International Leaders of Geothermal Energy Agree to Work Together
Geothermal energy is very simple in principal: drill a hole into the hot earth and use the naturally occurring heat to get turbines spinning. In practice it can be very…
2017
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday September 12, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. It is very difficult for employers to prove “just cause”…
This Is The Moment
The news coming from North America over the last two weeks has been increasingly dark. Mother Nature is not happy. Bill McKibben writes: That one long screed of news from…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Penney Kome raises the question of who will be responsible for the damage wrought by climate change. And Trish Audette-Longo reports that…
Money has its privileges.
They named the provincial Conservative candidate for York-Simcoe the other day. There will be no sweaty contested nomination meeting for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s kid. Caroline Mulroney got a…
Ted Cruz Likes Porn, Literally
So Ted Cruz, how will you remember 9/11? Ted Cruz: pic.twitter.com/TW0psPuBQh — Antony Copland (@SprowstonStud) September 12, 2017 8 months ago, this Twitter user claimed Ted made the same mistake…
Paul Hinman wants to contest UCP leadership! He has till tonight to raise $57,500! I’m not making this up!
PHOTOS: Would-be UCP leadership candidate Paul Hinman, back when he was Wildrose Alliance MLA for Calgary-Glenmore. Below: Preston Manning, Ted Hinman, and Ernest Manning. Paul Hinman? Seriously? Has somebody stumbled…
Fighting for Climate Justice
Photo by Tikanga Toru Youth Commission Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always – sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating…
Un groupe skinhead québécois cause une commotion en France (repost)
Un spectacle de musique et de combats illégaux mettant en vedette un groupe québécois d’extrême droite vient de causer une commotion dans un village du sud-est de la France, où…
Book review: Social policy in Canada (second edition)
Oxford University Press has recently released the second edition of Social Policy in Canada, co-authored by the father-daughter duo of Ernie Lightman and Naomi Lightman. I recommend this book as…
That 9/11 Picture
People who worked at Open City at the time might recall Vladimir doing a lot of work with this image, yea, it was iconic, too real, way out there…because it…
My response when guys say other guys aren’t good feminists
Personally, I think we men should kind of shut up on who is a better feminist, and focus on being better men. https://t.co/gh7XHA6Xya — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 11, 2017
Fuck Colonialism
Stumbled upon this flash mob in Saint Henri Sunday afternoon. They stopped a passenger train. Train is stopped fairly early in its journey from out of downtown Montreal. I was…
Why coal can’t make America great again
Donald Trump gets fired up about coal in West Virginia Among the ways Donald Trump vows to “make America great again” is reviving the US coal industry. That’s a stretch…
Is Our Time As Top Dog Over?
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk see it as a mortal threat to mankind. To Vladimir Putin it’s the key to world domination. ‘World Domination’ – are we back to that…
Lisa and I were in court this morning
…not to go after neo-Nazis – we’re still doing that, at the end of September – but to support our great friend Laura Miller. Today was just the preliminaries. She…
Pipelines to Nowhere
Don’t expect Justin Trudeau to admit it but his government is subsidizing Canada’s foreign-dominated fossil energy giants to the tune of $34-billion a year. That’s not the claim of some…
Steve Bannon and the Death of the Republican Party
I don't know or care how the grubby boozer Steve Bannon managed to burrow into Donald Trump's diseased brain.And only a psychiatrist can explain why Trump believed anything Bannon told…
Brian just keeps bashing our hospital
I see DM Saunderson continues his assault on our hospital with his motion on the upcoming Sept. 11 council agenda: Whereas the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital has received information…