“The Liberals could come out with an announcement heralding the sky for being blue and a good portion of the electorate would respond by criticizing them for ignoring the clouds.” Stephen Smart is the political correspondent who wrote the comment shown above, published today by CBC News online. By no
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5863…Bombings In Boston Fuel Conspiracy Freaks
Talking about you Tyrone Drummond. He posted this on Facebook: Tyrone Drummond Anyone else suspicious of the bombings today at the Boston Marathon? Black Helicopter people: sometimes a rose is just a f*cking rose, okay? WFDS
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Conservative Attack Ad – UPDATED
I suspect many will agree that this ad says more about the Conservative Party behind it than it does about its subject: UPDATE: This Star editorial provides some useful context for and analysis of this attack ad. Recommend this Post
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Boston Marathon Attacked by Bombings
A typically joyful day in Boston was marred by a terrorist bombing where two explosions killed multiple people, and injured at least 50 with injuries as serious as amputations. It’s a grim reminder that peaceful life in North America is very much taken for granted, and our innocence will again
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Media Should Not Cover YouTube Attack Ads
If a political party isn’t willing to pay to put an ad into places people are likely to find it on their own (like TV, radio, newspaper or even paid online adverstising), the media should not provide free publicity to almost-no-cost “attack ad” content: There was no day off to
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: A Socialist’s Lament
Let’s be clear about one thing: the New Democratic Party of Canada was never a socialist party. For all the hands wrung and tears shed over its newly amended constitution, the NDP, since its formation in 1961, has always been a social democratic party like any other, and social democracy
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: A Socialist’s Lament
Let’s be clear about one thing: the New Democratic Party of Canada was never a socialist party. For all the hands wrung and tears shed over its newly amended constitution, the NDP, since its formation in 1961, has always been a social democratic party like any other, and social democracy
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Vancouver Musician Takes on Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Tankers
Check out this new song and music video from Vancouver artist CR Avery, produced by the Sierra Club of BC. According to the organization, which released the video on its youtube page this past weekend, “With riveting spoken word and striking images, CR Avery connects the dots between pipelines, oil
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Justin Trudeau: Too Sexy For His Shirt, Too Sexy For Canada?
The only thing more predictable than Justin Trudeau’s win in the Liberal leadership race was that it would be followed by Conservative attack ads. For those curious what the sequel to “Not a Leader” and “Just Visiting” would look like, the wait is over: It should come as no surprise
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada Revenue Agency asks CBC to submit data on tax havens
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The use of tax havens is at an all-time high in Canada and it’s costing Canadians an estimated $7.8 billion annually, the executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness, Dennis Howlett, recently said in his brief to the House of Commons Finance Committee. Now the Canada Revenue Agency
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quotes of the Day – Clues for Liberal White Dudes – On Experiences
On the experience of women in society: “Like most women, I currently live in a society where violence, harassment and scary shit can break out at any moment, just because I told some random asshole “no” without bothering to be nice about it. Doing that is so dangerous that most
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Montreal, May 27: J. Sakai on The Politics of Security
The Politics of Security a presentation by J. Sakai Monday, May 27th, 6:30 pm @ QPIRG Concordia 1500 de Maisonneuve O., suite 204 (metro Guy-Concordia) The recent f.b.i. and grand jury repression against anarchists in the Northwest USA, as well as the continued police repression of the Anti-Globalization resistance, has
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America’s Enemy-Industrial Complex
You can own all the locomotives and all the rolling stock in the world but they’re useless without tracks. The same logic holds true for the world’s largest, most fearsome military. What good is it without an ample supply of enemies? Just as General Motors needs people to buy Chevys,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Preparing for Conflict? Bagpipers in Outremont
Bagpipe alert! Somebody was practising bagpipe scales (very badly) on Durocher between St. Viateur and Fairmount this afternoon. Will be interesting to see if the player persists. In the meantime:
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Pressure from Canadians is starting to have an effect: Paradis signals discomfort with the Shaw-Rogers backroom deal
Today, on a call with reporters, Industry Minister Christian Paradis signalled that he may take a stand to ensure we don’t see even less choice in Canada’s already uncompetitive and dysfunctional cell phone market. Earlier this year Shaw announced that it would attempt to sell quality spectrum—a key resource for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Four More Weeks, Four Long Weeks
British Columbians are counting the days until we send Christy Clark and her sullied neo-Liberals packing. The NDP are going into the election campaign up by 12 points over Clark’s Liberals. Could the rightwingers stage a comeback? Anything is possible but that seems highly unlikely. All the NDP has to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair are Steering Canada Toward a Cliff
Canada went through the 2008 Great Recession and fared better than most of the developed world. It turns out Harper didn’t have enough time to let Canadian banks off their leashes to run wild like their American and European counterparts. When the widely predicted (Krugman, Roubini, Stiglitz et al) crash
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Detailed #LPCLdr By the Numbers & Analysis
So, in an effort to give myself carpal tunnel issues, I’ve managed to get the raw vote counts for all 308 ridings in Canada, collate them into one place, and have fun with the data. I may or may not put up a PDF file with all the ridings and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Pipeline Deadline: Rushed Review Process for Tar Sands Line 9 Stifles Public Participation
Canadians you will need to brush up on those resume writing skills and sharpen your pencils because it is time to fill out your 10-page applications to get permission to send in your comments about another oil pipeline. And as of Monday, April 15th, you have less than five days
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