Apparently, The Proof Is Not In The Tasting
Dr. Patrick Moore, a shill lobbyist for Monsanto, refused to put his mouth where his money is when offered the opportunity to prove his claim that glyphosate, the active ingredient…
2015
Today, CRTC announces new protections and shows they’re listening to Canadians
This morning, the CRTC announced they’ll bring in a new customer protection code for Canadian TV users. While the CRTC has not yet drafted the code, they’re offering a two…
March 26: Damn!
A reader pointed out I made a mistake in my blog of March 25. I said the demonstration at MP Goguen’s office would be on April 31. I should have…
The Public Value of Public Sector Strikes
Photo from Public Domain The essence of an unjust society is to continually demand and take from those with the least the little that they have to support their lives…
From the Mekong to the Rio Grande – Some Things Just Don’t Change
During the Vietnam War, America maintained a large and active riverine force to patrol the Mekong and its tributaries to engage Viet Cong elements. It was a role featured in…
‘By any means necessary’: Heiltsuk vow to stop herring gillnet fishery
The Heiltsuk Nation is vowing to stop DFO’s opening of a gillnet fishery amid threatened herring stocks in Area 7 by “any means necessary”, after DFO refused to listen to…
The Power of Reuse: Wikipedia in Action
Summary of a panel at the Hewlette Grantees’ Conference. Errors are again my own. Pete Forsyth, Wiki Strategies(See also his blog post with resources for this panel at http://wikistrategies.net/oer-wikipedia-getting-started/ )…
Here’s How Canada Could Have 100% Renewable Electricity by 2035
Canada could become 100 per cent reliant on low-carbon electricity in just 20 years and reduce its emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, a new study shows. The report…
New Contest. Spot the Progressive!
I’ll bet you’ve got inside yourself some sense of progress, progressive, progressivism. Even bad people have a little. The question today is whether progressivism remains a real construct in Canadian…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, March 26, 2015
Your news links for today: Bell Media president Kevin Crull apologizes for ‘intrusion’ into CTV’s CRTC coverage – CBC News Can CTV News and BNN be trusted to report on…
ISIS: I am confused, as usual
How does bombing targets in Syria, without asking Syria for permission, and continuing to condemn Syria, make us an ally of Syria? #cdnpoIi — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 26, 2015…
I Used to Find Him Odd. Now I Know He’s Nuts.
He’s the Republican presidential nomination front runner (if only because there’s no one else in the race yet) and he’s a special guy at that. In his own humble opinion,…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s choice to turn the graduate retention credit into a purely political goodie rather than a program which could conceivably retain Saskatchewan graduates, while at the…
A Little Perspective, Please.
There’s a split in the Liberal ranks over Canada’s role in our notional air war against ISIS. Should we be bombing ISIS forces in Iraq? Should we expand our missions…
Bad Thinkers and the Unknown Knowns
I came across an interesting piece on bad thinking online recently. In it, the author argues some of the points I’ve mentioned in the past about people who believe in…
The Day Stephen Harper Was Called an Idiot by Tom Mulcair
Ever since he came to power Stephen Harper has made a mockery out of our parliament.He has used it as a bully pulpit, he has cut off debates, he never…
He Wants It Both Ways
https://www.pinterest.com/ When Stephen Harper rode into town almost ten years ago, he claimed that he was the new sheriff and he vowed to make Canadians feel safe. To that end,…
Why the Mike Duffy trial/scandal/whatever won’t topple the government, with bonus ALL CAPS
You all know my views on scandal stuff, but you also know I am a digitized, Internet-based broken record, and possibly not even a person. To wit: scandal-mongering DOESN’T WORK.…
Meanwhile, South Of The Border
Ah yes, that land whose political representatives make our elected reprobates look like shining exemplars. For this edition of The Dark Side, we return to the ongoing saga of Gordon…