France and US killed Qaddafi for his gold and oil
Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt With the recent release of Hillary Clinton’s emails by Wikileaks, the public now knows exactly how the North Atlantic Treaty…
April 2016
Linda Frum’s Ghastly Assault on the Governor General
Linda Frum is one of the worst Con hacks in the Senate. And she's always getting into trouble on Twitter.Two years ago she caused a scandal, and made herself look…
Hey Rosetta and the Anti Harper Song
At the East Coast Music Awards last night, the Newfoundland band Hey Rosetta was the big winner. Newfoundland's Hey Rosetta! won big at the East Coast Music Awards gala Thursday…
Speaking tonight to Alberta Liberals
Dr. Swan was there and plenty of other great folks. But can you spot Rockin’ Al?
Musical interlude
Paul van Dyk - Time of our Lives
Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems
By George Monbiot Imagine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominates our lives has, for most of us, no name. Mention…
James Sears of "Your Ward News": 1992 "Toronto Star" Article
We last wrote about James Sears a little over a month ago. At that time we noted that Richard Warman had taken an interested in Sears and that those individuals…
Court Grants Permission For More Dumping Contaminated Soil Pending Appeal August 15th
Shawnigan residents thought that they had won a March 21st BC Supreme Court victory banning the contaminated soil operation from being dumped in their watershed were just hit with another…
Meet Brian Pallister the PC Leader of Manitoba AND Costa Rica
Brian Pallister is the Progressive Conservative leader of Manitoba.And in just four days he is widely expected to be elected as the new premier of that province.But now there seems…
Energy East threatens the drinking water of over 5 million Canadians: Report
A new examination of Energy East reveals that TransCanada's proposed tar sands pipeline "threatens the drinking water of more than five million Canadians." The post Energy East threatens the drinking…
another big 4/15 in the #FightFor15
Today, April 15 - 4/15 in North America - the Fight for 15 and Fairness made another leap forward. All over the US and Canada, and in countries all over…
Hottest January on Record. Hottest February on Record. Hottest March on Record. Do You See a Pattern?
Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you from your dreams of petro-paradise but this is getting tough to ignore.Earth is on a roll. Adding "yet another month to a new…
Layton’s Protege May Be Down but the NDP’s Centrist Forces Are Rallying
Mulcair couldn't "get her done" but that doesn't mean the ghost of Jack Layton has been exorcised from the NDP tent. Could a bitter civil war be in the offing?Even…
Sole Sourcing and the Trans Pacific Partnership
American running shoe company, New Balance, has leveled a damning accusation at the Obama administration.New Balance still manufactures shoes in the States unlike the competition that has long since departed…
Field notes from the Treaty 8 Moose Summit
Monday, April 18, 2016 In February 2016, West Coast's Hannah Askew attended a Moose Management...
April 15: The next, American revolution.
The Irving press hasn't said much about The Leap Manifesto by the NDP. We get a never ending series of commentaries by Liberal and Conservative politicians, none of them with…
Dilbit Dogma: On Pipelines to Tidewater
Friday, April 15, 2016 According to pipeline supporters and cheerleaders, one of the primary ratio...
Now Trudeau Has Amnesty Snapping at His Heels
Political Capital 101. If you're going to defend something as odious as the Saudi death wagon deal, bullshit excuses only make everything worse.First, Trudeau, dismissed them as "jeeps." Given that…
Twitter bits
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia’s energy market. It’s hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of…
Twitter bits
The final item may present a clue to the current state of British Columbia's energy market. It's hard to believe we came to this only through the sheer stupidity of…