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Iris – Saving Time
2015
How to destroy the climate in three easy steps
1. Abandon all previous targets and commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.2. Set a new target which one intends to ignore.3. Make clear to the world that developing policies to…
National Post Guilty of Defaming Climate Change Scientist
It shows the misguided focus of the national Postmedia “tabloid” when they let a star like Mike De Souza go, and hang onto a convicted libeler like Terence Corcoran. Maybe…
Screw Them All.
The Liberals could have done it. The Conservatives could have done it. The New Democrats could have embarrassed the government into doing it or at least tried and tried. They…
Climate Scientists Andrew Weaver Wins $50,000 in Defamation Suit Against National Post, Terence Corcoran
The B.C. Supreme Court awarded $50,000 in damages to climate scientist Andrew Weaver in a ruling Friday that confirms articles published by the National Post defamed his character. The ruling…
Los Indignados to Podemos
Filed under: Austerity, Crisis, Socialism, Southern Europe Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Podemos, Spain
Syriza’s tremendous path to power
VersoBooks.com. The Associate Professor of Comparative Political Analysis at the Athens Panteion University’s Department of History and Political Science and author of In the Name of Social Democracy assesses Syriza’s…
Guest Blog by James Robb – Using the internet to bring democracy closer to the people
Thanks to Icelandic resident James Robb for contributing this guest piece. Shortly after I moved to Iceland, my good friend and former colleague, Helgi Gunnarsson, who is now an MP…
Feb. 6: meanwhile…
I’m happy to say the Irving press has enough ignorance and silliness in it today so that I should have enough for a column about it tomorrow. Meanwhile, let’s cover…
How the heck did you lose that one, Andrea?
Credit: Sudbury Star I will admit from the top here: I actually expected Glenn Thibeault and the Ontario Liberals to go down in flames in Sudbury last night. That opinion…
Canada’s Public Companies Should Disclose Political Spending: Report
Unlike the U.S., where the wellspring of cash flooding federal elections is reaching a new level of absurdity (try $5 billion), Canada has kept federal political campaigns relatively grounded by…
How Canada’s net neutrality rules are some of the best in the world
This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. Yesterday, U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his agency’s commitment to the strongest possible rules to prevent telecommunications companies from forcing…
Provincial-Federal and Regional Authorities Ignoring Threat of Landslides and More Flooding in Cowichan Bay
Richard HughesPolitical Blogger It is shocking that neither the Cowichan Valley Regional or the BC Government officials are taking the required actions to protect the residents and their properties below…
Stephen Harper: Incremental fascism? You be the judge
“Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:”…
Hey, It’s Friday. The Perfect Day to Fend Off ALS.
Everyone knows that ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gherig disease, is one of the worst afflictions you could possibly get. Which is why there’s good news, hope on the horizon, so belly…
Stephen Harper: government of thugs
The current Canadian government is unlike any that has ever come before it and, let’s hope for the sake of Canada, any that is to come after. The Conservative government…
The 28-Pages that Could Condemn the House of Saud and Liberate the West.
The Gulf princes and sheikhs, especially the House of Saud, have been very successful in ducking scrutiny over their role in launching, funding and covering for every Sunni terrorist group…