Tom Mulcair and the NDP will need all the help they can get for the 2015 election. It’s too bad Tommy burned his bridge to the Green Party. “Over the last two years, I found Justin Trudeau to be collaborative and friendly,” May told the Georgia Straight in a phone
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair are distant cousins
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Oh, crap! The looming NDP-Liberal battle to replace Stephen Harper and the Conservatives in 2015 is only a family feud. Soon-to-be Liberal leader, Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the New Democrats, are distant cousins, according to Ancestry.ca. Their connection goes back 400 years to
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Blood Tests and Autism: Conor and the DECH Both Did Very Well Today! Thank You Very Much!
Our entire family has had nothing but good experiences at the Doctor Everett Chalmers Hospital, the “DECH”, in Fredericton and that trend continued this morning when we took Conor for blood tests at 7 am. The tests were required by the consulting neurologist to establish some base lines before starting
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Iron Lady? Rust in peace: Thatcher was a disaster for the UK
Following the death of former British PM, Margaret Thatcher, more than a few people in the UK took it to the streets. Champagne bottles popped and smiles lit up the faces of street revelers ecstatic to see the last of Thatcher. A lively street party took place in Brixton where
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Puncturing Right-Wing Mythology
I hope everyone will take five minutes to watch this video, originally considered too controversial for TED Talks. The speaker, entrepreneur Nick Hanauer, very deftly cuts through the mythology perpetuated by the right wing that the super-rich are our job creators and hence must be treated with taxation kid gloves.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: One of the Greats, Johathan Winters, Dead at 87
Winters improvs with Dean Martin
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Funding Edmonton’s Downtown Arena, the strange comedy of errors continues.
TweetThe strange comedy of errors that has become Edmonton’s Downtown Arena project continued this week as City Council scrambled to fill a $100 million gap in a funding plan they approved months ago. Despite repeated claims by Mayor Stephen Mandel that provincial government money would fill the $100 million gap, anyone
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canada’s cell phone market in trouble as independent providers prepare to be absorbed by the Big Three
231.jpg April 12, 2013 – Telus, one of Canada’s “Big Three” cell phone companies, is in talks to purchase Mobilicity, one of Canada’s few independent cell phone providers, in a move that OpenMedia.ca is saying will stifle choice in Canada’s already-broken wireless market. Mobilicity is one of only three carriers
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Chris Hedges Finds the U.S. Is Using Human Rights as a Cover for Pre-Emptive War and Empire
If you thought America’s aggressive excesses were going to end with the departure of Bush-Cheney from the White House, think again. Chris Hedges writes of “a new wave of ‘humanitarian interventionists’ …who naively see in the U.S. military a vehicle to create a better world.” “They know little of the
Continue readingAlex's Blog: Celebrating Public Service
Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013 I am delighted to be here with family, friends and colleagues this evening – an evening that can only be
Continue readingAlex's Blog: Celebrating Public Service
Public servants celebrating the enrolment of 5 million citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan (1959, Archives of Ontario) Notes for talk at Public Policy Forum Dinner, April 11, 2013 I am delighted to be here with family, friends and colleagues this evening – an evening that can only be
Continue readingEarthgauge Radio: EG Radio April 11, 2013: Our 50th show! EcoBricks, Ontario Home Comfort and Rachel Carson
Download: earthgauge-podcast-april11-2013.mp3 This week marks our 50th program since Earthgauge Radio was launched in the fall of 2011! So we’re celebrating a big milestone today and are sending out our thanks to all the guests we’ve had in the past year and a half, the numerous people who have contributed
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Ayn Rand’s "Vision of Paradise" in Today’s America? Try Tennessee.
If there’s one State that practices what Ayn Rand preached, it would be Tennessee and the results are predictable. From AlterNet: If you’re worried about where America is heading, look no further than Tennessee. Its lush mountains and verdant rolling countryside belie a mean-spirited public policy that only makes sense if
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper Loves Cats?
Do cats trust him?
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Canadians to get an opportunity to express views on paid plasma donations
Health Canada is going to give Canadians the opportunity to express their views on paid plasma donations soon. April 10 stakeholders selected by Health Canada took part in a round table discussion over the issue of increasing paid donation in … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Margaret Thatcher Breaks Into #3 Spot on British Pop Charts
It’s currently behind something called “Need U (100%)” by Duke Dumont and A*M*E at No. 1 and P!nk feat. Nate Ruess’ “Just Give Me A Reason” at No. 2. But “Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead” from The Wizard of Oz, is currently selling 2,000 copies a day online in
Continue readingPolygonic: Alert: Rex Murphy disgruntled!
It’s been a while, folks! But on the eve of the NDP’s big conference, I had to just make a somewhat-related comment on Rex Murphy’s latest pontification on Tom Mulcair’s popularity conundrum. Which isn’t as much of a conundrum, or a crisis, as people will make out in the midst
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Obama’s Grand Betrayal of Ordinary America
Barack Obama’s carefully nurtured image as a man of the people has been blown to shreds. Rob Urie, writing for CounterPunch, captures the event in one paragraph: With Barack Obama putting his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare expenditures into writing in his Federal budget proposal the ability of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canada Revenue Agency offers deal to CBC to reveal tax cheats by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says the Canada Revenue Agency wants to cut a deal with the CBC that would allow the broadcaster to protect its secret sources, but also rat out tax cheats who have money tucked away in offshore accounts.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yeah, yeah…
… I KNOW that the only poll that matters is the one held on E Day, but for Libs like me, this is encouraging: The latest Nanos tracking numbers reveal that national support for the Liberal Party is at 35.4%, just ahead of the Conservatives at 31.3%. Liberal support has
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