We are being asked to believe that the same Harper who had our public servants roaming Canada counting and then reporting to him, on a weekly basis, the number of Economic Action Plan signs that were in place in preparation for the election, did not check to see if the
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: “[F]ocus, so, um, global dominion”–The Cry Hollywood defined?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission. People are looking forward to the Cry Hollywood, a prayer event for Hollywood, led by Canada’s very own Faytene Grasseschi. Her own organizers have booked the 6,000 seat Gibson amphitheatre. Universal City in Los Angeles for March for their prayer event
Continue readingknitnut.net: The Ottawa Citizen needs a new website
The Ottawa Citizen needs a new website. The current one is way more frustrating than any website should be in 2012. It’s intermittently slow and unresponsive, and if you watch the status bar, you can see that it’s choking on layers of advertising. It’s waiting for things to be delivered
Continue readingPample the Moose: Robocalls – Guelph at the centre of the maelstrom
Well, it’s not quite how and why I’d like to see my current hometown in the news, but if it helps expose corruption from the 2011 election, I won’t complain. It would appear that the automated phone calls here in Guelph on election day 2011 were what triggered the main
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Self Inflicted Wounds
With the return of Parliament, today was the first chance for the opposition to put the Tories’ feet to the fire on Robocon. Instead, it was the Liberals who would up burning themselves with the admission that a Liberal staffer was behind Vickileaks. In scheme of things, the Vickileaks saga
Continue readingcmkl: Lessons three days in a row
Lately Mallory’s been quite sensitive and unhappy around her lessons. I know parents agonize about how much structured activity to give their kids outside of school and I guess Irene and I are just getting into it. We see all these things we think it’d be great if she could
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in the spirit of a movement in which they
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in the spirit of a movement in which they
Continue readinggay persons of character: Video: Why are you protesting against Israel?
What I like about this video is the way in which it brings things down to one question, whose multiple answers are demystified, one by one. Beyond the specific subject of Israel, the video encourages thinking, something that some protesters, caught in…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Iqaluit fire leaves dozens of people homeless as temperatures near -50C
http://natpo.st/zwB6of By Nunatsiaq News Firefighters Monday were still on the scene of a terrible fire in downtown Iqaluit overnight which devastated a 22-unit block of row houses, leaving dozens of people homeless as temperatures dipped below -48 C with the wind chill. Volunteers were coordinating to set up donation drop
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Schmidt: Government-made consumer awareness tool dropped thanks to Big Telecom lobbying
We’ve recently made significant headway in our Stop Online Spying campaign—Bill C-30 is finally getting the media coverage it deserves and Canadians are engaging both online and off in this fight for online privacy. Meanwhile, (as is well known) Canadians continue to be gouged by their cellphone providers. Are you
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Robocalls: Let’s fund The Dirty Seven counter attack
Once more our democratic traditions and rights are under attack by people who would deprive Canadians of the rights that men and women have died to protect. Let us not take this meekly. Let us fight to defend our country, our Parliament, and the rights of our Canadian citizens to
Continue readingFusing and Musing: Vetted by Facebook?
In an age where the “online spying” and “indefinite detention” become tools by the government to suppress the population and create fear of dissent, I have become completely convinced that I am being vetted by Facebook. I have recently returned from the beautiful Caribbean coast of Honduras. I visited Copan
Continue readingthe woodshed: More surprising news!
A Liberal party staffer has admitted to being behind the @Vikileaks30 campaign on Twitter. As observed at the time, apparently it is okay for Vic Toews to push a bill he hasn’t read that would allow warrentless access to Canadians’ internet usage and history, but repeating already published information about
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vikileaks and the Great Distraction
I was disappointed to see Bob Rae apologize to Vic Toews today for the Vikileaks campaign. Not because of the apology itself, which was the decent act of a decent progressive. But because he didn’t ask Toews to also apologize unequivocally for calling opponents of the fascist bill C-30 supporters of
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Micah Goldberg: How bad was this week for the Conservative Government?
It was bad. It was really bad. It was the worst week the Conservatives have had since they became a Majority Government. Bill C-30, the “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” allows the Government and Canadian authorities to track the digital footprint of Canadian citizens without a warrant in situations
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Cost over-runs and delays in Placentia #nlpoli
On Monday, the provincial public works department put a limit on the size of trucks that can go over the left bridge at Placentia. This came after someone inspected the bridge. Interestingly enough, the same department had a tender call out last May to replace the bridge they just put
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Compare And Contrast
The LPoC owns up; the CPoC stonewalls. Worst part is Kinsella was right and we’ll never hear the end of it.
Continue readingBlunt Objects: How Far Does the Rabbit Hole Go with Adam Carroll?
I didn’t think of this in my last post (which is why he’s paid to do this, and I’m not), but Kinsella is right. It’s highly unlikely that it was solely Adam Carroll who set up, then did all the work associated with the Vikileaks30 account and Vic Toews’ divorce
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: How the GOP candidates choose who to attack
Ron Paul: There has been a lot of buzz recently about the fact that Ron Paul, while viscously attacking his other opponents, seems to give Ron Paul a free pass. And vice versa. ThinkProgress has a count which shows that Ron Paul has, despite 20 debates and 39 attacks on other
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