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Impolitical: The results are in
While it’s interesting to have a glance at an early sense from Canadians on how they’re feeling about what they just elected federally, part of this Nanos poll seems utterly useless: About one-third of survey respondents (32.3 per cent) said Prime Mini…
Continue readingImpolitical: Quebec fallout still unfolding
According to this report last night, another PQ MNA, Benoit Charette, is about to leave the party and that will be announced today: “Au tour du député de Deux-Montagnes de quitter le PQ.” He is said to be close to Francois Legault. For non-Quebecers,…
Continue readingImpolitical: Party officials with newspaper columns
Quite a read, Brian Topp’s just in from Vancouver item in the Globe on Monday. I expected him to tell us more, given this opening:
The New Democratic Party met in convention this weekend. What happened and what did it mean?There are glowing lines about…
Impolitical: Liberal Extraordinary Convention: Leadership in 2013
Just a quick post here on the results of this afternoon’s convention which went off without a hitch and with much collegiality on Twitter.
The date for selection of the next leader was the principal issue of the day. A proposal initiated by a North Va…
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Going with a Deadmau5 fave this week.
If you want new stuff, check out the NXNE music festival going on all over Toronto, lots of variety there. These highlights are from Wednesday but they’re posting videos for each day:
Have a good night!
Continue readingImpolitical: Liberal Extraordinary Convention tomorrow
The details surrounding the Liberal Extraordinary Convention are online. The event is going to be fully open to the public with a live audio stream along with a livechat as well. Peter Milliken is chairing the event, Bob Rae will be giving an initial i…
Continue readingImpolitical: Go Canucks…and a few other things
It’s the big Canucks game day and all so people are likely not going to be very interested in Canadian politics. But some big things are happening that bear mentioning.
First of all, the ludicrous situation with how the two strike actions going on in …
Continue readingImpolitical: CANARIE chirps about their funding
A follow-up to yesterday’s post, “Setting a high tech government funded asset adrift,” where the sunsetting of funding for CANARIE, Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network, was raised. I did so based on a post at OpenMedia.ca by a media ana…
Continue readingImpolitical: Canada Wheat Board fight begins
As the video above explains, the NDP government in Manitoba, facing an election in October this year, is rolling out taxpayer funded ads to oppose the federal Conservatives’ intended move to take away the Wheat Board’s monopoly: “Manitoba releases pr…
Continue readingImpolitical: Setting a high tech government funded asset adrift
Here is an item today that may be an indicator of the ideological underpinnings of this government shining through.
See this post from Dwayne Winseck at the OpenMedia.ca site on the government’s decision to no longer fund Canada’s Advanced Research…
Continue readingImpolitical: "Not a budget for one Canada"
Thought I would just do an overview kind of post on Bob Rae’s House of Commons budget debate remarks from earlier this week. You can see it above (runs about 20 minutes on the video) and you can find the text here. I just want to highlight some of th…
Continue readingImpolitical: Ontario’s declining GHG emissions
Saw this on Live Free or Die’s blog where he cites a recent Pembina item on Ontario’s declining greenhouse gas emissions.
Good roundup of GHG data. This part stood out for me:
Inside Canada, provincial emissions results almost always generate some int…
Impolitical: Friday night
Going with this full version of a remix that was given mucho attention this week by one Pete Tong:
Also kicking around from the last week of listening, Example, some old Matthew Good and, oh, I don’t know…Kaskade! Can’t let a week go by thes…
Continue readingImpolitical: "Like winning bingo on the Titanic"
Briony Penn, 2008 Liberal candidate in Saanich-Gulf Islands with some post-election thoughts: On the evening of May 2, along with the majority of Canadians, I was stunned. “Like winning bingo on the Titanic” was the saying that captured the mood of…
Continue readingImpolitical: Rae interview on Radio-Canada
Rae is interviewed on Les coulisses du pouvoir. He speaks of a culture of division, a lack of solidarity within the Liberal party that is dangerous, about how Liberals differ from the Conservatives and NDP and finally in the last two minutes or so, tha…
Continue readingImpolitical: We’re all in this together…except when it’s bad for business
Totally agree with Patrick Lagacé this morning. There are 500 Canadian troops at present in the Richelieu River valley. Peter MacKay toured the area yesterday. He and the federal government have been asked to have the troops stay to help the people cl…
Continue readingImpolitical: Obama at Westminster
He’s getting his mojo back! Man, that guy knows how to deliver a speech. Said for the thousandth time…
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