Coal Exports: An Update On Pacific Northwest Coal Fights
This is a guest post by Josephine Ferorelli, originally published at Occupy.com. There is not enough room in the national headlines for all the battles between fossil fuel expansion projects…
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Thoughts about the garment factory in Bangladesh
Stories are coming out about the Bangladesh clothing factory that collapsed and various groups are taking aim at different companies whose clothing was being made there. A Canadian group is…
In Sunday’s Sun: relentlessly (and dangerously) positive
Does positive work? Canadian politicians such as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and British Columbia NDP Leader Adrian Dix are hoping the answer — your answer, to be precise — is…
April 28: What’s it all about?
First, I should confess that I have several posts from readers pointing out I had incorrectly referred to Health Minister Flemming as Hemming. I could say I was protecting all…
April 28: What’s it all about?
First, I should confess that I have several posts from readers pointing out I had incorrectly referred to Health Minister Flemming as Hemming. I could say I was protecting all…
The Every-Country-For-Itself Face of the Global Food Insecurity Crisis
Consider these two realities. (1) The United Nations World Food Programme toils to keep millions of people alive (2) in the same African nations where affluent grain-importing countries like Saudi…
Cowichan Co-operative Connections News-Release
COWICHAN CO-OPERATIVE CONNECTIONS NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release Local Organization Calling for Government Support for Co-ops DUNCAN – Cowichan Co-operative Connections feels government could take on a bigger role in…
That Decision Just Got a Lot Easier
Looks like I’ll be voting NDP in the upcoming British Columbia elections. I had some qualms about backing the NDP or my party of choice, the Greens, especially when it…
F-35 Cyber-Warplane, Cyber-Vulnerable
One of the big selling points of the F-35 is the warplane’s stealth electronics. The F-35’s systems are so advanced that the maker had to write almost ten-million lines of…
5924…Dead Hooker Bursts To Life
Slow news day. Forgive me. So I mosey over to The Sun, the U. K.one and learn that a sex worker in Zimbabwe died while at work at the Manor…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Daniel Kaufman notes that the EU is on the verge of implementing new standards for transparency in oil extraction – while recognizing that…
Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Daniel Kaufman notes that the EU is on the verge of implementing new standards for transparency in oil extraction – while recognizing that…
Why Mulcair Shouldn’t Be Trusted to Govern Canada.
Any doubts whether T. “Tony” Mulcair is ready to govern Canada are resolved by his actions in the modest controversy over the Supreme Court of Canada’s handling of the 1981…
Oh, Rogers, I didn’t think I could despise you more
This was the final straw for me. A few months ago I called into Rogers to cancel my Internet and switch to Teksavvy. We had been passing our 120gb/month limit…
The Good’ The Bad and The Ugly!
Its been a roller coaster ride this week on the political scene, between the Conservative attack ads and the response to them, the speakers ruling on the right of MPs…
Making The Mighty Nervous
Stephen Harper has greeted the new leader of the Liberal Party with mockery. It is the same response he had for both Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff. But don’t be…
bangladesh factory fire: consumers are not the problem, or the solution
As I write this, the death toll in the recent Bangladesh factory fire nears 350. That number is expected to grow, as scores of people are still trapped under giant…