In 1993, the Alberta PCs were on the ropes, and many felt Lawrence Decore would end their 22 year reign in power. When the issue of MLA pensions bubbled to the surface, their newly elected leader Ralph Klein walked into caucus, laid down the law, and retroactively scrapped the gold-plated
Continue readingFar and Wide: Pre-Mature Verdicts
I’ve been utterly amazed at how many supposed political “experts”, pundits, observers, have been so quick to pass judgement on the robo-call affair. There is a dismissive tone, intertwined with some sort of misplaced arrogance, that thinks the electorate fits into some neat theorem. There is a reason all study
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pro-Northern Gateway Pipeline Astroturf Group Struggles To Find Warm Bodies
The Northern Gateway Alliance, a community coalition established to support the project, was in Grande Prairie for a reception to meet its local members and try to increase membership Wednesday night. […] The alliance bills itself as being independent, however Enbridge does pay Kinsley for his work. Note that this
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4372…The Exodus Has Begun
Ah if you were at Uplands, the Ottawa Airport, sorry, Ottawa International Airport, this morning you would have seen all the smart boys and girls from Team Orange making their way to the big convention in Toronto. This is a big weekend for the New Democratic Party. It is the
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Nursing Makes Nurses Less Empathetic
Irony alert! The best way to decrease empathy in nurses, apparently, is to actually practice nursing. A new study of nursing students found that as students gained more clinical exposure, they demonstrated a much greater decline in empathy scores over the year than did those with limited clinical experience during
Continue readingFOI For BeeCee…A New World Record!
AllTheFreedomOfInformationThatDoesn’tFit RedactEverythingVille And The Record Is 1,751. Number of FOI requests by one person? ….Nope. Number for FOI requests aimed at one government department? ….Nope. Number of FOI requests involving other FOI requests that were never answered? …Who knows, that’s top secret? Number of pages completely redacted from Ian Reid’s
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern Submitted by Paula LaPierre on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:33. The Alliston Aquifer is part of a 12,000 year old water history of the area tracing back to the melting of glaciers and the creation of
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
283_22484445714_714085714_1295357_3440_a.jpg Taken from response to For The Water, http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858 Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern Submitted by Paula LaPierre on Thu, 2012-03-22 10:33. The Alliston Aquifer is part of a 12,000 year old water history of the area tracing back to the melting of glaciers and the creation of
Continue readingThe Dominion blogs: Thank You Maude Barlow As We Remember Site 41
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Taken from response to For The Water,
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/2858
Kichesipirini Assert Alliston Aquifer An International Concern
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Pop The Stack: For Once, I’m Glad I’m Not Voting
Democracy is the greatest sport on Earth. I feed on elections and leadership contests but I’m kind of glad I don’t have a vote this Saturday in the NDP leadership convention. Since I don’t have a vote I haven’t spent as much time researching all the leaders as I could
Continue readingPop The Stack: For Once, I’m Glad I’m Not Voting
Democracy is the greatest sport on Earth. I feed on elections and leadership contests but I’m kind of glad I don’t have a vote this Saturday in the NDP leadership convention. Since I don’t have a vote I haven’t spent as much time researching all the leaders as I could
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Can someone explain?
I’m offended as anyone else at the robocalls scandal, but this picture, put up recently by Saskboy and apparently influenced by the, erm, objective website Rabble.ca, deserves some explanation before I explode it all into tiny little dust particles. I mean, it’s pretty obvious something’s wrong, right? How do you
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Supreme Court this morning: "lawyers should not be expected to behave like verbal eunuchs. They not only have a right to speak their minds freely, they arguably have a duty to do so. But they are constrained …to do so with dignified restraint"
Doré v. Barreau du Québec 2012 SCC 12 deals with the right of lawyers to express themselves freely but their duty to use that right of expression in a professional manner. A lawyer was strongly, and perhaps ill-advisedly, criticized by a judge. The lawyer then wrote a private letter to
Continue readingCo2 Art: Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government. there are two sides to this story In favour of keeping lower tuition 1. many countries, such as Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the Bahamas and Scotland, have free university education, and it is
Continue readingCo2 Art: Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government.there are two sides to this storyIn favour of keeping lower tuition1. many countries, such as Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the Bahamas and…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Should Quebec Students’ Strike for Lower Tuition be Spread to Rest of Canada?
Students in Quebec have been protesting a 75% tuition increase over five years announced by the provincial government. there are two sides to this story In favour of keeping lower tuition 1. many countries, such as Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the Bahamas and Scotland, have free university education, and it is
Continue readingBlunt Objects: #NDPldr Race – Turnout’s Gonna Suck
I just noticed that according to official (I think they’re official) estimates, only 40,000 NDP members have voted so far in their leadership race, out of 131,000. In other words, only 30.5% have bothered to vote yet. The Super-Duper Official Opposition NDP with these Super-Qualified people running for the leadership,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Jack Layton: Canada’s Defrauded Prime Minister
Hindsight. It’s a bitch. It’s also bitter and hypothetical at times, so take these particular musings in that context. It’s a “what could’a been”. Jack Layton would have possibly been Prime Minister last year, had a sweeping campaign of election fraud with voter suppression not taken place across the country.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Tom Mulcair: For Sure
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been moving to the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or seven years. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDP values from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Below 40% of the Unemployed Get EI
Statistics Canada reported today that 12,400 more Canadians received Employment Insurance (EI) regular benefits in January. The increase in recipients reflected higher unemployment. Indeed, the proportion of jobless workers receiving benefits remained 39% (i.e. 561,060 beneficiaries out of 1,421,200 officially unemployed Canadians.) Only 28% of unemployed Ontarians received EI benefits
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