So you may have noticed that Fern Hill at Dammit Janet has been on a roll recently in terms of raising questions about Tim Hudak’s position on abortion and whether he just might defund access were he ever (heaven forbid) to become Premier of our fair p…
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Impolitical: Friday night
Loooove this one, Goodwill & Hook ‘n Sling, Take You Higher. It kind of cuts off at the end, that’s because it’s not officially out until next week.Other tunes for the week…a Kaskade remix, of course! Also, fun new Red Hot Chili Peppers for thos…
Continue readingImpolitical: Random leadership notes
Alyssa Rosenberg offers a few leadership lessons from the Harry Potter series and one other: Both the Harry Potter series and Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games books are about what happen when you use young people as mascots and as instruments for larger…
Continue readingImpolitical: Meet the new Toronto
2011 Federal ElectionIt’s a much more colourful place from previous elections. See the 2008 map, by contrast:2008 Federal ElectionThanks to Blunt Objects for posting links last night to the above maps. They were created by a user at Rabble who po…
Continue readingImpolitical: Murdochs in the dock – highlights
Highlights from the Murdoch family’s and Rebekah Brooks’ testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let them down, the buck stops down the chain….
Continue readingImpolitical: Miliband’s moment
It has been fascinating to watch Ed Miliband over the past week or so as he’s handled the Murdoch scandal. Miliband seems to be ahead of the curve, leading the issue and tapping into the political zeitgeist in just the right ways thus far. Where might …
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
An easy pick this week, Kaskade was in Victoria and Vancouver a few months ago, how can you not like that? Big flag and all… Have a good night.
Continue readingImpolitical: Martin on Trudeau
This is likely to be one of the top reads today, Lawrence Martin’s column on Justin Trudeau. The leadership rattlings are probably overdone and are, frankly, annoying to read at this point. Peddling leadership driven political games seems so useless ri…
Continue readingImpolitical: Just a thought
This excerpt is written on the still unresolved U.S. debt ceiling argument but as a Canadian progressive, I like it: The base-case scenario is, still, that the debt ceiling will be raised, somehow. But already an enormous amount of damage has been done…
Continue readingImpolitical: Green energy and the Ontario election
John Podesta spoke in Toronto last night on what’s going to be one of the front and center issues in the Ontario election, green energy: Toronto, ON – This evening, at an event for Ontario opinion leaders, John Podesta, President and CEO of the Cente…
Continue readingImpolitical: The bridge silliness
I think Patrick Lagacé has it right on the comedy of errors we saw play out this week in respect of Montreal’s Champlain bridge, its decrepit state and the oh-so-secret study on its state of repair that Transport Minister Denis Lebel tried not to rele…
Continue readingImpolitical: Cuts versus spending blitzes
Tony Clement commenting on today’s Conservative spending blitz which included cash for an airport, a donut manufacturer and a pork plant among many announcements today and in coming days: Treasury Board President Tony Clement said the blitz was fully i…
Continue readingImpolitical: The reviews for the Hudak platform are in…
That should raise some doubt about Mr. Front Runner who seems to be playing a very, very safe and talking pointed campaign at the moment. Why on earth are all those news organizations saying such brutal things about Mr. Hudak and his platform? Could ma…
Continue readingImpolitical: Timely question on Harper’s intentions on foreign ownership of Canadian media
Geoff Stevens wonders: “Will Harper open door to foreign-owned media?” Specifically, he wonders whether Rupert Murdoch’s empire might make its entree into Canada. The quiet meeting between Harper and Murdoch in New York in March 2009 is noted as are th…
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Have a good night!
Continue readingImpolitical: Checking in on the Wheat Board plebiscite
A Wheat Board commissioned poll shows support for the single desk system in advance of the plebiscite:According to the CWB’s 2011 producer survey, 59 per cent of prairie farmers support the monopoly requiring prairie wheat and barley farmers to market …
Continue readingImpolitical: The news of the world
The other big story in the world, beyond the debt ceiling biggie in the U.S., is the unfolding U.K. phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World. Some are viewing it as a real turning point for the press in the U.K., with …
Continue readingImpolitical: Column of the week
The tax cutting orthodoxy of the Republicans comes under fire from right wing New York Times columnist David Brooks as the debt ceiling fight looms: The party is not being asked to raise marginal tax rates in a way that might pervert incentives. On the…
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