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Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6024…Marion Barry Landed On His Feet
He is the former mayor of D.C. who the government sicced a crack ho on back in the day and dropped the news all over the place. The National Post reports that in 1990 Marion Barry was “…set up by model-turned-FBI informant Rasheeda Moore for what he thought was a romantic
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: The lesson politicians need to learn from Obama: don’t piss off the media!
I’ve followed the media aspect of politics for a long time but not necessarily the politics itself. The former is far more telling about the state of a locale than the policies that enhance and hamper the lives of its citizens. Take a look at how the media is handling
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Important Rob Ford-related annoucement by SFH
TORONTO – Shit From Hell, Canada’s best-loved geriatric punk combo, is entering the studo to record a song to raise funds for the purchase of the “Rob Ford smoking something illicit” video. “If it helps to drive that bumbling oaf from office, we deserve the Nobel Prize for the Arts,”
Continue readingwmtc: zuheros to madrid / madrid, night one
This post has two parts: the clerk and the lost. The clerk. I had a good night’s sleep and woke up at the leisurely hour of 8:00. We had breakfast at the hotel and packed up, ready to hit the road to Madrid. And wouldn’t you know it, the desk
Continue readingArt Threat: Mapping the world’s largest solar farm with Project 929
How large of a solar farm is needed to completely power the United States? The simple answer is that a solar farm 100 miles long and 100 miles wide would be “more than enough to meet the country’s entire energy demand.” The far more interesting answer, however, is that this
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: Professional cellphone contract negotiators haggle for customers
Professional cellphone contract negotiators are now haggling for better deals on behalf of Canadians who are either frustrated or unwilling to discuss their cellphone bills, contracts and plans with their wireless providers. If the government allows big telecom to succeed in taking over Canada’s independent wireless assets, even higher cellphone
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Regina Hosed by P3 Waste Water
Regina City Council has voted to proceed with a 30-year public-private partnership (P3) in which a private company would design, build, finance, operate and maintain the city’s new waste water treatment facility. The municipal administration’s rationale has been that, although a P3 will be more expensive than traditional public financing,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Prominent Canadians want Victoria Day renamed to honour Aboriginals
From Victoria Day to ‘Victoria and First People’s Day’. How does that sound? Prolific author Margaret Atwood, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, actor Gordon Pinsent and other prominent Canadians are demanding that “Victoria Day” be renamed “Victoria and First Peoples Day”. To honour Aboriginal peoples’ contributions to Canada. The group, which
Continue readingB.C. Policy Perspectives: Synopsis of BC Election Result: We Should Have Known
{The following has been submitted for publication in the Omineca Express and Anahim-Nimpo Messenger–MC} I accept my share of humble pie for not predicting the re- election of the B.C. Liberals on May 17, 2013. While I saw the narrowing gap in the polls as the day of decision approached,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Officer Bubbles Now Working For Rob Ford!
David is one of the notorious lawyerin’ Shiller brothers (the one that looks like Eugene Levy) . Officer Bubbles is Const. Adam Joseph, one of the reasons the Toronto 2010 G-20 summit went so badly South. Dave’s been defending the people that Bubble’s has sued in the aftermath of that event,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe Remembers Elijah Harper, Constitutional Stand-off
Brian Mulroney needed political help in Quebec and persuaded all the premiers to support a set of constitutional reforms – labelled the Meech Lake Accord – whereby all the other premiers would postpone their constitutional ambitions until Quebec was settled nicely away with its “Distinct Society” designation AND a veto
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Dr. James Hansen: Keystone XL, tar sands expansion “can be stopped”
By: Dr. James Hansen Today (May 9, 2013) 36 Norwegian organizations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stoltenberg expressing opposition to development of Canadian tar sands by Statoil (the Norwegian state is majority shareholder of Statoil). Signatories include not only environmental organizations, but a broad public spectrum, including, appropriately, many youth organizations.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christians, getting it right.
Okay, religion might not poison everything. Christians attend a gay pride event apologizing for the crummy behaviour of many of their churches. And the response… Thanks Buzzfeed for a little pick me up today. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Christians getting it right, Humanity, It ain’t all bad
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CPC Back-Benchers Say The Darnedest Things
Our govt has the highest ethical standards demonstrated by 3 resignations: 2 from Senate caucus & the PM chief of staff.@patbolland #cpc— Joan Crockatt MP (@Crockatteer) May 20, 2013
Continue reading350 or bust: Harper’s House of Cards Disintegrating Under Weight of Conservative Senators
* We are living in interesting times, as the saying goes. Here in Canada, the house of cards that is the federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper is starting to self-destruct; the only surprising thing to me is that it took this long to happen. The Harper government is throwing
Continue readingBuckdog: ‘One Thing Leads To Another’ – How Stephen Harper Single Handedly Created The Current Senate Scandal ..
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.
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