I Kid You Not
Ezra Levant, a pro-Green columnist for the Left-leaning Toronto Sun, said, “this pirate is pathetic. Paul Watson is a criminal who has embraced his darker side and needs to be…
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The Medieval Warm Period And Other Sciency Stuff
Potholer has a nice video discussing the reality of the Medieval Warm Period (it probably was) and its significance to the AGW debate (probably not much). Also some nice stuff…
CIJA On Bill C-31: Disagreeing Without Being Disagreeable?
I wrote not too long ago about CIJA’s (The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs) meager response to Bill C-31. Now The Centre has issued a meatier statement on the…
How Enbridge Fixes An Exposed Pipe
..in Rouge Park: The pipe is part of a line that was built in the mid 1970s, but in 2009 the river bank started to erode, shifting the water’s edge…
Northern Gateway Pot Pourri
Two new polls shows overwhelming opposition to Northern Gateway in B.C. One of them suggests that a good portion of BCers are willing to negotiate a better deal with Alberta…
Chick-Fil-A Rebellion!
Wow! Pictures don’t lie! From on-line reports, I’m seeing literally dozens of almost entirely old white folk supporting a restaurant that would jail homosexuals. As a Liberal, I am feeling…
Wind Concerns Ontario Speaks Out On Death Threats
I have received the following message (reproduced below in its entirety) from the WCO’s current president Jane Wilson re the recent threats directed against wind turbine worker Jeff Damen: WIND…
Anti-Wind Groups Should Renounce Violence
This story is most disturbing: West Grey Police are investigating alleged threats against a worker, who says he had a shotgun pulled on him while working on a wind turbine…
Die News Corp Die!
The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a digital newspaper for the iPad age, is laying off nearly a third of its staff. The publisher plans to tell its workers…
In The Event of An Oil Spill, Enbridge Will Pay
...as little as possible. Then: ….Enbridge representatives went door to door promising that they would pay for spill damages, Mayhall said. Now:“The statements at issue, that were made in Defendants’…
No Talent Thug Back In The News
Purported comedian Guy Earle his back in the news, trying to convince a judge that assaulting lesbians is free speech. Because the article through the link is a piece of…
How Much They Worry About First Nation’s Rights, The Environment, And Stuff In Calgary
CALGARY – A public hearing on a proposal to build a pipeline to ship oilsands bitumen from Alberta to the British Columbia coast has been cancelled in Calgary due to…
Your Daily Nazi: Mayor Rob Ford
…with Nazi. On an unrelated note, WK is totally fucked up in the head re Christy Clark and Northern Gateway. B.C. for B.C.ers! Down with the blue eyed sheikhs! Through…
I’ll Be Playing Mini-Golf That Day
For a Libertarian, failing once is not enough. By the way, I found the pic here, a story about the latest failed attempted at corporate sock-puppeting. That may or may…
Is A. Raoul Nembhard The New Patrick Brazeau?
Jason Kenney appoints him to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF). The day of the CRRF’s first meeting, he phones it in after dancing it up in Spain. Boogey down…
Who’s In That Burka?
David Menzies says he convinced a 14 year old kid to dress in a Burka and buy booze at an LCBO. David Menzies has brought his own son into his…
David Akin Indeed Out At Sun TV
…replaced by more Krista Erickson, as was rumored earlier this month. Confirmed here, though it sounds like he might still be writing for the chain.
Tim Ball’s Balls Burned?
It looks like Tim Ball’s legal defense in the defamation suit brought against him by climate scientist Michael Mann has gone entirely off the rails. Its a long story, and…
Another Arthur Topham Update
The fight against hate continues, section 13 or not. h/t. Some background here.
Northern Gateway: B.C. Conservative Leader John Cummins Speaks Out Re Northern Gateway
July 23, 2012 – Vancouver – John Cummins, Leader of British Columbia’s Conservatives, today announced the conditions that a new BC Conservative government would require for the construction of Enbridge’s…