Meantime, SaskPower Must Consider Solar #skpoli
John Klein: SaskPower appears to be brushing off my push for progress with a form response letter they customize each time. Watch for the stand-out “Meantime” in each response, spanning…
February 2015
LEAKED: Internal RCMP Document Names “Violent Anti-Petroleum Extremists” Threat to Government and Industry
Attachment Size RCMP – Criminal Threats to Canadian Petroleum Industry.pdf 1.77 MB An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by…
Go Ahead, Say It: "Climate Change"
Bill Nye, an eloquent advocate of critical thinking and rational discussion, urges newscasters to use the words ‘climate change’ now and again. There is nothing at stake except the reduction…
LEAKED: Internal RCMP Document Names “Violent Anti-Petroleum Extremists” Threat to Government and Industry
An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Policy (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by an “anti-petroleum ideology” pose a criminal threat to Canada’s oil and gas…
Manslaughter sentence
R. v. Magno, 2015 ONCA 111 is an interesting case for manslaughter sentencing. The offender received a global sentence of 12 years, less deadtime, in circumstances where a far higher…
Rethinking LEED: Four Essential Elements
The LEED green building rating systems have their fair share of criticism. But what might a better rating system look like? Architect and Founder of the New Urban Guild Steve…
Wallener– Maroc– They Don’t Share the Same View For Economic Development For The Cowichan Region
Here is a guest post from Damir Wallener responding to Don Maroc’s earlier Column regarding Damir’s proposal to include hi-tech when looking at econmic development for the Cowichan Valley. Damir…
Western Crusaders and Noble Violence. . .
Defining complex social phenomena is always a convoluted problem. Of course in the ‘post-modern’ era, where language games and linguistic subtitles are the life-blood of philosophy, definitions themselves become problematical.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Your news links for today: NSA Group Has Been Embedding Spyware In Hard Drive Firmware – DSL Reports Web privacy is the newest luxury item in era of pervasive tracking…
140Law – Your Leading Legal Headlines for the week of February 9, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Thousands of UK court cases could soon be heard via Skype Ontario’s e-cig law unconstitutional: prof Same-sex couple’s custody…
And For Those Who Think Bill C-51 Is A Good Thing
Think again. The RCMP has labelled the “anti-petroleum” movement as a growing and violent threat to Canada’s security, raising fears among environmentalists that they face increased surveillance, and possibly worse,…
Drinking Coffee Regularly Decreases DNA Damage
I start my day with coffee and writing a post about good news. Today those two things merged rather well: it turns out drinking coffee regularly can lower the chances…
Gimme that old time politics.
The more we learn about Justin Trudeau’s new politics, the more we yearn for that old time politics. Before the 1990s, candidates were nominated by their local riding association and…
It Will Be About Getting Out The Vote
http://bookworship.com/ Canada faces what the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas called a “legitimation crisis.” Duncan Campbell writes: Simply put, many Canadians no longer believe that power being exercised in their name…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tessa Jowell writes that we need to treat inequality as a disease which can be cured through effective public policy, but the…
Methinks Ms. Hebert knows more than she’s sayin’
Just sayin’. You can (should) read the whole piece. But these bits I found interesting: If anything, Adams’s inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged…
Pink Washing: Does This Pink Shirt Really Say Enough?
By Emily Griffiths Pink Shirt Day is almost upon us. The annual campaign to raise money and “awareness” on the issue of “bullying” takes place on February 25. As this…
Lighter and Lighter #nlpoli
Three separate stories over the past three days highlight changes to the local media world. On Saturday, Telegram editor Russell Wangersky slammed the publicly funded CBC Radio for turning its…
The Harper Regime and the Terrorist Game
Even by the low standards of Peter Dumbo MacKay, I thought it was bizarre when he claimed that a plot to commit a mass slaughter in Halifax was not linked…