According to George Monbiot,
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction and economic meltdown.
At any rate, both the UK and Europe are thinking longer-term than the [...]
Tag Archives: election2008
Environmental politics over the long term
October 21, 2008 – 5:35 pm
Launch of ReallyNotALeader.ca
September 30, 2008 – 9:49 pm
I began work on this site late last week, and am launching it today, with a bit less content than I had hoped, but with a decent start.
ReallyNotALeader aims to make plain the many ways in which Stephen Harper fails to live up to his own rhetoric: the central premise of this blog is that [...]
Reason 3 not to vote for the Conservatives: who cuts literacy funding?
September 12, 2008 – 4:00 am
We could be doing worse, but research does show that Canada has a literacy problem.
So, if that’s the case, why would the Conservatives cut $17.7 million CDN from adult and family literacy programs? This is old news, but it made no sense then, and it still doesn’t. Adult literacy has a very direct and measure [...]
Reason 2 not to elect the Conservatives: stupid and destructive climate change policy
September 10, 2008 – 8:55 pm
After they were done pointing the finger at Paul Martin’s LIberals for dropping the ball on Kyoto (which, though a reasonable accusation, is ridiculous coming from Stephen Harper or John Baird) and had finally caved to public pressure on addressing environmental issues and human-caused global warming, the Conservatives have come out with a set of [...]
Reason 1 not to elect the Conservatives: trashy campaigning
September 10, 2008 – 5:01 am
As this Reuters article notes, Stephen Harper today found himself apologizing for a Conservative attack-ad website (notaleader.ca – I’m not going to give it my link juice) on Liberal leader Stéphane Dion in which a Puffin flies behind Dion and poops on his shoulder (in the revised version, the puffin just flies behind Dion).
Way to [...]