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Don’s Rant:
Don’s Rant is all about the closure of almost all of the DFO’s libraries. The contents of the libraries were either given away or tossed in the trash. Scientist complain that the government did not live up to it’s promise to digitize the libraries contents and that this is just another front Harper has opened on his war on science.
Find out more:
- What’s Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada’s Science Libraries?
- Silencing Scientists
- How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre
- Libricide
- Federal budget cuts $100 million from fisheries and oceans over three years
- Why Climate Pariahs Like Australia and Canada Matter
- Tony Abbott joins The 7.30 Report
- Statement by Parliamentary Secretary Paul Calandra on Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s Introduction of Legislation to Repeal the Carbon Tax
- National Inventory Report – Greenhouse gas sources and sinks in Canada
- Climate change in Canada
- Kyoto Protocol
- Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (HMIRC)
- Experimental Lakes Area
- Centre for Offshore Oil, Gas and Energy Research (COOGER)
- Freshwater Institute
Blast from the past –
New Pope with baggage
The Catholic Church has a new Pope, who is he? Does he come with come darker baggage? Is he the right person to rescue the church form its current troubles. Poster Pope or A Pope on a Poster?
Find out more:
- Pope Francis and Argentina’s Dirty War
- Pope Francis accused by family and friends of tortured priests
- Is Pope Francis signalling a Vatican shakeup?
- In the war on the poor, Pope Francis is on the wrong side
- Pope Francis: The challenges ahead
The Pope Francis Gambit
We also discuss the charm offensive of Time Person of the Year, Pope Francis. Does this pope spark real change or is it just a new ploy dreamt up by former Fox News reporter now head of the Vatican public relations. Is there a ‘real’ Pope Frankie who has masterminded the smoke and mirrors that is Pope Francis while Pope Frankie continues the condemnation of church doctrine? Does the actions match the rhetoric? Atheist should be very afraid of this pope, the easy battles with the cartoon caricature Pope Benedict presented are gone; the church has launched a new offensive. Are we up to the challenge?
Find out more:
- Reformer or Hypocrite? Understanding Pope Francis
- Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution? (Maybe He Read Marx)
- Pope Francis calls for a ‘rethinking of our models of economic development’
- Pope Francis: Liberals love his ‘trickle-down’ takedown
- Pope Francis condemns racism and declares that “all religions are true” at historic third Vatican council
- Pope Francis says atheists can do good and go to heaven too!
- A Big Heart Open to God
- Pope Francis: Idolizing money is the root of all evil
- Pope Francis Is a Liberal
- Papal infallibility
- Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church
- Pope Francis: Same-Sex Marriage Is ‘Anthropological Regression’
- The Advocate’s Person of the Year: Pope Francis
- Time Person of the Year
- Key quotes from Evangelii Gaudium
- Catholics must grow in love of God, neighbor, pope says at audience
- How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
- The PR genius who helped make the Pope popular: Francis’s marketing mastermind, an ex US journalist who belongs to Opus Dei
- The anti-capitalist pope?
