Next Time Someone Tells You Global Warming is a Hoax
You might want to send them over to NASA so they can have a look at what's really going on.The chart above shows temperature anomalies for the month of January.…
February 2016
Quote of the week…
… from the Guardian: Stephen Harper, Canada’s former prime minister, was a vacuous, anodyne nothing, as magnetic on the public stage as the podium he spoke from. His occasional efforts…
Is Enbridge Preparing to Cut and Run from Athabasca?
When it comes to the Athabasca Tar Sands, dilbit and Enbridge have always seemed inseparable. The biggest pipeline company had bold plans to transport diluted bitumen from Alberta to Kitimat,…
Irreconcilable Differences?
What to do, what to do?Our formal ally is a total dick and it's about to go medieval on the bunch we really like, our informal ally. The dick is…
Site C Dam Permits Quietly Issued During Federal Election
Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government issued 14 permits for work on the $9 billion Site C dam during the writ period of the last election — a move that…
Site C Dam Permits Quietly Issued During Federal Election
Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government issued 14 permits for work on the $9 billion Site C dam during the writ period of the last election — a move that…
It’s Raining Freedom in Libya
If your idea of freedom is a 500 kg. bomb, then it is indeed raining freedom in Libya. Without so much as a by your leave from the UN Security…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Larry Elliott writes that the OECD is calling on its member states - including Canada - to stop pushing destructive austerity and instead focus…
Does a Pope trump a Trump?
This must be the divine intervention that American Catholics have been praying for. Having a younger brother who is (in his order of importance) Republican, Roman Catholic, an American citizen…
A Fox In The Henhouse: Alberta’s School Helpers
In response to a recent blog entry that discussed Rex Murphy's most recent oil-shilling efforts, The Salamander alerted me to a Desmog Canada story going back almost two years. It…
Legacy News is Threatened By Lack of Ethics Not Subsidies
This week CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais ripped into journalism industry executives for asking for subsidies all while owning private yachts and helicopters. This statement has come while the CRTC has…
Responses to my article in CURRENTS (CASE’s Magazine)
Back in January, CASE published my article on using inbound marketing to reach admissions marketing goals in their magazine and online. I’ve been trying to keep track of the responses…
Guilty?
http://www.hilltimes.com/Mike Duffy is not a sympathetic figure. And th...
Exclusive: Slowly Dying Media Continues To Slowly DIe!
From Toronto Sun Family blog:Layoffs over at 333 King today. 3 advertising coordinators, and I'm sure there will be more to come before the big move to the National Post…
The Day the Harper Legacy Got Hit By a Double Whammy
Well what a difference a day makes. Yesterday I was worried that Justin Trudeau was being too nice to the Cons.And warned him it would get him nowhere.But today Justin…
Muskrat Falls electricity prices… again #nlpoli
The infamous JM is at it again."Top 10 Muskrat Myths" (via Uncle Gnarley) rebuts 10 of the arguments in favour of Muskrat Falls. All of this has been argued before…
Please, Let’s Never Allow This to Happen Again. Oh Canada.
Australian artist, Missy Higgins, was nursing her newborn son when she saw the photograph of Aylan Kurdi's lifeless body being carried off a beach by a Turkish soldier. We all…