Ivison sees trouble ahead for the Harper Tories with the plan launched by NDP MP Nathan Cullen when he announced that he was running for leader of the NDP. Ivison believes the plan could take Harper’s minority away, because there are 21 Tory MPs …
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CuriosityCat: If you are one of the 99%, where is your Mask?
Every media clip or photograph of the OWS protestors is bound to show this striking mask, designed for the movie V for Vendetta.It is enough to send cold shivers down the spine of any greedy Wall Street banker, and soon the Occupy Movement worldwide wi…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Look to Framing Guru Lakoff for the differences between Harper’s new Tories & the Liberal Party
George Lakoff, who’s Nobel Prize is far overdue, is the master of framing for the progressive segement of America. He has the knack of putting his finger on the fault lines between the two competing ideologies that are in a titanic battle south of our …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: More support for Nathan Cullen’s idea of electoral cooperation
Pat Martin is clearly onside; both Topp and Mulcair praise his innovativeness; and now Thomas Walkom, National Affairs Columnist of The Toronto Star, is onside. In an article headed A Plan to Unite the ‘Left’ that just might work, Walkom writes:From in…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Pat Martin: NDP Leadership Race is an Intellectual Ghetto
Straight talking NDP MP Pat Martin praises Nathan Cullen for his idea to turf out the Tory government, and gives a backhanded swipe to the idea-less NDP leadership race:MP Pat MartinHowever, NDP MP Pat Martin, who has called for the NDP and the Liberal…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s case for electoral cooperation
The leadership race for the NDP just got a lot more interesting.Enter the Innovation Leadership Candidate: An NDP MP has thrown his hat in the ring in order to start a national dialogue geared to discussing serious methods for progressives to cooperate…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Harper Tory hypocrisy in full view re EU crisis
Harper’s new Tories finance minister todaywent on record to spur on steps to combat the sovereign debt crisis. Consider his words:Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Sunday repeated his calls for European leaders to deal with an ongoing financial cr…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Doug Saunders nails it: Tax the Crooks!
Doug Saunders Still wondering what the Occupation Movement is protesting about in New York, thousands of other American cities, and now hundreds of cities throughout the world?Then read the article headed We need a global army of tax collectors in toda…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mulcair Story trumps Topp Story in NDP Leadership Race
Mark these words: Underdog, Shoulder to Shoulder, and Winnability.They are the combination of images that most likely will propel feisty Thomas Mulcair to the leadership position of Canada’s federal NDP party.The Top Two Duke it out:Topp burst out of t…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Liberals, let’s make Steve Janke eat his words
National Post’s Steve Janke thinks we are doomed. He thinks we will shrivel up and die:I have to wonder, therefore, if there is a cure for what ails the Liberal Party. The same dynamic that pushed the NDP up and up is driving the Liberals down and down…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Why Hudak lost: Wedgies are not a Story
Tim Hudak – failed wedgerTim Hudak is now licking his wounds, and considering what he should do differently next time an election rolls around (which might be far sooner than many right now expect). Adam Radwanski in the Globe & Mail reports on the…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: News of the World hacking: Bullies in the newsroom?
Royal Courts of JusticeIn July UK PM David Cameron appointed Lord Justice Leveson, from the Court of Appeal, as Chairman of an Inquiry known as the Leveson Inquiry, into claims of phone hacking at the News of the World, and into the culture and ethics …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Amidst the torrent of words, a creeping towards more EU integration
Gavin HewittWith the Eurozone being walloped yet again with rating agencies downrating EU bank debt, with politicians all over the map, and the UK’s David Cameron trying desperately not to even be on the map (the EU is a massive wedge issue in the Tory…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Ontario voters wishes thwarted; McGuinty government’s legitimacy questionable
So less than 50% of Ontario voters cast a vote, while half of them voted with their feet by staying home. Wonder why this happened?The system once again failed to deliver democracy to Canadian voters. McGuinty is whistling past the graveyard, trying to…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Feingold gets it: The message of OccupyWallStreet is that people have been ripped off
At last someone has dug down to the root of the swell of public protest that has manifested itself in the OccupyWallStreet movement:Feingold rejected the argument — made even by some of Occupy Wall Street’s sympathizers — that it has failed to ar…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Meet the Canadian rebel who sparked OccupyWallStreet
The spark for the insurgency that now grips the heart of Wall Street, and has spread to many other American cities as well as cities in other parts of the world, was struckin Vancouver during a brainstorming session led by the Canadian rebel, Kalle Las…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Thomas Mulcair: You need a Story
Welcome to the race for the leadership of the federal NDP.And before you launch into your campaign, you would do well to ponder the campaign strategies devised for two recent success stories in Alberta by Stephen Carter.This is a summary of his w…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Heart of OccupyWallStreet
The British are deft with words – is every Briton born a wordsmith? – and today The Guardian has come close to defining the heart of the American Spring now taking place in many cities there (my highlights):But the ultimate failure here is of imagi…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Who will nail OccupyWallStreet’s theses to the door of modern capitalism?
A pretty fast trajectory for a movement that many dismissed as nonsensical last week:After a weekend growth spurt, the New York financial district sit-in “Occupy Wall Street” has blossomed into not only a national movement, but also a global one.Mo…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Cat supports Occupy Wall Street, the revolution that won’t go away
Michael Moore paid the protestors a visit, and on television was asked what he wanted. I want to see those responsible for the mess doing the perp walk, he said.Michael MooreFrom small beginnings, the Occupy Wall Street uprising is gaining steam. And i…
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