A CBC poll goes horribly wrong: “How do you feel about sports teams that have aboriginal references in their names?”
h/t Michael P.
Oh, Frack!
Russia is secretly working with environmental groups campaigning against fracking in an attempt to maintain Europe’s dependence on energy imports from Moscow, the secretary-general of Nato has said.
Speaking at the Chatham House foreign affairs think-tank in London, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia was mounting a sophisticated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining attempts to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas.
Crime Of Redundancy
The Law Society of Alberta has disbarred a lawyer accused of misconduct in his handling of settlements awarded to survivors of residential school abuse. […]
The panel heard that between 2006 and 2012, Blott’s Calgary law firm handled almost 4,600 residential school claims, many in southern Alberta. Information was taken from each victim who would sign a retainer agreement. If the settlement were $100,000, Blott would receive $15,000 from the federal government and up to an additional $15,000 from the settlement payout.
“The tragic reality … is what started out as a reconciliation effort in the righting of wrongs turned into what can only be described as a factory of gross self-interest, where victims of the residential school system were essentially revictimized and treated less like human beings and more like cattle,” said Harvie.
“They were in fact dehumanized by a process where the ultimate goal appears to be making as much money as possible with the least amount of personal attention.”
h/t Patrick
And Somehow It Just Caught Fire
Some links of possible interest, from dogmatic faculty and the joys of modern schooling to incendiary literature and the unbecoming urges of Hillary Clinton.
Greenprice
Indian Government Advised: Outlaw Greenpeace Funding By Foreign Interests
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“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
“Remember when this country knew how to build a pipeline?”
Late last year, the federal review panel that approved the Northern Gateway project listed 209 conditions that had to be met. That panel began hearing public comments way back in mid-2010. Which is to say: This one panel was in operation for longer than it took for the actual Trans Mountain Pipeline to be scouted, conceived, planned, built and activated. Sixty years ago, we laid pipe. Now we lay paper.
We need a famine.
Reader Tips
When driving on a bayside freeway be sure to keep an eye out for that sailboat passing you on the left..
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Y2Kyoto: Let Them Grow Pineapples
A weather and crop specialist with CWB reports this year’s late spring has resulted in close to two million acres left unseeded and raised concerns over the potential for crops that were planted being damaged this fall by frost.
Due to a delayed spring melt farmers in western Canada got onto the fields to begin spring planting much later than normal this year.
Related: Winter Storm in Montana, Utah, Wyoming As Summer Approaches
Things One Doesn’t Hear From Canadian Ministers in Question Period
Give the British PM a bit of credit:
David Cameron: Isis terrorists are planning attacks in Britain
The Prime Minister says the crisis in Iraq must not be ignored as jihadists will ‘attack us here at home’
Forward!
I say replace it with a hammer and sickle: U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademarks
In that vein…
Update: “I want you to imagine the federal government eliminating your private property rights due to the interpretation of political correctness by five people, or a very tiny minority of people,”
This Is Awkward
Greenpeace loses millions in donor contributions;
The Amsterdam-based not-for-profit revealed on Monday that it lost €3.8-million ($5.6-million), after a well-meaning employee entered into a contract intended to minimize foreign currency exchange costs, which instead turned into a big loss. […]
The loss is being publicized ahead of Greenpeace’s 2013 annual report, which will show the organization is running a deficit of €6.8-million, including the mishandled currency trade. The group’s global budget last year was €300-million.
The loss is a blow to the Greenpeace brand. The organization took to social media to connect with devotees and apologize for the process failures that led to the loss. Since Greenpeace doesn’t accept donations from governments or companies in an effort to maintain its integrity, contributions from individual contributors are paramount.
h/t Rob Z.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Liberal education, he says, “helps make us free” by showing us “not only the empirical scaffolding of our Universe-a.k.a. science-but also its conceptual scaffolding, a.k.a. the ideas, concepts and history which shape the world we live in.” Erode that education and you’re eroding freedom, citizenship and ultimately democracy itself. When the political elite doesn’t know politics, that’s a sign that liberal education is indeed being eroded.
Set aside a few minutes for this one.
We Don’t Need No…
Flatlined: The proportion of global energy consumption that comes from carbon-free sources.
6 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
According to the conventional wisdom, the economy is set to bounce back from its winter-induced slump. It won’t be the first time that the pundits got it wrong.
If this is a bounce back, I would hate to see what a decline looks like. For here we are, almost finished with the second quarter, and the economy doesn’t look much different than it did in the first.
The real world is telling us a different story than the pundits think they see in their crystal balls. Rather than picking up, the economy is still plodding along, not necessarily declining — but not shifting into high gear either.
Forward!
Entrepreneurship in American manufacturing = ↑
http://t.co/UEsfJp9LbU #MadeInAmerica pic.twitter.com/92Gx3kYeB4
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014
Reader Tips
Long before he grew his hair out and his only number one song Take This Job and Shove It hit the airwaves, archetypal country outlaw Johnny Paycheck’s honky-tonk moan was so natural that you just knew he’d spent a lot of time moaning with his head on the table in actual honky-tonks, and that it was Motel Time Again on a fairly regular basis.
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It Always Happens Where You Least Expect It
TRAGIC: Canadian dies in Indian Ocean landslide
Northern Gateway Approved
The federal government approved the Northern Gateway project Tuesday, a confirmation that had already riled pipeline foes before the decision was announced.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
h/t John B.