Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses the need for outrage about the lack of enforcement even of corporate tax obligations which have been slashed for decades.…
agriculture
Fortis Gas Propose a BIO-GAS Plant In Rural Cobble Hill
BIOGAS INFORMATION MEETING Learn about the proposed on-farm biogas plant at 675 La Fortune Road. This plant will convert dairy manure and food waste into renewable natural gas, water and…
Canuck Owners Abuse Temporary Farm Workers Rights Again- Fined and Ordered To Pay
This Harrison Mooney story carried in the Vancouver Province should embarrass the Vancouver Canuck owners into treating their workers honestly and without abuse. Canucks owners ordered to pay over $130,000…
Meanwhile, back on the Alberta farm, when in doubt, blame Ottawa
CALGARY – Meanwhile, back on the farm, a new template for government of Alberta news releases is a-birthin’. Henceforth and forevermore, presumably, all news releases issued by Alberta’s New Government…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michael Mikulewicz and Tahseen Jafry discuss the responsibility wealthy countries bear for increasingly severe weather events – as well as the best…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich writes about the laughable spin that the Trump Republicans’ giveaways to the privileged and elimination of supports for the vast…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Mitrovica gives due credit to Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott for showing there’s some honour to be found in Canadian politics –…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wade Davis comments on the ecological amnesia which has resulted in repeated cycles of extinctions: In three generations, a mere moment in…
Conservatives would have fought harder to protect Canadian dairy farmers? Don’t believe it!
A lot of Canada’s Conservatives were wearing long faces yesterday about the impact of the freshly inked United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on this country’s dairy industry. As political sins go, this…
What does Alberta Future Look like?
In 2018, an Alberta Government Department – called Alberta Economic and Development and Trade developed a pamphlet. Entitled the “2017 Highlights of the Alberta Economy”, it noted that Alberta had…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress highlights the Canada Revenue Agency’s long-overdue estimate of the public costs of offshore tax evasion, as well as other new data on…
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer boots Maxime Bernier, self-appointed chief party ideologue, from Opposition front bench
It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, what with right-wing purists jumping all over him for canning Maxime Bernier from the Opposition party’s front…
On full pictures
I’ve previously pointed out the obvious bad faith behind the Saskatchewan Party’s attempt (PDF) to monetize existing agricultural practices as a substitute for actually reducing greenhouse gas emissions – and…
Bugs Give Monbiot the Willies.
A couple of days ago The Guardian reported on a German study that flying insect populations had declined by 75 per cent over the past 25 years. Another report for…
David Suzuki: It’s time to nix neonics
David Suzuki on why it’s time for Canada to ban neonics, a class of widely used neuro-active insecticides that harm not only the pests they’re designed to kill, but also…
NDP plan to change funding model for agricultural commissions is unlikely to much help farmers or the government
PHOTOS: Alberta Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier with some of the members, staff and leaders of the province’s agricultural commissions at a sparsely attended news conference in Edmonton yesterday to announce…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Josh Bivens explains why increased fairness would likely lead to improved overall growth for the U.S.’ economy: (O)ne key driver of slow productivity…
New column day
Here, on the Saskatchewan Party’s determination to make work more precarious – and pay and benefits harder to come by – in the public and private sectors alike. For further…
The Case of the Vanishing Site C Video-Includes A Revised Video
The Site C Dam project offers a number of similarities with the Dakota Access Pipeline-(DAPL) the subject of ongoing massive protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North…