Check Out Solar Impulse, Live, Online
Think of it as an aerial solar panel. The aircraft, Solar Impulse, is now winging its way across the United States. It’s currently on the San Fransisco to Phoenix leg…
An Anniversary Many Would Like To Forget
In his column today, Tim Harper reminds us that yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the Harper majority government. It is hardly an occasion that progressives take delight in as…
New series Alberta politics-themed childrens books released.
TweetPremier Alison Redford was criticized this week after she harshly denounced her opposition in a campaign-style speech to a group of school children in Calgary. In response to the Premier’s…
Pam Geller/Rabbi Kaplan Update
Something that has gone unmentioned in the T.O. Sun story on the matter is that Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue has been in trouble with York Regional…
The NRA Installs A New President And He Is Proof Of How Mentally Deranged The American Right Has Become
“Jim Porter of Birmingham, a longtime board member whose daddy’s name graces an NRA championship shooting trophy, is expected to take office tomorrow in Houston at a national shindig that…
Immigrants: 70,000 People Tell The New York Times To Drop The I-Word [VIDEO]
We recommend:New York Times reconsidering the term ‘illegal immigrant’Associated Press Ditches “Illegal Immigrant”. And A Lesson For Jason KenneyFukushima’s victims show why Harper must update nuclear liability lawCanada, immigration…
Koch Brothers, ALEC Attack Maine Renewable Energy Standards
Maine’s clean energy legislation has spurred more than $2 billion in local investment and created at least 2,500 jobs in the Pine Tree State. That isn’t stopping some state lawmakers…
Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly.…
Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly.…
Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly.Here…
Ontario NDP Want To Hear From You On The Budget
The Ontario NDP would like to hear your feedback on the budget before deciding on supporting it or not. The Liberals sort of supported the NDP demands, but not exactly.…
First Nation demands resignation of Alberta Energy Regulator chair, ex-Big Oil exec Gerry Protti
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) is demanding the resignation of Gerry Protti, the newly-appointed chair of Alberta Energy Regulator, a new agency…
The Face of Globalization
When you’re racing for the bottom dollar, it eventually costs some people their lives.
Flying to Chesterfield Inlet
On the way – maybe! – to Rankin and then Yellowknife.
A challenge to Sid Ryan
Sid Ryan, the OFL’s “leader,” has been getting upset about a series of friendly inquiries I’ve been sending his way via the miracle that is Twitter. I’ve been asking him…
Video: Kingston is “Voting in the Streets”
It had all the trappings of an election — lawn signs, leaflets, TV commercials, media coverage and an army of volunteers knocking on doors. This vote, however, wasn’t run by…
ICAO Won’t Relocate, But Not Because of Harper Government Diplomacy
Until yesterday, I suspect very few Canadian outside of the airlines industry actually knew that the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the UN organization which promotes regulation of international air…
CISPA is NOT dead and here’s why you should care
CISPA, a U.S. warrantless online surveillance bill, would turn the websites you use into legally immune government spies. It’s stalled in the Senate right now, but it looks like they…
Drought in California, Dry Days Here: What’s the Future of Water Resoures
A friend in California just wrote about their extended drought, just as the first news of brush and grass fires make the news. I spent a couple of hours this…
Blood work: A conversation with the director of Blood Relative
One ongoing trend in documentary filmmaking involves privileged minority world saviours travelling to distant destitute lands in order to do good or capture the act of doing good on film.…