
Obama Punts Keystone XL (Again) — Harper Learns a Lesson in Humility (Maybe)
“If you were a betting man (or woman) what odds would you place on President Obama approving the Keystone XL pipeline before the end of his term and why?” Ms…
Gift at the Lake
On a beautiful day recently, A and I walked for 4 hours. At Sunnyside Beach, where in another time people danced to the music of big bands in the Palais…
Canada is playing Russian Roulette in the Arctic
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008, Prime Minister Medvedev articulated a new Russian foreign Russian Nuclear Icebreaker policy doctrine with stunning implications. The phrase that caught…
This Has Gotta Hurt
Expect the Harper attack machine to ramp up its game: Recommend this Post
Halliburton refuses to disclose fracking chemicals
By Kevin Begos And Matthew Daly, The Associated Press PITTSBURGH – The U.S. Department of Energy said Friday that it welcomes the decision by oil and gas industry supplier Baker…
Canada’s senate completes the perfect farce
Most people’s understanding of the senate is second-hand knowledge. They believe it plays an important role in the legislative process providing much-needed “sober second thought.” But nothing could be further…
Obama calls out racism without trashing the racists
Obama is truly one of the greatests Presidents the United States has ever had.Racism is such a deep part of the American character and experience, I have sometimes despaired that…
National Post: How Keystone XL spoiled Canada-US ‘special relationship’
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press Read this April 24 story from The National Post and Bloomberg News on the effect of US President Barack Obama’s waffling on the proposed Keystone XL…
President Elizabeth Warren in 2016?
President Elizabeth Warren 2016? Right now, the person I would like to see take over from Obama in the White House in 2016 is freshman senator Elizabeth Warren. Here’s one…
John Betts is not going to like Jason Kenney anymore
Kenney calls upon fast-food employers to raise wages, employ more Canadians: Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney called a new moratorium on the fast-food industry’s use of the temporary foreign worker…
Untangling Colorado’s Flood of Anti-Fracking Ballot Initiatives
Colorado voters who try to figure out all the proposed statewide ballot initiatives to regulate drilling and fracking are in for a real challenge. So far, 11 ballot initiatives have…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Joe Conason discusses the increasingly widespread recognition that inequality represents a barrier to growth. And Heidi Moore takes a look at Thomas Piketty’s…
April 27: Another step back….
This will probably be just a short note. It bothers me I was not more critical of Gwynne Dyer, yesterday. He was commenting on the Ukrainian crisis – and rather…