Miklos Zagoni Wants Off Heartland Institute Expert List
Mr. Zagoni, a physicist and science historian at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, sent me the following email this morning: Dear Mr Muprhy, I got no connection to the HI since…
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Chris Landsea Dumps Heartland
As readers might know, I have been contacting scientists/academics on the Heartland Institute Expert list and asking if, in light of the Institute’s billboard fiasco, they intend to remain on…
Heartland/Hudson Senior Fellow Dennis Avery Doubles Down On Billboard Campaign
So, for the past couple of days I have been sending out emails to those scientist/intellectual types on the Heartland Institute’s Expert pages, letting them know that 1) they are…
No Charges Filed Against Gleick
As readers may remember, Peter Gleick is the hydroclimatologist who suckered the Heartland Institute out of some of their budget documents, which act has, directly or indirectly, resulted in HI’s…
Will Seat Redistribution Turn Tory Upon Tory?
At a regular monthly meeting April 25, councillors approved a motion to urge the electoral commission to maintain the “status quo,” and to keep as much of the county as…
On The Tory Human Smuggling Bill
There has been some surprise expressed at the tweaks announced today to Jason Kenney’s human smuggling legislation. Are the Harper Tories getting all soft and persuadable? The government line is…
Bernie Farber At The Kickoff To Ontario Jewish Heritage Month
I was lucky enough to attend the kickoff to Ontario’s first Jewish Heritage Month at Beth Torah Synagogue on Monday evening. Highlights included a choir, the name of which I…
Sun News Network’s Problem Is Not Being "High On The Dial"
Sun News Network received a $3-million investment from its co-owners in the last quarter, as losses accelerated at the upstart network amid struggles to attract the subscriber base needed to…
Rob Ford Lets David Menzies Slime George Smitherman For Being Gay
The recording is here; words are about 20 minutes in. Totally disgusting and maybe actionable. Sun TV must be so proud. And I guess so must we all in T.O.…
On Andrew Prescott
…the most likely candidate so far for Pierre Poutine. From Media Culpa: Further on in this thread, Andrew Prescott makes reference to being “asked today to join the Board of…
Sun Media Staff Exit The Propertied Class, Part III
Apparently, it isn’t just 333 King that’s been on the block. All their buildings are up for sale; their Cobourg property (99 King, housing Northumberland Today) is the latest to…
On Prosecuting Elderly War Criminals
Bernie Farber has a new piece on Huffpo. He says it better than I could: The hunting down of war criminals sends a universal message that such unspeakable crimes will…
What Will They Whine Of Next?
From the CHRC page detailing with access to info requests: Logically, the only people on the planet who would care would be the folks named in the request itself, desperately…
Let His Blackness Come Home
It is clear that the travails of prison life–the shitty food, the difficulty of taking a shower without getting gang-raped, the need to trade your Order Of Canada for some…
Windmills Do Not Cause Global Warming
Contrary to what you might have heard. Instead, this is what happens: …wind turbines mix up the cold and warm layers of air by dragging cold air from the ground…
When Green Energy Meets Endangered Species In Ontario
…you get something like this decision from the Environmental Registry, allowing Grand Valley Wind Farms Inc. to build nine wind turbines in the Township of East Luther Grand Valley on…
Over To You, Christy Clark
“Under the Enbridge proposal, British Columbia would assume almost all the project’s risk, yet would see only a fraction of the benefits,” said Dix in a release. “By any measure,…
Progress Is Measured In Small Increments
A decades-old pro-asbestos lobby group, currently funded by the Quebec government, will be shutting its doors after notifying the federal government of its plan to dissolve. …but it can be…