Here’s One Way to Fund Badly Needed Infrastructure Projects
It’s the Colorado way – weed. Since legalizing the production, sale and recreational use of marijuana the state has been raking in a tidy sum in new excise taxes. Colorado’s…
2015
The Value of Pi
Happy Pi Day – 3.1415.. 3 (March). 14 (today).. 15 (this year). It ain’t gonna happen again, so enjoy!
Mike Godwin (of Godwin’s Law) Give’s Trudeau Speech Thumbs Up!
He didn’t like Blaney’s response quite so much. Read that bit here.
In Today’s Washington Post – Perpetual, Endless War Against Iran America’s Best Option
C’mon, it’s the Washington Post, a relatively (by American standards) prominent and credible newspaper that has gone a fair distance in recent years in purging its weirder instincts. Yet that…
A Closer Look at Oil and Climate Change.
Stephen Harper will not be pleased. The Carnegie Endowment is fingering his cherished Tar Sands. Not all oil is created equal. Sweet crude, of the Saudi sort, comes out of…
Jason Kenney Shows His True Colours
And they’re the colours of a serial liar. Methinks he’s over his head as minister of defence but maybe he’s just practising for the job he really wants. We’ve been…
Police State Canada–Will This Be Our Future Under PM Harper?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It’s a rainy West Coast Saturday morning, mild and quite beautiful but the direction that PM Harper is taking is chilling, surreal, shocking. Clearly our Prime Minister…
Special Words and Deeds to Support a Caregiver’s Hurting Heart
Recently, I wrote about friends who aren’t sure how to support a caregiver in distress. I talked about how difficult it is for caregivers themselves to know how anyone could…
Email and Confidentiality
A story in this week’s Connection titled “Private talk with CAO leads to Collingwood integrity commissioner complaint” sparked the following comment. No, this is not about what strikes me as…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – For those looking for information about today’s day of action against C-51, Leadnow and Rabble both have details. – Meanwhile, CBC reports that…
Stephen Harper and the New Racist Canada
The snow is finally melting on the waterfront. If I close my eyes and feel the warm sun on my face, I can almost dream that Spring is here at…
Only One Answer For All Time
http://expertbeacon.com/ Neo-Liberals have been preaching the same message for over thirty years: Debt — all debt — is bad. And they have relied on a well worn analogy. Public debt,…
About The "Harper Gestapo Act" And Other Prime Ministerial Fear Mongering
I would feel much more hopeful about October’s election if I believed this kind of critical thinking were common among our fellow citizens: Re: Tory rhetoric defies belief, Editorial March…
If this is not corruption, what is?
It seems that the foreign-owned big breweries took a pass on purchasing tables at the Liberal Party’s major fund-raiser this year. Of course, they tell us that it is not…
“Natural” remedies
Check out this exposeé done by CBC’s Marketplace. Turns out the show’s producers “invented” a natural children’s remedy claiming to help bring down fevers. They submitted an application to have…
Stephen Harper: Great Strong Leader or Terrorist Collaborator?
Well don't say I didn't warn you eh? Two years ago I wrote a post saying that I didn't think it was a good idea that Stephen Harper should appoint…
Tens of thousands expected to protest Harper’s Bill C-51 today
As many as 83,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Canada today to protest Bill C-51, Stephen Harper’s proposed “secret police” legislation. The post Tens of thousands…
E-petitions come to Canada
Congrats to Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart on getting enough support to make his dream of e-peitions in Parliament a reality. After the next election, Canadians will be able to submit…
The Life and Hopeful Death of a Pipeline Promoter Talking Point – Guest Post
A Kinder Morgan talking point promoted by the President of the BC Legislature Press Gallery sounds great – until you give it a moment of thought (and a fact check).Brett…