Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Vanessa Houlder reports on the OECD’s call for countries to make far more of an effort to ensure tax compliance among their…
August 2015
Guest Blogger: NDP PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME OF FOOTSIES WITH QUEBEC SEPARATISM:
By Ted Chartrand I have, by and large, stayed away from criticizing the NDP but it’s at the point where I cannot remain silent. The NDP is playing a very…
Cosmic karma
Stubbed my toe on Lala’s PET statue this morning. Cosmic karma for laughing out loud at that Toronto Sun front page.
Artists Bring Peace to the Streets
Street art about peace is getting special attention in London these next few weeks. Artists from all over the world are going to explore the idea of ‘peace in our…
Welcome to an urban Canada.
In 1851 when they first set out to count people in Canada, they concluded that 86 per cent lived in rural areas and 14 per cent lived in urban villages,…
KCCCC Day 12: let’s measure our GDP in hugs!
Justin Trudeau stepped in it yesterday…or did he? Here’s what the Liberal leader said: And this is a quote, from Canadian Press: “We’re proposing a strong and real plan, one…
Essence #nlpoli
The Telegram has been running a series this week on the number of communities in the province where people can’t drink the water supplied by their local municipality. Regular readers…
Medical transport is an essential service, and properly so – it’s time to start treating it like one
PHOTOS: Medical air transport – an essential service too important to be left to private insurers and their ilk. Below: Amy and Amelia Savill (CTV News) and Alberta Health spokesperson…
Harper Could Be In Trouble this Time Around
A recent Probit survey explored how Canadians viewed the upcoming election. One part asked respondents what they considered the most important issue in the runoff. Harper’s trump card – national…
Rules for how to behave in Court
Whenever you are going to be in Court there are some basic rules you should follow. These rules apply in every Court regardless of whether you are going to be…
B.C. First Nations and Alaskan Natives Join Forces to Fight Border Mines
A powerful alliance of B.C. First Nations and Southeast Alaska natives has been forged in the aftermath of the Mount Polley dam collapse and tribes, who have not worked together…
B.C. First Nations and Alaskan Natives Join Forces to Fight Border Mines
A powerful alliance of B.C. First Nations and Southeast Alaska natives has been forged in the aftermath of the Mount Polley dam collapse and tribes, who have not worked together…
Nigel Wright, Stephen Harper, and the Great Con Cover Up
They say Nigel Wright is an honest man, who just happened to be working for the most morally corrupt leader of the most morally corrupt government this country has ever…
A Bit of the Cross-Examination I’d Love to Put to Nigel Wright.
I’m not Donald Bayne. I haven’t had access to the documents or weeks to prepare for the cross examination of Nigel Wright. These are, however, some of the questions I…
5 ways this election could shape our digital future for a generation
It may be the dog days of August, but here at OpenMedia our small team is gearing up for the most important election campaign that Canadian Internet users have ever…
Nowak: "A worse proposition than almost anywhere"
It’s official: the price is too damn high. And that’s the message that the CRTC needs to hear from you. Send your message at http://unblockcanada.ca/?src=fba Article by Peter Nowak for…
August 12: I may add a supplement to this one…
The problem is that it’s hard to write every day about a newspaper that is trivial and almost empty of either thought or information. So I might add a follow…
Oh, Damn! Jimmy Carter has Cancer.
The most decent president in modern memory, Jimmy Carter, has announced that he has cancer and it has spread throughout his body, apparently metastasized. He’s the sort of gentleman who’ll…
Big Day Tomorrow – It’s Earth Overshoot Day – August 13, 2015.
Tomorrow is Earth Overshoot Day, the date on which mankind has gobbled up a full year’s worth of renewable resources – biomass, water and such. The date falls a couple…
Duffy & Senate Scandal: Email snippets
Going squirrelly Nigel Wright is on the stand, and a blizzard of emails is being released (see hereand hereabout them and how to access them). In no particular order, here…