We live in an Information Age so we should be able to adequately inform ourselves, make thoughtful decisions and act on matters of importance. We certainly have enough environmental problems to solve these days. Yet we have been eminently poor at addressing most of them. Why? One of the answers
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Medicine Hat Next To Face Flooding Fury
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Calgarian’s are returning to their still soaked homes many without gas or electricity but at least they can start the long process of putting their homes back into living condition. Further south Medicine Hat residents are now sand bagging and with over 1000 volunteers pitching in and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Racing is Hard. Racing to the Bottom is Easy.
This may come as a jaw-dropper to you, but the country our Conservative leadership so wants to emulate is a pretty impoverished state. This chart gives median wealth, by nation. It is based on the net value, in 2012, of assets minus liabilities per adult person in each given country.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Inside the Saddledome?
Sent this morning by my best friend (and former Hot Nasties guitarist) Pierre. Somebody time me it’s photoshopped. True?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Saddam’s Hangman Assassinated
Iraq’s outlawed Baath Party has claimed responsibility for executing the masked man (in the blue shirt) who placed the noose over Saddam Hussein’s head. The hangman, identified as Mohhamed Nassif al-Maliki, was apparently tracked down to a city southwest of Baghdad and then killed. After hanging Saddam, the man was
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Scott Sinclair discusses how CETA could create extreme and unnecessary risk in Canada’s banking and financial system: The failure of a single company (such as Lehman Brothers in October 2008) or unchecked growth in markets for high-risk financial products (such as sub-prime
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: Review: Adventures of Unemployed Man
The Adventures of Unemployed Man is a comic book about the modern economy. How can an unemployed superhero believe in himself? How can the superheros fight against against the Just Us League who want to hoard all the wealth? Can they rescue the Everyman and revive an attitude of solidarity
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Like It or Not, We Live in a National Security State
A prescient warning from The Observer’s John Naughton. Western democracies have been overwhelmed by a technology flood and have been transformed, willingly or otherwise, into true national security states. We have been caught unawares, taken to a place from which it may be extremely difficult to ever get back. Will
Continue readingwmtc: my journey to palestinian solidarity and the myth of the self-hating jew, part 1
The Self-Hating Jew. This is what I am, according to some. There’s a line from an Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical: “I’ve been called many names, but they’re the strangest.”* I think of this every time I hear or read the expression “self-hating Jew”. What a bizarre turn of phrase. Is it
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson Speak Out on the NSA and PRISM Spy Project
We got to know them when they stood defiant against the Bush/Cheney/Scooter Libby cabal over their government’s cooked up claims about Saddam and his supposed arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Joe Wilson was the former diplomat who exposed the “yellowcake” claim to be bogus. His wife, former CIA spy,
Continue readingBuckdog: It’s Time For Some New Democrats To WAKE UP!!!!!
B.C.’s New Democrats have only themselves to blame for throwing away their chance to win the recent provincial election. ‘We’re going to fight a positive campaign” …. that was the refrain inspired by BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix. So while the BC NDP fought their ‘positive’ campaign, their opponents savaged them
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6177…Design A [Bacon] Doughnut
QMI reports that for the first time ever Tim Horton’s is going to let you design your own doughnut. And win 10K. Just go to duellingdonuts.ca or TimHortons.com/DuellingDonuts. You have til July 21. WFDS
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Alberta Warned – Stop Development on Flood Plains – Nobody Listened, as Usual.
My view of Alberta’s Conservative government were formed decades ago when the issue of mandatory infant car seats came up in the legislature. Car seats – for kids – huge controversy, really. Conservative members were quite outspoken. Alberta motorists didn’t need any more laws tying them down. Sure infant car
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Alberta Energy Board: What the PC Government learned and failed to learn from Machiavelli
On the same day that the Health Minister unceremoniously fired the Alberta Health Services board for refusing to revoke $3.2 million in bonuses, the Energy Minister announced the appointment of the Alberta Energy Board. Hmmm. I wonder whether in a year or two this newly minted board will find themselves
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: They’re In The Money
“In Ottawa,” Michael Den Tandt wrote last week, “money sloshes around like water in a tub.” Things have gotten worse since Stephen Harper ditched Jean Chretien’s modest attempt to provide some public funding for elections. Some defend the status quo; but voters are furious. They demand transparency: Some will lament
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: in Rae’s yesterday walked his future
After big election upsets, like in British Columbia this year — or in Alberta last year, or federally the year before that — political people like to say knowingly, “Campaigns matter.” Watching Rob Rae disappear down a parliamentary corridor on Wednesday — the arm of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Some summer talking points for Justin.
There was a wonderful picture of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and resigning MP Bob Rae as they walk down a corridor in the Centre Block of Parliament the other day. The picture was of the two men from the rear. You did not need the caption to tell you who
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Someone Tell David Akin!
How will Leonard Cohen feel when he picks up NY Times and finds out he’s dead, according to the Style section? pic.twitter.com/3nNhPjLnFS— Jessica Allen (@jessieraeallen) June 23, 2013
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