What, are you crazy?Social media, the Twitterverse and more, Blue, Orange and Red are calling for the esteemed Senator Michael Duffy, Kanata-PEI, to resign.Problem this time is that, this is lifted from The Toronto Star, Nigel “… Wright intervened to have Duffy reimburse $90,172 in secondary living expenses associated with his
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Toronto Police and black educator resolve racial profiling case
By: Human Rights Legal Support Centre | Press Release: TORONTO, May 14, 2013 – The Toronto Police Service (TPS), the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB), and educator Dr. Clem Marshall have reached an agreement to settle his Human Rights Application. The terms of the settlement are confidential and neither the TPS nor the TPSB has admitted any liability. Dr.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Sad Truth Here
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Continue readingArt Threat: Conservative Christ illustrates America’s evil Jesus
The latest work by American artist Michael D’Antuono has once again drawn ire from US conservatives for pointing out the hypocrisy amongst their ranks. His latest work, The Conservative Christ, depicts Jesus with an AK-47 hoisted into their air, clutching tightly to a pot of gold, and sneering derisively at
Continue readingezra winton: An honest Coca-Cola advert
Without a doubt, Coca-Cola is one of the worst companies on the planet. From its murderous human rights violations stamping out unions in Latin America (especially at Colombian bottling plants) to its marketing to youngsters to its environmental record (especially concerning water), it is hands down a terrible corporation getting
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Oh, To Be a Fly On the Wall
CBC’s Kady O’Malley sums up the Duffy audit/expense controversy quite nicely. Why did Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, cut a personal cheque to repay Senator Mike Duffy’s controversial living expenses? Are all the Senators implicated in this controversy being treated equally in the process – or are the
Continue readingkirbycairo: Farewell to You All, I just Can’t Do it Anymore. . . .
I have always been something of a reluctant warrior for the left. My reluctance was not motivated by lack of belief in principles because I really believe that corporatism and the rightwing ideology are spectacularly wrong and will lead to nothing but disaster. Furthermore, I believe that the only way
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: It’s the Economy, Stupid NDP
The annals of contemporary political history make one thing clear: Elections are invariably won and lost on a single issue – and that issue is most often the economy. The NDP lost this election for three reasons – all of which relate back to that one central point: 1. Despite
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: $90000 Favour To Senator Duffy Not a Bribe? #cdnpoli
Condoning, protecting, rewarding & compensating #fraud: PMO helped Senator #Duffy with expenses issues: theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/… #Cdnpoli— EmperorStephenHarper (@RobertJensen2) May 15, 2013 BREAKING:@RobertFife reveals that Nigel Wright, PM's Chief of Staff, wrote a personal cheque over $90K to cover Sen Duffy's expenses— CTV Power Play (@CTV_PowerPlay) May 15, 2013 S.17 Senate Conflict
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Melting Glaciers: a Sign of Things to Come?
The Swansea University scientists say that this is not, in and of itself, evidence of climate change, but it sure is change of some kind. In this video, posted May 14, 2013, a five km front of ice calves off from the Helheim Glacier in Greenland over a two hour
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The most plausible reason for the NDP loss in BC
Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion in BC I think Gordon Gibson’s take in the Globe & Mail on the vote-shifting caused by the position-shifting of Dix in the last week of the campaign is the most plausible explanation of why the polls were so different from the actual results: The NDP
Continue readingStill stupid in BC.
Was there ever any doubt? What happened with the polls? No one knows for sure. But we just lost another whack of IQ points as a province. A big ol’Fuck you to anyone who voted for the BC Lieberals, obviously you havent felt the pain so many of us have
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: BC provincial election sour grapes
So, the BC Liberals won last night’s election. I’m sure there will be lots of post mortems over the next week or two, and some soul searching going on well past that. People will point out the flaws in the campaign, whinge about media coverage, wonder whether the NDP had
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: On Rare Birds and New Democrats
BC NDP leader Adrian Dix is a rare bird. Or at least he would have been a rare bird if he’d actually won last night. For that would have been his party’s fourth win in the 15-provincial elections staged since they were formed in 1960. As things stand this morning
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 15: Bugs and blah…
News media are the first line of defence for democracy. That should be the first lecture in any Journalism 101 course. Without a supply of unbiased and relevant information from our news media, we cannot make the decision that the electorate in a democracy must make. That’s not being preachy.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: A brief reflection on BC election polling
Once the disappointment over the BC election isn’t so painful, there’s something that needs to be talked about regarding polling. This is a quick, stream-of-consciousness post, and I plan on writing more later. While Mario Canseco of Angus Reid said, this morning, that it’s not a “methodology” problem, I think
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Polls Apart: Making Sense of Surprise BC Election Outcome
Premier Christy Clark was right when she told the Canadian Press it’s, “the people of British Columbia that choose the government.”…Politicians have known for a long time that the news media makes a lot of money during political campaigns and elections, and they make even more when elections are close.
Continue readingwmtc: barcelona, day five
There’s been no shortage of things to do in Barcelona, we very easily filled 4-1/2 days, and we’ve skipped entire days of tourist destinations – Montjuic and Dali’s Figuerres. This is a wonderful city, full of history, art, architecture, urban villages, great food, shopping – everything that makes a city
Continue reading350 or bust: B.C. Votes Against Its Future
I don’t live in Canada’s most westerly province, but I know that British Columbians pride themselves in their slogan, “Beautiful British Columbia”. It is a province of vast wilderness, ancient mountains, and pristine waters, although its beauty has been marred in recent years by the pine-beetle-destroyed pine trees covering vast
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