This Weekend on the House
Now, don't the NDP find themselves with their backs to the wall... facing off against members of their own caucus. It's not a pretty fight this gun registry donnybrook. The Liberals love it. The...
View ArticleThis weekend on the House
Apparently, Nancy Pelosi was in town. Maybe you've heard of her: Speaker of the US House of Representatives, third-in-line to throne, er, Presidency. Well, if you were a Canadian journalist you barely...
View ArticleThis week on 'The House'
The guns are still blazing at Camp NDP, and it's starting to sound like the MPs with registered guns are going to win. And that is killing folks back in the ridings. Kathleen talks with Maurice...
View ArticleSuzuki's people have questions for you, Scott Vaughan
Knock, knock, knock... hello! Mr. Scott Vaughan, Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development? Hi! I'm with the David Suzuki Foundation and we're really worried about Endocrine...
View ArticleGovernment nuclear spin
In the annals of Lake Ontario bathymetry, there is no place more profound than a patch of lake-bed directly between the Scotch-Bonnet Gap and the Duck-Galloo Ridge known as the Rochester Basin. At its...
View ArticleGoing the distance: Crunching the numbers on campaign carbon footprints
Dear readers, listeners and viewers: forgive me. I am an imperfect creature, especially when it comes to statistics. But in this task, I've devoted as many of my limited skills as I can. Calculating...
View ArticleThe leaders' carbon footprints UPDATED!
We've updated the leaders' carbon footprints from the last time we did the calculation on April 4.The big news: Elizabeth May has seen an early 5,000-per-cent increase in the size of her emissions!...
View ArticleThe leaders' carbon footprints UPDATED AGAIN!
The clouds of greenhouse gases continue to fill the horizon as Canada's federal leaders criss, cross and cavort around the country. Last time around, the big story was Elizabeth May's 5000 percent...
View ArticleThe leaders' carbon footprints - the final tally
The results are in. We know who is finishing this campaign on top. CBC is ready to report the final tally of the leaders'... wait for it... carbon emissions. Honestly! Did you think we would test the...
View ArticleAn optimistic view on the Arab Spring
Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, has been listening to frantic queries about recent events in the...
View ArticleThe uninhabitability of the oil sands forests
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has quite the sales job ahead of him. As minister in charge of selling the oil sands, there's a lot of bad press to spin out of and ugly pictures to gloss over....
View ArticleHard advice on the Northern Gateway pipeline
So yesterday's decision by the Americans to can the current version of the Keystone XL pipeline has added new urgency to the Northern Gateway Pipeline process.If you're an oil sands producer or a...
View ArticleTalking key to First Nations consultations over pipeline
It's one of Joe Oliver's most common refrains when talking about oil sands resource projects: "We have a moral and constitutional obligation to consult with Canada's First Nations," intones the...
View ArticleSorting out the spat over Europe's fuel quality directive
So Wednesday, I wrote this article about Joe Oliver's excellent energy adventure in Kuwait. The International Energy Forum is a supplier-buyer gabfest. A chance for energy ministers the world over to...
View ArticleWhich one is it, Minister Oliver?
Two recent moments with Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver brought to mind a favorite comedy moment, when Rick James tried to say two things at once. More, after the jump...
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