The Republican clown car just never runs out of gas. The latest RepubliJester is Scientology-backed Riverside County supervisor and lawn cutter Jeff Stone who wants southern California to secede from…
Is there anything, anything at all too low for a Republican? It sure doesn't sound like it.The latest Christofascist Republican gambit requires presidential nomination candidates, like brainstorm Michelle Bachmann, to…
As we baseball fans say, we are "at the break". The All Star Break begins today: three days without real baseball, plus this year an extra day off for our…
On May 13, John Ibbitson wrote a column suggesting the Liberal Party adopt an American style primary system for selecting its next leader.The Liberals might want to think about going…
money-pipeline-235x300.jpg An independent analysis performed by University of Nebraska professor Dr. John Stansbury, an environmental engineer, claims that TransCanada's safety assessments for th...
Aguas v. Rivard Estate, 2011 ONCA 494 deals with setting aside an administrative dismissal under Rule 48.14. The test requires four matters to be considered (1) and explanation for the…
Feeling down about the prospects for the nation under a Harper majority? Wondering if progressive forces will be relegated to the sidelines as a new dynasty takes hold on the…
It couldn't, to paraphrase, happen to a nicer newspaper. After 168 years the British News of the World has closed down in the face of a momentous scandal regarding phone…
Until now, the EuroUnion states teetering on insolvency were sometimes referred to as PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. Now it appears that Italy, the EU's third largest economy, may…
On this episode: German nukes, safety nukes, underwater nukes and jelly nukes, another pseudo-scandal in a teapot, the true cost of gas, GHG emissions reach record breaking levels and the…
In an age when regulation of shoddy business practices seems to be rapidly eroding, the ethos today being that anything that inhibits growth is bad, it may not come as…
While Murdoch defenders wallow in their claims that the phone hacking perpetrated by the News of the World is an isolated incident, news today that former UK PM Gordon Brown…
The following cartoon says it all.
astroturf.jpg Here at DeSmogBlog, and around the environmental and liberal political blogosphere, there is great concern about “Astroturf” organizations—groups that pose as real...
Any day now the BC government should be releasing the latest greenhouse gas data for the province, and we will see if any progress is being made towards a legislated…
As per rule #9 of my 10 Rules for Liberal Debate, I’m going to spend this post complimenting and bragging about what Calgary is doing on the federal Liberal scene.…
Friday’s Vancouver Sun had a short item that you might have missed, “Suicides up, road deaths down due to recession.” It’s in the bottom corner of page B5: Suicides rates…
City bosses face buyout offer in Ford's quest for cuts - thestar.comRob Ford continues to make little cuts here and there while ignoring the elephant in the room of his…
Pick up a sharpened pencil. Now take a clean, white sheet of paper from the computer printer. Close your eyes and make a small round mark on the paper with…
Doug Saunders' post on the political role of the middle class is certainly worth a read. But I'd think the core theory demands some significant tweaking in figuring out how…
