The intent may have been to push back against the Liberals, but the Conservatives’ ham-fisted approach is more likely to blow up in their own faces – or not, considering it may all simply be a campaign of misdirection under the protection of House privilege that they dare not repeat
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Support The Zzzzzz
What would we do without Rob Anders? Or, as he is referred to in this article, “Old Snoozy”. I wonder if on top of being tired, he was emotional too?
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Support The Zzzzzz
What would we do without Rob Anders? Or, as he is referred to in this article, “Old Snoozy”. I wonder if on top of being tired, he was emotional too?
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Support The Zzzzzz
What would we do without Rob Anders? Or, as he is referred to in this article, “Old Snoozy”. I wonder if on top of being tired, he was emotional too?
Continue readingCalgary conservative advocates murder of David Suzuki
Eliminationism at full throttle. Meet Richard Evans, sometime blogger, failed aldermanic candidate, with an odd fixation on NAMBLA. Calgary police have been notified. Not very bright, this guy.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Roboscam: How the courts can help voters find justice
We seem to have hit a roadblock in a prime minister who treats evidence of voter suppression cavalierly and instead stalls when asked to appoint an independent judicial commission to inquire into possible major breaches of the democratic rights of Canadian voters. By what measure can a prime minister
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Three CEOs in One Room: Walmart, Coca-Cola, Unilever
Some of the biggest CEOs in Canada come together for the Walmart Green Student Challenge. I took this rare opportunity to ask them: Where is sustainability going for Canadian industries? Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Unilever already share best practices for their common goals in sustainability. Now they want to see more
Continue readinggritchik: Tory MP, Rob Anders, aka “Old Snoozy”
The always stellar Anders slept through a committee presentation about helping homeless soldiers earlier this week. The president of Veterans Emergency Transition Services says the tired MP arrived late, texted for a bit and then proceeded to sleep through the rest of the meeting. This isn’t the first time Anders
Continue readingFar and Wide: Sheer Arrogance
I’m not sure what’s worse, having the stones to run self promotion ads for a budget that preaches austerity, cutting public service, or the fact the Conservatives will suffer little consequence. On a day when Harper blames the Liberals for the Election Canada’s investigation of the Conservatives, the following still
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Don’t overuse rhetoric
GasTOPS Ltd. v. Forsyth, 2012 ONCA 134 is an appeal following a trial lasting 295 days for breach of fiduciary duty, breach of confidence and breach of their contract of employment. In the appeal the court commented that rhetorical language in a factum was unhelpful. The case is a useful reminder that the
Continue readingRush Limbaugh calls young law student a "slut"
…no doubt after returning from another trip to the Dominican Republic. Not even in the land of the First Amendment can you defame someone to this degree. She’s in the right place to find help, too. A lawsuit should separate that fine conservative icon from a fair bit of his
Continue readingTrashy's World: EXCLUSIVE!!!!!
The CPC robot HQ has been FOUND! Here! The evil metal minions tried to escape detection but much arm-flailing and the repeated chant “DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!” made it rather easy for Trashy’s World investigators to track down. Film at 11. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingRegan Wolfrom: What the Fuck Is Wrong With You? Manitoba Liberals Edition
No, seriously… what the fuck is wrong with you? (Oh… apparently this post has foul language. We can deal with my personal issues later, though.) Backstory: here and here (good intentions or not, the damage was done and I believe a public apology for the apparent misunderstanding is the right
Continue readingHalf an Hour: What a MOOC Does – #Change11
Clark Quinn is asking where the further developments in MOOCs will come from, suggesting “he courses really require effective self-learners”, and I see today that Tony Bates continues this line of questioning: To what extent do MOOCs really change the nature of the game, and to what extent are they
Continue readingSo much for the Conservatives ‘support for the troops’. Rob Anders sleeps through veterans presentation.
Not the first time. Rob Anders sawing logs in Question Period. The veterans were not amused (emphasis mine). Veterans advocates are furious after they say a Conservative MP on the Commons veterans affairs committee slept through their presentation about efforts to help homeless former soldiers. Jim Lowther, president of Veterans Emergency
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CANADIAN LABOUR- THE MARITIMES: SUPPORT LOCKED OUT WORKERS AT ACADIAN COACH LINES: Last November workers at Acadian/ien Bus Lines in the Maritimes were locked out by their employer when they refused a concessionary contract offer. The workers involved have been locked out for three months, and they are asking supporters
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Bob Rae has 19 days to protect our democracy
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 19 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts to upset the results of the May 2 election in at least 27 ridings. And Bob Rae, having identified 27 ridings
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Attention Dean Del Mastro: Where Are You Getting Your Information?
This accusation: Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, pointed out however that Mr. Volpe’s own riding spent money on voter-support call firms such as Prime Contact. It has offices in North Dakota. OK… This is the firm that Joe Volpe and other Liberal candidates
Continue readingCuriosityCat: An American’s view of Canada’s voter suppression
He knows all about dirty tricks, and he is surprised: |In a more recent example, Cummins recalls the 2000 presidential primary in South Carolina, where George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove’s operatives made phone calls to Republicans claiming that Bush rival John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black
Continue readingGlobe & Mail dips its toes into Robogate
Globe & Mail editorial office The Globe & Mail, that dusty old Miss Havisham of a newspaper, has been notably silent on the Robogate scandal, dancing around it like a wounded Dervish. It has yielded the floor to another Conservative publication, the National Post of all papers, to take the
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