Once upon a time you could get into Montreal’s Jardin botanique for nothing, anytime. Then fees were added for the greenhouses, and for non-Montrealers who wanted to visit the outside gardens. Until this year, residents of the city had the option of buying a $8 Accès Montréal card which gave
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: A Spin-Able Victory
Upshot: the anti-Justin Trudeau attack ads, which debuted in the Maritimes so as to get Peter Penashue his seat back, did not work. In fact, given that this is a Forum poll, they probably didn’t work even worse than their top line number suggests.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Can Political Polls be Trusted?
Following a polling debacle in last year’s Alberta election and troubling signs in BC as voters prepare to cast their ballots, John King questions the motives and methods of pollsters and the corporate media who publish them. “Suddenly, obscure pollsters, often funded by unknown sources, are constructing the narrative that
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Liberal campaign based on falsehoods
From Kevin Logan, contributor to The Common Sense Canadian click here to read The New West Partnership Trade Agreement Part I states operating principles, including: ESTABLISH a comprehensive agreement on trade, investment and labour mobility that applies to all sectors of the economy; ELIMINATE barriers that restrict or impair trade,
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Barcelona is amazing. Some people suggested that five days here were too many, but we can barely fit in all the things we want to do – even though we are omitting one major tourist attraction and the most popular day-trip in Spain. (More on that later.) I managed to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Vote To Protect BC’s Most Valuable Resources
A lot can change in politics over a four-year term, as British Columbians know all too well. Thankfully, the one thing citizens can count on is smart policy staying at the top of the political agenda. I’m talking in particular about the provincial carbon tax, a measure introduced in 2008
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5984…Another Holiday Another Shooting
Last big act of pointless violence in the USA was on Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon. Today the annual Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans was broken by a spree shooting. CBC.ca reports, via The Associated Press, that “New Orleans police say 17 people have been wounded in a shooting
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5983…More Lawyers Than Janitors
That’s D.C. for ya. I was listening to FOX Sports’ [on Ottawa’s The Team 1200] giving baseball score updates and the talent, I think it was Rob Dibble, pointed out that 1/19 people in Washington are lawyers. This, of course, explains a lot. A whole lot. WFDS
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Indigenous resistance grows strong in Keystone XL pipeline battle
By: Crysbel Tejada and Betsy Catlin | First published by Waging Nonviolence on May 8, 2013: On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey smog that camouflages itself into the sky. The ConocoPhillips oil refinery that makes its home there uses overcast days as a disguise to release more
Continue readingcmkl: Almonte 114km
There is such a thing as hill karma. It’s just an immutable fact. If you’re coming back to where you started, every metre of ascent will be returned unto you in equal part. But with wind, there is only the Murphy’s law codicil: “always against you.” Even if you’re just
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Radio Free Canada: The Cultivation Of Fear And Other Tory Sins
This is rather interesting: Recommend this Post
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Conrad Black and Danielle Smith
Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul and convicted felon* was in Calgary last week to have a “conversation” with the Calgary business elite (and me) over lunch at the Calgary Petroleum Club. The big question is why does Baron Black of Crossharbour—oh let’s just call him Conrad—continue to draw sell-out
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Obama, Biden Parroting Bogus Gas Industry Talking Points
For several years, both President Obama and Vice President Biden have been singing the praises of natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, claiming that the upcoming “cheap energy boom” would bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to work-hungry Americans. The claim, which reached the most ears during the President’s 2012 State
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Michelle L. Erstikaitis Really IS a Super, Duper, Nazi! No Fool’n!
Last week we received a message from someone proporting to be Michell Erstikaitis. As the message is chock full of da krazy, we are going to assume that it is indeed her. Suffice it to say she REALLY wants it to be known that she is a neo-Nazi. Really. She
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Guest Commentary From The Salamander On Pierre Poilievre And The Company he Keeps
Because he doesn’t maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once more placing as a guest post the searing analysis The Salmander offered in response to my post on the hypocrisy of that old young man, Pierre Poilievre, currently one
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cats On The Net
This one goes back a few years now… April 6, 2006 Thursday Final Edition SASKATCHEWAN: Mayor’s approval rating with felines is suspect BYLINE: The Star Phoenix Residents of a village in southern Saskatchewan may want to be on the lookout for a cat that’s got a definite taste for politics.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Relax, It’s All Recycled Pee Anyway
This Guy Not Only Drank Your Water First, He Made It. London’s Thames Water utility is polling city residents for their views on drinking recycled sewage water. It’s one solution being considered for a looming water shortage facing the British capital. London residents are being asked by the company for
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political…
This morning I saw a few minutes of a CBC Newsworld political panel and again concluded that Canada must abolish its senate immediately. Abolish it now! There is no time for messing about. The dishonourable, fraud-committing senate serves no legitimate purpose in this day and age, and it’s debatable whether
Continue readingLeDaro: The Door To Hell: World’s Mysterious Places
“This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it
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