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Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon Elections Canada has two different sets of laws - one for Liberals and one for Conservatives Volpe gives back donations to children OTTAWA - Liberal leadership candidate Joe Volpe is...

How That Lexus Hoverboard Actually Works This week, Lexus introduced a short teaser video for SLIDE, a hoverboard that appears to not just live up to our Back to the Future II dreams but, at least stylistically, improve on them. Better yet, it’s more...

nothing to see here Dean Skoreyko ‏@bcbluecon Alberta's NDP environment minister edited eco-fanatic book the more...

British And Irish Tourists Die In Beach Terror The gunman, disguised as a tourist, pulled out a Kalashnikov hidden in an umbrella before firing at holidaymakers on the beach. A gunman disguised as a holidaymaker has killed at least 37 people in an attack on a tourist resort popular with...

Large swathes of the British countryside are to be spared the blight of windfarms by the axing of taxpayer subsidies, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has revealed. She said about 2,500 proposed turbines in 250 projects are now “unlikely to be built”. The Renewables Obligation subsidy for new...

I know this triggers some people but oh well. :lol: Sentiment among oilsands companies has soured over the past year as economic, political and environmental issues have aligned to cripple the Alberta oilpatch, but there is still considerable value in the sector, say analysts. Stunned by...

70 years later, and it's increasingly hard to fathom the extent of the devastation wrought during World War II. Conservative estimates place the overall global death toll -- soldiers and civilians -- at around 60 million. Some, though, reckon that figure is likely far higher. Reddit user...

like no kidding eh. it's the anti-national sociopaths that enjoy picking at scabs that won't admit it. Brian Gallant says Energy East Pipeline would benefit Quebec N.B. premier says Quebec could see 4,000 jobs and $700 million in extra tax revenue New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant...

via fivefeetoffury An actual mathematician explains the stats. And with lines like, “Dyson told The Fact Checker that less than 1 percent is still too high,” this WaPo “Fact Checker” isn’t as devastating as it thinks it is. (But hey, WaPo, right?) Black-On-White Crime: If You Want To...

especially in (no surprise) Ontario. TORONTO— The public sector in Canada (including federal, provincial and local government employees) is growing and reaching proportions not seen since the early 1990s—an era marked by large government deficits and high debt—finds a new study released...

Canadians appear to be increasingly bullish about building closer ties with trading partners in the Americas, Europe and Asia, according to a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute, particularly in the level of support for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership currently being negotiated among...

The Toronto Star has uncovered the documentary on Premier Kathleen Wynne that no one is allowed to see. From the Kathleen Wynne TVO documentary. Premier Kathleen Wynne runs from Star reporter Rob Ferguson after the Liberals won the byelection. "Is he still following us?" she whispers to an...

oh my Wednesday at the White House reception to observe LGBT Pride Month, President Barack Obama was heckled by a man demanding an end to deportations. Obama said to the man, “No, no, no, you’re in my house.” After the heckler was escorted out, the president said, “As a general rule...

https://twitter.com/bcbluecon/status/613852340794322944/photo/1 Trudeau’s nonsense answer to a question voters should ask OTTAWA - This week, we learned that ISIS savages locked five hapless civilians in a cage, lowered the cage in a pool and then filmed their deaths by drowning. These...

This is a posting about “Freedom of Speech”. It will use some current events that are “offensive”. My position on them is NOT the subject of the posting. (In fact, I rarely care at all about emotionally overloaded issues. What usually interests me is the intellectual vacuousness of the...

via sda Still no justice or discipline. Help keep up the pressure, sign my petition at www.handsoffourguns.ca

via sda: Red Rose Country When commodities trade at negative prices… Here’s something that doesn’t happen every day. The price of propane in Edmonton, Canada — home of Tar Sands production — is trading at a negative price. Which means, if you’ve got propane in Edmonton Canada...

Is this the ol' man-made climate change or the natural course of events change? There's quite a big difference.

'is a mental disorder' The Senate majority leader told reporters Tuesday that the memorial belongs in a museum, not the statehouse...