#ForwardOnClimate Support in Regina: Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stephen McDavid interviewed by CBC/SRC about climate change action: Stephen explains that the pipeline is a line in the sand. Using it, is crossing that line. I’ll explain why there…
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Obama’s State of the Union Address on Climate Change
“If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will,” says Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address which devoted a substantial portion on climate change. Direction…
ObamAnt’s State of the Union Address
Inspired by the U.S.A.’s State of the Union Address last night.
EG Radio January 31 2013: Obama and climate change | Lisa Friedman | Idle No More
Download: earthgauge-podcast-jan31-2013.mp3 This week on Earthgauge Radio, we’re talking about President Obama’s new commitment to climate change, the growing problem of environmental “refugees”, and the environmental dimensions of the Idle…
Obama and the Shrinking of Stephen Harper
What a fairy tale day it was. What an awesome spectacle of democracy. What a great day to be a progressive.A black President on Martin Luther King Day standing up…
Why Banning Guns Is Pointless, Or Soon Will Be
Thanks to 3D printing, a government ban on guns soon will be as enforceable as a government ban on pictures of guns. That is because, not in the too distant…
The millionaire tax, American- and French style
(originally written Apr 19, 2012. Part of my Great Upload of 2013.) The American “millionaire tax” plan At the moment, Obama is facing stiff resistance from his proposal to tax…
Your Country’s Finances Are Exactly Like Yours
Many scoff at the conservative analogy that the American government should manage its finances like a household, but little do they realize the idea doesn’t strengthen conservativism, it weakens it.…
2013 Predictions
Justin Trudeau will become the next Liberal Leader and the party will actually air an advertisement or two as part of a determined strategy to define him and the party…
Obama sheds tears for Sandy Hook victims: silent on child victims of drone strikes
The US has an estimated 310 million guns (2009 figure) in circulation and second amendment rights that codify the right to bear arms. Gun ownership is part of the American…
A Tragedy Should Make Us Want To Be Better
The world suffered a tragedy when a gun man went and killed 20 students and 6 adults. The world was made worse when out of this horror people called others…
An Open Letter to President Obama By Michael Moore
Dear President Obama:Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations ondecisively winning your second term as our president! The first timeyou won four years ago, most of us…
John McCain…
… and Republicans like him? They are unquestionable, prime, grade A assholes. Yup. These morons are even more partisan than the Harperites. Democracy sucks, eh Tea Brains? (5) Trashy, Ottawa,…
Newsflash: Canadian PM’s American Idol supports Stephane Dion-esque carbon tax shift
Note: for non-Canadian readers (or, indeed for Canadian readers who don’t follow politics) Stephane Dion was the milquetoast who led the Liberal Party of Canada to its then-worst-ever federal election…
America should step over the fiscal cliff
Step over the fiscal cliff, Americans!The fiscal cliff has been described as a fiscal suicide pact by some gloomy British obervers:There has to be an agreement. If the two sides…