Columnist says the approximately $200 million in cuts Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is making to the CBC over the next three years is an ideologically driven decision that will do more to hurt the country than help.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC English services to cut 256 jobs to deal with government cuts by Etan Vlessing
Columnist says the CBC News department is to take a $10 million hit to its annual operating budget, leading to the loss of 88 jobs.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Finding New Strategies for Progressives in Canada
A few weeks back, Andrew Coyne wrote an excruciatingly epideictic column for The National Post on the virtues of free trade in general, stressing in the process how virtuous CETA (the Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) is likely to be for Canada. It was such an egregiously neoliberal column
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Defence Minister promises more F-35 oversight
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/10/f35-mackay.html
Continue readingMorton's Musings: But trust, as former prime minister Brian Mulroney found, is easy to lose
We Liberals found that out too… http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1159270 F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper's credibility In politics, trust corrodes easily. The damage may not be visible at first, but mistrust will slowly and inexorably eat away at a government's credibility. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives might want to keep
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Proposed EU law would criminalize possession of hacking tools
In an effort to harmonize anti-hacking laws, the EU parliament has come up with a sweeping draft law. The proposal, backed by the EU Civil Liberties Committee, aims to criminalize the possession and distribution of hacking tools. It’s hard not to be skeptical about efforts of politicians to deal with
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: How massive ‘One Big Campaign’ could defeat Harper Conservatives
A massive, well-thought-out campaign involving thousands of social activist groups, labour, and grassroots organizations would have an excellent chance of handing the Harper regime a significant defeat on a hugely important issue: income disparity. The public outrage over income disparity, brought to light by the Occupy Movement last year with
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Wildrose supporter Richard Evans
Evans is a Calgary resident who has made failed runs for municipal office in Calgary. More recently, he has been a participant at Wildrose conventions, and is very active in their campaign, principally online. Here is what I know (so far) about his history: Evans has promoted pedophilia by squatting
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Game Over for Santorum
At Gettysburg, PA (of all places!) Rick Santorum announced today that he’s throwing in the towel on his bid to become the Theocrat in Chief of the United States. No surprise really, considering that in all probability he would otherwise have lost the primary later this month in his home
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Drinking water wins in Jefferd Creek logging battle
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 In 2004 the residents of the tiny community of Stillwater, near Powell River, learned that BC Timber Sales (BCTS) was planning to auction off the rights to clearcut 12.5 hectares in the Jefferd Creek watershed, which is the source of their drinking water. Well, it’s been
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Too stupid not to acknowledge
As usual, Big City Lib is right. Now back to retirement.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: In and Out: Political Double Tap
The Harper Government is known for its zombie like resiliency. Just when you think it’s down for the count, it gets back up to bite your arm off. Zombieland was a humourous zombie movie where the main character explains the ways to survive a zombie attack. You’ve gotta have good
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Long Before This Lynch Mob Mentality Comes To Canada?
As someone who is a regular visitor to Cuba and has seen both the good and bad of its society through friends that we visit there, I know that it has very real problems, but also very real benefits, under its dictatorial communist system. However, I can’t help but wonder
Continue readingMount Allison University Student Blog: Officially Done at The Argosy
I just gave a quick tutorial to the new Editor in Chief on a few important things and picked up my last paycheck from The Argosy. It’s been a good year overall. I’ll be including some more information on my experience later. For now here’s my last article on the
Continue readingAny one else see a trend here?
As with any budget there are winners and losers, with the true test of a budget at least in my mind being the determination of who wins and who loses. As the days pass and people have had time to scour the latest Conservative government budget a picture of who
Continue readingArt Threat: That’s a wrap? – Killing Saskatchewan’s film tax credit is economic nonsense
The cast from InSecurity. The TV show will no longer be produced in Saskatchewan. With the announcement of the axing of the Saskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit, we are effectively telling the rest of the film-producing world that Saskatchewan is closed for business. It’s a commonly known fact that film
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Back to 1993 – #AbVote
In 1993, the Progressive Conservative dynasty started by Peter Lougheed in 1971 nearly came to an end. After Lougheed’s resignation in 1985, Edmontonian Don Getty won the ensuing leadership election and took control of the province. Getty wasn’t too different in ideology from Lougheed, serving as the former’s Intergovernmental Affairs
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 10: The editor: King of the gutter….
The Moncton Times and Transcript editorial today is a rant at unions and the pay scales for municipal workers in Moncton. I shall take that editorial writer seriously – some day – if he ever shows the intelligence, integrity and, dare I say it, balls, to criticize the outrageous incomes
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