I’m aware that many people in the LGBTQ communities have little use for the big Pride celebration and its evolution into a highly commercialized event, with its attempts to bury our political past. But I think it is a mistake to claim we’ve moved pas…
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: Why Mainstream Pride is Important – Commercialization and All…
I’m aware that many people in the LGBTQ communities have little use for the big Pride celebration and its evolution into a highly commercialized event, with its attempts to bury our political past. But I think it is a mistake to claim we’ve moved past the need for such celebrations.
Continue readingThe HB-Log : The Canadian workplace has changed for the better
The Globe and Mail’s John Ibbitson regularly demonstrates his mastery in turning useful information into meaningless generalizations. In today’s butchering he argues the latest census numbers show that the workplace has barely “changed” over the past half century and our policies have failed. To put it bluntly, he’s dead wrong. Yes, I
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Make history — meet us in Niagara-on-the-lake July 24-25
It’s the last meeting of the provincial Premiers before the 10-year 2004 health accord expires. With the expiry of that accord, so too goes any concerted effort to implement a national strategy to fix health care. July 24-25 the Premiers will get … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Cathy Bennett to seek Liberal leadership #nlpoli
SRBP expects that Cathy Bennett, chair of the Bennett Group of companies, will announce her bid for the provincial Liberal leadership next week. More to follow… -srbp- .
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Is Obama’s Faith in Carbon Capture a Technicolor Dream?
President Obama’s climate action announcement yesterday relies heavily on carbon capture and storage technology eventually paying off as a commercially viable option. But carbon capture and storage (or CCS) continues to be more of a dream than reality. And a very expensive dream at that. According to a database maintained
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: W@AL: I was wrong. About everything.
Outside Sun News studios, following an appearance on Brian Lilley’s show, I am struck by a proverbial lightning bolt on the way to Damascus. Clearly, I was wrong about Dalton McGuinty, and pretty much everything else. Watch what happens next. Your browser does not support the video tag
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Stay Motivated: A Short Caution.
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
Continue readingcartoon life: Today’s Water Lilies
Filed under: art Tagged: blue, closeup, green, water, Water Lilies
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.
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
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