Celebrated author Margaret Atwood is leading a group of 200 notable Canadian writers and artists demanding an immediate repeal of Bill C-51, Stephen Harper’s “secret police” legislation. C51, the artists…
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…
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…
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…
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.’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ICYMI: More than 220 Canadian writers, musicians, actors and artists warn C-51 threatens their freedoms. Check out the full letter at KillC51.ca/artists and spread the word! Article by Press Progress…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
