Oil Spills And The Harper Brand
Time for a brief follow-up to Elizabeth May’s fine dissection of how Harper environmental cuts contributed to the slow response to Vancouver’s English Bay oil spill. In today’s Star, Tim…
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Got An Oil Spill? Call This 1-800 Quebec Number
Every time I hear Elizabeth May speak, my respect for her deepens. Watch as she explains how the response time to Wednesday’s oil spill in English Bay was hampered by…
Stephen Harper Is A Real Man
At least someone from this Hour Has 22 Minutes thinks so: Hope Dear Leader appreciates having such unbridled adoration. Recommend this Post
Amanda Lang Interviews Ed Broadbent
If you have as low an opinion of the CBC’s disgraced chief business correspondent, Amanda Lang, as I do, watch the following video. I think you will find that, with…
And Speaking Of Harper’s Former Friends and Appointees….
Another one sends his greetings from jail in Panama. The disgraced Arthur Porter, the Harper-appointed former Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee of Canada and alleged fraudster, has a…
Tells You All You Need To Know, Doesn’t It
It is a mental picture I hope all Canadians carry to the polls this October: “To Duff, a great journalist and a great senator, thanks for being one of my…
Just A Reminder Of Some Upcoming Events
And who says there’s nothing to look forward to? Recommend this Post
Is A Carbon Tax More Effective Than Cap And Trade?
Truthfully, I don’t know the answer to that question, although some might say that any action is better than none on the climate-change file. In any event, a Star reader…
How Do You Define A Threat?
It’s all a matter of perspective, I guess: Recommend this Post
The Great Thing About the Extreme Right Wing
… is that their egregious stupidity is self-evident: Recommend this Post
What A Cynic Might Say
A cynic might say that Joe Oliver’s thinly-concealed plan to double the contribution limits of the Tax-Free Savings Account to $11,000, despite the fact that it will benefit only the…
The Next System Project: A Practical Example
Yesterday’s post revolved around The Next System Project, an initiative committed to exploring replacements for the traditional institutions that are failing our world so badly. One major focus of the…
Jesse Brown Was right: The CBC Did Cave
A week ago I wrote a post based on a report by Canadaland’s Jesse Brown asserting that pressure had been exerted by the Keilburger organization over a documentary from the…
Details, Details, Details
Details. It seems that Conservative MP Diane Ablonczy finds them irksome impediments to action. Details like objections to violations of our Charter Rights: During the final day of parliamentary hearings…
A Very Sobering Message
A friend sent this to me yesterday. I am not using any tags for this post in order to conceal the true subject matter. Please make sure you watch the…
Hither And Thither
For a government whose every policy seems to be concocted with an eye to re-election, it is not surprising that Finance Minister Joe Oliver has not yet firmed up a…
Another Route To Justice
Those that follow such things will know that proving police brutality is very difficult. Absent video evidence, the police narrative usually is that the one claiming to have been brutalized…
Some Inspiration From A Clear-Thinking Citizen
That’s what I derive from Donald Crump’s Star letter. It is a shame more of our fellow citizens are not possessed of such critical faculties: Increasing risk of terror in…
The Quiet Eloquence Of Harry Smith
His is a quiet eloquence that speaks far louder than all the braying our political ‘leaders’ engage in with abandon. Harry Smith, about whom I previously posted, is a man…