Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy
America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil and gas rush in recent history, with excitement spreading across the U.S. Oil and gas companies have cashed in on…
ZZZZZZZZZZZ…. While You Were Sleeping
I trust this needs no explanation. H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend this Post
Running Scared
The Harper Government, Michael Harris writes, is running scared. It’s now patently obvious that its claim to fame — competent management — is unadulterated flap doodle: The PM and his…
The Campaign Starts… #nlpoli
Okay anyone who believed Cathy Bennett was “thinking about it” over the weekend know that she was already getting her Liberal leadership campaign in gear. She’ll be launching later on…
Stephen Harper and the Con Canada Fakers
Sometimes a picture really does tell a story eh?Like this picture of the Canada Day party on Parliament Hill.The people dressed in the red and white of Canada, and the…
Islamic extremism and the power of an idea in the internet age
The comical, if it weren’t so serious, attempt by a couple of disaffected WASPs to murder, Boston Marathon style, Canada Day revellers at British Columbia’s legislature shows the power of…
WikiLeaks: Suspected Snowden Plane Grounded & Embassy Bugged
Assange blasted Obama today for lying about his government’s interest in capturing Edward Snowden, the celebrated whistle-blower who exposed Obama’s administration as spying on all Americans (and the rest of…
We got ’em! The terrorist non-threat of the non-explosives.
Well look at that, we got dem dere a couple of dem domestic terrrrrorists! Fully fledged domestic terrorists following the “ideology of al-Qaeda“, whatever that means. So… did they hate…
Attempted Terrorist Attack at BC’s Victoria Legislative Buildings Foiled.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger RCMP foiled an attempt to detonate pressure cooker bombs that were about to be set off at the BC Legislature. The attempt could well have resulted in…
6205…Better Call Saul
Saul Goodman that is. The oleaginous lawyer to meth dealers and the like on AMC’s Breaking Bad just may be getting spun off that show into his own series. Vince…
Rudd, BC Premier’s Seat, and other things.
Teddy here with an update on some seemingly random information. Australia: We have had 4 national polls since Rudd took over Labor’s leadership. I will average them VS the average…
Egypt: Morsi declares war
With my blood The Army stepped in, sending five helicopters with the Egyptian flag dangling below them, to fly over the packed Tahrir square in Cairo, and helicopters – sans…
2013 Prisoner Strikes
For more news about the 2013 prisoner strikes, see: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition California Prison Focus The Rock Newsletter Some background documents: The New Boss Looks A Lot Like…
Why Is A Free Press Important?
Watch this video of an interview with Glenn Greenwald for part of the answer: H/t Popular Resistance Recommend this Post
6204…Cote Ste. Luc Loves Marois
Wait, no, that is not it. This Canada Day pic is copied from Facebook and was taken in Cote Ste. Luc, a neighbourhood on the north west side of MTL.…
Academic matters not to be determined by Courts
Walia v. University of Manitoba et al., 2013 MBCA 61: Clearly and unquestionably, in my view, the pith and substance of the appellant’s action against the respondents is an academic…
Eight triumphs in Canada’s digital policy landscape
Digital policy expert Michael Geist reviews positive developments in the Canadian digital policy landscape – including the defeat of the government’s 2012 spying bill, protections for user-generated online content, and…