Atlantic Eco-Warrior Training-August 11-14 2011 at the Harold T. Barrett Fun Forest Camp Sierra Youth Coalition’s Youth Action Gathering + Canadian Youth Climate Coalition’s PowerSummer When? August 11-14 2011, 4…
There is no way around this sort of completely turning our backs on it. Climate change is consuming lives and it's becoming voracious. At the moment, Somalia is taking a…
I urge everyone to get a copy of the Vancouver Province for July 10 and read, in the A section, pp 8 and 9, a story about shark fins. It’s…
Christine Lagarde supports Obama on raising the debt ceiling for the United States. If this is not done, she says the impact would be disastrous for the US and the…
Penguin Nuns.Front page of the Ottawa Citizen has a story from London's Daily Telegraph indicating that Brit kids are in control of the schools. Bit violent and all that.A squadron…
By the St. Luke's Bulls 59/57 yesterday.The winning team got prizes from Yasir Naqvi, RBC and Hot 89.9.Sean Rodriquez was the MVP.About 500 meals were served, gratis.WFDS
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...
