It is similar to what is happening at St. Paul’s in Ottawa. Sandra Fluke is a 30 year old student at Georgetown University, a Roman Catholic University in Washington, District of Columbia. On Henri Richard’s birthday, February 29, 2012, a controversy erupted regarding her and the loud mouth Tory [they
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To Be Fair
What’s “fair” in politics. Is is necessary to do everything you’ll say you do, and nothing of what you say you won’t and don’t like? A clear cut answer would be, “Yes.” Politics is not clear cut, unfortunately, because it is the process of determining power, and who holds it
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canadian Deindustrialization
I thought I had been reading Jim’s posts carefully enough, but I was still kind of stunned when I did a quick stat check to respond to a comment on my earlier post on globalization and unions. In 2000, manufacturing output (in constant 2002 dollar terms) amounted to $188.9 Billion.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Forum choices should be respected
Momentous.ca Corp. v. Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball Ltd., 2012 SCC 9 holds that, where parties have selected a forum to resolve disputes they should, generally, be held to that choice. Unless there is “strong cause” to displace the forum that the parties have agreed should resolve their dispute,
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Sledgehammer against refugees
In recent days Jason Kenney, the federal immigration minister, has proposed tightening some of the rules regarding refugee claims. I have these thoughts. First, it is true that there are some who come here just for our generous welfare benefits — in fact they have been known to ask at
Continue readingChristy’s Right Hand Man Cares About What Diploma Mill Makers Do
AllTheDonorsWithTheirHandsOut GetWhatTheyNeedVille Yup, that’s right. It’s Bloy. Harry Bloy. Again. (Hint: look for the money quote, which is ‘People care about what we do.‘) .
Continue readingTransfats, ANGRY BAIRDS!
Honest, a study came out about the effects of transfats and aggressive behaviour. "If the association between trans fats and aggressive behaviour proves to be causal, this adds further rationale to recommendations to avoid eating trans fats, or including them in foods provided at institutions like schools
Continue readingA well-deserved slap in the chops
…to the greasy, deceitful Con man Dean Del Mastro. There will be no McCarthyite replay anytime soon at the amusingly-named House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, which made the decision to summons Adam “Vickileaks” Carroll in camera. He will come when he’s good and
Continue readingNew from the right, stickers that read: "Don’t Re-Nig in 2012"
Whatever gave you the impression the right was racist and anti-Semitic? How silly of you.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: How Secure Was CIMS and Your Data?
Sixth Estate has learned that if Pierre Poutine had just asked nicely (or bribed the right people?), they could have had a duplicate copy of CIMS, potentially. It’s not clear if this would be a complete copy, or information only for a local riding. Why is this very important? See
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yeah….
… that’s pretty much it. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,
(Credit: huntinglegends.com) Why do you justify killing big game animals on safari by calling yourselves hunters and by claiming that the kill can feed a village for a month? You are not hunters, boys. You role play as hunters. You have no idea what it is to truly live in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Crass Manipulation About Iran’s Nuclear Intentions
Those who believe that the public is being as crassly manipulated about Iran as it was by the lies that served as prologue to the Iraqi invasion will find two recent articles of interest. The first, entitled No defensible reasons to attack Iran, by Gwynne Dyer, pierces many of the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If You Thought This War Was Futile Before
It’s safe to assume we, the West, are in the final phase of our hapless war in Afghanistan. We have made a real difference over the past decade. Unfortunately the negative differences may outnumber, outweigh and, worst of all, outlast the positive. And the ratio of positives to negatives for
Continue readingG20: Another thug in blue identified
Toronto police officer Oliver Simpson is the fellow kicking protesters in the well-known photograph, above. Sounds like he was having a good day all around. Could Ontario’s relatively new Office of the Independent Police Review Director, which fell down miserably at the start, actually be developing a spine? [H/t]
Continue readingThe Alberta Advantage—for men only?
It seems the famous Alberta Advantage doesn’t apply to women. Alberta lags all other provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador in women’s wage parity with men. According to a report issued by the Parkland Institute and the Alberta College of Social Workers, in Canada as a whole women’s wages for full-year,
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: The Argosy nearly triples its one day visit record due to "Truro Sevens: Rugby Uncensored and Uncut"
Checking up on the Analytics for the Argosy today I was pretty surprised to find this: It shows not only the highest one day increase in visits to the website but a new second highest record today (so far). Before yesterday the highest days were: 1. 498 Wednesday February 15
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Parliament to debate abortion in April (and Jim Hughes declares the Canadian war on women’s reproductive rights)
Conservative Party backbencher Stephen Woodworth has put forward a motion that will result in a debate in Parliament on abortion in the guise of “when life begins,” in April. This debate is tentatively scheduled for Monday, April 26th, and will call for the creation of a special committee dominated by Conservatives.
Continue readingThe PQ’s nasty streak
Once again, the hérouxvilliste wing of the Parti Québécois has come to the fore, and disgraced what is left of that party’s reputation as a mildly progressive political formation. Now it’s chickens. More specifically, it’s halal chickens, birds slaughtered according to Muslim ritual. The values of les québécois pure laine—and
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: To Encourage the Others #nlpoli
Lots of people look to leaders in a crisis to see what lessons they can learn. Well, Kathy Dunderdale is special. She is an excellent example for any leader – political or not – who wants to know how not to handle a major financial problem. The Telegram editorial on
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