How refreshing it was to see a real Question Period in the House of Commons yesterday. No histrionics. No shouting. No talking points that totally ducked the issue asked about. No “impromptu” and grandstanding standing ovations. Instead, Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau asked short, straight and specific questions about Senator
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Sun News: fair’s fair
As the House Communist© at Sun News, I draw to your attention this and this. Fair’s fair. If CBC gets yet more “mandatory carriage,” so should the SNN. I support both. The CRTC should, too.
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6068…O.J. Simpson: Step Away From The Buffet
You may have seen this on TMZ or read about it in your Sunday paper but just in case I am here for you. O.J. Simpson, Tim Hudak’s fave player when he was a kid growing up in suburban Buffalo, is presently in jail in Nevada for being stupid. He
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: The man everyone wants to hear from
David Price, Rob Ford confidante, is having a very bad week. You may not know who he is – neither did I until he started calling me – but he’s known Rob Ford since the 80s when he helped coached Ford’s high school football team. Recently, and seemingly with little
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: May 29: Blog post no. 1,000…
…And I had no idea what I was getting into. The TandT is its normal self, with a big first page photo of a cat up for adoption, and a big story how it’s still possible to rent movies. Oh, and shale gas representatives cancelled a meeting with a town council
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Steve Harper: Boy He Sure Can Pick Them, Eh!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well we have at least four Harper appointed Senators caught up in fudging or just outright lying and cheating over expenses, residences and such. Top that up with 3 Billion and change that has vanished from security and terrorism accounts. Next up, Steve’s Chief of Staff cutting
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: You Can Now Sue A Pseud
Former Canuck’s GM Brian Burke has been cleared to serve the people who allegedly defamed him over the Internet, over the Internet. The defamation was spread through a number of on-line message board, so here’s what Burke’s lawyers will do (the full court docs are here): The document goes onto to
Continue readingMelissa Fong: Where are you from? No, like, where are you REALLY from?
I have written a little bit about this before here, but now that this video is circulating I want to write a little more about it. Ien Ang (2001) also writes a really good book on it called, On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West (I love
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Enemies of Science Want to Confuse You About The 97-Percent Consensus Study
Earlier this month, John Cook of Skeptical Science and his team of volunteers at the Consensus Project released the latest definitive study of global warming scientific consensus, revealing that 97 percent of peer-reviewed papers with a clear view on the subject agree that global warming is occurring and that humans
Continue readingThings Are Good: Use Buycott to Support Companies Which do Good
Most people are familiar with the concept of a boycott to punish companies who do negative things by not buying their goods or services. The opposite of that is a new app called Buycott which helps you buy from companies who you ideologically support. I’ve been using the app for
Continue readingbastard.logic: Down and Out in Harperconia
Sweet tit-humping Christ I’m tired. Tired of the chronic lack of accountability in Ottawa. Of a parliamentary press corps that been for far too long too prissy and timid to rightly ferret and call out endless examples Conservative corruption with tenacious vigour (see also: libel chill). Tired of national apathy
Continue readingbastard.logic: Down and Out in Harperconia
Sweet tit-humping Christ I’m tired. Tired of the chronic lack of accountability in Ottawa. Of a parliamentary press corps that been for far too long too prissy and timid to rightly ferret and call out endless examples Conservative corruption with tenacious vigour (see also: libel chill). Tired of national apathy
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Robocalls Case: If the CPC did not do it, then someone stole the data. Call in the RCMP please.
I am not too happy that Elections Canada is getting nowhere with their robocalls investigation. Back on the EDay in question, I too received a robocall informing me that my polling place had changed. At the time I shrugged it off as Elections Canada incompetence, because I had already voted
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If I were still an investigative reporter, this is what I’d be asking
(And, yes, I was one at the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, many moons ago.) If Rob Ford was indeed heading out to Dixon Road to get really f**ked up periodically… …and since he’d be unable to drive himself afterwards… …and since he’d repeatedly refused even a police plea that
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, May 29, 2013: Wal-Mart to Pay $81.6M for Illegal Waste Disposal Insubordinate’ Articling Student Dismissed For Cause Judge faces ethics case, is accused of making independent investigation before ruling Toronto G20 trial: Police officer Glenn Weddell denies
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: OPSEU President demands immediate apology from Corrections Minister
Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Madeleine Meilleur must immediately apologize for blaming correctional staff for violence by inmates at London’s Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC), says Warren (Smokey) Thomas, President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. The post OPSEU President demands immediate apology from Corrections Minister appeared first on
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: Rob Ford’s House of Cards Falling Apart
Rob Ford Fiddles as his Administration Burns Well the Gawkers crowd source manage to raised the money. Gawker is now giving it a month to get their hands on the video. Is the story over? Nope, it just keeps getting more and more interesting. Ignore the Globe and Mail story
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Earnings Up, But Employment Down
Today’s payroll figures indicate that, while average weekly earnings rose, the number of employees on Canadian payrolls declined by 22,100 in March. This decline was concentrated in Quebec, where payroll employment fell by 20,900. Ontario also suffered a decline of 9,200, which was partly offset by gains of 3,300 in
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Are employer paid drug plans unsustainable?
A Great West Life Assurance executive recently claimed that private insurance for drug plans was becoming unsustainable — unless changes are made. Almost all private drug insurance plans are paid through employer paid insured benefit plans (often bargained with trade unions). In fact, although there were significant increases during the
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Harper’s Perfect Storm
It’s easier to deal with returning chickens — or kids — if they don’t all come home at the same time. During the Mulroney years, Michael Den Tandt writes, scandals had the good sense to occur annually: It’s not like it was in the Mulroney years, when the government parceled
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