That Cold Lake Bitumen Spill – It Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
The 10-week old Cold Lake bitumen spill is expected to stop – basically whenever it stops itself. The company, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., says there’s nothing it can do to…
Some of the PCPO MPPs are being just plain ol’ scumbags today…
Like this guy, for example: I’m pretty sure that no one has been convicted of an offence. I guess Mr. Bob Bailey MPP doesn’t really care about stuff like “charges”…
Cobble Hill-Cowichan Bay Gravel Pit Proposal Has Residents Up in Arms
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Few things get residents worked up more than hearing that a gravel pit is destined to commence operations in their neighbourhood. In the Cowichan Valley like…
A Look at How Extremists Have the Republican Party in a Death Grip
Two prominent Democrats have decided to dig into the rotting corpse of the Republican movement to get a look at what lurks inside. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and political strategist…
Stephen Harper’s private army
It is known as the Canadian Special Forces Command, or CANSOFCOM. It commands a secret army, comprised of four units: the Joint Task Force-2 (JTF2), the Canadian Special Operations Regiment…
August 1: Norbert criticizes the CBC…
but loses it. It’s funny, really. Norbert has a magnificent vocabulary that is an echo of nineteenth century rural life. CBC editors, he suggests are “nervous nellies” and “sourpusses”. Boy.…
Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum
Edward Snowden gets to leave Moscow airport, finally. The Russkies have given Snowden a one-year temporary asylum to their country. Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s Russian lawyer, told the media he handed…
Bystanders to Calamity
Once while visiting remote Rivers Inlet I took shelter an old logging cabin that was apparently undergoing renovation. The inner walls had been stripped bare to reveal newspapers that had…
A Break From The Grimness
The last few days, with all of its bad news, have left me feeling just a little depleted, so I offer the following both as a change of pace and…
Why is Canada-based Ting not available for cell phone users in Canada?
Access to new affordable Canadian startup telecom providers is what OpenMedia.ca and its supporters have been pushing for for years – and it’s what Big Telecom is afraid of. That’s…
when it rains, it pours, or, welcome to my roller coaster
Tala is not doing well. You may recall, she has a chronic and degenerative spine condition. After a long rest and rehab process, she has been doing wonderfully – truly…
We Emit, These People Get the Tab
Across south Asia there are more than a billion people whose livelihood and lives are utterly dependent on the annual Monsoon rains. The severe impacts of climate change on their…
Kristin Chenoweth: Sings Anthony Weiner parody song on Jay Leno show
“She crooned: ‘They’ll think you’ve become a monk, though they’ve seen your junk, now you’ll play a different show. So let’s start because you’ve got an awfully long way to…
What Bruce Livesay said
Rabble.ca has picked up a piece from The Progressive Economics Forum by Bruce Livesay that discusses, among other things, the large amounts of money in uncollected taxes resulting from corporations…
Class War: US$11.5 Trillion Hidden in Tax Havens
Which tax haven is right for you? Class war is alive and well. I have this rose-coloured, nostalgic dream of history. Once upon a time we emerged from feudalism with…
Economist
It started with a car accident in February, and the total loss of our 2004 Prius, which had only been ours for less than a year. We were quickly compensated…
Christy Clark’s Giant Methane Fart – Part Deux
British Columbia premier Christy Clark has visions of our province becoming an energy superpower in its own right thanks to massive reserves of shale natural gas, methane, in northern B.C.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 1, 2013: Ontario woman, 85, charged with stunt driving in fatal crash U.S. government fights to…
Aggressive Cop Loses to Skateboarder
There might be a better way to entertain kids who want to skateboard in a city, other than yell at them, push them, and make their desired outdoor fun illegal.…