Thomas Mulcair has held the pole position from day one of the NDP’s leadership campaign, and only looks to have entrenched that status as the candidates behind him have focused largely on trying to make the final ballot. 1. What direction will he set for the NDP?And that’s much to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Star Continues Digging into Tory Voter Suppression Crimes
While Canada’s so-called newspaper of record continues doing only a perfunctory job in its coverage of the voter suppression crimes that may very well have affected the outcome of the last federal election, The Toronto Star continues to dig deeply and widely, bringing readers a very comprehensive picture of what
Continue readingwmtc: we like lists: lists of lists of lists
On our DIY top-ten list, M@ made a top-10 list of top-10 lists. David Weinberger, author of Everything Is Miscellaneous, takes it up a level, with a top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists! I haven’t read that book yet, but I probably will over the
Continue readingTrashy's World: When Harper raises the retirement age to 90…
… it will look like this. Harper’s vision of retirement… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue reading350 or bust: Going Local: A Powerful Strategy To Repair Our Fractured World, Our Ecosystems & Ourselves.
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Data: 81 Percent of Climate Deniers Think Scientists Are In It “For Their Own Interests"
logo_brookings.gif The Brookings Institution has a new report out on the public's views about global warming, and most commentators are going for the predictable headline. It's this: Following the post-ClimateGate decline in belief that global warming is happening, we're now seeing a bit of a rebound. More people believe the
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Problems on the home front
Everybody knew that Mission Control was a total tramp, but nobody had the heart to tell Sad Spaceman. Alltop likes directing from the ground too.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Great Gambols with Public Money: Muskrat Falls version #nlpoli #cdnpoli
While she is telling others to stand by for tough budgets and tight times, Premier Kathy Dunderdale is planning to spend more than $3.0 billion in accumulated oil surpluses to build the Muskrat Falls dam. Now that is no surprise to SRBP readers nor is it a surprise to people
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Election Tampering! MAYBE!
Elections can get ugly and in the last election it was apparently especially ugly. With constant amount of evidence showing that people in many ridings were called to lie about a polling station change. If it can be proven that enough people were disenfranchised from voting in a riding there can be by-election. Now
Continue readingImpolitical: In the robo-call affair, the law will work as intended
Oh for the love of…“In the robo-call affair, time and the law favour the Tories.” It’s not like it’s a mission or anything around here to blog about John Ibbitson columns, but if we must, a quick response. This column is mal-titled, for starters. Is that a word? Anyway, while
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Denialists In The Canadian Classroom
In the last couple of weeks, stories in the American media have appeared outlining how the Heartland Institute has been plotting to sneak climate change denialism onto the U.S. K12 curriculum. Unfortunately, we in Canada are way ahead of them. As I have noted previously, Tom Harris (once of the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Robocalls: Cui bono?
The robocalls needed major funding and information. They could have been done by wealthy outsiders with good intelligence but as always cui bono: John Ivison: Stephen Harper must show robocalls scandal is more incompetence than malice http://natpo.st/w3FbGd "If the orders didn't come from the top, could such a campaign have
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And this surprises you because…? #nlpoli
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is about what the social scientists – like political scientists, for example - would call clientelism. You may have heard it called patronage. Regardless of the word you use, the purpose is the same: That isn’t just about giving party workers government jobs. It’s basically
Continue readingHelena Guergis lesson to Michael Sona: you can’t fight ’em once they’ve thrown you under the bus
“Holy shit Helena, what do I do now?” “Shut up and eat it.” You have to feel for Michael Sona. We don’t know if he’s guilty or not, much in the same way we still don’t really know the facts about Helena Guergis’ fall from Conservative grace. Stephen Harper gave
Continue readingThe poutine connection
Today in Robocon revelations, court documents show a number of calls between the Conservative campaign office in Guelph with RackNine – the company that did the robo-calling – despite the fact that they had no expenses filed showing payments to said company. (Court filings can be found here). And more bizarrely, the burner
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Stratfor’s Suggested Strategy to Indict Assange
There has been no information to this point that has confirmed any US Government sources were physically harmed due to their participation in ratting to US Diplomats, and in turn having their words revealed by WikiLeaks through the Afghan leak, or subsequent The Guardian leak when they published the password
Continue readingL. Ian MacDonald wanks: "Even if there were robocalls, Stephen Harper won fair and square"
MacDonald relaxes at home I, L. Jymn Parrett, almost spit a mouth full of Cazadores over my PC reading that headline from Postmedia. The lede is just as good: “Dirty tricks are nothing new in politics. Sometimes they’re even part of the fun.” I realize that modern journalism is like
Continue readingDean Del Mastro Has a Sudden Case of Memory
The Robocall controversy that been front and center for the last few news cycles has been interesting to say the least. We now have about forty to fifty ridings that the NDP and Liberals have claimed were targeted by fake Elections Canada Robocalls, directing voters to the wrong pooling station. As well,
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: Occupy Ottawa – February 2012 Review
March 1, 2012 – This month at Occupy, will be published at the end of each Month and will be a synopsis of what’s taken place over the course of the month and some of …Read More
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