Four colour panel discussion at Tingfest
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May 2016
May 21: Well, I never – a rich man who doesn’t pay taxes!
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/video/news/past-returns-prove-trump-has-paid-zero-income-tax-in-previous-years/vi-BBti925?ocid=spartandhpA man has made so much money he can finance his own run for president and have his own private jet. But he didn't ma...
Eating up the Hill: Rob Jamieson’s Liberal constitutional buffet
Last Monday I attended a briefing on amendments to the Liberal Party of Canada constitution at the Farmteam Cookhouse on Sparks Street. The party sprang for a few plates of…
Eating up the Hill: Rob Jamieson’s Liberal constitutional buffet
Last Monday I attended a briefing on amendments to the Liberal Party of Canada constitution at the Farmteam Cookhouse on Sparks Street. The party sprang for a few plates of…
Eating up the Hill: Rob Jamieson’s Liberal constitutional buffet
Last Monday I attended a briefing on amendments to the Liberal Party of Canada constitution at the Farmteam Cookhouse on Sparks Street. The party spring for a few plates of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- James Wilt discusses a much-needed effort to map out the connections between fossil fuel corporations. And Bruce Campbell highlights how the resource sector is…
A line in the tar sand for Trudeau.
The ball is in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s court. A three-person panel of the Calgary-based National Energy Board has approved twinning the American-owned Kinder Morgan pipeline. The board panel has…
Trump-Clinton Syndrome
Alan Freeman writes that, when he was the Globe and Mail correspondent in Washington, nobody paid attention to Canada. Suddenly, he writes, that has all changed:Over the past week, major…
The Bernie Sanders Campaign and Left Politics in Canada
Photo by Gage Skidmore Does the Bernie Sanders campaign matter here? Of course it does. Who among us has failed to “feel the Bern”? Thanks to Bernie, and contrary to…
Breaking Free: A Rising Tide of Climate Resistance
Photo by Andy Clark “Welcome to Fort McMurray. We have the energy,” reads the signs as one enters this northern deep-woods outpost at the center of the Alberta tar sands…
The Trudeau Haters and the Con Media
Sometimes when I hear the Harper Party, the Mulcair Party, and all the other Trudeau haters going after Justin Trudeau with blood in their eyes, and foam in their mouths.I…
Ruth Ellen Brosseau: Now She’s Not a Clown She’s a Martyr
We all saw Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the House of Commons trying to physically block the Con whip from returning to his seat.And then after getting accidentally elbowed by Justin…
Rafe to Justin: Kinder Morgan approval makes mockery of democracy
My Nova Scotia pen pal, the voice of common sense in this country, Silver Donald Cameron, is fond of saying “laws are made by those who have the power to…
David Suzuki: Eating less meat will reduce Earth’s heat
Canada environmentalist David Suzuki: "The environment and climate would benefit substantially if more people gave up or at least cut down on meat and animal products". The post David Suzuki:…
Vancouver Mayor Slams NEB Pipeline Review And Trudeau’s Added "Stopgap Measure."
You could say that Gregor Robertson doesn't much care for the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, the rigged National Energy Board approval process or Justin Trudeau's ploy to gloss it all…
Justin Trudeau’s supposed elbow assault nothing but a set up. NDP deception.
The media is buzzing over the rhubarb in the parliament that was more than unflattering to all participants PM Justin Trudeau, after making a beeline to the knot of NDP…
Musical interlude
Jason Collett - Song and Dance Man
Walk # 2 Part 2
“Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller’s, only to know that
Brousseau Clings Tenaciously to Her Moment of Fame
You gotta give it to Ruth Ellen Brousseau. The NDP MP knows how to wring every drop of attention she can get out of a non-event and she is sure…