Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Plenty of commentators are rightly speaking out against the Cons’ anti-democratic omnibus bill, including Tim Harper and the Star-Phoenix and Vancouver Sun…
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Parliament in Review – May 9, 2012
Wednesday, May 9 saw the first Committee of the Whole discussion of the Cons’ budget bill – with the opportunity for hours of direct questions about military spending giving rise…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Since the Cons don’t seem to have much else in their quiver at the moment, I’m sure they’ll keep trying to pretend that…
Parliament in Review – April 26, 2012
Thursday, April 26 saw ample discussion of private members’ business – and if the Cons are now cracking down on such debate, the results of the day’s proceedings might give…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Kayle Hatt’s blog looks to be a must-read from here on in. And his post on what to draw from the latest polls…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Joan Bryden reports on the Cons’ latest abuses of majority government power, this time in allocating and shuffling around the few opposition days…
Coal Train to Boardman: EPA Warns of "Significant" Public Health Threats in Northwest Coal Export Proposal
110326007Paul_K_Anderson_Coal-copy1.jpg As demand for coal in the United States has cooled off in recent years, coal mining companies have been scrambling to deliver their dirty loads to customers abroad. But…
Paying attention #nlpoli
In order to understand what is going on in the world around you, then you just need to pay attention. Paul Wells makes plain the value of careful reading –…
Solving The Big Environmental Calamities Requires Measuring, Research, Monitoring
Today’s guest blogger is Graham Saunders. Graham’s weather and climate background includes work with the Australian Weather Bureau, the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada and forest fire weather prediction for…
By the numbers – infectious syphilis rates
Inspired by a comparison of rates for infectious syphilis for Canada and for Alberta, your humble e-scribbler took a gawk at the tables from the Public Health Agency of Canada…
Core Services Review: Rob Ford is a hazard to Toronto’s public health | #TOpoli
I’m sorry, I had to give my head a shake. Fluoridation? Look, we’ve all seen the passage in Dr. Strangelove where General Ripper talks about what an insidious Communist plot…
Core Services Review: Rob Ford is a hazard to Toronto’s public health / #TOpoli
I'm sorry, I had to give my head a shake.Fluoridation?Look, we've all seen the passage in Dr. Strangelove where General Ripper talks about what an insidious Communist plot it is,…
Core Services Review: Rob Ford is a hazard to Toronto’s public health / #TOpoli
I'm sorry, I had to give my head a shake.Fluoridation?Look, we've all seen the passage in Dr. Strangelove where General Ripper talks about what an insidious Communist plot it is,…
Time for council to bring the Ford cabal to heel
At Monday’s executive committee meeting,Ford and his not so merry band of toadies voted to turn down the provinces offer of two public health nurses at no cost to the…