Here’s good ol’ boy Flaherty warning Canadians that EI will be changed to reflect Alberta and Saskatchewan’s need for labour…as if the government was financing EI in the first place.. They aren’t – it’s financed by employers and labour…not that this has stopped any government from tinkering with the program
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Left Over: Left Over 2012-05-10 11:09:10
Today on the CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp, to the center of PBS or Knowledge Network) posted an article about the fact that although promised, there is still no Senior`s Advocate position set up, nor has anyone even been considered, much less appointed..Okay, nothing to see here, folks, just the Lieberals
Continue readingLeft Over: On Irony….
It is more than just a little ironic that the first black president in US history is hesitant about giving support to the concept of legalizing, or legitimizing, the right to universal marriage . I hate the term ‘gay’ used as some sort of blanket coverage for LGBT issues, as
Continue readingLeft Over: Let’s “Just Do It”
There has been a call from several mayors of municipalities here in British Columbia, Canada to legalize marijuana…the arguments for it are essentially that they are tired of fighting against a mega-tide of grow-ops and drug dealers who are far richer in resources and weapons to push back than the
Continue readingLeft Over: The Home Ahead….
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think we need. I really feel as if this is my distant or perhaps not-too distant future..finding a bit of land
Continue readingLeft Over: We’ve Only Just Begun…
Emperor Steve and his nightmare circus clowns have deemed it the ‘cost of doing business’ to redress the pushback that his Enbridge dirty deal has caused..necessary and desirable to offer up to profit mongering the possible destruction of the West Coast’s environment..and we are, happily, prepared to take him on.
Continue readingLeft Over: Tempest in Ontario…those Gawd-lovin’ “Christians” are at it Again…
The perfectly rational (and legal) decision to forbid the handing-out of Bibles to students in a Ontario, Canada town has sparked an uproar, with vast amounts of hate mail directed at those in charge, not excluding racism and other assorted forms of bigotry in these brave, anonymous missives..pardon me while
Continue readingLeft Over: Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gates….
http://www.gocomics.com/tedrall/2012/04/04
Continue readingLeft Over: Say No! to Enbridge, a little Donnybrook coming to a Canadian West Coast near you
Here’s something I was requested to share on Facebook, and i’m happy to do so…it’s a great symbol for the expressed unity of First Nations people and everyone else opposed to this toxic concept, and a fittingly scary trope for all that this pipeline concievably represents.. Artwork by Andy Everson,
Continue readingLeft Over: It’s the Least Wonderful Time of the Year…
A lousy day all around…I can think of nothing I like less than the idea of Mulcair, the ex-Liberal, as the leader of the Party I would have gone out of my way to support and volunteer for, if anyone, and I mean anyone, running, would have beat him… Great..we
Continue readingLeft Over: WTF McCain?
Years ago, I had a certain grudging respect for John McCain…after all, he had fought his way through debilitating torture as a POW, seemed to be a bit of what, in Canada, we used to call a Red Tory, and until the last several years, was probably the least offensive
Continue readingLeft Over: A gift…
Sometimes i just wander around, no particular direction, but often these days to the New York Times…and I just found the most exquisite thing there This is a slideshow of Mennonites, but seems decades old..it is beautiful beyond belief…take a look . http://vimeo.com/channels/developphoto/#37757669
Continue readingLeft Over: A Mammoth Mistake….
There’s an article on the CBC site today about scientists in Russia and South Korea who are going ahead with an attempt to clone a wooly Mammoth. The comments section is full of people on both sides of the fence, some who think it’s a ‘cool’ idea, and some who
Continue readingLeft Over: Left Over 2012-03-12 16:53:24
This is the sorta thing that makes me glad, yet again, that I came to Canada and took out citizenship decades ago.. I may have been born in the USA, but I was lucky enough to escape during the ’70′s, and things have only gotten worse, for women especially, although
Continue readingLeft Over: Air Canada’s Pilots Scrutinized by the CRAPers
And here we go again… not content to agitate us further by unnecessary fancy “fighter” planes that are already said to be not the greatest, a touted prison system that privatizes and therefore over-regulates to keep profits up for the CRAP’s pals..oh, and robo-calls to skewer the elections, now we
Continue readingLeft Over: Limbaugh- America’s Sweetheart
All over Canada and I suspect in the US as well, there has been much talk and speechifying about bullies…. Limbaugh has just said some unforgivably stupid and ugly things about a legal student who spoke at a hearing on insurance coverage through the workplace for birth control…but I didn’t
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