The Disaffected Lib: Sailing Into Uncharted Waters
You don’t have to like it but you’re going to have to live with it. Climate change is setting in – hard. It’s already here and we’re going to have to come to grips with what it means. I spoke with my daughter in Chicago on Tuesday. It was 80F
Continue readingWhat’s wrong with this picture? Website for English-Canadian Coalition unveiled.
It’s amusing that such an organization exists and its goals so lofty but judging from the banner photo, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the group for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association). H/T: Mario in comments to this post.
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Nail In The Coffin For Rob Ford On The Tranist File
Rob Ford lost a another key vote today in Toronto City Council. Weeks ago, the councillors called a meeting to bring back Transit City (essentially), voted on it, and Transit City is back. Also at that time they formed a special panel to look into the options for Sheppard East.
Continue readingTrashy's World: What!!!
Say it ain’t so! A CPC Cabinet Minister caught doing something UNETHICAL!!!! Wow. That’s about as shocking as finding out Don Cherry isn’t a vegan! Sheesh, why does the MSM even bother to cover this stuff anymore? The Cons will just blame the Liberals, or extremists, or socialists, or aliens…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Convention Bound
I’m heading to Toronto as an accredited blogger for the NDP Leadership Convention, which starts tomorrow. Should be a fascinating couple of days, particularly with so many scenarios in play, a junkies dream. I’ll be blogging, as well as tweeting @FarAndWide some insights and commentary. An added bonus, this week
Continue readingwRanter.com: Things that make me go arghhhh! Part 1
I figure that this wouldn’t be a true blog without random kvetching about nothing in particular. So in that spirit, I present semi-aimless carping about disconnected aspects of modern life, or, with apologies to Arsenio Hall, what I like to call “Things that make me go arghhhh!”: • When a
Continue readingPolitics Canada: Why Harper’s obsessed with winning Mount Royal
Harper is an unusual man, could easily be the “quiet neighbour who always kept to himself”. Unusual because of his absolute obsession with destroying the Liberal Party of Canada and satisfying himself, it seems, solely with pure vengeance. Holding onto power and vengeance are the key motivators of his regime,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sixth Estate catches a right-wing election contractor defending vote suppression, then theorizes as to how Robocon may have come together. – The introduction of Doctors for Fair Taxation is certainly a positive step in ensuring that Canadian physicians show their support for
Continue readingMorton's Musings: From the witness stand, under cross-examination, the confessed murderess in the slaying of 8-year-old Tori Stafford grants that, yes, she’d been prone to outbursts of temper: “I would agree I had anger issues.’’
If it wasn't tragic this would be funny. "Anger issues"! Talk about evading responsibility — it reminds one of the Japanese Emperor suggesting the Second World War had not unfolded quite as he had hoped. As a legal point, though, the murdering star witness for the Crown has changed her
Continue readingImpolitical: Another feckless accountability mechanism weighs in
The Ethics Commissioner has finally gotten around to deciding on the Rahim Jaffer matter where, if you will recall from way back in 2010 when this arose, Mr. Jaffer was seeing the ministerial door swung wide open to him. This report, coming in March 2012, is just way, way too
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Bell Set to Get Even Bigger: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: read more
Continue readingMargaret Wente’s wishful thinking crushed, kumbaya
Another day, another Wente column, this one dissing the Dippers. Thinks they haven’t got a chance. Oops, what’s this from yesterday, from the same paper? Kambaya, indeed.
Continue readingAlberta universities make illegal donations to Conservatives
Oh my, even the universities are doing it. According to the CBC, a number of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions, including Athabasca University and the University of Lethbridge, have been donating to the provincial Conservatives. They have joined those municipalities and counties that have been donating to the Tories for years. All
Continue readingwmtc: canadian profile: justin hines
In the March issue of New Mobility, I have a cover story about Canadian musician Justin Hines. You can see it here. I wrote this over my winter break – just as the library job came through! Not exactly the restful vacation I was hoping for. Fortunately I had a
Continue readingOttawa most "cheater-friendly’ city in Canada.
No surprise there. It’s full of Conservatives. I guess it comes with being Canada’s “best place to live”. Right. UPDATE: Irony or ironies, Peter MacKay fined for being naughty again.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Discouragements to Democratic Participation
The litany of abuses, even crimes, against democracy committed by the Harper regime is indeed long. Probably the gravest damage done by this regime, and I believe the damage is intentional, is to alienate increasing numbers of citizens from the electoral process. In his column today, Bob Hepburn, in writing
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Water, Water Everywhere, but for How Long? Privatizing Water in BC
World Water Day (March 22nd) is a good time to consider this: Canada has nearly 10% of the world’s supply of fresh water. How lucky are we? But what is all this water doing to earn its keep? Nothing. Or so think our politicians – and thirsty corporations like General
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Bob Rae asks Liberals to do something stupid: Fight fire with fire
Stephen Harper, his coffers brimming with cash donated through skillful use of the expensive and effective CIMS voter contact database, tossed a few dollars into the hopper and came out with some nice black and white ads which talked about how big a failure Bob Rae had been as premier
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: Israel & Iran: A Love Story
Amidst the war-mongering rhetoric of politicans, a quiet message is being passed back and forth on Facebook between ordinary people. Here’s the story: Filed under: Uplifting Tagged: antidote to politics
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