Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood discusses the close connection between the energy sector and inequality in Canada – with the obvious implication that policies dedicated to…
2014
Respect, Fear, and Loathing
If we are completely honest, many of us will admit to a deeply ambivalent relationship with the police. On the one had we look to them for protection against the…
How Charles Koch Sent His Emissary to London to Launch Climate Denial
Climate denial was imported from the United States to Britain by a free market idealist employed by the billionaire oil baron Charles Koch. DeSmog UK tells their story for the…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Your news links for today: Carol Todd on Bill C-13: “What Happened to Democracy?” – Michael Geist Censoring the Web Isn’t the Solution to Terrorism or Counterfeiting. It’s the Problem.…
Saying Happy Holidays is Acceptable
This time of year we get inundated on Facebook and Twitter with this sort of stupid, offensive warning about saying “happy holidays” or “season’s greetings” instead of Merry Christmas. A…
New York City’s Simple, and Green, Flood Prevention
New York, like other large cities, has a lot of impermeable services which means that when it rains there is little to contain the water. By using green infrastructure of…
Quick post on rough estimates
This is partly in reply to a 308 post about the by-elections provincially in Newfoundland. What I want to discuss is two things. First; what to do when you want…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, November 26, 2014: NDP MP says she gave no ‘explicit’ consent to Liberal’s alleged advances Megaupload’s Kim…
Provincial Cooperation reveals Federal Leadership Vaccum
It’s been a long time Now I’m Coming back home I’ve been away now… Well, it’s been a while, again. I realized that I have been blogging, in my long…
The Quiet Native Revolution
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/ In his book, A Fair Country, John Ralston Saul argued that Canada owed its existence to three founding nations — Britain, France and its First Nations. But he took…
Which twin has the Toni?
During a career in public relations in Canada, you kept an eye on what was happening in PR south of the border as well as the Canadian market. You always…
Big vans outside the Moral High Ground this morning
…looks like the NDP is getting ready to move out. I guess Tom Mulcair’s “very strong desire to keep this confidential” is no longer so “strong.” Thus: Here, Star. Here,…
Jason Kenney and the Shameless Con Zombies
In my last post I told you how Jason Kenney and a group of Con zombies set out to try to use a secretly recorded conversation to discredit a Liberal…
The ABCs of the Conservative Implosion #nlpoli
“What does Paul Davis do now?” That was the start of the conversation. A serious question after the latest in a string of by-election losses for the provincial Conservatives deserved…
Collapse of rickety Wildrose coalition of market fanatics and religious fundamentalists could be bad-news/good-news story for Alberta’s NDP
A recent meeting of the Wildrose Party Legislative caucus. Actual members of the official Opposition party may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: NDP Leader Rachel Notley and Wildrose Leader…
"I Hate That Oil’s Dropping": Why Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant Wants High Oil Prices for Fracking
Outgoing Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC) chairman Phil Bryant — Missisippi’s Republican Governor — started his farewell address with a college football joke at IOGCC‘s recent annual conference…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat sitters.
Quick question/poll
Is Julian Fantino (Minister of Veteran Affairs) the worst Cabinet Minister in the Harper Conservative government right now? That’s saying something in this government, but some folks are now openly…