They are quite entertaining. 🙂 CBC News.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Police Power
While the title of this post may seem a bit of a tautology, since the power of police on the streets is obvious, there are other arenas where they wield their influence in ways that may not be consistent with an open and democratic society. For example, police are known
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headline for Friday, August 9, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 9, 2013: The Duty To Accommodate Is Not Unlimited – Mondaq News Alerts (registration) Lawyer agrees to five-year suspension for advising client to clean up his Facebook photos Trial for final lawyer charged in Texas judge bribery scheme;
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Corruption in the Pipeline: A Timeline of Keystone XL Misinformation
Though plagued by corruption, the Keystone XL (KXL) “zombie pipeline” refuses to die. While firsthand accounts from front line communities in Alberta, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas have galvanized activists, the interconnected web of corporate lobbyists, oil executives, and Obama administration officials continue to push the project forward. Thankfully, the State
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Henry Blodget recognizes that the systematic corporate squeeze on mere workers represents a deliberate choice rather than an inevitability: One of the big reasons the U.S. economy is so lousy is the American companies are hoarding cash and “maximizing profits” instead of investing
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Austerity Bites? Public-Sector Implosion Hits Canada’s Job Market
Statistics Canada reported a loss of 39,000 jobs in July, even as Canada’s working-age population grew by 39,000. As a result, unemployment rose and many Canadians withdrew from the labour market altogether. The decline reflected a loss of 74,000 public-sector jobs, which was only partly offset by modest growth in
Continue readingBuckdog: Maybe It’s Time For Mike Duffy And Pamela Wallin To Throw Stephen Harper ‘Under The Bus’ And Come Clean On This Whole Sorry Affair!
When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to Canada’s unelected, undemocratic Senate, he started in motion a series of events that has ultimately become an ugly, nasty political scandal. For starters, neither Duffy nor Wallin qualified for senate appointment as representatives of their respective native provinces.
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Uneasy Lies the Head
The knives are out.Tim Hudak’s days as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party are numbered. Bob Hepburn writes in The Toronto Star: In the wake of disappointing losses in four of the five byelections last week, now comes news that Hudak is facing a new open revolt within his
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Foreign Lander
Are juicy harmonies your thing? Try this on for size. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Foreign Lander, Girls Quartet, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Long Slow Death of Fox News North
Uh oh. Somebody call a plumber, or a mortician. It looks as if Sun TV News, also known as Fox News North or Harper TV, won't be able to make us pay to keep it on life support. Sun News Network has been denied a guaranteed spot on basic cable TV packages in
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Churn, churn, churn #nlpoli
For your consideration: a conspicuously large number of changes in the senior levels of the provincial public service over the past four years or so. The most recent person to hold the most senior position in the public service – Clerk of the Executive Council – has held seven different
Continue readingMontreal Simon: John Baird and the Hoggy Homophobe
Lordy. It's taken me a day to recover from this stunning sight. I haven't seen such a match up since El Macho met La Cuca in the finals of the Tijuana Wrestling League.And I still can't believe it eh?Was that really John Baird doing the right thing for once? By denouncing the anti-gay repression in Russia?
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Happy happy joy joy
LOL! Loved the remark on tonight’s news that Sun News TV generated more letters of complaint to CRTC than it had actual viewers.— Michelle Simson (@MichelleSimson) August 8, 2013 In spite of claims about how the CRTC’s decision on SUN news isn’t that bad, really and how SUN news actually
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Sanctimonious, who me?
RossK at The Gazetteer notes one particular whine of one practitioner in the corporate media, Sanctimonious was an interesting choice of word by this guy but it better fits a message he sent to me last month. (The definition relates to hypocritical righteousness.) My response is pictured below. The second part quoted
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Is the Green Party Still Relevant? Part 2: The Inside Baseball of Green Electoral Co-Operation
Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party stands astride Canada’s political reality like an unmovable colossus. Scandals and legal suits are not changing public opinion, and the Conservative Party remains poised to achieve another significant electoral victory in 2015. The Conservative war machine continues to pump out disinformation and vitriol aimed at the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: New Leadership Team Proposed for Unifor
The CAW and CEP have created a team of union leaders proposed to lead Unifor, Canada’s new super union, after its founding convention on September 1. The post New Leadership Team Proposed for Unifor appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Do you consider folks of a different political ideology your ‘enemy’?
I ask that because apparently John Baird, Canada’s Foreign Minister, does. Mr Baird has been rightly praised for condemning Russia’s anti-gay laws and for taking on the social conservative REAL Women group for their condemnation of him doing so. His one day of praise, at least with me, is over
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: More shots fired in Ontario PC civil war as Education Critic Lisa MacLeod savages Transportation Critic Frank Klees on Twitter
As the Ontario PC civil war over Tim Hudak’s continued leadership rages on, here is what PC Education Critic (and many say potential future leadership candidate Lisa MacLeod) had to say to her fellow PC frontbencher and Transportation Critic Frank Klees. Next time the Hudak PC’s ask to be taken seriously
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News" lost…
Hooray! Sun News Network (SNN), aka Scum “News” lost their hypocritical bid to force all Canadian cable TV viewers to pay for their shitty channel regardless of whether we want to watch it. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) correctly declined to award special treatment to the undeserving TV
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Internet Insider from OpenMedia.ca | Online Privacy is an International Issue
Hello! Here is Arielle with your Internet Insider on online privacy as an increasingly international issue. We have recently joined a global coalition of over 100 organizations led by the EFF to stand against unchecked surveillance. Our pro-internet community is acting overseas and within our own borders on the issue
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