Gosh. It's not as if Ezra Levant hasn't been humiliated enough recently. His recent trip to Paris to try to convince the French to hate Muslims as much as him and his crazies do was a complete bust.This trip has been depressing, because no o…
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Politics and its Discontents: A Sordid Story
While it is yet too early to tell how the new Trudeau government will handle the environmental and climate change file, early indications are promising. Minster Catherine McKenna has said that with regard to future pipeline proposals, assessments will be “based on science” and ensure Canadians can participate in the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Big oil, pipelines, Trudeau, and energy security for Canada
Why does the Canadian government continue to subsidize the oil industry with billions of dollars a year when the environmental crisis demands the opposite, and when investment in energy efficiency, conservation and green energy create many more jobs? Why does Canada import 40% of the oil we consume when we
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Trudeau’s campaign co-chair invited TransCanada to lobby post-Harper government on Energy East
On Monday, Justin Trudeau’s national campaign co-chair Daniel Gagnier invited TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Energy East tar sands pipeline, to lobby the post-Harper government on Canada’s national energy strategy. The post Trudeau’s campaign co-chair invited TransCanada to lobby post-Harper government on Energy East appeared first on The Canadian
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canada’s Biggest Political Scandal You Never Heard Of–Big oil, taxpayers’ millions, call girls and a ‘mechanic’ named Bruce Carson.
Richard Hughes Independent Strategic Voter As the election countdown continues you can dismiss any thoughts of a lacklustre non eventful race to the wire. The TPP card has been played, the Niqab Harper camp Read more…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The HarperPAC, Big Money, and the Americanization of Canada
As you may have heard, a group of Harper supporters have created a political action committee to attack the progressive parties. Supporters of Stephen Harper have formed a political-advertising unit separate from the Conservative Party that will run attack ads, targeting Facebook, Google and Twitter users, to help the Tory re-election
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper Gets Three Slaps in the Face From his Own Supporters
As you know I've started portraying Stephen Harper not only as a cowardly puppet, and the most monstrous leader this country has ever known.As well as a hopeless incompetent, and the turkey king of Canada.But also as a leader so long past due, the flesh is falling off him and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Monstrous Harper Cons and their New Albertastan
Holy flying monkey. What a difference a day makes. Up until yesterday Alberta was the Con's favourite province, their shiny Oily Oz.But then came Rachel Notley as the new Dorothy, and painted it orange. And now it's their despised Albertastan. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Jim Prentice’s Fear Campaign Got a Slap in the Face
With just two days to go before the Alberta election the excitement is mounting, and so is the fear campaign.With Jim Prentice and his Big Business posse trying to scare the people of that province into voting for them and not the NDP.And today it was Big Oil's turn to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Totally Unbelievable Transformation of Stephen Harper
Even by the standards of the monstrous Stephen Harper, whose many images reflect the many warring voices in his head, it's an amazing transformation. Or mutation.For nine years he was the Oily Messiah, the maniacal missionary who once told an audience in Britain that developing the oil sands was akin to building the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Canada: Where Cons and Idiots Roam
Oh boy. It's lucky that where I live it's impossible to not know that I live in the Great White North.Because if it wasn't, I might wonder whether I'm still living in Canada, or whether Stephen Harper has already changed it beyond recognition. For it really is hard to believe
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: The International Game Of Chicken
The current low oil prices have been characterized as a high stakes game of “chicken” between OPEC countries and “non-conventional” producing countries like Canada and more recently the US. I don’t pretend to know the state of the books for OPEC’s countries, but I imagine they have a significant chunk
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Crazy Carbon Tax problem
As I've been warning recently, Stephen Harper's mental state is clearly growing more unstable by the day.The exhaustion of all those foreign photo-ops, combined with the shock of seeing his beloved Albertonia torpedoed by low oil prices, and his budget surplus going up in flames, has driven him to the brink.And there is
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Oily Road to Disaster
He was warned, but Stephen Harper wouldn't listen. Warned that he should not put so many economic eggs in one oily basket.He was warned that the future would be green, or there would be no future. So it made no sense to turn us into a tarry petro state, and even
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Battle for Burnaby Mountain and Kinder Morgan’s Day of Defeat
They have gathered on Burnaby Mountain to try to prevent the giant energy company Kinder Morgan from drilling a hole through its heart.Dozens of young and old activists have been arrested. But today they won a big court victory, and Kinder Morgan got a big slap in the face.Read more
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, Radical Change Needed [VIDEO]
Naomi Klein calls on Barack Obama to reject TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, urges “radical change to prevent catastrophic warming.” The post Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, Radical Change Needed [VIDEO] appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Day of the Con Planet Burners
It happened during Question Period in the middle of the debate about whether Canada should go to war.So most did not notice and it will soon be forgotten.The moment when Tom Mulcair quoted Stephen Harper's infamous 2002 statement on Kyoto:“Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Big Oil Madness: Gastem’s $1.5 million lawsuit against tiny Quebec village of Ristigouche
Gastem, a Quebec oil and gas exploration company is suing the tiny Quebec village of Ristigouche-Sud-Est to the tune of $1.5-million. The post Big Oil Madness: Gastem’s $1.5 million lawsuit against tiny Quebec village of Ristigouche appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Ill wind from Alberta
Well nobody at this beach on the Toronto Island today was complaining about an ill wind from the West.Because it was warm and wild, and summer like life is so short and precious.However, had they been in Calgary this weekend, they would have encountered another kind of wind.Hot, foul, and
Continue readingTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Climate Activists Mourn Victims of Lac-Mégantic Tragedy
On the one-year anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, climate activists say the Canadian government has treated the fatal train derailment “primarily as a public relations problem rather than a public safety problem.” The post Climate Activists Mourn Victims of Lac-Mégantic Tragedy appeared first on THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE.
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