The Economics Of Coercion
The British economic historian Avner Offer believes that the gap between our economic model and our economic reality is now similar to the gap between Karl Marx’s Communism and Leonid…
2014
Canada Approves Enbridge Line 9 Reversal: Tar Sands Crude to Flow to Montreal
Alberta’s tar sands crude has a new route east. Canada’s National Energy Board announced on Thursday the approval of Enbridge’s request to reverse and expand a portion of the company’s…
Canada Approves Enbridge Line 9 Reversal: Tar Sands Crude to Flow to Montreal
Alberta’s tar sands crude has a new route east. Canada’s National Energy Board announced on Thursday the approval of Enbridge’s request to reverse and expand a portion of the company’s…
not a funny story: ned vizzini, youth fiction, and suicide
It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s the first line of Ned Vizzini’s excellent 2006 youth novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story. By the…
The phrase “spring forward, fall back” goes back decades.
One of the first uses was by the Heppner Gazette-Times in Oregon, which gave that advice to its readers in 1928.
Harpers Orwellian Regime
Arising from George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four published in 1949 the adjective Orwelliandescribes a totalitarian dystopia characterised by government control and subjugation of the people. Orwell’s invented language, Newspeak, satirises…
Will Vic Toews Be Appointed to the Supreme Court?
Oh boy. Talk about a roller coaster of emotions eh?Yesterday I wrote a post about Vic Toews being appointed as a judge in Manitoba's top trial court. And although it's…
Teddy’s Sunday Prediction – Quebec
It’s been suggested in the comments – and yes I do listen, even to the ones I dispute – that I am unclear. I will thus try something a bit…
In Sunday’s Sun: whither thou goest, Quebec?
Now that Quebec’s separatist government has called an election – and now that there is a very real prospect of the
Toronto needs a mayor: seriously. We do.
Check what this genius tweeted tonight, then later deleted. Wow. Then again, the possibility that he lives in a different time zone than the rest of us may explain a…
Saturday night blues blogging
It felt strange to type “Saturday night blues blogging” but I’ll get used to it. Let’s open with Katie Webster on Two-fisted Mama. The video’s fuzzy but the audio’s clear…
International Women’s Day
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
What Do Women Want?
It can be a goofy question because it sets up an expectation that half the world, 3.5 billion people, can answer it the same way if it’s asked in exasperation…
A lazy Saturday cat
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Energy Industry Leaders and Government Officials Rub Elbows at CERAWeek 2014
This week was the 33rd Annual CERAweek conference, described as “the energy industry’s preeminent gathering of industry leaders and government officials, offering new ideas, insight, and discussions on major strategic…
GAO: Climate Change Poses Serious Risk to American Energy Systems
America’s energy infrastructure is dangerously vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, according to a new report released by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The report, requested by a group…
John Tory’s message to women, on International Women’s Day: “Learn how to play golf”
“I’ll say to young women…learn how to play golf. Because you will find it’s immensely advantageous to your career.” Those kinds of views are indeed “frankly out of date.” So…
March 8: Some truth emerges…
We are getting a hint of what the new, Ukraine government is about. Yesterday, it cut all state pensions in half. That doesn’t mean all civil service pensions. It means…
The Window Of Opportunity Is Growing Increasingly Short
So says Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, if we are to take action to limit the global average temperature increase to two degrees Celsius: Six…