Peter Mckay affirmed that his government will buy the F-35 fighter jets. Peter Mckay stated that his government won’t spend a penny more then they are suppose to. We are of course suppose to trust this, even though the cost of the fighter jets went from 18 billion to 30
Continue readingRobogate will test the mettle of the opposition
The opposition, especially the formerly powerful Liberals, deserves a lot of blame for Canada’s fall from grace. The left and centre-left parties allowed the Conservatives to lie and cheat their way into a majority. With Roboscam, the opposition has everything it needs to begin the dismantling of the Conservatives. Is
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
“I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will be still rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Meet Matt Meier (Of RackNine)
Matt thinks the NDP has defamed him, and has fired off some legal paper-work. Given Matt’s links to the Harper Gov., it isn’t surprising that these documents have wound up in the hands of Stephen Taylor.
Continue readingScientific American’s John Horgan should be fired
Scientific American is a respected journal of science. Why it publishes the ridiculous rantings of an anti-science flat earther is beyond me. But this John Horgan, apparently a teacher or professor, is an climate change denier dream. Read this article where he blames the whistle blower for not blowing his
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Andrew Weaver on the Tar Sands
Last week, world-renowned University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver, lead author of several IPCC reports, shocked friends and enemies alike by publishing an article in Nature Climate Change in which he makes an unexpected claim. He and co-author Neil Swart (a UVIC PhD student) find that Alberta’s Athabasca tar
Continue readingPaul from CAW voice of reason (or the title is something like that) on voter suppression/Robogate: "It’s the Libruls’ fault!"
You knew this was coming. Some Blogging Tory scab blames the whole voter suppression scandal on … guess who .. the Liberals!!! H/T: CK
Continue readingExponential Book: Disappearance of blogs
I do not have the time to read regularly all the blogs to which I have established links, on my own blog. As a result, sometimes months go by without me reading them, and when I finally decide to catch up, I find out that they no longer exist, or
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Someone Told Me Long Ago, There’s a Calm Before the Storm
Source: CTV News: Rae Accuses Tories of ‘Dirty Tricks’ in Robocall ScandalSource: CBC News: Rae Claims ‘Robocalls’ Contributed to Liberal Candidates’ DefeatSource: CBC News: Conservative Staffer Resigns Amid Robocalls ProbeSource: CBC News: Damage-Control Bid Over MacKay Chopper Ride ‘Stupid’Source: CBC News: NDP Wants Ethics Probe of Tory Minister Christian Paradis
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Hoax Phone Calls Reported in 37 Ridings During 2011 Election
It’s become increasingly clear that there was not one effort to suppress votes during the 2011 election: there were several, some with robocalls, some with live callers, some with just plain idiots participating. Let me make a prediction: within the next couple of weeks, we will hear from several Conservatives
Continue readingWhen Dealing With Harper, It’s About Tone
Over the years many on the political left in Canada have been quick to demonize Harper as “the devil” or “out to destroy Canada”. Demonizing Harper is one sure-fire way to do several things A)Work to his advantage because he can easily say the opposition are emotional and over sensitive
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingPop The Stack: Harper’s Win-At-All-Costs Approach Led to Electoral Manipulation
The first wave of dust is settling from the revelation this week that a company hired by the Conservative party made fraudulent calls to voters trying to mislead them about voting day locations. We still don’t know how high up the decision was made to make these calls. I think we
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Why taxing food staples should not be considered a policy option in Canada
Here’s an excellent piece by Sam Boshra, about the recent proposal by Michael Smart and Jack Mintz to apply the GST to food, from Sam’s blog at Economic Justice: Low-income households can’t buy food today with a larger HST rebate they hope to get sometime in the future. A key objective
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Icky Ricky gets licky
Crappy weekend, everyone? Don’t you just love that .gif? I can’t seem to stop watching it, it exerts the strangest fascination. (Especially when set to music.) And just look at the color of that ice cream, too. Can he really not have known what would happen if he stuck that
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4275…Speaking Of Small Penises…
Jordan Lifander, come on down! In a story written by Dylan Stableford,The Sideshow on Thursday it revealed that CBSNewYork.com is telling the world that Mr. Lifander, a former Cedarhurst, Long Island volunteer firefighter, said this week that he was sorry for telling firefighters in the Palmetto State [South Carolina] that
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4274…Sarah Silverman Checks In
Maxim’s 74th hottest chick in the world opines that “I don’t think brains hear ‘I should get tattoo sleeves to go with my giant penis’ much.” That’s why I don’t have tattoos. Or a ‘vette. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4273…It Really Is Nixonian
Affair d’Robocop. Like the deal is the Tories in 2010 were going to win the election. Slam and dunk. Same as, with or without Watergate, Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew were going to crush George McGovern. Overkill. They, the Conservatives/Republicans, got greedy. “A Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen investigation based on interviews
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4272…Bullying Is Out Of Control
Not the actual bullying; all the whining about it. I know I sound insensitive but instead of having endless town meetings like the one CTVOttawa hosted Thursday night kids would be better off if they were taught to fight back and tell on their abusers. That is what bullying is.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Yas A., Kagan Goh and Carmen Aguirre: Monday at 6pm on COOP Radio
Monday night at 6pm on The Rational on COOP Radio [livestreamed], 102.7fm in/around Vancouver: Yas A with another instalment on Italian political song writers. Alnoor Gova interviews Kagan Goh and Imtiaz Popat about the world television premier of their documentary Stolen Memories on Sunday, March 4th at 9pm on OMNI
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