‘Half Head Man’ …but you will watch anyway!
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Time to Zip John Baird’s Loose Lips
It is hard to credit the latest statements and actions by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. On both Iran and Israel Baird seems to almost deliberately seek to humiliate both himself and the country he is supposed to represent on the international stage. Taking an ultra-orthodox rabbi (whose organization opposes
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sun TV’s Alex Pierson On Tabloid Journalism
Given the station’s sleaziness, Sun TV’s Alex Pierson, in high dudgeon over the Twitter ‘attacks’ on poor Vic Toews, has an especially rich comment about ‘tabloid journalism’ at about the 3:15 minute mark on this video. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Rick Salutin On Happiness
Our self-absorbed society could do worse than read Rick Salutin’s thoughts on the pursuit of happiness found in today’s Star. Recommend this Post
Continue reading350 or bust: Heartland Institute Funded By Fossil Fuel Interests To Work Against Public Interest
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here’s one that gives some background about so-called “think tanks” and their anti-science, climate change denial agenda. These guys cut their teeth on denying/suppressing/ridiculing the science demonstrating that cigarette smoking caused cancer (see Fake Science, Fakexperts, Funny Finances, Free of Tax) and
Continue readingwmtc: in which i call rogers to check on my disconnect order
Further to the saga of dumping Rogers, this morning I ordered internet service through TekSavvy. (I had already called for information on how to switch and called Rogers to cancel my service.) The customer service rep was friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. I wasn’t 100% certain of my disconnect date with
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: A Nasty, Medically Unnecessary, Coercive Procedure
This is just grostesque: A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, despite bitter yet futile objections from Democrats, with one GOP delegate deriding most of the procedures as “matters of lifestyle convenience.” You want to put what where? [SNIP]
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: one week. too many tweets. two apologies.
Loose tweets sink fleets With Alberta’s pre-election season in full-swing, molehills are becoming mountains and politicians are clinging to any issue they believe could help them score political points. Kicking off this past week, Municipal Affairs Minister Doug Griffiths announced that Progressive Conservative MLAs would boycott an annual breakfast hosted by
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Global TV featured infamous hate monger speaking for a phantom group
REPLAY, from August 2010, worth reading again to consider if the situation has improved or degraded in the last 18 months. The most effective critic of news media in British Columbia’s today is Harvey Oberfeld. He has particular qualifications since he spent his career in print and broadcast journalism. Indeed,
Continue reading@vikileaks30 originating from House of Commons? Dipper? Paul Simon fan? Toews to investigate.
This is interesting. No doubt the enabler of quotes from Vic Toews’ personal divorce and spending history on Twitter will eventually be outed. The Ottawa Citizen did a little exploring and found the IP address used by the Tweet author originates in the House of Commons. Also, there is a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Guest Post: Principled conservatives against online spying
*Note the letter below was sent out to online community members of principled conserveratives online forum The Free Dominion. At the request of our conservative supporters, OpenMedia.ca has provided a tool for conservatives to reach out to their MPs as supporters of the party. Everyone can also contact there MP
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Fishery reform: the deeper story #nlpoli
NTV’s Thursday report on Loyola Sullivan focused on the union protests and accusations of a conflict of interest from Liberal Jim Bennett. But the more interesting news on Thursday came from Michael Connors’ tweets about Sullivan’s speech to the employer’s council. Sullivan is now talking about the economic problems in
Continue readingYAY! Team Lets Hammer Them Some More
I’ve found it extremely nauseating to engage in my favourite pastime of reading newspapers these past few days. Their cheerleading for Drummonds all too predictable evisceration of Ontario’s civil society has been and continues to be relentless. Why given the amount of ink dedicated to this neoliberal blueprint for enriching
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: Online spying bill has an Orwellian feel
Without your efforts at spreading the word about this invasive new online spying bill, it would have likely sailed smoothly through the House of Commons. Your voices are echoing through the halls of Parliament—let’s keep up the charge. Email your MP about online spying here: http://openmedia.ca/mp Article by Terry Milewski
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: EI Shrank by 100,000 in 2011
Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians receiving Employment Insurance rose by 4,230 in December, a month in which unemployment rose by 6,100. The proportion of unemployed workers receiving benefits remained below 39% (i.e. 544,720 beneficiaries out of 1.4 million unemployed). Although December saw relatively little change in
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: We Have The Fraser Institute, They Have the Heartland Institute
Adding the word ‘institute’ into one’s ‘think-tank’, a measure devised to give the patina of legitimacy to what is frequently simply a right-wing propaganda machine, is nothing new, given their ubiquity on both sides of the border, the Fraser Institute and the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Canada, the American Enterprise
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: A time to speak up, a time to shut up
Someone should remind the Syrian charge d’affairs that Syria was invited to participate in the O’Connor Inquiry that examined the details surrounding the rendition and detention of Maher Arar. At the time the Syrians had nothing to say on the subject. They should probably keep it that way. And that’s
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So What Does Larry Miller Think of Jason Kenney’s Hitler-Like Move?
‘Walking past the hundreds of stately Somali refugees lined up outside the gates of the UN High Commission for Refugees here in Nairobi — men in tidy shirts and slacks, women in baby blue, fuchsia or copper chadors — the pasty face of Jason Kenney floats into my mind. Later,
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, February 17, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, February 17, 2012: Rick Vaive did not drink and drive, former Leaf teammate testifies Vancouver Stanley Cup rioter gets 17 months in jail Anti-abortion “personhood” bill clears Oklahoma senate (Steve Olafson/Reuters) Supreme Court to rule on Quebec
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Return Of The Psychic Hairdresser
Reading this, you have to figure that Michelle Muntean is still on the payroll: OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper had already made the decision to kick a controversial cyber crime bill to committee even before Opposition howled because he sensed a public backlash was rolling his way, QMI Agency
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