Barack Obama’s carefully nurtured image as a man of the people has been blown to shreds. Rob Urie, writing for CounterPunch, captures the event in one paragraph: With Barack Obama putting his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare expenditures into writing in his Federal budget proposal the ability of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canada Revenue Agency offers deal to CBC to reveal tax cheats by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says the Canada Revenue Agency wants to cut a deal with the CBC that would allow the broadcaster to protect its secret sources, but also rat out tax cheats who have money tucked away in offshore accounts.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yeah, yeah…
… I KNOW that the only poll that matters is the one held on E Day, but for Libs like me, this is encouraging: The latest Nanos tracking numbers reveal that national support for the Liberal Party is at 35.4%, just ahead of the Conservatives at 31.3%. Liberal support has
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Do We Really Want to Save a Place for Our Grandkids? It Sure Doesn’t Look That Way.
It’s claimed by those who study such things that civilizations that collapse do so suddenly and while they’re at their peak. In a way the process resembles a balloon bursting. It gets bigger and bigger and then – pop. How are we to know when we’re nearing that civilization bursting
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision course with the urgent need for global climate action. Worldwide, extreme weather events from drought to floods to powerful storms
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: In case you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous
Your Minister of Natural Resources, ladies and gentlemen: “I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial board interview with Montreal daily newspaper, La Presse. “Scientists have recently told us that our fears (on climate change) are
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Rapists aren’t just strangers lurking in dark alleyways
Something to think about: In a survey of male college students: · 35% anonymously admitted that, under certain circumstances, they would commit rape if they believed they could get away with it. · One in 12 admitted to committing acts that met the legal definitions of rape, and 84% of
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 12: Words, words, words….
Oh, for the days of Winston Churchill, a politician who knew what words meant, and who used them with their correct meanings. For today’s politicians, words are just fuzzy things designed to sound nice. And jouranlists write them down because they, alas, don’t know any better than the politicians about
Continue readingBlunt Objects Blog: Nanos Research Poll: 35.4% Liberal, 31.3% Con, 23.6% NDP
On the flip side of today’s earlier Abacus poll, a company known to give the Conservatives and NDP something of a boost, we have Nanos Research, known to sometimes give the Liberals a boost, putting out one of their monthly polls showing, well, a big Liberal boost. Nanos Research (Federal
Continue reading350 or bust: Next, Kansas Republicans Plan To Outlaw Sunshine
* No matter how hard the fossil fools try to stuff the renewable energy genie back into the bottle (click here to read more about Kansas’s latest back-the-past bill), the green energy economy is growing. For example, in March 2013 the number of Australian homes with solar power systems passed
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Anon Makes Its Case
…and they have handed the evidence over to the police. One day the press will catch up on this one.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: CD and Feminism: Chronicle of a Movement Defining Itself
Over its 50 years, Canadian Dimension featured some of Canada’s most well-known and thought provoking feminists, activists and scholars, the majority of whom straddled the line between academia and activism. This was fitting for a magazine that has made such a dedicated effort to mobilize knowledge in ways that activists
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, April 12, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 12, 2013: Toronto’s mayor: Still standing | The Economist Three Reasons Why the LPP Will Replace Articling Forever Martha Stewart loses bid to dismiss Macy’s claim Cooley Law Loses Bid to Unmask Critical Blogger How dusty are your
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: And Now, A Word About Kellie Leitch From The Salamander
The question of personal integrity is one that is very near and dear to my heart. Since literature at its best is a reflection of some of the deepest truths about human nature, during my teaching career, it was a topic I explored with relish every time the curriculum permitted
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Stuart Mackinnon is the Green Party of BC candidate for Vancouver Fraserview
For Immediate Release 12 April 2013 Vancouver – The Green Party of BC is pleased to announce that Stuart Mackinnon will represent the party in Vancouver Fraserview in the May 14, 2013 provincial election. Stuart is a former Vancouver Park Board Commissioner who represented the Green Party from 2008 to
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: COINTELPRO Murders (Intervention by Geronimo ji Jaga)
The following is Geronimo ji Jaga’s intervention at a September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative weekend in Washington, DC. It was initially included in a pamphlet published in 2001 by the Human Rights Research Fund (founded by activist attorneys Kathleen
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj: Margaret Thatcher’s Verdict on the Liberal Party of Canada
My article in the Globe and Mail: My one conversation with Margaret Thatcher about the Liberal Party of Canada began with a chill in the air, and ended with our host mopping his brow. We were all polite, but there were daggers behind the smiles and venom coiled around the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – J.S Bach Motet BWV 227
Jesu, meine Freude is a motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The work, which takes its title from the chorale by Johann Franck on which it is based, is also known as Motet No. 3 in E minor, BWV 227. The stanzas of the chorale are interspersed with passages from
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Temporary Foreign Worker Scandal: RBC Issues “Open Letter To Canadians”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: According to a list recently obtained by the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Royal Bank of Canada, (RBC) is one the thousands of Canadian employers fingered in the unraveling Temporary Foreign Worker scandal. The document shows that scandals at RBC and other high-profile employers are “just the
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