Today the NDP surpassed the Conservatives in the polls and the Chief Electoral Officer testified to a House of Commons committee about the potential electoral fraud in 200 ridings in the last election, but all of that was overshadowed by Stephen Harper’s first majority government budget, which includes the newsworthy*
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Did voter suppression change the results of the NDP leadership election?
For the2012 NDP leadership vote to be considered legitimate, the NDP needs to employwhatever devices it can (including resort to Elections Canada and the RCMP) toput to bed the valid questions which can be raised about the validity of itsconvention results. It ispossible that the results were influenced by the
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: Canadian Federal Government Budget: A Lesson in Politics and a Day to be Sad
So, when the dust settles, and the lights turn off in the TV studios, all that will be left is you, me and a bunch of axed programs and projects the Federal Government used to do. It’s a sad day in Canada. You all know that I’m a political junky, and
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Kremlinology 40: Word Search #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Go right through the 2012 federal budget. Look anywhere you want. Try the chapter that lists off energy projects and how the latest federal budget will help them. Note the reference to Hebron: Hebron Offshore Oil Development (Newfoundland and Labrador) ExxonMobil Canada Properties’ Hebron Offshore Oil Development project is a
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: redford orders mla’s to return pay, cancels transition allowance, and sherman crashes her party.
Premier Alison Redford has announced that Tory MLA’s will repay all the money they received from the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections (aka the “no-work” committee) and that MLA’s who retire or are defeated in future elections may not received a generous severance package. Ordering Tory MLAs to pay
Continue readingBuckdog: HEY HARPER!! Where’s All The Jobs That Your Billions In Corporate Tax Cuts Were Promised To Create?
Federal Budget …. Blah blah blah … Harper … you’re HORRIBLE! Giving Billions of dollars to Big Corporations = who simply moved the cash off shore or are sitting on it as ‘retained earnings’. So now you’ll screw with Canada’s working people. You’ll screw with Old Age Security! You’re terrible.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: CLC Analysis of the 2012 Budget
Introduction Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have laid the basis for a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery. The federal government should be taking a larger and stronger role in making
Continue readingcmkl: The federal budget: spite and bile to pump up the base
So it turns out all the nasty rumours were actually true.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Pack Up Your Bags – The Weather’s Coming. Word Is Canada is Still Nice This Time of Year.
As the world transitions into a new and dangerous climate state, no nation is going to be immune to extreme weather event disasters. That’s the conclusion of the latest IPCC report. “One of the striking things, when you look at the report, is that there is disaster risk almost everywhere,”
Continue readingNorthern Insight: The 1% wages war
From Robert Borosage, Campaign for America’s Future, March 29, 2012 In 2010, as the economy began its slow recovery from the Great Recession, a new study shows the richest 1% of Americans captured a staggering 93% of all income growth, while the incomes of most Americans stagnated. 93%. Occupy that.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Substantial administrative penalties do not trigger Charter rights
Rowan v. Ontario Securities Commission, 2012 ONCA 208 holds substantial administrative penalties under securities legislation are not offences so as to trigger Charter rights: [35] The starting point for analysis of the Charter challenge is the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Wigglesworth, [1987] 2 S.C.R. 541, the seminal
Continue readingFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: Ottawa’s Integrated Hospital Laboratory Service Takes the Next Step
The Ottawa Citizen announced the start of the Ottawa area hospitals integrated laboratory service. The Citizen somehow links this development to Don Drummond. It has nothing to do with Drummond. This particular project dates back to 1996, is fully within the public sector and continues a long tradition, back to
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Premier Photo-Op’s annus horribilis
While aging corporate media types like Bill Good and Les Leyne rally to protect the BC Liberals, Bob Mackin, a reporter with no family member seeking government employment, recaps Premier Photo-Op’s monstrous month of March. In its first quarter, 2012 is destined to be Clark’s own annus horribilis. Forget the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Activision/Rogers Problem Solved
As of 4:00pm EST, I’m happy to report that the problems with connecting to Activision from Rogers appear to be solved. From the information our members posted up today we believed may have been caused by an Internet Traffic Jam. Our members have worked closely with Rogers techs to help
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Stéphane Gendron In Dutch With CBSC
While trolling the The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council for other reasons I noticed this special announcement: A Note Concerning the March 22, 2012 broadcast of Face à Face The CBSC has received a large number of very similar complaints concerning the March 22, 2012 broadcast at 10 AM of Face à face
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: A budget that screws the planet for short-term profits
First off, the 2012 federal budget that makes no upfront claim to be a budget. Indeed, the cover states only “Economic Action Plan 2012: Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity.” While we have been accustomed in recent years to budgets with their own titles, this one does not actually say “Budget”
Continue readingMama mia Mama mia Mama mia let me go
Drunk, arrested, and on the way to the local constabulary in the back of a cop car: could there be a more perfect time to burst into a full rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”? It kind of makes sense when you think about it: I don’t know of any other
Continue readingIs A Karmic Wind Blowing Through The Tree Stumps…
. …At Rocky Mountaineer’s False Creek Flats Train Station? Why do I ask? Well, if it hadn’t been for a wee little provincial ‘statute’ change awhile back, it might still be possible for the current (not)Premier to declare passenger rail service in British Columbia essential so that she and hers
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Taking it in stride: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
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