It was a political showdown that revealed what we already know: the Conservatives can’t take a fair fight. Yesterday, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau convincingly defeated Tory senator Patrick Brazeau in a charity boxing bout here in Ottawa. The Fight for … Continue reading →
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mercer Report: The Bell-Rogers anger continuum (Spoof)
Have you tried ConglomerMate? If you have, you and your loved one should also try making the switch from Big Telecom. read more
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Hamilton Bows Down To Special Interests in Calgary-Elbow
Nation, I’ve never made a big secret of my distaste for the way that well-funded special interests can buy their way into the democratic process. Sure enough, not even the EverGreen campaign of William Hamilton in Calgary-Elbow is immune to the siren call of big-money special interests. I imagine it’s
Continue readingAre They Ready To Rumble?…..And/Or…. Write Harder?
NoHoldsAtTheInk-StainedBar PunditsInTheOctagonVille This week’s combatants in the Write Harder Battle Royale… The Vancouver Courier’s Bob Mackin and The Vancouver Sun’s Vaughn Palmer. The Battle Cry…. “Christy Clark’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad, van Dongen-Type Day!” And without further ado, here comes the best the battling pundits had to offer:
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Not Rae’s Day
After months of media speculation, Bob Rae has finally cleared the air on his leadership ambitions, announcing he will not run for permanent leader: Rae Will Not Run For Permanent Leader Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae says he’s fine with the “interim” label, closing the door on the growing speculation
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: What’s That, David?
David Frum, writing in the National Post, gushes with praise for the Harper government. “Canada,” he writes, “can fairly claim to be the best governed country in the world.” The occasion for Frum’s accolades was the release of the Conservatives’ 2012 budget — which cut government spending, gave almost 20,000
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Star Readers’ Reactions To OAS Changes
In an earlier post I expressed both my bewilderment and disappointment at the muted ‘person-in-the-street’ reactions to the the Harper regime’s change to Old Age Security that will require people currently under the age of 54 to wait until age 67 to begin receiving their benefits. That I may have
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Rumble in the Jungle 2: Trudeau v Brazeau
Grace, classiness and composure wins against nastiness, childish taunts and narrow-minded conservatism! Trudeau, bombayé! Liberal «dauphin» Justin Trudeau scores major upset in Fight for the Cure boxing match over Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2012/03/31/justin-trudeau-boxing Of course the National comPost would call it an upset. The diva is anything but upset.
Continue readingDemocracy Under Fire: Electoral and Parliamentary Reform (Final)
Conclusion Over the last5 weeks I have outlined some of thepossibilities andchallenges surrounding changes to our Electoralsystem and briefly touched upon some of theissues surrounding Parliamentaryand Senaterules and modernization. It seems to me thatCanada is dragging its heels in this regard when compared withseveral other commonwealth democracy’s, the oft cited
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Its not you, its me
Sorry for the lack of posts over the last while — its not you, its me. I’ve been dealing with some stuff lately —First, iliotibial band syndrome complicated by a torn meniscus has been taking its toll. I’ve been seeing the physio several times a week since the end of January
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Top 10 Reasons not to believe in God (#10).
Greta Christina is a prominent member of the new Atheist movement. She has recently published a work called “Why are you Atheists so Angry? – 99 Things that piss off the Godless.” I’m happy to feature some of her work here on the Sunday Disservice. 1: The consistent replacement
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Great line of the day
From Boris, talking about the Trudeau-Barazeau dustup: Better watch that rematch Justin. Cons cheat when they can’t win honestly.
Continue readingImpolitical: Routine cellphone tracking in the U.S.
There is a must read as context for the Canadian C-30 legislation that is pending, the lead from the New York Times today: “Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears.” The American Civil Liberties Union has put together records from police departments across the U.S. showing widespread cellphone tracking that
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: Not Our Budget
This is a very well produced video, especially on short notice. As with those in the video, this is not my budget, this is not my government and the process that put this government in its perceived position of power is no longer of any relevance to Canadians. It has
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: Not Our Budget
This is a very well produced video, especially on short notice. As with those in the video, this is not my budget, this is not my government and the process that put this government in its perceived position of power is no longer of any relevance to Canadians. It has
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: Not Our Budget
This is a very well produced video, especially on short notice.
As with those in the video, this is not my budget, this is not my government and the process that put this government in its perceived position of power is no longer of any relevance to Canadians.
It has now become the responsibility of Canadians to restore democracy to our country and to protect Canada from the devastation being done by the Harper government. We must refrain from violence and we must practice the democracy that our ‘government’ refuses to acknowledge.
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Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: As of May 2, 2012, Canada Elections Act is a Dead Letter
UBC’s Andrew Irvine has published a useful column in Postmedia explaining why “quick fixes” like electronic voting or proportional representation aren’t likely to improve the sorry state of Canadian democracy. Instead, this man who is paid to teach and write says what we need is more teaching and writing about
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Floundering Redford Tories’ fecundity fiasco no April Fool’s joke
When are they gonna learn? Loose Tweets Sink Fleets! Below: An agenda item from the Conservative brain trust’s emergency meeting yesterday. Actual Tory agendas may not be exactly as illustrated, and are unlikely to involve shotguns. Below that: Premier Alison Redford, campaign strategist Stephen Carter. Tempting as it may be
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: English Defence League humiliated by no-show Aarhus summit
The English Defence League (EDL) suffered a humiliation in Aarhus, Denmark, where it arrived to set the stage for the rather grand sounding pan-European anti-Islamic Movement. Problem for the EDL’ers is that hardly anybody showed up. The turn out was so poor in fact, anti-fascist demonstrators outnumbered EDL supporters twenty-to-one.
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