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Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Alberta Votes Day 9: Ralphbucks Returns
On Sunday, the Wildrose Party released an April Fools press release, proposing to merge Alberta and Saskatchewan. On Monday, they took the silliness up a level: Wildrose promises cash rebates to Albertans if oil money creates budget surplus CREMONA, Alta. – Alberta’s Wildrose party is promising free oil money for
Continue readingLeDaro: United States of America Vs. United States of America
U.S does not need wars internationally. Americans are at war with each other every day. I believe in the last ten years more murders took place in U.S than soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Monday (April 2, 2012), “….the former student accused of killing at least seven people at
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: If she was wrong about this… #nlpoli
As we told you on Monday, the ever attentive labradore caught Kathy Dunderdale in a pretty outrageous comment last week on the impact the federal budget would have on the province. ‘Not much’ was the thrust of her comment. And it was pretty much her comment to the Telegram’s James
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alison nicely debunks the Cons’ latest Robocon talking points. Paula Boutis offers her own suggestions to strengthen Elections Canada in investigating vote suppression. And Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher report that the Cons have been working on funneling federal money through a
Continue readingBlunt Objects: The New Politics of the NDP
… is looking a lot like the old politics of the Conservatives: ..the New Democrats have still not let the Liberals respond to last week’s budget in the House of Commons and are going against tradition to use all of the response time themselves. When asked about the strategy after
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, April 3, 2012: YouTube cop-cam Queen singer shell-shocked | Canada | News | Toronto Sun Collaborative law nears maturity Polish PM Admits They Tortured Terror Suspects For US Intrusion upon seclusion: what’s justifiable? – Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Continue readinggay persons of character: London Bus Campaign: ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’
Source: http://www.facebook.com/stonewalluk Well this is neat. Throughout April, 1,000 buses in London, England, are carrying ads from the British charity, Stonewall, to promote marriage equality. Bearing the tagline, “Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!” the ads link to Stonewall’s equal marriage campaign website, which includes details of the charity’s response
Continue readinggay persons of character: London Bus Campaign: ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’
Source: http://www.facebook.com/stonewalluk |
Well this is neat. Throughout April, 1,000 buses in London, England, are carrying ads from the British charity, Stonewall, to promote marriage equality. Bearing the tagline, “Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!” the ads link to Stonewall’s equal marriage campaign website, which includes details of the charity’s response to the British government’s consultation on the issue and explains how people in support of marriage equality can have their voices heard.
Continue readinggay persons of character: London Bus Campaign: ‘Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!’
Source: http://www.facebook.com/stonewalluk Well this is neat. Throughout April, 1,000 buses in London, England, are carrying ads from the British charity, Stonewall, to promote marriage equality. Bearing the tagline, “Some People Are Gay. Get Over It!” the ads link to Stonewall’s equal marriage campaign website, which includes details of the charity’s response
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The List Grows Longer
The Harper government keeps adding to its enemies list. First and foremost, there are the “radical environmentalists.” And, of course, there is the CBC. And then there is the entire province of Quebec. Now, the government has turned its sights on the province of Ontario. When Bob Rae rose in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe: Bell hikes payphone rates
Big telecom company Bell is trying to raise prices anywhere they can, including through payphones. Though not as popular as they once were, payphones are especially useful to those with lower incomes; raising the rates will only serve to make yet another form of communication less accessible. All this while
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Farce Of The "Golden Age Of Gas"
Oil and gas industry insiders revealed earlier this year the high probability that we're headed into a shale gas bubble. But that's not what the industry's CEOs and PR departments want you to hear. "The reality of at least 100 years’ worth of shale gas abundance has been supported by
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Gwynne Dyer on Our Future
I have been writing lately about environmental degradation and the bleak future that seems to await us. On that theme, (and because I have a busy morning ahead of me) I am providing a link to an article by Gwynne Dyer, who argues that because of our huge global population
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4426…Wrong Again
I liked KU. Rock, chalk, Jayhawk. The world liked KY. The world was right. WFDS
Continue readingLiberal Justin Trudeau brings in biggest ratings ever for Conservative Sun News
But Fox News North is still Fox News North. No more Liberals and never a Dipper. Watch the ratings slip again back to next to nothing.
Continue readingArt Threat: Step Right Up to See the GOP’s Amazing War on Women
Mother Jones’ illustrator Zina Saunders takes on the GOP’s oppressive and backwards stance on women in her illustrated political cartoon this week, in which you are invited to step right up and watch the greatest circus on earth – the 2012 Republican presidential campaign. Watch it over at Mother Jones’.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Don’t Call it a Scandal
There are many people who are insisting that RoboCon does not deserve to be called a “scandal”. Conservative Party hack Levant, insists it’s a “scandalette”. Justin Trudeau (and researcher extraordinaire Brian-Michel LaRue) has a better reason for using more exact terminology: Don’t call it a scandal. Don’t call it an
Continue readingBC NDP ahead of Libs and Cons by a whopping 20 percent popular support. Media: Look at those Conservatives rise!
The news, in terms of rest of Canada, is breathtaking. In a survey by Angus-Reid, BC’s NDP is not just far ahead of the Cons and Libs, but gaining with 43 percent popular support while the the other two parties are tied at 23 percent. The rising predominance should be
Continue readingArt Threat: Some kind of monster – Film screening cancelled amid unsubstantiated copyright fears
Canadian filmmaker and activist John Greyson is no stranger to controversy — whether haranguing Justin Bieber to pull concerts scheduled for Israel, supporting queer film festivals in hostile environments, or scuffling with TIFF over the erasure of occupation in special programming, the prolific auteur has seen his share of messy
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