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Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Britain Backs Bitumen
Sideshow Steve Harper and his British counterpart, Austerity Dave Cameron, may be widely disliked by their citizens, but they are taking care of business. Cameron, according to documents leaked to The Guardian, is running interference for Steve with the same E.U. his party is constantly threatening to divorce. The E.U.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Michael Babad takes a look at Bureau of Labor Statistics data on wages and employment levels – reaching the conclusion that the corporatist effort to drive wages down does nothing to improve employment prospects. But the absence of any remotely plausible policy justification
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: CBC investigation, Wildrose aggressiveness real reasons Peter Sandhu quit Tories.
TweetEdmonton-Manning MLA Peter Sandhu has resigned from the Progressive Conservative Caucus after a CBC investigation revealed that a company owned by the politician had accumulated a trail of unpaid debt. The report, by investigative reporter Charles Rusnell, also found that Mr. Sandhu made a false statement in a sworn affidavit.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Greenpeace Launches Wikileaks Inspired Site
Wikileaks has been a great source of information that governments and corporations wanted to deny or keep secret. Now Greenpeace has modelled a site, Arctic Truth, for whistleblowers who work in the world of arctic drilling for oil. As climate change turns the frozen north into accessible waters oil companies
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Welcome to New Alberta, formerly known as British Columbia
Looks like negative campaigning really does work. Look at hapless Adrian Dix. Can’t wait for our first spill along the coast. Whooheee! And Justin Trudeau, see how positive campaigning is a loser’s game? Don’t be an idiot. Canada is too important for you to act like a rube, which Adrian
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday May 15, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday May 15, 2013: That hockey game will haunt me until the day I die…via Joffrey Lupul Racial profiling: Toronto Police settle human rights complaint with man who was pulled over Toronto Mayor Rob Ford bolts from meeting
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Most surprising election ever
Teddy here to look at the results of the BC election, the most surprising election ever. Why do I call it that? A few reasons. Lets first compare it to other shocking results. Diefenbaker, 1957. His win was a shock to many, but back in the 50’s the polling industry
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 140 character Ontario politics prediction
After what happened to BC NDP, the chances of a Spring election are somewhere between slim and none.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Friends In High Places
It must be very comforting indeed to the increasingly odious Senator Duffy that his relationship with the Prime Minister is so ‘special’ that the latter is willing to exercise unethical, perhaps even illegal interference on his behalf during the Senate’s investigation into his fraudulent expense claims. For the rest of
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Still the Good Guys? – Oh, and God is Good.
Sometimes the most basic of points are the most effective. Join Superman and Batman as they fight evil, god style! Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Christianity, DarkMatter2525, god is good!, How Religion Poisons Everything, Religion
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Faulkner County: ExxonMobil’s "Sacrifice Zone" for Tar Sands Pipelines, Fracking
There are few better examples of a “sacrifice zone” for ExxonMobil and the fossil fuel industry at-large than Faulkner County, Arkansas and the counties surrounding it. Six weeks have passed since a 22-foot gash in ExxonMobil’s Pegasus tar sands Pipeline spilled over 500,000 gallons of heavy crude into the quaint neighborhood of Mayflower, AR,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Time To Ditch The Duffer
Tom Walkom writes that when it comes to residency, Senate rules are unambiguous: The constitution act is crystal clear on this. It says a senator must be at least 30 years old, own $4,000 worth of real estate in the province he represents and be “resident in the province for
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Another Day in Paradise
“Dude!” “Coko!” “Dude!” “Coko!” “Dude!” [sound of engine being gunned, squeal of tires … then the screams] Alltop also has opposable thumbs. Photo via Twisted Vintage.< Originally published May, 2010./h6>
Continue readingthe disgruntled democrat: Oh Canada, How Long Will You Remain an English Settler State?
The latest statistics from the National Household Survey indicate that one out of five Canadians was born outside of the country. The report states that “Canada is a nation with an ethnocultural mosaic as indicated by its immigrant population, the ethnocultural backgrounds of its people, the visible minority population, linguistic
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: WTF Happened In B.C.?
You are asking me? One thing I’ll say is that this did not remind me of last year’s Alberta polling cock-up. The B.C. NDP are not an untried bunch, and the charges of radicalism that were flung at them are par for the course in a B.C. election, so I
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: What I am eating for breakfast this morning
Self-excoriating column to follow at lunch.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: BC Libs surprise election win is a warning to pollsters – and to Justin Trudeau
Can you find anyone other then the BC Liberals who felt they were going to win a majority last night (did they even think that?). I would suspect that number is a handful. Nevertheless, when all was said and done, the BC Liberals are back in power (despite Christy Clark
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Gay Marriage is Contagious
On Nov 4th 2012 The U.S made history passing same sex marriage votes in three states altogether. In 2012 Same Sex Marriage was legal in 9 states and the District of Columbia (DC). 2012 was the year with the most legal same sex marriages votes passing in the U.S. In
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Gay Marriage is Contagious
On Nov 4th 2012 The U.S made history passing same sex marriage votes in three states altogether. In 2012 Same Sex Marriage was legal in 9 states and the District of Columbia (DC). 2012 was the year with the most legal same sex marriages votes passing in the U.S. In
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