I was originally going to title this “stay angry.” Sometimes, it seems like that’s what’s needed to keep people motivated and engaged in activism, networking, and a sense of community, after a big win that makes people think that the struggle is over. My position on the fight for same-sex
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 26: Mr. Editorial Writer – ignorant? stupid? lying? All three?
It’s a bizarre editorial even without the possibilities of ignorance, stupidity or lying. It’s an editorial about all the advantages for us in the declining value of the Canadian dollar. Okay. That part is reasonable enough. But the conclusion, without any attempt to connect it to the rest of the editorial,
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Responsible Government? No, Thanks.
An extraordinary thing will happen in British Columbia today. The legislature will resume sitting for the first time since the spring election. Now, normally, that wouldn’t be exceptional. But in B.C.’s case it is, because for the first time that I’m aware, the sworn-in premier will not be allowed to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Just a Little Bit of Global Warming Goes a Long, Long Way
Chain of Fools A little warming goes a long way. That might be the real message from the floods that have wracked Alberta over the past week. It’s a message much of the Third World has known, and endured, for quite a while but we really never much listened to
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6185…Senator Wallin She No Vote
Says so right here in today’s Globe and Mail. “…the Saskatchewan senator did not vote in the last federal, provincial or municipal elections because of her schedule.”Too busy to vote? That’s some serious bullsh*t.WFDS
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Continue readingKen Chapman: Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a very extensive interview with journalist Michael Harris. If convicted Sona goes to jail. His description of how controlling the Harper
Continue readingKen Chapman: Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a very extensive interview with journalist Michael Harris. If convicted Sona goes to jail. His description of how controlling the Harper
Continue readingKen Chapman: Robocall Fraud Coming Home to Roost on the Harper Government?
Looks like the boy the Conservative Party threw under the bus on the Guelph Robocall scandal is not going quietly into the night. Michael Sona spoke out recently in a very extensive interview with journalist Michael Harris. If convicted Sona goes to jail. His description of how controlling the Harper War Room was in the past election makes you wonder why anyone with self respect would volunteer for such abuse.
If you want a first person perspective on the Harper campaign machine and its machinations from someone who was there you want to read the Harris column in iPolitics.
Here is the money quote from Sona:
“I’ve learned three things from the Robocall Affair. Talking points aren’t always right; friends are fickle when you get in trouble; and I trusted the Conservative Party way too much. And one other thing. I’m ready to fight now and I’m ready to win.”
Expect as many tricks as there are in the CPC book of tricks on how to thwart justice by delaying the trial any way they can. Delay tactics is how they handled the original Robocall trial that found the Conservative Party lists were use for election fraud. The evidence was too sparse to prove who actually did it. One would think ethics and integrity would dictate that the Conservative Party would be working really hard to help find and expose the fraudster who misused their political lists.
So far there is not a peep from the Conservative Party to indicate they are engaged in any way to help the RCMP find the fraudster.
Not a good way for the Conservative Party to show citizens they want to help restore voter confidence in how they do politics. Even OJ said he would do everything in his power to find who really killed his wife.
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell discusses the inevitable collateral damage to our planet from the Cons’ war on science: Over the past 200 years, Canadians built on flood plains because “we thought we had relatively stable climate — the climate we experienced over the past century,”
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Deep Conspiracy: Naomi Wolf on That Snowden Guy
As I think I’ve said here before, why should anybody be surprised that various branches of US intelligence has been following us. They’ve done it for a long time, as anybody who was/is active in politics knows. That they get it wrong often, is also well known. And now Naomi
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Calgary Herald Discovers the Polar Jet Stream
It’s a newspaper so far right that, to steal a line from Lawrence Martin, it should be delivered in a holster. A couple of weeks ago the Calgary Herald scribes treated climate change as the delusions of the loonie left. That was then, this is now. The Herald is now
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 26, 2013: Tips Tuesday Did Alito roll his eyes during Ginsburg dissent? European court advised to let Google keep sensitive search data Toronto cyclists fear “dooring” collisions, but police don’t track them Florida ex-prosecutor gets 2-year suspension over 100s
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act and municipal politics #nlpoli
You mean the Hell’s Angels won’t be deterred by a committee of people telling Doc O’Keefe what they think he should do? -srbp-
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Privately-developed London mental health hospitals justified by massive “risk” calculations
Evaluating value-for-money on a privatized public infrastructure project has always been a bit of a mugs game. A value-for-money (VFM) assessment is produced every time the province engages the private sector in the building of public infrastructure such as hospitals, court houses, … Continue reading →
Continue readingThings Are Good: Car-Addicted LA is Getting on the Bike-Train
Los Angeles is known to be a car-addled and car-addicted place but not for much longer. They have consciously set out to make their city more pedestrian and bike friendly. LA as also put efforts to make their transit better. The results are clear: people love to ride bicycles rather
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Corporate Welfare
David Lewis, the one-time head of the federal NDP and father of Stephen Lewis, used the phrase corporate welfare bums in his 1972 federal election campaign to describe the various subsidies handed out to the corporate world. It was a withering jab at the world of business, so proud to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Economic Obsessions
Those of us who are appalled by the Harper government have taken some hope for the future as we have watched the PMO implode. But Edward Greenspon warns that, when the next election arrives, it will probably still be fought not on Harperian ethics but on the Harperian economy. Mr.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The delayed masquerade of the Tories.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been saved by the rain on the plain. With Calgary recovering from serious flood conditions, it is no time for a Conservative Convention. Stephen Harper must think that God is smiling on him. If he had his way, the convention would never happen. He does
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Australia’s Rudd returns to power.
Teddy here. ABC (Australia) is reporting the following:http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-26/live-blog-labor-leadership/4782312Kevin Rudd has defeated sitting Prime Minister Julia Gillard to return as Prime Minister and Labor leader. The problem has been one of polls. Gillard has been polling very poorly. So poorly that this entire process (to replace her) began only 9 hours
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