Who is going to win the 2015 federal election?
Here’s what the bright Mr. Grenier says on CBC’s web site this morning. But what do you guys think? Last week, Lala and me had a long-overdue dinner with two…
February 2015
Stephen Harper and the Black Helicopters
It was a chilling moment in Question Period yesterday, that should raise questions about whether Stephen Harper is still mentally fit to govern, and whether we are already living in…
Oh, what a tangled web we weave…
I will comment about BC Budget 2014 after more study but I’ve read a few reports from media stenographers. Studying detail takes more time than rewording notes issued by the…
St. Pierre shifting health care to Moncton, Halifax #nlpoli
Rising costs are forcing the government of St. Pierre to look at shifting health care for its residents to Moncton New Brunswick from St. John’s, according to Radio Canada. The…
The pro-worker, pro-growth experiment in Greece is under threat | Senator Bernie Sanders | Comment is free | The Guardian
The pro-worker, pro-growth experiment in Greece is under threat | Senator Bernie Sanders | Comment is free | The Guardian. While the wealthiest 85 individuals on the planet own more…
PC MLAs follow Prentice command to cut Auditor General budget
Progressive Conservative MLAs sitting on the Standing Committee for Legislative Offices voted last week to deny a request from Child and Youth Advocate Del Graff to reinstate more than $200,000…
“We the North” and the “Marketing of Blackness”
The Raptors are hot. Toronto’s professional basketball team sits atop the Eastern Conference and are arguably the NBA’s most exciting team to watch. But on-court swagger has been paired with…
Note to Tar Sands Campaigners
Angel Boligan (Cagle Cartoons). It’s a “no brainer,” declares Stephen Harper. The Keystone pipeline must be built now to bring crude oil from the Alberta tar sands to refineries and…
Fossil fuel era drawing to a close…except in Canada
Adrian Wyld/CP The following is the sequel to an earlier story by Will Dubitsky on the growing green economy and Canada’s failure to take advantage of it. In the first…
Get your voice on our giant Jumbotron outside the FCC
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Alternative Transportation in Greater Sudbury – Past Time for Real Action
The following is an open letter to the City of Greater Sudbury’s Finance and Administration Committee – a Council committee of the whole – regarding the 2015 capital budget for…
Low-carbon urban infrastructure: a view from Vancouver
I have a new case study (full pdf; summary article from the publishers) out as part of the Economists for Equity and Environment‘s Future Economy Initiative. I look at the…
ROCHON On Greece once More
LOUIS-PHILIPPE ROCHON Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon ________________________ As I have said before (see here) and will say again: any solution…
Messages from Internet users to be beamed on Giant Jumbotron outside U.S. FCC, in run-up to crucial Net Neutrality decision with major implications for Canada
sidebar_jumbo.png Vancouver-based Internet freedom group OpenMedia, with support from diverse coalition, including Daily Kos, Tumblr, Fark, The Center for Media Justice, Roots Action, and The Nation, to park giant Jumbotron…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
Does Canada’s Pest Control Product Act protect farm workers?
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 It has been said that the measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. So when I recently testified the House of…
Feb. 17: You know you’re in trouble when…..
….you spend a Sunday afternoon looking out to see your car being buried in a white-out of blowing snow with a powerful tail wind. And next morning, there’s no newspaper…
OPEN LETTER to Senator Don Plett re: Bill C-279, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Gender Identity)
OPEN LETTER to Senator Don Plett, I understand from this Hill Times article that you are planning to introduce amendments in the Canadian Senate to this democratically-passed private member’s bill,…
Brockville, Sun News, and holding the elected to account
Ronald Zajac, right here. Read.