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2014
Study Finds Methane Leaks 1,000 Times EPA Estimates During Marcellus Drilling
This week, a United Nations panel on climate change issued one of its most urgent warnings to date, explaining that unless major changes to greenhouse gas emissions are made within…
Enough already – Stop public funding to Mike Harris’ pet institute
Kathleen Wynne should say enough is enough. Why is the Harris-era Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity still receiving nearly $1 million a year in public funding to manipulate the public…
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Hires Coal Lobbyist to Direct Policy Office
This is a guest post by Eric de Place, originally published on Sightline Daily and cross-posted with the Sightline Institute‘s permission. In a classic instance of the revolving door between…
Dollars, rubles and global imperial strategy: The collapse of the Western empire and the rise of the BRICS
Russia began in March a decoupling from the US dollar and begins to end the reign of the petrodollar, and buy and sell oil and gas and other goods and…
Getting Their Tunics In A Twist
I was very pleased to read that Honey Maid has joined the 21st century, evidence of which can be seen in the following television commercial:. However, those mired in an…
Canada Coaching Countries to Waste Water
Canada, a decade ago, used to do more good than bad in the wider world. Now we’re an international wrecking crew, teaching countries how to waste their water supplies on…
Vice: Canada’s Internet sucks and the government has no real plan to improve it
Our digital future looks pretty pathetic. Check out our own Chris Malmo’s unflinching account of the failures of the government’s Digital Canada 150. Article by Chris Malmo for Vice Remember…
Islamophobic Attacks in Montreal: The Need for a Militant Movement Against Racism
On April 8, two Islamophobic attacks were carried out in Montreal. In the first case, in the early morning hours, an axe was thrown through a window the Centre communautaire…
April 16: It starts on p.1….
Go to the bottom of page 1 of Section A. “Proposed high school changes are discussed”. I have spent my life in education. So I read that rather long story.…
New Ontario Poll
From Innovative Research. Looks like the gas plant fiasco has run out of steam. And its hard to suggest with numbers like these that Andrea Horwath’s NDP has any kind…
Please Share: Our image about SOPA back from the grave
Think SOPA is dead? Think again. U.S. President Barack Obama has picked Robert Holleyman, who led efforts to pass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), to help lead the effort…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Your news links for today: Canada’s Digital 150 Strategy: Cynical, lazy and so 1867 – Boing Boing Colorado Town Approves Public Networks – Save the Internet Job listing hints Google…
Tommy Douglas never said health care would be free — advisor to Premier
Is Roger Martin having us on? This morning the publicly funded Institute for Competitiveness & Prosperity released a working paper on policy opportunities for Ontario’s health care system during Longwood’s…
Six pieces of ID and still not allowed to vote-Elizabeth May
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The controversy swirling around the democratic right to vote has been increasing in its velocity. Canadians are recognizing that this plan targets voters who are unlikely to…
CPC slogan 2015: “No grounds for criminal charges.” *
* H/t Dan Gardner In the twisted morality of the Harper universe, it will be claimed and conveyed as a complete vindication of the Prime Minister. That the RCMP has…
A practical solution to an urgent need
This piece was originally published in Monthly Review and republished here with the author’s permission. This old airport’s got me down—it’s no earthly good to me, ‘cause I’m stuck here…
On The Murders In Calgary Yesterday
Yesterday five university students were brutally murdered at a house party near the University of Calgary. The headlines have been lurid, the details of the story as it unfolded on…
Flaherty: Not-so nice guys finish last
A couple days ago, I wrote a blog on Jim Flaherty that took the politically correct position: Flaherty was a good person, but not-so-good finance minister. Today that got me…