Liberal march in BC speeds up – Nanos poll September 29
You can find the latest Nanos poll here. The movement amongst the 66% plus non-Harper supporters towards choosing one opposition party to favour on election day October 19 is speeding…
September 2015
Liberal march in BC speeds up – Nanos poll September 29
You can find the latest Nanos poll here. The movement amongst the 66% plus non-Harper supporters towards choosing one opposition party to favour on election day October 19 is speeding…
Justin Trudeau is clearly ready to be Prime Minister…
Today’s Nanos rolling poll numbers (see link below) It’s been a struggle to decide how to vote this election as a progressive desperate for change. Liberal strength in the polls…
Harper’s Fear of the "other" . . .
The various racializing tropes to which Harper and his minions have begun to appeal in a desperate attempt to win the election (“UnCanadian,” “Old-Stock,” “Our Values,”) are intended as ‘power-markers.’…
Let’s Remember, They’re a "Permanent Warfare State."
Canadians should be concerned over the direction our military leadership is pursuing – integration with the armed forces of the United States of America. Uncle Sam has transitioned into a…
BC Hydro breaks promises in logging eagle’s nest for Site C Dam; May have lacked permits
As the fog lifted on the Peace River Monday morning, it revealed this clearcut island (Donald Hoffmann) BC Hydro’s clearcut logging this past weekend at the location of the proposed…
Volkswagen – You Owe Me a New Power Plant
Here’s the deal. There’s not much wrong with my VW Golf TDI “clean diesel” except for the clean part. I was promised an ultra fuel-efficient, ultra low-emissions engine that, it…
How many people are unfairly imprisoned in the U.S., yet this guilty bitch gets a personal visit from Pope Francis?
Pope Francis is a progressive tease. On issues affecting heterosexuals, he’s been great, re-focusing the Catholic Church on fighting poverty, climate change and many other issues relevant to most people’s…
Mark Carney Again Warns of Climate Change Induced Financial Collapse. Is Anyone Listening?
The former governor of the Bank of England said it. The current governor of the Bank of England is saying the same thing – to anyone who’ll listen. Mark Carney…
KCCCC Day 59: we grow old, we grow old
Sorry I’m late with KCCCC today! Got in late, slept a bit. Maybe it’s old age, too. Speaking of old age, check this out. Quote: “For the first time ever,…
Trust, Social Licence and Spin: A Tale of Two Countries
When B.C. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett visited Southeast Alaska this summer, his aim was to calm critics of the province’s aggressive push to build at least 10 mines…
Trust, Social Licence and Spin: A Tale of Two Countries
When B.C. Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett visited Southeast Alaska this summer, his aim was to calm critics of the province’s aggressive push to build at least 10 mines…
A Vanity Production?
Yesterday morning, I read a piece by Martin Regg Cohn on the impending sale of Ontario’s Hydro One. When it is completed, 60% of our publically-owned asset will have been…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Your news links for today: Why Universal, Affordable Internet Access Should be 2015 Election Campaign Issue – Michael Geist The TPP End Game and the Canadian Election – Michael Geist…
The Political Prisoner’s Dilemma
Let’s double back to Karl Nerenberg’s take on the opposition parties’ messages in Canada’s federal election and point out how it relates to a classic decision-making hypothetical, the prisoner’s dilemma.…
Another Reason
http://enviroshare.info/ The Harper government hopes that concluding the TPP deal will be its October Surprise. Constitutional convention dictates that, in an election campaign, the sitting government becomes a caretaker government.…
Too Early to Call Recession Over
Statistics Canada is reporting a 0.3% increase in monthly GDP for July, on top of a (downward revised) 0.4% increase in June. This will no doubt spark Conservative politicians, and…
Economic Discussion of Climate Change Gets Real
We’ve already seen climate refugees and climate wars, yet the business world has been rather slow to react. Many businesses operate with the denial of the economic effects of climate…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Armine Yalnizyan sees the Volkswagen emissions test cheating as a classic example of the dangers of relying on business to do anything toward…