Crap Like This
** Old draft from April 12, 2011 that I’m publishing now, untouched, a bit like a time capsule from Election 41** #wtf LPC proposed AG table report if #hoc dissolved.…
economy
Need to raise taxes or cut services? Hit boomers…
I was born in 1966, and by some warped definition I am somehow included in the post-war baby boom. The baby boom is said to be the result of servicemen…
Canada and the fine line between reality and lies
Gone are the days of fairytale stories about Canada’s incredibly stable and safe banking system. These stories are now slowly being replaced by a stark reality: Canadians are carrying too…
Higher temps, higher gas prices…$1.40+ in Québec City
Ahhh what a nice warm spring, and it finally caught up to the micro-climate that is Québec city, or as the signs here proclaim it…the capital of “la nation”. Oh…
Fact Checking The New Paul Ryan Budget on Energy and Environment
ryan_620x350.jpg Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) has released his budget for fiscal year 2013. To almost no one’s surprise, his outline is filled with too many falsehoods and outright lies to…
WTF McCain?
Years ago, I had a certain grudging respect for John McCain…after all, he had fought his way through debilitating torture as a POW, seemed to be a bit of what,…
Sunday Morning Links
Random readings to occupy your time. – Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor are still digging into Robocon – with a focus on figuring out exactly how “Pierre Poutine” assembled lists…
Bank of America Takes Rolling Stone Pounding
Holy crap! Rolling Stone tears limbs from the zombie Bank of America. You probably won’t read a more blistering, or researched condemnation of the 1% “Royalty” that literally has the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while…
What do Bruce Springsteen, KONY2012 and Occupy have to do with one another?
This is a guest blog, courtesy of Brian Foster. Now, no shells ripped the evening sky No cities burning down No army stormed the shores for which we’d die No…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – On the Robocon front, Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher’s latest good work investigating the Cons’ electoral fraud got Maher expelled from the Manning…
Are Canada’s conservatives a house divided?
Here’s a question dear reader. Are you conservative or liberal? It might seem a straight forward question, but I imagine responses would vary widely based on the context of the…
Taxpayers on the hook for almost $600 Billion in mortgage debt
Do you know anyone who has recently bought a house with less than 20% down? I know a few myself, young twenty somethings with decent but not great income, who’ve…
CREA projects average house prices to dip
The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting that the national average for house prices will drop in 2012, but not by much. I wouldn’t put too much stock in such…
Government moving forward on proposed unsolicited credit card cheque ban
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited “cheques” in the mail. I’m all for that! First the cheques themselves…
Government moving forward on proposed unsolicited credit card cheque ban
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited "cheques" in the mail. I'm all for that! First the cheques themselves…
Government moving forward on proposed unsolicited credit card cheque ban
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited "cheques" in the mail. I'm all for that! First the cheques themselves…
Government moving forward on proposed unsolicited credit card cheque ban
The government announced that it will be introducing legislation to ban the practice of Credit Cards sending unsolicited “cheques” in the mail. I’m all for that! First the cheques themselves…
Peak Everything and a Perpetual No Growth Economy
Many heterodox economists and post-carbon researchers – most notably Richard Heinberg in several books but particularly in his seminal The End of Growth and Chris Martenson in The Crash Course…
Diversity is Good for the Economy
The benefits of having a diverse workplace and a diverse community are obvious, but it always helps if some researchers back up these common-sense positions with helpful facts and demonstrated…