B.C.’s Prized Carbon Tax: A Primer
B.C.’s carbon tax has been called both elegant and a template for the rest of the world. Because it increases taxes on things we don’t want (emissions), reduces taxes on…
2015
Illegal or Just Inappropriate Meetings?
Collingwood’s three standing committees consist solely of three members of council, each.* These committees of three each hold regular, published monthly meetings, hear public delegations, address public issues, post an…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Your news links for today: Rogers, TELUS and Bell Lose Legal Challenge to CRTC Wireless Code – iPhone in Canada Cellphone carriers lose court challenge over CRTC new wireless code…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Toby Sanger takes a look at Canada’s balance sheets and finds that both households and governments are piling up debt while the corporate…
I rise to oppose the motion by my honourable colleague from Den Tandt
Mr. Speaker, the Honourable Member from the riding of Den Tandt has caused to be published the following: “There is one obvious way for Trudeau to leap this ditch, though…
MIT Encourages Solar Energy to Power the Future
Solar roof Now that climate change has reached the point that it is happening regardless if we stop all human produced carbon output we desperately need to change how we…
One Or Two Loose Screws
http://www.examiner.com/ Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney announced that the Harper government will show “zero tolerance” for groups advocating a boycott of Israel as a protest against that government’s treatment of…
What’s Not to Like: Food, History and Leftish Causes
Breakfast is just over, but as usual I’m thinking about food. Came across this great story about Thunder Bay, its Finnish connection and Labour strife there. The centre is a…
More On Government Muzzling
Yesterday, I posted a video of recently retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist Steve Campana speaking about the sad state of morale within bureaucratic ranks. The Harper regime’s obsession with…
May 20th – It Draw the Prophet Mohammed
May 20th – It Draw the Prophet Mohammed I really do not care if this offends people, I do not care when I depict other religious significant figures either, whether…
Hating the Hair is not enough Mel Hurtig.
It was 22 years ago when this writer almost ran as one of Hurtig’s Hooligans. Do you remember when the Edmonton book seller, publisher and Canadian nationalist formed the National…
The Madness of Stephen Harper and the Insane War on Science
In my last post I looked at Stephen Harper's Great War on Canada. And because it's such a vast subject and such a long nightmare, it raised a lot of…
Is Stephen Harper the Worst Prime Minister in Canadian History?
It's not a question most people who know me would dare ask me.Lest they be forced to listen to a five-minute diatribe, or watch my face turn red, and smoke…
Brain Farts #nlpoli
Some people have a hard time with the idea that a great many political decisions are not the product of deep thinking, extensive research, and agonizing debate. They come from…
Let’s Give Green Energy $5.3 Trillion This Year
What fraction of a decade would it take to completely get off fossil fuels and create a post-carbon energy/transportation infrastructure if the clean, green energy sector were publicly subsidized at…
How weird is this? Calgary Chamber of Commerce spokesperson praises Rachel Notley’s NDP government
PHOTOS: Premier Designate Rachel Notley, in orange shoes, with her caucus. Below: Scott Crockatt, the Calgary Chamber’s communications and marketing director; Manning Centre polemicist Colin Craig. Well, these are strange…
In this week’s Hill Times: anti-Semitism and white supremacy, courtesy of Canada Post
Some say the material is anti-Semitic and racist. So why is Canada Post distributing it? The publication is called “Your Ward News.” It has been distributed in Toronto for quite…
Director Furstenau faces the threat of 5 million tonnes of contaminated soil being dumped in the Shawnigan Watershed
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Sonia Furstenau was elected as Director, November 2014 to represent the Shawnigan community at the CVRD Board Table. She was immediately immersed in the struggle to stop…