SIGH — another report from a respected environmental institution lambasting Canada for its atrocious and morally/legally defiant climate performance. I tire of reading them, but find this one an especially good summary of our collective shame.
Leading up to next weeks’ G8 summit in Japan, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has released a report examining the [...]
Canada/US lead G8 climate criminals: WWF Report 07.03.08
Happy National Corvette Day! (Also, millions will to starve to death) 06.30.08
Happy National Corvette Day!
From your USA Automotive Industry!
P.S. We are in shambles.
Why? Inability to see predict change? Inability to adjust to current change? Reliance on subservient and dedicated servants in Legislatures across the West?
With rumours of Chrysler’s imminent bankruptcy, GM worth what it was worth in 1955, crumbling domestic infrastructure, peak, and systemic [...]
Air Canada as Censor: Words you can’t say in Gate 27 06.30.08
Christie Blatchford had a bit of a run in with the security state last week. In her article in Saturdays Globe Blatchford recounts the excitement that began with a discussion of ongoing terrorism trials in Canada:
… I told Rosie about some evidence at the Khawaja trial, particularly the testimony of a key witness, himself [...]
Pay Attention: Canadian remix culture under attack by CDMCA 06.28.08
Yes, Bill C-61. Ashamedly, I feel I haven’t discussed it on here as much as I should. Luckily, Michael Geist has reorganized his entire blog for learning about and engaging the bill’s life ahead. Please check it out until I get something more thorough up here.
Here’s a new user rights video from OpenSourceCinema that [...]
CBC’s Search Engine is awesome; therefore, cancelled 06.24.08
From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
The nature of the Liberal-Tory climate war 06.23.08
The Tories have been in full swing demonizing the Liberal Green Shift plan. Liberals rebutted last week with an official launch and media campaign.
Choices each party have made reveal much about their perspectives on Canada and Canadians.
The Tories, apparently, think Canadians are ignorant five-year olds on a Sunday morning. Comparing the two spots, the Conservative [...]
Hey, Calgary! We’re Number One! (…in violently hating people) 06.13.08
Hate pervades Calgary.
Or at least compared to the national average. So says Statistics Canada in a new report.
They provided some facts on the state of hate and violence in Canada:
Among the 220 hate crimes reported by police to be motivated by religion, offences against the Jewish faith were the most common, accounting for [...]
Alberta celebrates criminal corporate greenwashers 06.06.08
Well folks, it’s Environment Week! While most of the rest of the civilized world is preparing for post-Kyoto measures we’re doing our own thing here in Alberta.
Our forward-thinking government reports that, in celebration of Environment Week, Premier Ed Stelmach made a personal commitment to plant a tree on the Alberta Legislature grounds. I found [...]
Laser printers newest target of entertainment industry 06.05.08
More embarrassments for the copyright corporatists. Cory Doctorow points us to a widely-blogged new study from the University of Washington suggesting flawed and irresponsible use of DMCA “takedown notices” by trade group copyright cartels.
In brief, the new threat to intellectual property is inanimate objects — as three laser printers have achieved sentience and been [...]
“Planning is for communists” — AB Tories hire PR expert with $35k tab 05.29.08
Our dear, dear friends at Sourcewatch report:
The Alberta government has hired crisis management guru Peter Sandman to help it defuse concerns over the environmental impact of the oilsands mining industry. In April, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach sought to defend the discovery of 500 dead ducks found in a tailings pond. At a cost of C$35,000, [...]
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