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November 2015
Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bad Behaviour in Spotlight During Run-up to Paris Climate Negotiations
As leaders from around the world head to Paris in December for the COP21 UN climate negotiations, they do so with the burdensome knowledge that this is it: the big…
Python Says, "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life." Beijing Agrees
The Chinese just set a new record. The northeastern industrial city of Shenyang took top honours for PM 2.5 particulate matter concentrations in the city’s air. The World Health Organization…
Catherine McKenna In Paris
The international community is “really excited” to see Canada back at the table for climate change talks in Paris, Canada’s new environment and climate change minister said Tuesday. May concrete…
Help Resettle a Refugee Family
My Dear Friend Gary Gladstone asked me to post this and I am proud so to do! Like thousands of other Canadians, we were shocked and saddened by photographs of…
Ontario Ombudsman update
I have to be careful, here, but I wanted to let readers know that a complaint has been made against me by the office of the Ontario Ombudsman – using…
If you win the wars at home, there’ll be no fighting anymore
Photo by Benoit Aubry But the hardest thing I'll ask you, if you will only try Is take your children by their hands and look into their eyes And there…
Imagining Climate Change, 2015
Human civilization dates back about 11,000 years. Just 11,000 years, a blip in the history of our 5-billion year old planet. Temperatures over that interval have been remarkably stable barring…
Federal Court judge said sex assault complainant “allowed the sex to happen”
Four Canadian law professors have lodged a complaint against a Federal Court judge who asked a sex assault complainant why she couldn’t just keep her knees together to fend off…
Brad Wall’s Beef With A&W is 100% Bull Something
.@PremierBradWall 100% Canadian, growth-hormone-free milk will never be back after #TPP is ratified. That's okay with you though? — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) November 10, 2015 “TPP would allow milk from…
Is our atmosphere critical infrastructure? The Canadian government responds
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Recently we received a series of replies from the Canadian government to our suggestion that the global atmosphere was critical infrastructure, at least as essential to…
Change, It’s the Only Constant. We Don’t Like It. We Don’t Have To.
It’s not that we’re really all that troubled by the idea of change. In fact we like it so long as it’s gradual and heading in our preferred direction. More…
Grow Diamonds Instead of Buying Blood Diamonds
Blood diamonds are a problem for a multitude of reasons and they really shouldn’t be since we can create diamonds from scratch. A company called Pure Grown Diamonds sell diamonds…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Your news links for today: Judge Orders NSA to Stop Collecting American’s Phone Records Immediately – VICE Motherboard It’s No Secret That the Government Uses Zero Days for “Offense” –…
Joe, You Can Go Now
Why I’m really, really, really glad Joe Oliver isn’t Finance Minister anymore: Keystone XL would have created jobs, bolstered ec growth, strengthened nat’l security, reduced GHG emissions and enhanced N…
On suckers’ bets
We’ve sure learned some important lessons from the failure of the first billion-dollar Boundary Dam CCS project: SaskPower’s president, Mike Marsh, says the company had hoped to make a decision…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Chris Hedges weighs in on the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s entrenchment of corporate control over mere citizens, while PressProgress highlights just a few of…
“It is your friends who bring you down.”
That headline was a casual comment by Susan Delacourt of the Toronto Star on Tom Clark’s West Block show on Global last Sunday. She was, of course, talking about politics.…
Adler-Kinsella Show: how Justin Trudeau is helped by recent events
24 Sussex, Remembrance and what happened in Iraq.
Are They Better At Trade?
https://business.mercer.edu/ During the last election, Stephen Harper trumpeted the record number of trade deals he had signed. But, Gus Van Harten argues, if you look at the deals, it’s clear…