Whether the ancillary offences related to prostitution should be legalized is not really the issue. The question is who should decide these matters. We have a panel of truly brilliant legal minds considering social policy. The Court's training and strength doesn't rest on such matters. What words in a regulation
Continue readingTOM MULCAIR: FOR SURE
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDPvalues from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the platformsof all of
Continue readingJAMES LAXER: TOM MULCAIR: FOR SURE
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDPvalues from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the platformsof all of
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Maybe the Conservatives picked the wrong party/leader to attack with ads
A new poll is out – released last night from Environics. According to their numbers, the NDP is tied with the Conservatives for popular support: The survey by Environics Research Group provided to The Globe and Mail has the two parties at 30 per cent support among voters. That’s about
Continue readingPolitics Canada: DIY attack ads on Stephen Harper
You can tell in your gut when you see a good attack ad. The Conservatives know how to make a good attack ad, this is clear. It’s one of the few things, I would say, they are good at. I found an interesting site called “Attack Ad Generator”, might be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Kathryn Marshall Demoted At Ethical Oil
The New head-shills for EO are Jordan Graham and Jamie Ellerton. Jamie is an ex-Kenney aide who also did time with Tim Hudak. So behind the scenes puppet master Ezra Levant is keeping things all in the Tory family. Jordan served as city councillor in Fredericton, New Brunswick and describes
Continue readingJames Laxer: TOM MULCAIR: FOR SURE
First, with all due respect to party elders, the NDP has been movingto the centre for decades, most rapidly over the last six or sevenyears. The idea that we must come together to protect threatened NDPvalues from Tom Mulcair is a bit rich. I’ve looked at the platformsof all of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Living after them #nlpoli
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar In his latest post on Muskrat Falls, energy analyst Tom Adams argues that the provincial government wants to finance Muskrat Falls in a way that shifts the costs and the
Continue readingDeclaring interim victory
NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel gave her farewell press conference yesterday and declared victory. Um, okay – except you know that getting the government to vote on a bunch of feel-good symbolic, non-binding motions isn’t holding them to account and not really something to crow about, right? Just checking. In advance
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: How To Rig an Election
I want to share what I think happened. As you can see from the Sixth Estate master list, now at 100 ridings and counting, there was quite a variety of different covert ops last May. In some cases, calls came direct from Conservative Party numbers (the Conservatives say the bogus
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Utah Data Center: ‘a massive eavesdropping complex’
Wired Magazine has an article about a new NSA spy center being constructed in Utah. It has the user friendly name Utah Data Center. Wired: A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze,
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Read The Real Story, then get mad, stay mad
Stay mad until every single BC Liberal politician is sent home in disgrace. If any single situation demonstrates conclusively that BC Liberals continue to hide from the truth, this is it. If there is no fraud to hide, why are they hiding everything? Read Ian Reid’s Open government my ass
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Goodbye sweet Prins – did he jump or was he pushed?
Ray Prins prepares to walk the plank, possibly with a little prodding by his premier. Unexpectedly departing Alberta Conservative politicians may be pretty much as illustrated. Below: Mr. Prins as he appears to his friends and family. Now hear this! Now hear this! All hands to Damage Control! All hands
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Budget Day
Source: Government of Saskatchewan – Budget Key Facts and Figures While there is some stuff to talk about federally, namely Speaker Andrew Scheer’s potential conflict of interest with regards to the Robocall, we’re going to stick provincially for today. It was budget day here in Saskatchewan, and I’m still looking
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: BNTITW: Secret Service Ducklings
A couple of Secret Service officers stationed outside the White House give a family of ducklings a lift… Maddow says that it’s “100 percent politics free” but I disagree. Obviously this proves the officers are liberals because had they been Republicans they would have just let the stranded mallards fend
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On warning signs
It may be that upwards of 70% of the NDP’s leadership votes are already in before the convention this weekend. But here’s another suggestion as to why it’s worth being in the minority who wait for all the available information before casting a ballot – as well as a cautionary
Continue readingThe (not)Premier’s almost Nevergreen….
DillingTheBert AllTheWayToTheTopVille Non-club member Robert Matas has an interesting story in The Globe today about how Christy Clark did her best (or should that be worst?), more than once, to get the Evergreen rapid transit line to PoMoCo killed: …After she was chosen as premier by Liberal Party members in
Continue readingIf Necessary Blogging But Not Necessarily Blogging: Looking back at the effects of voter suppression in 2008
I read with interest Professor Anke S. Kessler’s draft paper on the effect of Robocalls on the 2011 election.It reminded me that I had run a series of posts from 2008-2010 on voter suppression and it’s effects on elections. These posts can be found here. I still find this one
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Coward Rob Ford Leaves Chaos In His Wake
Today, Toronto mayor Rob Ford bolted and ran when he saw that he could not win the day. He left a fractured and confused City Hall in his wake. This mayor is finding by not working to gain a consensus, by not being willing to listen to reason, by not
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Politics of Conservatives is Big Business
Within two months Canada’s ruling Conservative Party rejected government intervention in one labour dispute and leapt at the chance to intervene in another. In January a manufacturing plant owned by Electro-Motive Diesel, a private company that had received millions in government tax breaks announced it was laying off 450 employees.
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