Rafe Mair’s Modest Proposal: Scrap environmental assessments
The 3-member NEB Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline (Damien Gillis) Do you enjoy being a raw hypocrite? Well, if you’re a taxpayer in Canada that’s…
2015
We must start ‘shaming’ thosewho lie to us, destroy our climate
During a flight from Montreal to Halifax I missed a chance to carry out an act of defiance – “shaming” – against a person who has greatly abused his position…
We must start ‘shaming’ thosewho lie to us, destroy our climate
During a flight from Montreal to Halifax I missed a chance to carry out an act of defiance – “shaming” – against a person who has greatly abused his position…
How fast is your Internet? We’re helping launch a new open source Internet Performance Test
By collaborating with our community, volunteers, and different partners around the world, we get to do a lot of cool things here at OpenMedia. But today’s launch is one of…
Judith Lavoie on the Shawnigan Contaminated Soil Battle
This article was originally carried in Victoria’s Focus Online. It covers the issue well but misses the crucial matter of the CVRD Shawnigan land use bylaws that prohibit treating and…
May 25: What can words say?
Netanyahu yesterday thanked Secstat Kerry for the US role in killing a big meeting of Middle East leaders to discuss de-nuclearizing the whole region. How nice of Mr. Kerry. Meanwhile,…
The Best Voting Method for Canadians – STV
Since Éric Grenier posted his somewhat controversial “308PR” post last week, I’ve spent some time looking at differing electoral systems and really trying to nail down what I liked and…
First Nation, star chef team up for unique herring benefit
Every year, the Great Bear Rainforest welcomes one of nature’s miracles as millions of herring return to spawn. Wolves, bears, eagles, whales, sea lions are all drawn from the forest…
The Debate About the Debates
“Pick your battles” is a wise adage for life, especially in the intensely competitive and adversarial arena that is politics. That is why we have a certain tolerance and even…
The Debate About the Debates
“Pick your battles” is a wise adage for life, especially in the intensely competitive and adversarial arena that is politics. That is why we have a certain tolerance and even…
The Debate About the Debates
“Pick your battles” is a wise adage for life, especially in the intensely competitive and adversarial arena that is politics. That is why we have a certain tolerance and even…
Spotted by a sharp-eyed reader: good news and bad
The good news for Liberals: they have a way to make fun of that new CPC ad. The bad news for Liberals: that old Manitoba campaign ad worked – my…
Kshama Sawant: An interview with ‘the most dangerous woman in America’
Kshama Sawant: An interview with ‘the most dangerous woman in America’ There is an alternative — even in the United States Perhaps no other elected official on the Left in…
Staying the flawed course
John Ivison is right to note that the Cons’ latest ad reflects the Harper braintrust sticking to what seems to have been a long-established plan. But it’s worth highlighting how…
Trudeau and his inner circle come up with a new strategy
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On minimal solutions
Shorter Corporatists to Fleece the Irrelevant Beggars trying to avoid a living wage for Alberta: Has anybody pointed out that if we ensure that the hungry have food, some of…
Adblock is Adhoc Answer to the Ugly Ad Dilemma
AdBlock Plus mobile browser could devastate publishers About 215 million people will use ad block services on their computers by June, company estimates CBC News Posted: May 25, 2015 5:00…
Conrad Black: Wrong on Religion, Again
Atheists renounce and abstain from religions; they don’t reform them. So said Conrad Black in a recent National Post column. Black seems to be increasingly theological in his writing; perhaps…