Tom Marshall used to be the finance minister. He’s the guy who consistently, year after year, spent more than the people of the province could afford. Tom didn’t do it by himself: he had the support of all his colleagues in cabinet. And since 2009, Tom and his colleagues have
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Porky Action Plan Scam
Well after being missing in action for days, Stephen Harper finally dared show his face in the House of Commons today. But it wasn't exactly a triumphal return, as you can see by the looks on the faces of his increasingly restless caucus.And who can blame them eh?When what he had to say
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It’s wonderful to be here! Wonderful to see R again, to meet her partner, to spend time with her family, to be in their home. And to see London again! I love this city. So to backtrack… Our flight was uneventful. Flying overnight is never fun, since I don’t sleep
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Ironies abound in Alberta’s agitated politics as Alison Redford cranks up the postage meter
How Albertans should see Progressive Conservative and Wildrose policies and procedures. Below: The clever Wildrose Facebook attack on PC Premier Alison Redford’s faintly unsavoury taxpayer-funded mail out, which makes it look a little worse than it really is. Am I the only one who sees irony in the leader of
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5964…No Fat Chicks Allowed
Elitedaily.com wrote earlier this week about the fact that “Anyone who’s been to Abercrombie & Fitch in the last few years has probably noticed that they don’t carry XL or XXL sizes of women’s clothing…” Abercrombie & Fitch “CEO Mike Jeffries…[told] Robin Lewis, author of The New Rules of Retail
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: What Does This Article Tell Us About "Canada"?
Today, I want to do an experiment. Back in January, I wrote a post beginning the work of thinking through what it means to write (about) “Canada” in some of the ways I’m interested in doing so. The idea was for that to be one little piece feeding into a
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5963…It Takes So Little
To shut a town down. In sleepy little Ottawa today, the business district, Rideau Centre and Parliamentary area were all shut down or slowed down by the simple threat of a bomb.According to a bit that 580CFRA dropped on their Facebook page less than an hour ago the “Special hazmat
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ontario must defy unreasonable WTO ruling against Green Energy Act
By: Council of Canadians | Press Release: TORONTO, May 6, 2013 – The Council of Canadians is extremely disappointed by reports that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has upheld a previous ruling that local content quotas in Ontario’s Green Energy Act violate global trade rules. The grassroots social justice organization is encouraging the
Continue readingBuckdog: 68 Years Ago Today – VE Day (Victory in Europe) – May 7, 1945 … Regina, Saskatchewan ..
George Baker displays The Regina Leader-Post headline declaring “Victory,” May 7, 1945 in front of old Regina City Hall on corner of 11th Avenue & Rose Street. Street celebration on corner of 11th Avenue & Albert St. (looking East down 11th Ave – May 7, 1945
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: BC Election Takes Me Back
Hendrix. Magic mushrooms. NDP candidates denounced as Chinese commies. Man it brings back the old days…. Except that when I was coming of age the whole “NDPer is a commie!” ploy had already gone stale. The Vander Zalm SoCreds had already retired it from their playbook. But wait! This
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: West Coast Environmental Law joins citizens delegation at Enbridge’s annual meeting of shareholders
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 I’m excited to be heading to the Enbridge AGM in Calgary on May 8 on behalf of West Coast. I’ll be accompanying a diverse group of concerned community members from the BC North Coast and from Alberta, including commercial fishers, farmers, youth and representatives of the
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: West Coast Environmental Law joins citizens delegation at Enbridge’s annual meeting of shareholders
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 I’m excited to be heading to the Enbridge AGM in Calgary on May 8 on behalf of West Coast. I’ll be accompanying a diverse group of concerned community members from the BC North Coast and from Alberta, including commercial fishers, farmers, youth and representatives of the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: You can stop this man from criminalizing our Internet
Michael Froman has just been appointed chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership—an international agreement that could criminalize many everyday uses of the Internet. If you haven’t already, send him a message at http://openmedia.org/froman and help spread the word by sharing this image: Froman now has the unique ability to put
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: To Tiny Bhutan, “Progress” Means Happiness, Not GDP
At a 1972 international conference in India, a reporter asked Bhutan’s king about his country’s gross national product – a measure of economic activity. His response was semi-facetious: He said Bhutan’s priority was not the GNP but GNH – gross national happiness. Bhutan’s government has since taken the concept of
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: An Opinion poll actually worth noting: Conservative Attack ads emphatically are NOT working.
Opinion polls can be extremely significant when they are used properly. When you are quantifying what things are of interest to specific people, you can garner useful actionable data, useful for political purposes that is. But the opinion polls that new organisations typically commission are next to useless. I mean,
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Shorter Corporations on Temporary Foreign Workers:
“We’ve been lying all this time; turns out free markets don’t work after all.” Well I’m glad we finally agree. Let’s remind them of that every time from now on when they go on about how X policy that’s good for people must be abandoned because it’s not free-markety enough.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: BC gets nasty – and I like it!
The NDP should’ve listened to me. Best part, though, is this Gordon Wilson quote: “Some New Democrats are really mad and let me know it,” Wilson told me Monday. “I only re-joined the Liberals, for Pete’s sake! It’s not like I pulled on a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.” He hates
Continue readingCanadian Trends: RE: Fuel Freedom, Ending our oil addiction
A video was sent to me by an organization ‘Fuel Freedom’ which seems like a worthy initiative to break the hold on the oil monopoly. However, in the interest of that actually being successful I have some points I’d like to add, and a couple places I take issue with.
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