We are in the midst of a series of evolving crises, environmental, climate, democratic, public trust and you can probably see food security and poverty on the deck waiting for their turn at bat. With this in mind I find it maddening that so many partisans are either dismissive of cooperation or
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Green Assassin Brigade: These Targeted Conservative Propaganda Letters are getting to be a little much
Friends Last Friday night after a couple tall boys at Barbarella’s Diamond’s Cabaret my colleague , Tony Clement spoke in great detail about all that really complicated sciencey stuff and the Government’s need to connect to those who think Star Trek is better than Star Wars. Minister Clement has made similar
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Shelob Lives
That is all! .
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Doing the Math on Peter Penashue’s stolen election.
Peter Penashue spent about $88,000 ($4000 too much) on this election to the riding of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2011 meaning he spent about $21 for each vote he received. In theory that additional $4000 at $21 per vote could have generated an additional 190 votes which was 3x his margin
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Al Jazerra doing the kind of journalism main stream networks shun
Kudos to Al Jazerra English.
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Canada’s Road to Interventionism
At no time during the 2011 election did I notice a promise from the Conservative party to base more troops abroad and interfere in other Nation’s business and yet today I see Canada is looking for 7 additional foreign bases/staging areas. While they claim this is for humanitarian relief and
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: BlackOutSpeakOut
In reality I’ve been blacked out for some time simply because I find it hard to write about our political situation without it turning into a hateful expletive filled rant. I did however attend my local c-38 protest this last weekend and will endeavour to raise my voice in every
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Labelling radicals or creating them?
When the NDP members went to Washington to lobby against Tar Sands their actions were labeled treacherous by our Environment Minster Peter Kent. Funny that, protecting the environment is supposed to be his job, not defending industry.This week Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural resources accuses everyone opposed to the Northern
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Who owns our MPPs? Ontario has an ethical problem
Disinterested, despondent, fed up. All of these can be used describe my feelings at various points in this election. The NDP are pretending they are not socialists, the Conservatives are pretending they aren’t evil(and doing a crappy job), the Liberals are pretending they’ve done a good job the last 8
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Turmel, No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished
I can’t know what went on in Turmel’s head, was it simple opportunism to jump ship at this time?, Did she have an epiphany and learn to love Canada? Is her story of supporting a friend true? I don’t know and it doesn’t matter! While I applaud her for leaving
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Newmarket Debate review #elxn41
Last night was the Newmarket Chamber of commerce all candidates debate, well not quite all candidates as the NDP Candidate was unable to attend and the Animal Alliance Candidate was present but unable to debate.At the big table we had Lois Brown (Con MP), Vanessa Long (Green), Kyle Peterson (Lib)
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada?
Considering we now have an AAEVPC candidate running for Parliament in Newmarket Aurora I figured we should have a quick look at them. First of all they need to come up with a shorter version of their name, AAE perhaps?A quick look at their platform shows that every policy item
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Newmarket-Aurora, the NDP sham continues v2011
I’ve often said that strategic voting is a mistake; I’ve also stated that no vote is ever wasted. I was wrong.I still believe that people should vote their conscience even if there is no chance of winning but what I cannot condone is voting for a candidate that simply does
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Lessons from Japan
We haven’t seen the total death numbers yet, we don’t know the long term economic impacts and we don’t know the true story about Japan’s nuclear reactors but we can already make a few observations about these disasters and how they relates to us.1. Nuclear power will never be 100%
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Holy Shit
There are any number of reasons to say Holy Shit! these days, be it social upheaval in the middle east; dumb ass ethically bankrupt Conservative ads or the coming wave of food inflation, but in this case Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind is a new book all my
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: NDP Endorses Green Candidate
Can someone tell me why the press is ignoring the fact that Kevin Bordian, the NDP Candidate in Vaughan endorsed the Green Candidate last night Maybe if Progressives of all flavours supported the best Candidate in each riding we could crush Harper and force the issue on PR .
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Voting Green in Newmarket-Aurora
What a great little program to build animated videosOh and here’s the FB links mentioned in video, and here.
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: An evening with Adriane Carr and Georges Laraque
The Newmarket-Aurora Federal Green Party Association is hosting an evening with Green Party Deputy leaders Adriane Carr and George Laraque, Nov 16 at the Wellington Gallery in Aurora, 7:00pm -10:00Come out and enjoy a great event surrounded by great local art, music, and fellow greens while hearing from Adriane Carr
Continue readingGreen Assassin Brigade: Democracy fail: Where are the local opposition Candidates?
We’ve been under the threat of a federal election for well over a year yet I see that many ridings are unprepared having few of their candidate’s selected, mine is no exception.I’d prefer that candidates were chosen very early on so we have more time to learn more about them,
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