Deepwater Horizon Still A Massive Headache For BP
bp-logo-dripping-oil.jpg The problems facing BP along the Gulf Coast continue to pile up. After more than a year of investigations, the U.S. Coast Guard has finally released their long-awaited as...
Who cares about that silly old ozone layer anyway?
Evidently not Canada."People are gob smacked by this decision," Thomas Duck, an atmospheric researcher at Dalhousie University, said in an interview with Postmedia News. He and his international colleagues say…
Oil Illiteracy. University of Calgary paid to deny climate change.
When a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against…
Self defence – you don’t need to run away if you’re at home
The Court of Appeal today said you can stand your ground and protect yourself at home if attacked. Anywhere else, if you can avoid a fight by walking way, your…
Whither the NDP?
Is it just me or do Liberals keep giving recommendations to the NDP that amount to little more than telling the NDP to become Liberals?Having seen what happened to the…
Ontario election: political abstinence
Fern Hill has an interesting but disheartening post up at DAMMIT JANET! about the increasing tendency of political candidates to cower in their basements plead “prior commitments” to avoid being…
Rob Ford Wants to Put Back Pictures of Queen in Toronto Public Buildings
The Queen's image has been retouched and will also appear on Toronto Subway Tokens.
Kai Nagata: Media Crusader
After that last article, I want to point out something positive* on the internet. You remember Kai Nagata right? He wrote what may have been the best resignation letter ever.…
Charlottetown Redux: Brian Topp, The Bloc Quebecois And The Quebec Nation’s Special Status
During his press conference on Monday, New Democrat leadership candidate Brian Topp invoked a non-existent resolution as justification for increasing the number of seats from Quebec in the House of…
Manning Centre releases 2011 State of Canada’s Conservative Movement
The Manning Centre, founded by former Opposition and Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, released its second annual State of Canada’s Conservative Movement report. The study is comprised of three parts,…
How to Participate in the MOOC – 2
Today it's all about setting up your social web.Remember from yesterday that if you want to engage more actively in the course, the best way is to create your own…
Wrong, wrong, so very wrong
Apparently people respect Vito Tanzi. At least, that’s what an article in the Globe and Mail tells me, and their journalists must be impartial right? Tanzi apparently believes that because…
The Eurozone Crisis
There is a cogent commentary from Martin Wolf in today’s FT. It is scary indeed that averting financial collapse demands structural changes in the euro area which seem to be…
Bob Dechert
This coverage of his emails is ridiculous. Can it stop now, please. Thank you. This is not news.
Solyndra Solar Panel Corporation Scandal Ablaze – ThinkProgress Sets Record Straight
Obama:Bush.jpg The ongoing scandal continues to blaze at Solyndra. Solyndra Corporation, a San Francisco Bay area solar panel start-up company, is under fire in the immediate aftermath of its Aug...
September 26, the strike’s back on – Tortured SHU Prisoners Speak Out: “The Struggle Continues”
For the past 10-40 years thousands of California prisoners have been confined in CDC-SHU units indefinitely based on status [E.G., a gang label – active gang classification, based on innocuous…
Hudak still intends to make sex offender registry public
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/provincialelection/article/1053495--hudak-still-intends-to-make-sex-offender-registry-public?bn=1LEAMINGTON, ONT.—Ontario’s police don’t like the idea but Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is st...
Battle for Fracking Public Perception Lost, Says Gas Industry Insider
Hide Yo Kids Fracking.jpg The gas industry has not done itself any favors by downplaying the risks associated with fracking, something the industry is apparently just realizing. Labeling affected...
To Grunfeld
I’m proposing a new word for the internet lexicon: To Grunfeld: To carefully omit a portion of a person’s statement so that your version of the statement is the polar…
Escalation of political repression at Red Onion State Prison (Virginia: United States)
From http://signalfire.org/?p=14129:Over the years long standing organizing efforts by class conscious prisoners in the Virgina state system’s two maximum security facilities (Red Onion and Wallens Ridge) have been met with…