Friday May 4th 2012 – The Dominion’s April in Review kicks off the Smash the State Report, which then has some G20 legal updates (from Mandy + Leah, Carmelle Wolfson’s most recent “2 years later” piece with Pat Cordette, and looks into police state a…

Britt’s Patterns of national behavior and abuse of power #3:
“Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause…”
Bill C-38, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, May 9, 2012
“…Over the past few months, the environmental laws that protect our natio…

Britt’s Patterns of national behavior and abuse of power #3: “Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause…” Bill C-38, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, May 9, 2012 “…Over the past few months, the environ…

Link to The Michigan Messenger Be sure to read: Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast? – Syndicated from http://northerninsights.blogspot.com/

Link to The Michigan Messenger

Be sure to read: Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?

Well kids, here is another example of a left wing nut blowing things out of all proportion just to make a point. Yes, there are some environmental concerns with using ‘tar sands’ oil, but it hardly means the end of the world, folks. A guy with a job as a NASA scientist should know better [...]

Elizabeth May, House of Commons, May 11, 2012: Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-38. I am very sad, because this bill is the worst of all bills of this House, for two reasons. First, because the government has chosen to introduce fundamental…

Elizabeth May, House of Commons, May 11, 2012:Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak to Bill C-38. I am very sad, because this bill is the worst of all bills of this House, for two reasons.First, because the government has chosen to introduce fundamental c…

“Opposition parties accuse the Harper government of stooping to a petty, new low in the muzzling of dissent.” Note that says a “new low”, an acknowledgement that accountability is already at a low point. Rae cited the incident as one of many examples that Canadians are “now living in a democracy with dictatorial tendencies.” Garneau [...]

On Tuesday May 15, the Council of Canadians will formally launch the Great Lakes Need Great Friends speaking tour in Toronto.
Maude Barlow, the National Chairperson for the Council of Canadians, will be joined by special guests in eight cities in the G…

A company called Molycorp has re-opened a California mine that was once the world’s leading source of rare earths, the elements on which modern technology relies.

The beautiful image you see is not photoshopped. It is a photo of the heirloom “Glass Gem” maize variety recently rescued by seedsperson Greg Schoen and carefully stewarded by the Seeds Trust. When I saw this photo, I was overwhelmed. This, I…

We need to leave the tarsands oil in the ground. We need an increasing carbon tax. We need to stop subsidizing carbon energy producers. We need public money invested in post-carbon energy. We need to do it now. I say all this, as does this NASA physicist: The science of the situation is clear — [...]

On Monday, June 4, websites representing thousands of Canadian people and organizations will go dark to protest changes introduced in the Harper Government’sTM budget act (Bill C-38).To join this online protest, go to Black Out Speak Out – or Silence, …

On Monday, June 4, websites representing thousands of Canadian people and organizations will go dark to protest changes introduced in the Harper Government’sTM budget act (Bill C-38). To join this online protest, go to Black Out Speak Out –…

The Mayor believes it is already too late. Not too late to save the environment, but too late to save the entire universe from idiot environmentalists who believe the world is doomed due to daylight savings time. Their numbers are legion, and they are…

Fracking wastewater ponds languish in Hants County

HALIFAX—Hydraulic fracturing wastewater shown to contain high levels of radioactive contaminants ha…

This is the second of a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Part I examined the uses of the colonial imagination of the Arctic. 
Many of the winter months of 2012 were among the warmest on record. The warmin…

Why Jacques Cousteau had a boat instead of a Paris Métro pass

Healing the Earth Radio was produced in Guelph, Ontario, on CFRU 93.3 fm, from 2005 to 2010. Healing the Earth also had a popular podcast on the Rabble Podcast Network. Since the end of the show, producer Matt Soltys has been working on a book that is …