Ekos: 45% of Albertans say they are small ‘l’ liberals
According to EKOS when asked whether or not they’re small ‘l’ liberals 45% (+/- 8.8%) of Albertans say they are liberals . Here’s a link to the poll in question.…
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#IdleNoMore University of Regina Round Dance
Cadmus Delorme started off the speaking without a mic (and was audible!). Here he is with some amplification. Let’s amplify his message over the Internet, also. The noon hour finished…
Attawapiskat Audit is Merely a Distraction
Green Party leader Elizabeth May published a well-thought out and clear article on Wednesday, breaking down the reasons why the ongoing media banter about Attiwapiskat fund mismanagement and Chief Theresa…
Finding common ground on climate change
Check out this video produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists which features featuring two scientists — one politically conservative, the other tending toward the Democrats — who make the…
Conservatives Bad At Selling Out
What’s worse than oil companies spending millions to buy off politicians? Oil companies getting them for free. The oil sector is vital to Canada’s economy, but so are a lot…
On Prorogation: A Solution To Hand The Power Back To The People
By Joe Fantauzzi jjfantauzzi@gmail.com | @jjfantauzzi When a minority federal government facing a confidence vote over a rejected economic update suspended Parliament in 2008, a constitutional expert told CBC News…
Climate Change Explained
By Bob McDonald, Quirks & Quarks The end of the Kyoto Protocol, and our inability to do something about rising carbon emissions, is like arguing over rising water in the…
What’s in a Merger?
We have a problem. Nobody knows what a merger is. When you want to mobilize people and get people moving you need a plan of action. A raison d’etre.…
Tarred and Feathered
It’s one of those “I told you so” findings, as the toxic fingerprint of tarsand oil production is found in distant lakes supposedly unaffected by the decades of strip mining.…
New Care Cards: The Latest #BCpoli Corruption
I’m getting quite sick of the corporate welfare corruption. The Skytrain turnstiles financial sledghammer to kill the relatively inexpensive fly of free riders irks me. Doubly so because I think…
Idle No More – Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean
This video of Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean talking about Idle No More is accompanied by a Making the Links - Community Radio indepth interview with them broadcasting tomorrow night…
Idle No More – Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean
This video of Priscilla Settee and Sheelah McLean talking about Idle No More is accompanied by a Making the Links – Community Radio indepth interview with them broadcasting tomorrow night…
ConCalls: Are Canadian Elections Unfair Now? #RoboCon
Two people today questioned my point that Canadian elections are growing unfair, and so produce questionable results. This lack of a clear, and legitimate winner of elections erodes peace and…
US Bad Gas Ruining Engines and Voiding Warranties
Richard Hughes Political Blogger It sure seems like the oil and gas corporations will rig the game and stack the deck to squeeze every nickle and dime out of the…
America the Not-So-Beautiful: God Shat His Grace On Thee
Close your eyes, and conjure up a mental image of the stereotype of the Ugly American. Loud. Large. Willfully ignorant of customs and countries that lie beyond the border of…
poverty as a product of social relations
“In the humanitarian view, poverty is a quantitative problem, not the product of social relations. Although development work seeks to attack the enduring, “root causes” of poverty, these causes are…
The gang of eight: in charge of #ldnont
Filed under: caricature, cartoons, digital, drawings, London Tagged: Brian Orser, Bud Polhill, caricature, city, City council, Dale Henderson, Denise Brown, Gang of Eight, Joe Fontana, Joe Swan, Paul Van Meer…
In Ireland, Carbon Tax Means Less Waste and More Revenue
Modern economies indirectly subsidize environmentally damaging corporate practices by ignoring the environmental costs ( younger generations have to deal with the environmental damage), this can be seen in everything from…
A Crisis of Environmentalist Faith
A couple of sentences from Matthew Altman (from “The Green Onion“) have been weighing on me for days: Ironically, environmentalism itself can become a means of advancing our own selfish…
Walk a Mile
A few days ago, I had one of those “eff you, I’m turning off the radio and all y’all are just a bunch of paint-sniffing reticulated jerk muffins” moments. It…