The latest couple of days worth of news as the NDP’s leadership campaign enters its final week – aside from multiple candidates including Niki Ashton, Paul Dewar and Peggy Nash all taking the opportunity to call for unity in the wake of the continued overreaction to Ed Broadbent’s latest comments.
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: St-Patrick’s Day: It’s About Immigrants, Not Irishness
Full article here: http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=926774&f=28&sub=Contributor It's About Immigrants, Not IrishnesssBy PETER BEHRENSMarch 2012 On this side of the Atlantic, St. Patrick's Day has become a boisterous, often bogus, celebration of America's Irish roots. For most, the holiday is an excuse to drink, and perhaps pinch people who aren't wearing green. But
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: The Economics of Salmon Farms, Oil Pipelines and Natural Gas
Even without considering the environmental costs and risks of producing and transporting oil and gas, opening our markets to Asia and elsewhere is an unwise strategy for British Columbians and Canadians. The oil and gas industry should be jubilant at the prospects of pipelines and tankers. But everyone else in
Continue readingIf You Were Paying Attention To The News You Could See The Suppression Happening In Real Time
WasItAllJustTheCostOfDoingBusiness WinningElectionsVille In the wake of Terry Milewski’s blockbuster CBC report of deliberate attempts to defraud voters in 31 ridings earlier this week, North Van’s Grumps, with a little help from Dave, discovered that two voters from opposite ends of the country made a bit of a fuss about this
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: The Crime Was Trying, Not Succeeding
Del Mastro may be medicated. Stupid medication! A legislator should know better how the law works. “Intent, not outcome, is the basis for criminality“ We mostly all laugh at those stories of stupid criminals who break into stores with cameras that catch them, then while trying to flee with only
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: So Illinois?
In Irder for Santorum to have any chance to stop Romney from getting 1144. He will need to win over big states and mid western states. Illinois is one of the states Santorum needs to win if he still wants to win the nomination. Now if Romney wins today he
Continue reading350 or bust: Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap
This Saturday gem comes from creative folks over at The Tyee: Why is everybody all bitchin’ bout the bitumen? Don’t you like rich men turnin’ into richer men? Solomon, whose agenda you followin? Typical liberal lamestream politics! Crackdown in Iran? Those Ayatollahs should park it! Monks burnin’ in Sichuan? well
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: There is a pattern here, Canada!
Deny, deny, deny, deny, deny! Drag through the courts — on the Canadian taxpayers’ dime — for 5.5 years! And then… The Conservative Party of Canada admitted to illegal campaign advertising tactics. The Conservative Party of Canada plead guilty to Elections Canada Act violations.
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: A current book about how we are doing (not very well)
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse, David W. Orr – January 2012 Singled out as “one of the country”s leading environmental thinkers” by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: A current book about how we are doing (not very well)
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse, David W. Orr – January 2012 Singled out as “one of the country”s leading environmental thinkers” by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how
Continue readingThe Left Stuff: A current book about how we are doing (not very well)
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse,
David W. Orr – January 2012
Singled out as “one of the country”s leading environmental thinkers” by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how we got here, and what we must now do. Orr shows how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point. We now face a long emergency of rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, and a host of other related problems that will increasingly undermine human civilization. Down to the Wire is a major wake-up call.
But this is not a doomsday book. Orr offers a wide range of pragmatic, far-reaching proposals – some of which have already been adopted by the Obama administration – for how we might reconnect public policy with rigorous science, bring our economy into alignment with ecological realities, and begin to regard ourselves as planetary trustees for future generations.
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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Who Watches Sun News Network?
Still in the mood to gloat, I am happy to report that the answer seems to be almost no one, although it is hard to pin down numbers with precision, owing to the fact that the Bureau of Broadcast Measurements only measures the top 30 shows in Canada, a criterion
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Robocon Scandal is more widespread than previously thought…
I maintain that if even one voter in these ridings was intimidated/misdirected/misinformed by these robocalls — that’s one too many! These robocalls are grounds “for a f*cking huge investigation”! The Robocon Scandal is more widespread than previously thought… New phone records show that robocalls targeted voters in ridings all across
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bank of America Takes Rolling Stone Pounding
Holy crap! Rolling Stone tears limbs from the zombie Bank of America. You probably won’t read a more blistering, or researched condemnation of the 1% “Royalty” that literally has the state paying billions for the crimes of a few men it refuses to send to jail. BoA is one big
Continue readingBeannachtam na Feile Padraig!
Happy St. Paddy’s! Having been attacked by savage sciatica after a couple of days of splitting and stacking firewood, for me the obligatory annual Joyous Irish Jig will have to wait til at least Ostara. But don’t let that stop you… …and when you’re done dancing here, stop in at
Continue readingImpolitical: Seabiscuit?
“We’re right on their heels.” Somebody’s having fun! As elections should be.
Continue readingRemember When Mr. Hochstein Tried To Scare Us With The Spectre Of ‘The Lists’
ADataBaseIsNotADemocracy List-O-RamaLlamaDingDongVille Remember this? ….”We want people to be aware of the involvement of NDP and Labour, and the consequences for their personal information,” Hochstein said. “People who don’t want their name to end up on a door knocking list for the next election only have one way to guarantee
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Vancouver: Community March Against Racism
COMMUNITY MARCH AGAINST RACISMCelebrate our courage! Sunday, March 18th, 2012 at 2pm.Starting at Clark Park (Commercial and 14th)Ending at Grandview Park (Commercial and Charles)Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories Family-friendly festivities! Bring your neighbours, banners and drums! Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/386441891373362/Multilingual posters and flyers here: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=4674 March 21, the International Day for the
Continue readingAmericans primed for Iran attack
According to recent surveys, Americans are in a dovish mood on Syria and Afghanistan, but that mood is tempered by a hawkish attitude toward Iran. Two-thirds say the United States does not have a responsibility to interfere in the Syrian conflict. There is also strong opposition to bombing the Syrian
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