Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Not surprisingly, plenty of commentators have weighed in on the latest set of Senate scandals engulfing Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Nigel Wright and…
environment
Another earthquake in Ottawa?
Update- looks like there were two quakes at 9:43 (4.8) and 9:53 am (4.3) outside of Arnprior, Ontario. —————————————- Did anyone else feel that? (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Mayor Jimmy Really Doesn’t Get It
The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy's petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor's critics.…
Mayor Jimmy Really Doesn’t Get It
The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics.…
Mayor Jimmy Really Doesn’t Get It
The following twitter exchange exemplifies Mayor Jimmy’s petty reaction to criticism. I suppose I should be thankful I have not been blocked yet, like so many of the mayor’s critics.…
Greenpeace Launches Wikileaks Inspired Site
Wikileaks has been a great source of information that governments and corporations wanted to deny or keep secret. Now Greenpeace has modelled a site, Arctic Truth, for whistleblowers who work…
Guest Commentary From The Salamander On Pierre Poilievre And The Company he Keeps
Because he doesn’t maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once more placing as a guest post the searing analysis…
Humans: Too Invasive or Too Compassionate to Survive
In my last post, and elsewhere over the years, I went all Agent Smith and suggested that humans are a virus that can’t be contained. All other animals work within…
The Garlic: Interview With Carbon Dioxide
The Onion hasn’t lived up to its journalistic standards of fake news, so I’m writing a piece for The Garlic, and interviewing Carbon Dioxide to get its thoughts on surpassing…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Yes, it’s for the best that some of Canada’s pre-eminent scientists are offering to walk Joe Oliver through the realities of climate change.…
Keystone XL Pipeline could cost $100 billion per year in health and environmental damages
EPA Asks State Department for Total Cost to Society of KXL, Oil Change International Spells it Out By: Oil Change International | Press Release: WASHINGTON – May 7 – Oil…
Unilever’s Sustainability Strategy Saves Costs, Environment
Unilever is a massive corporation that owns a ton of brands from Q-Tips to Ben Jerry’s Ice Cream. They have recently pushed for more efficiency and sustainability across all their…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linda McQuaig discusses Stephen Harper’s class war: Canadians don’t like Harper’s anti-worker agenda — when they notice it. That’s why there’s been such…
On measured responses
Shorter Enbridge, responding to the revelation that a tidy 94% of its Canadian pumping stations are missing required backup generators and/or shut-off buttons: So the question is whether we’ll take…
Oil Companies: A threat to our planet
All oil companies care about is profit. The environment, the health and safety of people, is not a priority of theirs. Only profits, no matter who is hurt in the…
Why Vote Green?
In the fight against global climate change, we are currently approaching the endgame. The time for compromise has come and gone. A certain temperature increase is inevitable — already “locked…
Ontario Saves Experimental Lakes Area
The federal government of Canada is so anti-environment that it hurts everyone on the planet. Their unwavering support for the world-destroying tar sands, refusal to work with other countries to…
Conservatives Stopped Conserving
It’s frustrating to be a Canadian, with such terrifically stupid and dishonest political representation. Sure, our insecure ‘strong’ leaders don’t send the police to your door (unless you’ve written them…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – We shouldn’t be surprised that the corporate sector is reacting with contrived outrage to the Cons’ tinkering with a severely flawed temporary…
EPA Trashes State Department’s Positive Evaluation Of Keystone XL
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The powerful U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to be taking its mandate seriously. At least as far as the State Department’s recent…