AD_goi_shell_oct04oilspill_ogoni4.jpg In a historic move, oil giant Shell has agreed to take responsibility and to compensate Bodo fishing communities in the Ogoniland region of the Niger Delta w...
Cathy Brennan and Elizabeth Hungerford have tendered a paper to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in response to a query regarding the current…
Living under a telecom oligopoly is no easy thing. Canadians can attest to that as they face high mobile roaming charges from major telecom companies. Recently, the OECD released a…
When people start to die of bad water, the government will, I am sure, take full responsibility. That's what Mike Harris did, right? Right?
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If so, could someone tell me what kind of cool clouds these be? Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
By Jason Koblovsky of the Canadian Gamers Organization A few months ago, a few Canadian gamers sent in a complaint to the CRTC that suspected Rogers’ throttling practices were affecting…
I am sure prairie farmers will turn around and throw this dirty government money back into the faces of the Harperites. After all, these folks are mostly good, free market…
The guy in this video is a piker--on 64 boxes. But we had similar surprises as we opened boxes. Perhaps it should be no surprise that I've filled 8 large…
Until a couple of months ago I had never heard of "fracking". I now understand why. And I should have known. Governments, by long standing habit, don't like smarty pants…
Was Nietzsche right in holding all guilt an illusion? If we have no free will and are merely creatures of circumstance then yes, guilt is an illusion. But if we…
Interesting video of the dog whistle words and actions of the right wing noise machine and the unfortunate results.H/T: @GottaLaff
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/04/pol-environment-job-cuts.html
To the MSM, give your collective heads a shake. You have been played. You chased after the shiny rather than using your heads (or whatever the hell Rob Silver uses…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- No, we shouldn't be surprised that Clark-era PCs disagree with the Harper Cons given that their leader long since jumped ship as well.…
I was watching the cbc news this morning. I find it very sad to witness the decline of that once proud public broadcaster. The cbc used to provide some fine…
JuysTerence Corcoran Just go read Terence Corcoran’s latest in the National Post. Never mind that the world was plunged into economic crisis by unregulated financial institutions; and near fully captured…
galileo.jpg THERE'S a new climate denial lobby group on the block - bravely regurgitating previously debunked pseudo-science and making wild unsubstantiated claims that climate scientists are all...
R. v. Cunningham, 2011 ONCA 543 was released today. The decision largely holds that a lengthy delay between a decision and reasons may be a basis for an appeal: On May 4,…
One more note on today's fund-raising news which is best seen in Alice's historical quarterly data.For 2011 Q2, total fund-raising for the NDP, Libs, Bloc and Greens was $7,918,876.12 -…
