Rumours abound that President Obama’s slogan for the upcoming election will be Forward. Brilliant. It is what it is and what it is is whatever you want it to be. WFDS
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andrew Coyne is rightly alarmed at the Cons’ move to short-circuit any debate about major policy changes through an omnibus budget bill. And Bea Vongdoaungchanh reports that the biggest of those changes is to set our environmental laws back by half a
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Bob Rae, Mike Crawley, The Leadership Committees And The "Rules"
Yesterday, in an article for Postmedia News, Lee Berthiame reported: The [national] board [of the Liberal Party], which has a number of new members, including party president Mike Crawley, is currently in the process of establishing a committee to determine the rules and guidelines for the leadership race, which must
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Bullshit Vision Thing #nlpoli
Dean MacDonald, the undeclared leader of the provincial Liberal Party spoke to a crowd in Port de Grave district on Saturday night. There’s an account of his speech in the Telegram’s Monday edition. Dean crapped on the provincial Conservatives for all sorts of things. Most of all, he seemed to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Comparing Territories: Tar Sands Blanket Caribou Habitat
Picture 3.png As the controversy surrounding Canada’s proposed wolf cull in Alberta grows, the provincial government is attempting to limit criticism directed at the country’s polluting Tar Sands – the prime driver behind the region’s rapid decline in caribou populations. Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) is the government
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Techvibes: Study shows Canada’s cell phone market is overpriced and anti-competitive
Yet another report has recently come out to demonstrate just how closed our cell phone market truly is. We’ve improved in the last four years, but we’re still seeing a situation where about 94% of the wireless market is dominated by only three large companies. Canada’s industry minister has yet
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Study exposes secret Canadian bank bailout
The Harper Conservatives are fond of touting Canadian banks as more stable than other countries’ big banks. They claim all the credit for Canada’s stability during the 2008-10 global financial crisis. And, we’re often told that our banks needed no … Continue reading →
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: McGuinty’s Majority Move
As I wrote on election night last fall, the line between majority and minority isn’t as rigid as it’s often made out to be. When the margin is this thin, one case of appendicitis can tip the scales and change the course of history. On Friday, Dalton McGuinty proved how
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 1, 2012: DNA Testing Clears Colorado Man After Serving 18 Years Social media and the employment relationship – Canadian HR Reporter (blog) Toronto Law Blogger/Tweeter Meetup is only one week away!! Monday May 7, 7:00 pm
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4566…Whitney Houston Still In The News
She is still dead. No Tupac or Elvis for Mrs. Bobby Brown. But…The Daily Star, a Brit fish wrap, reports that her family is thinking of encasing her final place of rest in concrete. They want to deter grave robbers and cannot afford a proper security team to protect her.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Taking Parliament Hostage
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson writes that Stephen Harper has been “unbound.” What that really means is that he has neutered Parliament. If you don’t believe that’s true, writes Andrew Coyne, take a look at Bill C-38, the government’s “omnibus” budget bill: When the Harper government packages legislation these
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4565…May Day Today
Doesn’t have the same zip it had a century a go. WFDS
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Victory For The Star
As a direct result of their investigative series, Police Who Lie, The Toronto Star is once more contributing to the social good. The following is reported today’s edition: Ontario’s chief prosecutor will probe the issue of police officers who are found by judges to have lied in court. Attorney General
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Living Dinosaur – Beyond Imagination Part 2:The Solar System
TLD continues his cosmological journey. Filed under: Science Tagged: Beyond Imagination, The Living Dinosaur
Continue readingPigheaded…
OK, so I haven’t been here a whole heck of a lot lately, but there also hasn’t been a heck of a lot to boil my blood, either – at least nothing that I can say publicly. But… Monday night’s decision to not change the animal control rules and allow
Continue readingROAR!: #M312 – How will your MP Vote?
What a rollercoaster ride! it has been since little old PEI screamed out into the universe that women here were no longer going to be ignored and silenced. Okay, well, women have screamed before, but this is the first time I’ve been invovled. Specifically of course I’m talking about access to abortion services,
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Parliamentary impotence is nothing new
Andrew Coyne has a column where he rages over Parliament’s redundancy or seeming lack of influence – specifically over Bill C-38, the Conservatives “omnibus bill”, which basically combines several different type of legislation that could and should be debated on their own merits into one big monstrosity. On the one
Continue readingImpolitical: Languages shmanguages
Today in Harper government infractions: “Ottawa blâmé par le commissaire aux langues officielles.” Le gouvernement Harper n’a pas respecté la Loi sur les langues officielles en nommant l’anglophone unilingue Michael Ferguson au poste névralgique de vérificateur général, révèle un rapport du commissaire aux langues officielles obtenu en exclusivité par La
Continue readingwmtc: occupy may day
Today is May Day, the International Workers’ Day, a day to celebrate our strength and our unity as working people. Although May Day is an official holiday in many countries around the world, many working-class Americans are unaware of it. 2012 might change that. There has been talk of a
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