Dear Paddlers and Supporters,On October 6th, at 2 pm, Vancouver City Staff will present the newest Northeast False Creek planning recommendations to Council for approval. The report includes a list…
Sometimes we read things and we get that gut feeling that we are being subtly manipulated. Economics is of course full of this subtle manipulation. Words like “choice”, and “efficiency”…
While typically seen as the domain of regressive fundamentalist Christians who believe a woman’s place is in the kitchen, subservient to her husband, left-wingers are not immune to the issue.…
The Nobel prize-winning economist addresses the multitudes gathered near Wall Street. The scene was surrealistic: megaphones are banned in this corner of the Land of the Free, so an “echo-chamber”…
Bill Kelly, Hamiltonian, TV and radio Talk show host has taken a position on tomorrow's election. Here's his blog from this morning NDP Is Wrong For Ontario Posted 10/5/2011 6:39:00…
Straight, Publish Date: October 5, 2011 Hastings Park is a park, so it falls under the jurisdiction of the Vancouver park board, right? Well, it’s not, and Coalition of Progressive…
My predictions (based on riding projections from 308.com, recent polls, polling trends, individual riding polls) Liberals 50 seats (minority government) PC 31 seats NDP 26 seats threehundredeight's predictions LIberals 57…
While I’m not generally an NPA-supporter, I support good ideas regardless of where they originate. And Jason Lamarche, an NPA candidate for Vancouver City Council, has a good idea. The…
Why? Because she can't locate the new paperwork required to vote as a result of Republican voter suppression tactics.Why, really? She's African American.Dorothy Cooper, who worked her whole life as…
oil water.jpg A preliminary report released Wednesday by the federal Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force says that cleanup is needed for the Gulf of Mexico “urgently,” in orde...
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Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Erin compares the stimulative effects of Ontario's election platforms:A multiplier is the amount by which a dollar of budgetary outlay increases Gross Domestic Product…
I wrote the other day about the massive television screen outside BC Place, dwarfing Terry Fox Plaza. Not only is the screen an eyesore and a blast of light into…
...kills their Flogs, fires their Facebook pseuds. Congrats to Mike De Souza from PostMedia for doing the digging on this story. I'd visited Enviralment years ago and figured it was…
Whatever your thoughts about Jobs, his company Apple or the products he shepherded into existence, Jobs was an innovator and a visionary. His kind is getting rarer and rarer to…
What could have been one of the most amusing, mock-worthy gaggle of candidates in the history of the United States is now one nutter short. Sarah Palin announces she will…
This morning I read the Angus Reid poll that showed the PC's in the lead and was a bit surprised they hadn't captured any Liberal move, it reeked outlier. Dubbed…
Blackfriars station has been under some major construction in the past few years and it’s about to reopen to operations next year. While that’s happening construction has begun on installing…
