Fiscal record of Canadian political parties, Toby Sanger, The Progressive Economics Forum: “With all the recent news stories — as well as alarm raised by other leaders — about the fiscal and economic impact and record of NDP governments, I decided to take a look at and review the fiscal
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Whose Winnipeg is it, anyway?
March 14, 2013: The Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, in partnership with OURS Winnipeg, For the Love of Winnipeg and Planners’ Network Manitoba, held a well attended public forum at the Millennium Library to discuss how decisions about land use are made in Winnipeg. In a wide ranging discussion, Winnipeg’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP Divided Over WWI!
The Frenchy thinks it was bad; the Anglo thinks it was good. Sun News digs up a few geezers old enough to give a shit. Federal Liberals stand to reap benefits. LPoC leader-in-waiting Justin Trudeau rumoured ready to declare ancient conflict a “harshing of the national mellow but, like, I refuse to
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5847…Ontario Leads The Way
CFRA reports that Ontario is number one! A new report from the Fraser Institute finds that Ontario’s electricity is the most expensive in North America because of the Green Energy Act. Lead author Dr. Ross McKitrick tells CFRA the conservative think-tank studied the costs of expanding to renewable energy. “The
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Outsource Canada
I’m not sure who is actually responsible for breaking down these outsourcing statistics according to province and company, but we certainly owe him or her a real debt of gratitude. Recommend this Post
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Kingston to cast vote on public hospital Saturday
This Saturday residents in the Kingston area will get a chance to have their say on whether the planned new psychiatric/rehab hospital will be entirely public. While the vote is non-binding, a large turnout by those wishing to keep their … Continue reading →
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Understanding Onkwehón:we Rising: Basic Points of Unity
http://onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/understanding-onkwehonwe-rising-basic-points-of-unity/ on the main Kersplebedeb website: http://kersplebedeb.com/posts/understanding-onkwehonwe-rising-basic-points-of-unity/
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5846…John Baird Gives It Up
To John Kerry. A 24 of Molson Canadian cans. The raison for the presentation to John Kerry was the loss of the Canadian women’s hockey team to the Yanks in the women’s hockey championship in Ottawa Tuesday. WFDS
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mythbusting Big Telecom Talking Points
Check it out as wireless industry expert Peter Nowak takes another run at “debunking, yet again, another set of wireless myths” from Big Telecom about the Canadian cell phone market. Let’s show Big Telecom we won’t put up with their head-in-the-sand attitude. Article by Peter Nowak: A little while ago,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: New Shoes Songs: The Horrors of Shopping
I absolutely must get a new pair of walking shoes now that winter is nearly over. So I spent far too much time today looking for what I need, and which, of course, I couldn’t find. When I came home I went looking for shoe songs to lift my spirits
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Ban Lifejackets…
Now we get to play catch the subtext… 🙂 Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Contraception, Feminism, Hard RIght Logic in Action, Rape, Rape Culture
Continue readingDefending Public Healthcare: Chemo fiasco – – the real perils of secrecy
Martin Regg Cohn, Queen’s Park columnist for the Toronto Star, expressed his outrage at some length today over the College of Pharmacists not answering media questions quickly enough about the diluted chemotherapy drug scandal. But he says nothing of the response from the private corporation that actually mixed the chemotherapy
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Speaking of Political Integrity …
See if you can detect even a modicum of it in Kellie Leitch, who starts talking at about the 9-minute mark of this video dealing with the massive abuses in the Temporary Foreign Workers Program: Somehow, I don’t think this is what Judith Timson meant when she talked about authenticity.
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Rehtaeh Parsons, Anonymous and "Justice"
I’ve really tried to avoid commenting on the big issue that is crowding out HuffPo’s headline space over the past week, and that is the tragic case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teenager whose life ended last Sunday due to suicide. I’m sure everyone knows the details by now,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Calling all federal Liberals for a favour
Son One, age fourteen, has the political bug. He was a proud Pupatello delegate in January, and wants to come with me to the convention in Ottawa on Sunday, where the new leader will be announced. Dad – who will be doing pro-Liberal media, and is old and forgetful –
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Ten Oil Spills in Two Weeks
Last week I published a story titled “Five Oil Spills in One Week: ‘Accidents’ or Business as Usual”. Within an hour of publication came the news of a sixth spill from a CP derailment in nothern Ontario. As the story made the rounds on social media in the ensuing days,
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5845…Today’s Reason To Drink
It is happy birthday to the New York Mets!!! My buddy Len Berman from Len Berman’s That’s Sports tells all that “On this date in 1962 the Mets were born. They lost in St. Louis 11-4. Casey Stengel was the manager, Roger Craig the losing pitcher, Charlie Neal and Gil
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5844…We Got The Gay Thing Down In Canada
Americans not so much. BTW he is n o t the Richard Dawson from Family Feud. That Richard Dawson is in heaven. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5843…Women Hate Sandy Sharkey
Sandy Sharkey is the erswhile morning host on BOB FM; they blew her out earlier this year. She is also a former contestant on The Wheel of Fortune. But wait it gets better/worse. Oprah, that Oprah, was in Ottawa last night and, according to Ms. Sharkey, her shoes were too
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Logging BC’s Coastal Treasures
Exasperation is the tone of the full page ad placed in a March edition of Victoria’s Times-Colonist newspaper by the Discovery Islands Marine Tourism Group, a coalition of businesses associated with an ecotourism industry employing over 1,200 people and generating $45 million for the local economy. Their problem is logging,
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