What’s Stopping Canada from Putting a Price on Carbon?
For the first time in several years, carbon pricing in Canada is back on the national radar. Recently a group of more than 60 Canadian experts published a report, Acting…
2015
Budget days
Teddy here. I don’t have any deep analysis of the Federal and Provincial (Ontario) budgets, but the fact they were released so close to one another will certainly have impacts…
Wow! Over 200,000 speaking up about Bill C-51 – thanks, Canada!
This is amazing: our joint petition against spying Bill C-51 has reached an incredible 200,000 signatures. Thanks to everyone for speaking up and sending the government a clear message that…
Inconvenient comments from Conservatives on Budgets
Inconvenient comment #1: Inconvenient Comment #2: Former Conservative Finance Minister – the late Jim Flaherty – ruled…
It’s Louisiana, Bobby, the Urinal Cake of the United States.
Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, is at it again. In a New York Times op-ed, Jindal has pledged to protect the ‘religious liberty’ of individuals, businesses and corporations in his state…
Federal Budget 2015: What’s in it for the Environment
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 On April 21, the federal government released its 2015 budget. Weighing in at over 500 pages, it contains a number of measures related to the environment.…
Texans and Frogs. What Do They Have in Common?
It’s pretty hard to exaggerate our indifference to early-onset impacts of climate change. They’re here, they’re worsening before our eyes and, more often than not, we ignore them. Some call…
New book asks: Can civilization survive unprecedented climate crisis?
Water scarcity and resulting wars will be a key consequence of the climate crisis The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that human-caused climate change is already responsible for 150,000 deaths…
Bill C-51 undermines Canada’s business climate and global reputation
Canadian business leaders and tech entrepreneurs are convinced that Stephen Harper’s Bill C-51 undermines Canada’s business climate and global reputation. The post Bill C-51 undermines Canada’s business climate and global…
Canada Advances to Top Tier Warmongering. Congratulations All.
Did you hear the news? Pakistan has inked a deal to buy eight modern Chinese submarines. Pakistan, yeah. And the Pakistan navy is looking at developing nuclear warheads for the…
Saskatoon Riding the Coattails of History
Acknowledging that an important feature in Saskatoon was constructed by the government, then bragging that construction of a future valued feature (a wind turbine) was avoided by the government instead…
Let’s Ditch the Cowboy Act
Modern, high-tech warfare is putting many nations in an increasingly offensive military posture. The controversial F-35 is a perfect example. Despite what we’re told, the F-35 is not a fighter…
Who’s going to win the next federal election?
Here’s what the CBC’s polling aggregator has to say: With the Liberals and Conservatives currently neck-and-neck in voting intentions, the tendency for polls to accurately predict the winner six months…
Choosing the wrong side
Following up on this morning’s column, let’s note that there’s another area where the Libs are stubbornly sticking to a previous position whose underpinnings have been even more thoroughly destroyed.…
New column day
Here, on how the massive shift in public opinion against the Conservatives’ terror bill should remind us that people are more than willing to reconsider their initial position on a…
How Stephen Harper Created the Duffy/Senate Mess ……
In a May, 2013 Buckdog post, I told you how the Duffy/Harper mess got started … May 20, 2013:“When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, April 23, 2015
Your news links for today: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s New Budget Invests Heavily in the Military and Spies – VICE The curious case of Tom Mulcair: C-51 and the…
purry lump cat purrs
Rather than keeping this boy on my chest and face, where he prefers to sleep, we’ve come to an arrangement where he stretches out along my chest, on my arm…