Today, on a call with reporters, Industry Minister Christian Paradis signalled that he may take a stand to ensure we don’t see even less choice in Canada’s already uncompetitive and dysfunctional cell phone market. Earlier this year Shaw announced that it would attempt to sell quality spectrum—a key resource for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Four More Weeks, Four Long Weeks
British Columbians are counting the days until we send Christy Clark and her sullied neo-Liberals packing. The NDP are going into the election campaign up by 12 points over Clark’s Liberals. Could the rightwingers stage a comeback? Anything is possible but that seems highly unlikely. All the NDP has to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair are Steering Canada Toward a Cliff
Canada went through the 2008 Great Recession and fared better than most of the developed world. It turns out Harper didn’t have enough time to let Canadian banks off their leashes to run wild like their American and European counterparts. When the widely predicted (Krugman, Roubini, Stiglitz et al) crash
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Detailed #LPCLdr By the Numbers & Analysis
So, in an effort to give myself carpal tunnel issues, I’ve managed to get the raw vote counts for all 308 ridings in Canada, collate them into one place, and have fun with the data. I may or may not put up a PDF file with all the ridings and
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Pipeline Deadline: Rushed Review Process for Tar Sands Line 9 Stifles Public Participation
Canadians you will need to brush up on those resume writing skills and sharpen your pencils because it is time to fill out your 10-page applications to get permission to send in your comments about another oil pipeline. And as of Monday, April 15th, you have less than five days
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: CBC Can’t Stop Spinning, Even When It “Fact-Checks”
I view the rise of so-called “fact-checking” in the mainstream corporate news with mixed emotions. First of all, it is nice to see them, you know, doing their jobs for a change. But second of all, why do they need a fact-checking column? Does this mean that they’re not, um,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: BBC Refuses to Pull Controversial North Korea Documentary by Stuart Kemp
The BBC says it will broadcast a documentary about North Korea after a war of words between the public broadcaster and the London School of Economics over the use of students to help get into the communist state.
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 15: credit where credit is due….
It’s been a pleasant surprise to see the Moncton Free Press (Presse Libre de Moncton) website evolve into an excellent newspaper with a quality and breadth of coverage far, far superior to anything that has been seen in this province, and a breath of fresh affair after years of the stench
Continue readingArt Threat: Temps Libre: an album filled with hope, inspired by the printemps érable
Something happened last spring: a whole generation of Montrealers was mobilized, politicized, made aware that they had a voice. Finally opening their windows onto spring mornings as the snow melted into the grass, people converged outside, en masse, where the air was filled with promise. They filled their lungs with
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Kingston votes 96 per cent against hospital privatization
It had all the trappings of an election. There were lawn signs, TV commercials, and door-to-door campaigners. The local media solicited the views of both politicians and citizens as everyone scrambled to become informed before the vote. Saturday Kingston residents … Continue reading →
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: When it comes to climate change, the devil is in the details
The Fall 2012 edition of Our Schools Our Selves includes an article by Victoria Wills about environmental education in schools. She points out that school field trips are the dominant “experience of nature” for many students and that too often they end up reinforcing the idea that nature is somehow
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Are The New Anti-Trudeau Ads Effective?
How the heck should I know? You can see ’em here and make up your own mind. A couple of things; Trudeau was stripping down and wearing the stash for charity. And the Quebec quote was a paraphrase of his dad. Interesting too that they are first being launched down
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe and Mail: Why your cell phone bill will likely go up
Last week we heard that all three of our independent cell phone companies may be taken over by Big Telecom. If this happens, this will mean less choice for Canadians in the wireless market and a likely increase in prices. read more
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Canadian feminist activist receives death threats and other abuse after being targeted by Men’s Rights Activists
Reblogged from man boobz: And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate. Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One
Continue readingLeDaro: Albert Einstein: More pearls of wisdom
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. “ Albert Einstein is one of my favourite scientists/philosophers. His Relativity Theory is well-known and he is also famous for his research on the atom. I understand he died a very unhappy man because his findings on the atom were
Continue readingCivil remedies forfeiture may be refused if Crown delays excessively
Attorney General of Ontario v. 20 Strike Avenue, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2013 ONSC 2130 holds that an application by the Attorney General of Ontario for an order for forfeiture of property under s. 8 (1) of the Civil Remedies Act, 2001, S.O. 2001 may be refused for delay in prosecution by the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5862…Bad Day For A Boat Ride
At least it was on this day in 1912. The unsinkable Titantic spawned a legend when it went down near Newfoundland 101 years ago today. WFDS
Continue readingThe HB-Log : It’s vital we support the lower class, Mr. Trudeau
I voted for Justin Trudeau yesterday, despite my enthusiasm for Martha Hall Findlay’s supply management proposal. I wrote a blog about Justin Trudeau a few months ago, where my main argument was that while there is nothing technically wrong with a policy agenda focused on the middle class, simply championing policies such as openness to trade,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Someday, this could all be ours
Sure, we know that an undue obsession with standardized testing leads to incentives for administrators and teachers to cheat in order to give the impression of improvement. But that’s nothing compared to the impact on other parts of a child’s eduction which get shoved aside in the name of test
Continue readingLeft Over: ‘Winds’ Of Change: Is That the Smell of Filthy Lucre?
Winds of change blowing hard as B.C. goes to the polls Can Liberal Premier Christy Clark break the NDP’s momentum? By Stephen Smart, CBC News Posted: Apr 15, 2013 2:18 AM PT Hey, Christy, the funny thing about having a big ol’ corporate-sponsored war chest…it no longer guarantees an election win
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