Conservatives on both sides of the border love to wail about how their right of ‘free speech’ is being curtailed. Yet it’s not clear to me at least what they are talking about. What is it that they want to say they can’t say now? Reading Conservative blogs one can
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Canadian Conservative – The Anti-Science Crusade Continues…
Hey, you in the lab coat. Stop your filthy science right now, I have policy to fabricate! If Steven Harper was a puppy, he would be getting a firm “NO” and a being ignored right now when it comes to his views on science and the dissemination of scientific knowledge
Continue readingThomas Mulcair Explains Youth Strategy
In this brief video from Huffington Post Canada Thomas Mulcair gives some insight into his strategy for not just increasing the parties presence among progressive voters but also details briefly how to get the youth demographic more engaged. Filed under: #ndpldr, Canada, Progressives Tagged: Thomas Mulcair
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Toronto Too Frightening A Venue For War-Mongerer
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Continue readingeaves.ca: Want to Find Government Innovation? US Military is often leading the way.
When it comes to see what trends will impact government in 20-30 years I’m a big fan of watching the US military. They may do lot of things wrong but, when it comes to government, they are on the bleeding edge of being a “learning organization.” It often feels like
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lives Well Lived
The other day while I was out having a fantastic day meeting new people, my Great Aunt Inez had passed away. I learned about her death when I returned home, and didn’t feel as sad as I expected I would, because she’d been unwell for more than a year after
Continue readingImpolitical: Elections Canada’s new Robocon hires
“Elections Canada hires 14 new ‘frontline’ staff to examine more than 31,000 complaints on voter suppression issue.” Ramping up staff, part of that flexing of whatever is needed: “The Commissioner of Canada Elections has the authority, during periods of high volume, to contract additional resources or call upon other law
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ongoing committee thoughts, and an RMR
I’m clearly not Rick Mercer, but I did my own Russell McOrmond Rant videos yesterday as part of my thoughts about meeting 10 of the Bill C-11 special legislative committee. I have been attending nearly all C-11 committee meetings, as I had done with bill C-32. read more
Continue readingTrashy's World: Wow!
Fifteen or so degrees above the normal max! Incredible. Shorts on Saturday! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Shoe Is On The Other Foot
OTTAWA — While it has aggressively slammed environmental groups for using foreign dollars to finance a small portion of their budgets, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government is being tight-lipped about revelations that climate change skeptics in Canada are getting money from an American think-tank with corporate funding. Another good piece
Continue readingImpolitical: Charitable activities?
Why hasn’t the Manning Centre’s charitable status gotten more attention? CRA’s own guidelines on political activities raise some interesting questions. For e.g., Under the Income Tax Act and in common law, an organization established for a political purpose cannot be a registered charity. The courts have determined political purposes to
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Lay-offs, Noseworthy and other things the Premier talked about #nlpoli
Listen closely and you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck of government comms as it backs up on the idea of laying off public sectors workers as a result of government’s “review” of programs and spending. Premier Kathy Dunderdale scrummed [link to CBC’s raw video]outside the House of
Continue readingThe dumbing down of Order Paper Questions
On an Order Paper question about the new Office of Religious Freedoms, the Conservatives replied to very specific questions with…some press release bumf. Seriously? Seriously? This is not good for our democracy, or the roles of MPs to hold government to account. If they can’t get answers to their questions, how are they
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn’t say #nlpoli
In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told the House of Assembly: Mr. Speaker, no one can argue that Mr. Noseworthy has a unique set of skills. Indeed no one can make such an argument. Former auditor
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
On a grey, wet, day in Harperland it wasn’t too hard to imagine myself in the last scene of The Planet of the Apes. Or imagine myself giving up blogging. For it was the worst of days. First there was this devastating blow Which means we might never know who
Continue readingThree things I wish heterodox economists would quit talking about
Number 1. Mainstream economics and heterodox economics To be consistent it should be homodox economics and heterodox economics. Those with routine knowledge of Latin would find nothing nefarious in such a distinction. Although we do have other names. Why not … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Opposing Labour & Other Bad Driving Habits
Nowadays people oppose strikes like they drive a car. It’s not about the all the people going forward anymore, it’s only about one person getting where they want to go. Decades ago when unions went on strike the average joes not only put up with it, they supported it; today
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Gay bashing in Uganda: Silence is not an option
BERNIE FARBER Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/gay-bashing-in-uganda-silence-is-not-an-option/article2367155/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Opinions&utm_content=2367155 As Canadians, we must be careful not to be lulled into complacency. After all, we live in a country that celebrates diversity, pluralism and acceptance. Canada was one of the first nations to legislate recognition of same-sex marriages. Sadly, many other places in the
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Talk About the Company He Keeps: Paul Fromm and Thomas Robb
We were sent the following by a friend: Thomas Robb became leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (this version being founded by David Duke) soon after Duke's predecessor Don Black (who now operates Stormfront) was sent to prison for the "Operation Red Dog" and after Robb was
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