Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he acted alone. Give me a break. Sona, in the background during Ezra Levant’s sponsorship of Ann Coulter, is a product
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: What Does Romney Believe?
Things have not been going well for Mitt Romney. His speech in Detroit fell flat. And, this week, he made yet another gaffe. On the subject of the economy, he diverged radically from Republican doctrine. Cutting spending, he said, was a simplistic solution to America’s problems: If you just cut,
Continue readingFar and Wide: Outrageous
While we focus on robocalls, there is another story on the political radar, one that is simply an outrageous ABUSE of power, that puts the impartiality of the military into question: Defence Minister Peter MacKay almost ran from a military conference Friday morning as he dodged questions about emails that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Attack of the Theocrats!
Sean makes some great points, let me reiterate them. Why are parents allowed to watch their child die because they believe in magic? Christian Science and faith healing are utter bullshite and yet they continue to torture children, often to death, because of their mysticism. The Christian Right then
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
I’m hanging out at the Food Matters Manitoba: Growing Local Conference today. Please find me if you’re there – I’ll be sporting a large “350.org” button. And if you’re not, hope you’re enjoying a relaxing weekend with family and friends. Just for fun, here’s a video my daughter Emma shared
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Crippled General Laid Bare
That is the phrase Star columnist Royson James uses to describe Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Even if you live nowhere near the city, his analysis of power misused and abused makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the mentality and tactics of the right-wing. Recommend this Post
Continue readingImpolitical: A pause on the internet surveillance bill?
So reports the Globe late last night: “Ottawa hits pause on Web surveillance act.” The Harper government is temporarily parking controversial legislation that would grant new powers to authorities to police the Internet while it consults on how to rewrite it to assuage privacy concerns among Canadians and within caucus.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: An energy strategy or tunnel vision #nlpoli
For those who may have seen natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy’s handful of tweets selectively paraphrasing bits of the American president’s speech, here’s the whole thing, via whitehouse.gov. Take a few minutes and listen to the speech. Read the transcript. The context of Obama’s words are important if you want
Continue readingMore than just robo-calls
The investigation into the robo-calling has expanded into other harassing phone calls that happened during the election, which targeted at least 14 different Liberal ridings. (The Toronto Star, mind you, reported much of this back in April). It seems that Elections Canada already dropped at least one investigation into potentially misleading calls during the last
Continue readingRobo or Real Call…..Systematic is NOT Sonamatic
ItTakesAnArmyOfSegrettis ToWhackEveryoneVille Recapping…. Sun News pre-empts all the other media one day, and at the same time identifies/elevates the profile a staffer who’s name is served up by a Conservative Party ‘investigation’ into its own alleged election irregularities . And the next day said staffer, who has become a national
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: 17th Century France in 3D
Hundreds of years before the advent of satellite photography and Google Earth, French monarchs used detailed scale models to micromanage their realm… Not only is it fascinating these intricate models of cities and forts would have been commissioned in the first place, but quite amazing they’ve actually been preserved intact
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Government to Stall the Online Spying Bill
openmedia_logo.jpg OpenMedia.ca warns delay may be “a hollow gesture” designed to wait out the outcry February 25, 2012 – The government announced today that they will delay the next step toward passing their controversial online spying bill. Grassroots group OpenMedia.ca—which led the charge against the bill with their Stop Online
Continue readingQueer-liberal: Horrifying: ‘Alta. doctors bill province for treating homosexuality’
Alberta, why must you always disappoint us?…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Contempt
As we learn more about the robocall scandal, the magnitude gets bigger and bigger, and the contempt of the Harper Conservatives for the Canadian people becomes more and more obvious. Even Andrew Coyne is utterly disgusted There were not a few calls: there were thousands. They did not occur in
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Robocall Roundup
Robocalls A pre-recorded message with a female voice, in both French and English, claimed to be calling on behalf of Elections Canada. This message directed voters in ridings across the country to the wrong polling stations. RackNine Inc. — used by many Conservative Party of Canada candidates — has confirmed its
Continue readingTerahertz: The Cons found a scapegoat
It seemed pretty obvious when Harper claimed no knowledge of the Robocon scandal that someone in the Conservative party would quickly have to take the fall. Guelph staffer Michael Sona took that fall today, despite a lack of any “public evidence” that he was involved. I doubt this will be
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Permaculture Presentation at Cathedral Community Centre
Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture. Quit his old job when he was preparing to take down trees to put in natural gas pipeline. Got a video on YouTube called Greening the Desert. Changed the course of his life. Was a Greenie in the closet at that time. Story of B.
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Yes: “We work too hard, we think too much…” Have a good night!
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4270…A&E’s Intervention
Is it wrong for me to watch Intervention to feel better about myself? No matter how bad things are going for me things are always going better for me than for the feature on Intervention. It is a nice pick me up.WFDS
Continue readingRobocons go live
Robofraud was not the only voter suppression technique linked to the Conservatives during the last election campaign. Investigative journalists Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor have just reported on a bank of live callers who operated in fourteen ridings, mostly hard-fought ones in Southern Ontario. Their task? To harass Liberal voters
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