By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Mar 7, 2013: The Harper Government is increasingly using doublespeak to stifle the democratic conversation on the issues of our time, including:…
And therefore Peter Kent gets no credit for announcing, for about the third time now, that Canada will follow U.S. emissions standards for heavy duty vehicles made in this country.…
Climate change requires a steadfast and responsible approach from all nations to respond to increased carbon emissions. Or you could douche it up. That’s the Conservative strategy. Demonizing the “carbon…
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien gets up close and personal with a protester. Below: NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, Tory chuck-a-bub Peter Van Loan, Liberal Fuddle-Duddler Pierre Trudeau, New Democrat Nathan Cullen,…
The prime directive of any good journalist should be the people’s right to know. But consider the saga of Peter Kent. Lawrence Martin writes that Kent, a member of The…
DirtyOilSands.org, tells us that for the first time since taking the position of Canada’s Environment Minister, Peter Kent has agreed to meet with climate organizers. “Over the past…
A report by the UN Environment Programme warns that world governments are doing too little to meet the stated goal of limiting global warming to 2 C. In failing to…
This starts with a tangent: I’ve been trying to understand why the World Bank’s climate report is big news. It’s just a rehash of long available science. The World Bank…
Would someone who didn’t have prior knowledge of this please demand Peter Kent’s resignation? This, of course, is the deliberate dumping last July of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide into…
Russ George must be wondering where everybody went? The rogue geoengineer behind the dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphate off the Charlottes in July suddenly doesn’t have all the friends…
OTTAWA — The Conservative government scrambled Friday to distance itself from an early 20th Century public health pioneer it had honoured just a day earlier at a plaque-unveiling ceremony in…
Aaron Wherry generously debunks Peter Kent’s latest farcical spin only within the climate change debate, rather than fitting it into a general governance framework. But while I’ll stick with my…
It’s September, the big back to school month, and Parliament resumes sitting this coming week. Interesting then to note some moves being made by the Harper government, perhaps designed to…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – There wasn’t much doubt from the recent storm of astroturfed Twitter messages that NDP candidate Catherine Fife stood to do well in tomorrow’s…
For a second straight day, a Conservative MP hosting Stephen Harper introduces the Dear Leader as “the prime minister of Cannibal”.
Courtesy of sumofus.org Case #1: BC Premier Christy Clark has a job creation plan. One component of said plan involves three liquefied natural gas plants in the northern part of…
Despite recent toned-down rhetoric, I suspect Harper and his minions are fooling very few people. Take, for example, the recent words of our Anti-Environment Minister, the integrity-challenged Peter Kent: Confronted…
The American Transportation Safety Board report that slammed Enbridge over the 2010 Kalamazoo River bitumen spill disaster in Michigan actually tells us as much about Harper and his EnviroShill Peter…
I have to start this brief entry by invoking an old cliche: the best defense is a strong offense. That certainly seems to be the strategy ‘Environment’ Minister Peter Kent…
