aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

van_jones_tim_porter.jpg You probably won't be surprised when I tell you that Glenn Beck wasn't the mastermind behind the campaign to remove Van Jones from his position as the head of the White House...

topics: environmental, planning, unions

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

BCNU punished for 'raiding' other unions in drive to gain associate members. ...

topics: union, unions

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coal-miner.jpg Verizon Wireless is facing intense criticism for its co-sponsorship of dirty coal company Massey Energys Friends of America” rally this Labor Day weekend in Logan, West Virginia....

topics: climate-change, ecological, environment, environmental, union

aggregated from: Paying attention

From inside the budget lockup, six things you should know about the Liberals' latest effort.First, the February budget has been revealed as bogus. The deficit is now forecast at $2.8 billion, not the $495 million Premier Gordon Campbell promised duri...

topics: business, economy, election, environment, investment

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

As part of a review of the Campaign Finance disclosure statements for North Vancouver City Council, I produced the following network diagram. I thought the readers here might like it.In the (large) diagram below, candidates are marked by rectangles,...

topics: city-council, north-vancouver, unions

aggregated from: Paying attention

Even as the last naive man in political journalism, I can't shed the idea that big donors get special treatment from parties. Politics run on money. Advertising, charter aircraft, polling, strategists, staff - winning takes big bucks.So when Teck Com...

topics: business, elected, election, environment, federal-government

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

Telecom workers union imposes 'soft lockout' on its own professional staff. ...

topics: union, unions

aggregated from: Terry Glavin

For a properly rigorous assessment of the pathetically reactionary currents that have caused such stupefaction across the western liberal-left spectrum in recent years, with particular reference to solidarity with the Iranian uprising, here's Saeed ...

topics: liberal, unions

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UnscientificMethodH.jpg The Heartland Institute has reared its hoary head again, this time fronting three full-page color ads in the Washington Post targeting lawmakers now debating the American Clea...

topics: business, climate-change, economy, elected, environmental

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MuteH.jpg You can often judge progress by the reaction of those who are opposed to it. If that's true, we're finally getting somewhere. The notoriously unethical Heartland Institute is pulling out al...

topics: business, climate-change, economy, employment, environmental