This piece by Jane Taber of the Globe and Mail harangues Michael Ignatieff for his lack of specifics, but I think he sounds pretty reasonable here: There was no mention of the hydro mega-project in the Liberal platform, released Sunday. But when asked about it Monday, Mr. Ignatieff spoke about
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Tattered Sleeve: Why I support the Greens but vote otherwise
I am a big Green supporter and believe they have the best platform. Dagnammit, I joined the party and contribute a few bucks to show that I care. But I also live in Quebec (and on the island of Montreal) and my local candidate both:a) is a relative lightweight, and
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Smells like ’93 Spirit
Well I’ll be damned if Michael Ignatieff isn’t suddenly hitting his stride. Now I can’t say I have ever been a big believer in the man as a potential PM, but today has me thinking back to 1993, when a guy who had been reviled as a weak and ineffective
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Ain’t she a beaut? (Fukushima reactor #4, all duckied-up)
That is all they got: Minoru Ogoda, the official with Japan’s nuclear regulatory agency, said a proposed plan to use helicopters to put more cold water into the pool was looking unlikely. He said Tokyo Electric would probably try to spray water into the reactor building through a gaping hole
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: For Your Consideration
I can think of two candidates for the next Nobel Peace prize, and they are the heretofore unnamed Libyan Air Force pilots who – when ordered to indiscriminately fire upon their own citizens – opted instead to fly to Malta and defect: Ali al-Essawi, who stepped down as Libyan ambassador
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: EXCLUSIVE: Mubarak’s conversation with Obama:
“If I go there will be trouble, If I stay there will be double” So, go.
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Hosni Mubarak, and the world that matters not to him
With time on my hands, I spent the afternoon flipping between Aljazeera English, CNN, CBC Newsworld and CTV Newsnet in between loads of laundry.
At around 4 pm EST, I watched live footage of a pro-Mubarak bus being driven backwards 50 metres or so int…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: When Facebook becomes Hatebook
I was a reluctant FB joiner at first. I have known it to cause weird, unintended social faux-pas between people innocently updating their friends’ pages with manoevres that turn into clumsy – and very public – rebukes. Plus, the site owners surely love…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Pixies pulling out of Israeli show = "cultural terrorism": promoter
Stuck here out of gasOut here on the Gaza StripFrom driving in too fast–The Pixies (River Euphrates)These are lines that will not be sung in Tel Aviv, now that the Pixies have decided to cancel playing what would have been their first-ever gig in Isra…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: We get mail – from US reporters wanting our opinions on other US reporters!
From: “Jacobon, Terry” [name changed] To: randboro@yahoo.caSent: Thu, June 3, 2010 3:56:46 PMSubject: From Terry Jacobson [name changed] of the [MAJOR ESTABLISHED US NEWSPAPER]Dear Scott in Montreal:Hi. I’m a reporter for the [MAJOR ESTABLISHED US NE…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Anderson Cooper is restoring my faith in journalism
Full credit to Anderson Cooper. In one hour this evening, he did more to awaken his countrymen to the horrors of unchecked neo-liberal corporatism than a thousand indie-film docs on Monsanto, GM or Enron combined.Having been riveted by Cooper’s 360 sho…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Well Israel, you have really lost the PR war now
You have got yourselves perfectly embroiled in an international incident that is not going away until you learn that even you must eat crow sometimes. So far, it doesn’t appear to have sunk in. I notice it only took you a few hours to release some prop…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Blowing Up is Hard to Do
“This scares everybody” –British Petroleum COO Doug Suttles, on May 29, 2010, commenting on the failure of the “Top Kill” attempt to stave off the worst crude oil contamination in historyWell folks, it looks like this Gulf of Mexico oil spill is ripe…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Greens, NDP to merge; Layton and May step aside, with support of key Liberal defectors
Could you just imagine a headline like that? Only if you accept the fact that the federal Liberal party is finished as a viable political entity. It was this particular realization, coupled with Warren Kinsella’s post earlier today, that got me thinkin…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Shout out to the Saudi Arabian delegation
Hey guys, when you start allowing the women of your country to drive, then you can share your opinions with the rest of the world on global warming.Until then, just shut it.
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Sad Anniversary
Geneviève Bergeron (1968-1989)Hélène Colgan (1966-1989)Nathalie Croteau (1966-1989)Barbara Daigneault (1967-1989)Anne-Marie Edward (1968-1989)Maud Haviernick (1960-1989)Maryse Laganière (1964-1989)Maryse Leclair (1966-1989)Anne-Marie Lemay (1967-19…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Missing the Canada that stood for human rights
RE: Bureaucrats and other critics often face wrath of ConservativesIt’s too bad the Conservative government is so hellbent on political gamesmanship and throwing good civil servants under buses; when they instead could be working to fix a broken situat…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: Peevey Stevie stimulated by doorknobs?
Tip ‘o the hat to Le Daro and Scott Tribe for uncovering this startling fetish of the Canadian Prime Minister. (Okay, perhaps the Libs figured it out first, as reported by the CTV).I always took him to be one of those boing-y doorstopper guys, but trut…
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: GPC site redesign a huge improvement
Go check it out. greenparty.ca is a whole lot snazzier. Bravo!
Continue readingTattered Sleeve: To work for nothing
Goddamn you allWho expect me to give you my labours for freeGoddamn you allWho go along with this concept that we should be Grateful for the opportunitiesTo work for nothingNOTHINGBut the hope thatIt couldPossibly Lead to somethingthat might mean somet…
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