While implementing draconian cuts to essential social services through the 2014 federal budget, the Harper government contributed $8 million to the Republican Party-linked International Republican Institute to fund projects in…
Friday, October 9, 2015 First Nations and environmental organizations had a chance to make reply submissions before the Federal Court of Appeal today. This six-day hearing was the culmination of…
My advice to strategic voters in Ontario ridings: Strategic voting in Essex: vote NDP Strategic voting in Mississauga-Erin Mills Strategic voting in Mississauga East: vote Liberal Strategic voting in Mississauga…
The NDP candidate in Oshawa, Mary Fowler, apparently thinks so. She promoted the crap below on Twitter. She did that a few weeks ago, so we checked again just before…
Water quality in a tributary of one of Southeast Alaska’s prime salmon rivers will improve once a new mine opens on the B.C. side of the border according to spokesmen…
tpp-leak.jpg Confirmed: retroactive 20 year copyright term extensions, new rules that would induce ISPs to block websites, and criminal penalties for the circumvention of digital locks October 9, 2015 –…
The TPP isn’t about free trade, it’s about protectionism on a global scale. But protections for who? Written by and for Techdirt We’ve pointed out a few times in the…
So, what are you doing for the rest of the century? In the context of Canada and the Middle East that might be a question worth asking. Let’s start with…
Do we really understand who the ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ are in the Middle East? Maybe we need to pull back for a few moments to reevaluate what we’re…
Strategic voting in Essex The riding of Essex in southwest Ontario has had a Conservative MP, Jeff Watson, since 2004. In the last election, the results were CPC (48%), NDP…
Screen capture of Regulator Watch video, in which host Brent Stafford (left) attacks Dr. Eoin Finn (right) I am pleased to see that Brent Stafford, shill for the Postmedia Group…
It’s easy to assume the plummet in energy prices will be a boon for the fight against climate change as emissions-intensive oilsands projects are cancelled or put on hold, but…
My piece on the mainstream media’s trade deal boosterism was published at Ricochet yesterday. Canada’s media have heaped fawning praise on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest free trade and investment…
When I was seven or eight years old and living in California, I went on a school trip to a public swimming pool. Such experiences should be the material of…
In the midst of a campaign dominated by horse races and attack ads, by fear and scandal and appeals to our basest political instincts, it is easy to forget that…
I fail every emission standard, every time.
https://twitter.com/ The polls are all over the place. But, if you go to political events — even Stephen Harper’s invitation only events — you hear interesting things. Michael
It is enough to make a recovering cynic suffer a very bad relapse. As I noted earlier this week, to see what lurks just beneath the surface of Canadian sensibilities,…
The Digital Sabbath, or Why I Never Reply to Your Emails on Saturday
If it’s Saturday and you’re reading this, I am far away from you. That’s because every week, I unplug and celebrate what I call the digital sabbath.… The post The Digital Sabbath,…