A green NAFTA? Is it possible?
It isn't much but it's promising. Last Friday, Canada, the United States and Mexico signed a memorandum of understanding that could lead to a North American accord on climate change…
2016
Vancouver Park Board wants nature in the city, not an urban jungle
Vancouver Park Board has approved a comprehensive plan to increase the size and quality of Vancouver’s natural areas including:ForestsWetlandsStreamsShorelinesMeadows The Biodiversity Strategy will expand vital habitat for:PollinatorsBirdsUrban...
About that storm…
… that we had in Ottawa yesterday. All things considered, I think the City staff and equipment handled the situation the best they could. More than fifty centimetres of snow…
When in a hole, stop digging
So Notley did. Good. Now, can we please all go back to pretending there is something called “The Media Party?”
Just because a statement is ruled voluntary does not mean the statement is true
In R. v. Angutimarik (February 15, 2016 NCJ unreported) the Court makes clear that a confession, even if admissible as voluntary, is not necessarily to be taken as true. The…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Thomas Piketty writes that regardless of the end result, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign may mark the start of a fundamental change in U.S. politics:…
Abstinence Only Sex Education Loses Funding in the USA
President Obama has cut funding for abstinence only sex education in the 2017 federal budget. The lack of adequate sex education has led to health crises and too many unwanted…
From the bulging “junenile insults” file: Kid Kodak lashes out
My sense he is unhappy about not being reappointed. Um. Er. Here’s his (typically) tweeted response to Your Humble Narrator’s post of yesterday, which he posted at three o’clock in…
An Honourable Member from Barrie.
In writing about the honourable members we elect to our legislatures and parliament yesterday, an image kept coming to mind of our new Member of Parliament for Barrie–Springwater—Oro-Medonte. It is…
If we dither, we die. #nlpoli
by Chuck Furey________________"Indecision becomes decision with time" someone once said.The current fiscal nightmare in Newfoundland and Labrador is real.One only need compare the amount of borrowing in 1933 (34%} to…
Go figure! Ezra Levant, the Pied Piper of right-wing-nuttery, has the mainstream media singing his tune!
PHOTOS: Right-wing commentator Ezra Levant in a typical pose, photo by David Stobbe of the University of Saskatchewan. Below: stringer Sheila Gunn Reid in a screen shot of The Rebel’s…
Rona The Droner Ambrose’s Insane Fighting Frenzy
Well I know some people think I'm exaggerating when I say that Rona Ambrose's bombing obsession is now bordering on insanity.Or when I say that she repeats herself a lot,…
Found Art
Filed under: Photography
Truth found in numbers, lies found in words
I am reading budget documents and will soon be writing more about the provincial government's financial smoke and mirrors but I have initial comments.Natural GasBC Liberals, particularly Premier Clark, are…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats vs. gravity.
Area to be Flooded By Site C Dam Was Once Recommended as Provincial Park
By Tim Burkhart, former researcher with the Cohen Commission and Peace River Break Coordinator with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Braving freezing temperatures and risking arrest, an alliance of…
Area to be Flooded By Site C Dam Was Once Recommended as Provincial Park
By Tim Burkhart, former researcher with the Cohen Commission and Peace River Break Coordinator with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. Braving freezing temperatures and risking arrest, an alliance of…
On Syria and Western Involvement
In response to the following editorial on the mess that is Syria: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/by-giving-up-on-syria-us-hands-kingmaker-role-to-putin/article28747502/ I wrote the following: I will politely disagree with a couple of points at the end: the…