Can the BC Liberals win?
Teddy here to answer a simple question: can the BC Liberals win. The answer, which might surprise some, is yes. A few things need to happen though to make this…
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Tomorrow on EG Radio: the Kalamazoo River oil spill
This week on Earthgauge, we’ll take a look back at what happened in Michigan in 2010 when an Enbridge pipeline ruptured spilling roughly 1 million gallons of oil into the…
Talk About the Company He Keeps: Part VI
Okay, this is hardly a new revelation, but given some of Paulie's friends have said they have never heard him say anything racist and that there is nothing wrong with…
5969…Sixty Eight Years Ago Today
The big one, WWTwo, ended. At least the Euro version did. Took a bit more to end things in the Pacific Theatre of War. WFDS
Lisa’s guide to voting in 10 easy steps
As you may have heard, Christy Clark is the premier of British Columbia. As such, she is alleged to be a politician. If they know anything at all, politicians are…
Stephen Hawking withdraws from Jerusalem conference – backs boycott of Israel
Reknowned British physicist, Stephen Hawking, has withdrawn from a conference scheduled to be held in Jerusalem in June. The conference – Facing Tomorrow – is to be hosted by Israeli…
Wanted: strong provincial action to protect our coast and rivers from tar sands oil
Thursday, May 9, 2013 On Earth Day (April 22nd) we joined many other environmental organizations in applauding Adrian Dix and the NDP for standing up for our coast, and expressing…
CN1376 AcadMOOC
7:54 pm Stephen Downes T -5 minutes 7:55 pm Mary Zedeck Hi Stephen! 7:55 pm Janesh Sanzgiri Excellent. Almost midnight here. 7:55 pm Javier Benítez disconnected 7:57 pm Susan Dixon…
Someone’s Sleeping, Lord
We tend to surround ourselves with like-minded thinkers; people who understand, if not agree with our politics, our, as Ignatius J. Reilly would say, “world view”, and our humour. By…
ConCalls: Gone Since December #RoboCon
The verdict for the Robocalls Federal Court challenge is still not in, after the judge started deliberating and writing back in December. No rush, I guess. Why hurry when we’ve…
5968…Canada Loves Mothers
Just in time for Mother’s Day comes this from The Washington Post. Who got it from Save The Children which is a London based NGO. That would be the other…
Interview: Energy Investor Bill Powers Discusses Looming Shale Gas Bubble
On Sat., April 27, I met up with energy investor Bill Powers at Prairie Moon Restaurant in Evanston, IL for a mid-afternoon lunch to discuss his forthcoming book set to…
Guest Commentary From the Salamander On The Harper Regime
The other evening I put up a post on Kellie Leitch, the erstwhile physician turned Conservative M.P., enthusiastic sycophant and prominent apologist of all things Harpereque. As he occasionally does,…
Child poverty rampant in Canadian cities
The story of child poverty in Canada is very much an urban story. One out of every 10 children living in urban areas was poor in 2010, compared to one…
Disney abandons efforts to trademark Day of the Dead
Thanks to a wave of online backlash, Disney is withdrawing its application to trademark the term Dia de los Muertos — otherwise known as the traditional Mexican Day of the…
Stephen Harper: His Caucus and Cabinet
Stephen Harper’s Caucus and Cabinet. H/t: Lorne’s Post Kellie Leitch Speaks Again In Her ‘Master’s Voice’ .
On public evils
Yes, there’s plenty of reason to wonder what the Canadian public is getting for millions of dollars in ads intended to advertise…nothing at all. But I’ll point out that the…
On public evils
Yes, there’s plenty of reason to wonder what the Canadian public is getting for millions of dollars in ads intended to advertise…nothing at all. But I’ll point out that the…
New Report: Canada-EU Trade Agreement Threatens Fracking Bans
The Council of Canadians, along with the Transnational Institute and Corporate Europe Observatory, released a report this week examining the threat that a proposed Canada-EU free trade deal would have…
An open letter from a concerned citizen of BC:
If ever the people of BC needed the power of the press, now is that time. The Basi-Virk plea agreement made public yesterday lays bare the corruption of our courts…