Governor General Vincent Massey fishing for Arctic Char at CamBay in March 1956
MIKAN 4313949 Governor General Vincent Massey fishing for Arctic Char at Cambridge Bay, N.W.T. mars 195Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
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Maley Drive: Why Has Greater Sudbury Been Keeping Species at Risk Info Secret for Years?
On Monday evening, around about the time it was closing its electronic gateway for the submission of comments from the public on the Maley Drive Extension proposal, the City of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats amidst chaos.
Maley Drive: Why Has Greater Sudbury Been Keeping Species at Risk Info Secret for Years?
On Monday evening, around about the time it was closing its electronic gateway for the submission of comments from the public on the Maley Drive Extension proposal, the City of…
Is representational democracy possible?
Social Structures of Direct Democracy: On The Political Economy of Equality John Asimakopoulos Haymarket, 2016 The role of superdelegates in some Democratic Party caucuses is current news that has people…
LNG Tankers Would Turn Saanich Inlet Into Marine Desert Says Scientist
The spectre of a massive, floating LNG plant in environmentally fragile Saanich Inlet may seem unlikely to gain environmental approval, but the proposal must be defeated before liquefied natural gas…
LNG Tankers Would Turn Saanich Inlet Into Marine Desert Says Scientist
The spectre of a massive, floating LNG plant in environmentally fragile Saanich Inlet may seem unlikely to gain environmental approval, but the proposal must be defeated before liquefied natural gas…
How Will Dion Justify This?
Given the ongoing contention surrounding Canada's decision to sell $15 billion worth of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia, one wonders what sort of dance moves Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion…
Feb. 23: We need an Irving to be King Canute
Al Jazeera and The Guardian carry the story of a rapid rise of sea levels, the most rapid in 2800 years. This is the claim of a study conducted by…
Rafe: MP’s Woodfibre LNG meetings to focus on climate…what about fish, tanker and health risks?
Liberal MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones is holding a series of public meetings into Woodfibre LNG's climate impacts - but what about local fish, tanker and health risks, asks Rafe Mair.The post…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Elaine Power discusses how a basic income can build both individual security and social solidarity:We work for lots of different reasons, not just…
Rain Gardens to Feature in Canada Blooms Competition
Canada Blooms is a competition to demonstrate one’s ability to display flowers. In the past it was based on the look of the arrangement done in a garden, now they…
Star Readers On The Guaranteed Annual Income
I write periodically in this blog on the concept of the guaranteed annual income; it seems it would be an effective way of helping to address many of the socio-economic…
Measuring Mr. Morneau.
Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau is a political newby. While he carries solid credits from the Toronto financial community, the gloves and all bets come off on March 22. First…
To Whom The Money Should Go
https://polination.wordpress.com/As soon a Bill Morneau announced that the federal deficit this yea...
Justin Trudeau, Young Canadians, and the Last Election
During the last election campaign I spent most of my free time trying to encourage young Canadians to vote.As did a lot of other people and groups all over the…
A thank you from Laura Miller
Received this, and thought I’d share. (Scott was my lawyer, too, winning a big case that went all the way to the SCC.) “Warren – Please accept my heartfelt thanks…
The Day Rona Ambrose Was Exposed as a Harper Puppet
Ever since Rona Ambrose became interim leader of the Cons she has been trying to pretend that it's no longer the Harper Party.But she just can't do it. She just…
Uncle Ottawa’s cash #nlpoli
The federal government would run a deficit this year three times larger next year than the one the Liberals expected during the election campaign. The deficit this year is running…
Welcome to the Chief Science Officer
Leading up to the 2015 federal election I volunteered my efforts to the group Evidence for Democracy (E4D), a group formed in reaction to the Harper government's "war on science."…