Stephen Harper and the Invisible Man
I don't know whether Stephen Harper will turn up for Question Period today, because he didn't bother or dare to attend the Throne Speech.And people are starting to call him…
December 2015
Preemptively React to Disasters to Save Lives
It might sound odd, but if we react to disasters before they happen we can save lives. The Food Security Climate Resilience Facility wants developed nations to release support for…
Short History of Wood Mountain Post
Stumbled across this video put together by Sask Parks. Some additional videos of Wood Mountain:
Canada Pledges $150 Million of Climate Funds to African Renewable Energy Initiative
Canada will provide $150 million in support for renewable energy in Africa minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, announced at a G7 African Renewable Energy Initiative session during…
Ottawa — For The Moment — Has Changed
Allan Fotheringham claimed that Ottawa was the town that fun forgot. That was certainly true during the Harper years. Michael Harris writes:During Harper’s tenure, 24 Sussex looked more like a…
Referendum not needed to validate Electoral Reform -election did that.
I’ve heard and see a few mutterings of concern from folks that the Liberals are actually going to follow through on their campaign promise (re-affirmed in the Throne Speech) that…
Ah, But Will They?
Were they truly public-spirited citizens, the dozens of people recently appointed by Stephen Harper to government agencies and crown corporations would step aside if so requested by Justin Trudeau.The previous…
Vanity Thy Name is Robot
By mid-century, all the grumpkins agreed: robots were the shit. Even the most hardened humano-mechanicals were aware their robotic cousins could kick their asses. And the feed stock? Don’t be…
Heartland Institute Kicks Journalists Out of ‘Public’ Climate Denial Event in Paris
Accredited journalists were kicked out of a sparsely attended climate denial conference hosted by the US oil-and tobacco-funded Heartland Institute today in Paris. Heartland's ‘Day of Examining the Data’ event…
“Pollsters expecting return to more prosperous times”
More user-friendly version: “With this new government we will make out like bandits.” This is one interview they should have taken a pass on. Wow.
Townies and Baymen #nlpoli
Last week’s post on the political narrative war currently under way was a combination of two separate, but related ideas. The incoming Liberal administration – like all political parties –…
LNG: a decade of oversupply
Toil ahead for oil, but expect double trouble for LNG, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Energy Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald, December 7, 2014The crude oil market is seen as being in dire straits,…
Prankster Protesters Posing as Coal Profiteers Punk Climate Denial-a-Palooza
BY BRENDAN MONTAGUE AND KYLA MANDEL IN PARIS Coral Bleach, from the Billionaire United Mining Services, arrived this morning at the Heartland Institute's much vaunted Day of Examining Data repleat…
How to Help Stop Seniors From Dying of Loneliness
When I was a boy my grandmother read me a story about an old woman whose body was discovered in a rooming house, days or weeks after she died.And when…
Your Ward News: Birds of a Feather
While we haven't written a great deal about Your Ward News or the current editor James Sears since our last article, the antisemitic, misogynistic, and racist Toronto publication continues to…
Energy – Jam Report #6
One thing no one is going to accuse Verdun of being is a hotbed of live music, for the most part it’s non existent. But things are changing. There is
Worldwide Climate protesters clash with police as activists defy Paris ban
The Guardian reports: Hundreds of protesters demonstrate near the Place de la Republique in Paris on Sunday despite a ban imposed by the French authorities. Activists clash with riot police…
The Montreal Massacre and the Never-ending Violence Against Women
At a time when the United States is going through yet another spasm of gun violence.And I see how some wing nut in that country reacted to this editorial in…