Harper’s Just Not Ready attack boomerangs!
Seems the Trudeau attack ad works with Conservatives but is making NDP supporters think about voting for Trudeau’s Liberals: A Conservative Party attack ad targeting Liberal leader Justin Trudeau for…
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Big, Bigger, …Burst
With a population a nudging 1.4-billion, China is the world’s most populous nation. Overall it has the 80th highest population density, about 142 people per sq. km. Neighbouring India, in…
Alaskans to Commemorate Anniversary of Mount Polley Mine Disaster as Similar Accidents Predicted to Increase
One year after 24 million cubic metres of mine sludge and water swept into rivers and lakes below Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley mine in B.C., Southeast Alaskans will gather to…
Alaskans to Commemorate Anniversary of Mount Polley Mine Disaster as Similar Accidents Predicted to Increase
One year after 24 million cubic metres of mine sludge and water swept into rivers and lakes below Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley mine in B.C., Southeast Alaskans will gather to…
Ignorance Means Power For Conservatives
A cringe-worthy tweet explains the Conservative mindset in running the election campaign early before school gets back. Keep kids in the dark, and disengaged so wise old people can continue…
Windows 10? Whatever…
Windows 10? Yawn.If nothing else, the imminent launch of the new Windows OS gives us opportunity again to wonder why the Powers-That-Be at Microsoft continue to fail to grasp the…
Nine Cats is a winner at Crated
Paper by 53 and CanvasPop teamed up for a contest. Here is a winning submission featured on the front page of Crated. Yes, that is my Nine Cats in a…
In the longest campaign of all time, who wins and who loses?
So, you’ve all seen this. Who wins and who loses, in an eleven week campaign? CBC: They have started to edge away from yesterday’s bombshell – ie, “THE ELECTION WILL…
Thursday Morning Candidate Nomination Updates from Alberta
With reports that the Conservatives may call the next federal election as soon as next week, resulting in an potential eleven week election campaign, parties are still nominating candidates in…
Conservative disdain for democracy evident in their history of electoral fraud
One of my favourite moments in the coverage of the Conservative Electoral fraud in the 2011 federal election was when a reporter asked Senator Doug Finley if the Conservatives had…
Election pool: How many election laws will the Conservatives break this time
With an election call imminent it is time to run our Election Pool: Take Our Poll
Enter an Endangered Animal and Learn of Their Plight
Artist Evelyn Roth is using classroom sized animals to spread the word about endangered animals. She has created bright and cheerful looking versions of animals that are endangered to provide…
New column day
Here, reminding us that it’s our communities who ultimately pay the price for the poorly-thought-out election announcements from senior levels of government that we’ve seen so frequently recently. For further…
We must fight and fight hard to defeat Harper
I want Canada back. I want us to make decisions and set policies based on what will build a greater society for all who live here, not just a few.…
Alberta Electricity Provider TransAlta Found Guilty of Market Manipulation, Boosting Case for Decentralizing Generation
Earlier this week, TransAlta — the massive, publicly traded electricity generation company based in Calgary — was found culpable by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) of repeatedly manipulating prices in…
Alberta Power Provider TransAlta Found Guilty of Market Manipulation, Boosting Case for Decentralizing and Diversifying Energy Resources
Earlier this week, TransAlta — the massive, publicly traded electricity generation company based in Calgary — was found culpable by the Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) of repeatedly manipulating prices in…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alan Freeman discusses the need for an adult conversation about taxes to replace the Cons’ oft-repeated policy of ignorance: Focusing on low…
Trampled
Elizabeth May tells us that her idea of a grassroots movement is a finely manicured lawn carefully maintained to suit the aesthetic preferences of its owners: May said she didn’t…
Rhetoric vs Reality: The Harper Govt Economic Record
Speculation is intense that the unofficial election campaign we have already been experiencing for several months, is about to become official: Ottawa is awash in rumours the writ may be…
Honouring A Dead Woman’s Wishes
By the newspaper’s account, Catherine Finn was a lively, passionate and engaged woman. I think I would have liked her, as would many others. Catherine died on July 9 of…