After reading a recent post by resident cranky old man of Sun News Network Charles Adler I decided to take Adler’s advice; write a letter to the PM. I’ve of course done this before, but never in this vein. I decided to go with my most honest and sincere voice,
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With Thanks to Jamie Calder…
A new site popped up recently that I must pass on. It’s aptly named Sorry World and expressed the following sentiments held by many of us on the left/cener-left Sorry World. We messed up. We know you look to us as one of the last great strongholds of common sense
Continue readingFrom a First Nation contrarian: Breaking the spell, a call for unification NOW | rabble.ca
From a First Nation contrarian: Breaking the spell, a call for unification NOW | rabble.ca. Filed under: Aboriginal Issues, Media Fail., Progressives
Continue readingMurray Dobbin Repost: This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party
As we enter the new year, the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing over a new year’s resolution, that would be it, a dedication to this single overarching purpose. Even if Harper is
Continue readingBrian Topp Sinks to a New (Conservative) Low
What was it that most attracted people about the NDP campaign in 2011? Was it that we offered a social democratic alternative to the hard edged ideology of Stephen Harper? Was it that we actually planned to implement our platform unlike numerous Liberal governments and could therefore be trusted?
Continue readingLittle girl rails against pink stuff and gender stereotyping | rabble.ca
Check out this insightful commentary from a little girl who refuses to be pigeonholed. Filed under: Progressives
Continue reading#STAYCLASSYEDMONTON, You’re Only Representing Our Country!
So you rarely if ever see me post about sports. The players are paid entirely too much, customers who actually go to watch games pay far too much and I’ve just never been one to sit in a chair drinking beer (in my case more likely coke) while spending an hour watching
Continue readingThe Year That Was: Canadians Politics in 2011
What a year 2011 was. Who would have thought in January that the Conservatives would, by May, have a majority government? That the Bloc, so long a dominant force in Quebec, would be reduced to numbers not seen since the early 1990′s? That the Liberals would be reduced to third
Continue readingHarper’s Canada and Iceland’s President Olafur Grimmson
There was an excellent Globe editorial by Gerald Caplan focusing on how Harper has changed Canada in today’s paper. Give it a read. It’s good to remind ourselves what progressives are fighting for (and against). Near the end of the piece Caplan mentions an interview on CBC’s The Sunday Edition
Continue readingFor Conservatives, Dissent Equals Terrorism
This is a small sampling of what is surly a treasure trove of evidence that the Right in Canada has already engaged in a culture war on the left. After tweeting that Canada was pulling out of Kyoto and pointing out that Canada’s Environment Minister used to believe in the
Continue readingSpeaking of Journalistic Integrity
The CBC, specifically the author CBCNews (which makes me think this article was something written by a chief editor at CBC instead of an actual reported) had this to say about the speech that Attawapiskat Chief made at the biennial conference of the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa In
Continue readingSister Sage’s Musings Repost: Truth in Journalism
A truly brilliant post from a fellow British Columbian. Kim’s writings are always spot on and this is truly no exception. I really appreciate to how she wrote at the bottom that the citizenry will be four square behind the CBC if they are truthful and honest and don’t cower
Continue readingTalking ‘Bout That Gggg-Ghettoization
Huffington Post Canada has carried a joint paper published by Queens University, The University of Toronto and Statistics Canada that shows Canadians are increasingly becoming ghettoized by income. The paper represent the difference that the income gap has grown between the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in Canada’s largest metropolitan areas.
Continue readingDude, Where’s Our Climate Policy?
The Durban Climate Conference hasn’t even begun yet and already Canada is getting flack for it’s poor reputation on the environment. What do you expect though from an environment minister who didn’t even know what Ozone was up until a week ago (let’s be fair, he’s only been on the job since
Continue readingMike Holmes’s Holme-run
Mike Holmes said it best regarding the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. We need to stop building crap. It’s as simple as that Couple this with the allegation that the Government knew of the problems in Attawakpiskat for several years. Retired Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl recounted to Evan Solomon on
Continue readingIt’s Your Turn PMO
It seems that the NDP has given the Conservative government a well deserved slap in the face. After weeks of hounding CBC to produce documents about their internal operations, likely to give competitors an inside look at how the Crown Corporation operates, a question has now been put on the order paper
Continue readingGreening Economy Isn’t Just For Us, It’s For All
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in a statement made by Director-General Kandeh K. Yumkella today at the agencies biennial conference in Vienna, said something that I’m sure most right wingers will write off as just another attempt to poison business. Mr Yumkella pointed pointed out that talking about the green economy as
Continue readingThe New Politics Initiative vision statement of 2001: Open, sustainable, democratic | rabble.ca
This month marks the 10th Anniversary of the New Politics Initiative, a coalition of individuals and organizations that called for the formation of a new and more activist progressive political party in Canada. The NPI was concerned with the relationship between progressive social movements and progressive parties, trying to better
Continue readingDo We Need More Proof That Harper Doubts Global Warming?
First we had the cuts to ozone monitoring that saw the shuttering of 17 ozone monitoring stations across Canada. The reason? Ozone apparently wasn’t a concern anymore (see Canada’s newest Ozone hole here). Then we had the sudden (and somewhat expected) cut of 700 jobs from environment Canada (which included Meteorologists, scientists, chemists and
Continue readingProgressive Blogger Panel
Today I will be moderating a progressive blogger panel with Dr.Dawg, Impolitical and CK from Sister Sage’s Musings. We will be covering a variety of issues from the Keystone XL pipeline to the Occupy Protests, from the attack on unions to the persistent use of closure/time allocation by this Conservative government. I want
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