…on the question of how we should be dealing with Harper and his caucus on the question of state intervention into the most private personal aspects of womens’ lives. Our CPC Government has taken to playfully allowing certain MPs to mouth off about their desire to roll back womens’ rights
Continue readingWhat does it take to capture a petty thief in West Vancouver?
One dog team. One commandeered citizen car Vancouver police department West Vancouver police department One can’t help wonder how many serious crimes were being committed during this live Keystone Kops adventure. The 36-year-old was eventually brought down on West Hastings Street near Broughton Avenue. A search turned up a Play Station
Continue readingConservative Senator Irving Gerstein removes Liberal and only woman Vice-Chair since Confederation, 17-year member Céline Hervieux-Payette
Shocking is right. But par for the course when it comes to heavy-handed Conservatives. I love the part how Gerstein blacked out “his motion, the debates and the vote”. Transparency? Free society? Guess again. Emphasis mine. Ottawa, February 9, 2012 – Yesterday, Senator Irving Gerstein, the new Chair of the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4198…Thank You Captain Obvious
Captain Obvious would be Tory and Essex MP Jeff Watson. Mr. Watson’s Windsor office was occupied for a couple of hours yesterday by retired Canadian Auto Workers Union members who are pissed that the Stephen Harpers are f*cking with them. Mr. Watson told CBC News he considers the act a
Continue readingAnother Northern Gateway Pipeline Update
Sometimes, the regina mom wonders why she bothers to write her long blogposts, when others do it excellently with a short quote and video or are capable of piecing together a few headlines about the HarperCons’ visit to China, the trade trip on which the Enbridge CEO has accompanied the
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4197…Michael Harris CFRA Fired
Media is so f*cked in Canada, especially radio and TV. A case in point would be the gassing of Michael Harris of Michael Harris Live on CFRA in Ottawa. CFRA is the go to heritage station for news and information in Ottawa and Mr. Harris was the only objective person
Continue readingCalgary Herald peddles abortion lies
Abortion connected to breast cancer? No way, except in the tiny febrile minds of “pro-life” propagandists—like the Calgary Herald’s Susan Martinuk. It’s time to put this lie—for lie it is—to rest. Here is Martinuk: For the past 15 years, there’s been a growing controversy over the link between induced abortion
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: How bizarre
A tweet responding to this week’s column post raises a point worth plenty more discussion. So let’s go into a bit more detail about how the Sask Party’s response to should indeed be considered utterly bizarre – even if it may reflect standard operating procedure for right-wing political parties. By
Continue readingStephen Woodworth Makes a Comeback
Much to my annoyance, Woodworth didn’t go away. I really did hope that he would, but given his pre-Xmas efforts to reignite the “debate” on women’s rights failed, he’s back for some more. “Don’t accept any law that says some human beings are not human beings! […] It’s because each of you is a
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Salem Harbor Enforced Shutdown: The Beginning of the End for Old Coal in New England
coal-wall.jpg This is a guest post by N. Jonathan Peress, VP and Director, Clean Energy and Climate Change, Conservation Law Foundation (CLF). It originally appeared on CLF's blog. On February 6, 2003 then-Governor Mitt Romney stood in front of the Salem Harbor Power Plant in historic Salem Massachusetts and,
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Earworm
Hungry as an archway through which the troops have passed I stand in ruins behind you With your winter clothes, your broken sandal strap Take this longing from my tongue And all the useless things these hands have done Let … Continue reading →
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-02-10 17:15:00
LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: ANNUAL WOMEN’S MEMORIAL MARCH: Coming up this February 14 (next Tuesday Valentine’s Day) Winnipeg’s annual March for Murdered and Missing Women. Here’s the invite.♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Annual Women’s Memorial March of Manitoba Tuesday, February 14, 2012.5:30pm until 7:30pm.. To stand together united as one strong voice, for those who are
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: “Obock Obama”
Wearing a matching sweater vest, Foster Friess, the billionaire investor backing Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s frothy campaign to be Theocrat-in-Chief of the Free World, introduces his pet candidate at CPAC 2012: After opening with a mildly amusing joke at the expense of Mitt Romney, Friess goes on to observe
Continue readingMore Evidence That Ms. Clark Cannot Add.
SnookiDon’tDoNoMath TheSituationVille Remember how we took issue with the following statement from British Columbia’s current (not)Premier when she used it as a rationale to give $125,000 to Geoff Plant’s former man Friday to write a report about how what’s going on with our justice system? Clark said criminal caseloads and
Continue readingImpolitical: Canadian Foreign Policy Journal issue on the F-35
This morning I had a humorous item up on the F-35 brouhaha that occurred in the House of Commons yesterday. The superficial political excitement was focused on this statement from Conservative Julian Fantino: Fantino said a recent report criticizing the purchase in the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal was “critical of
Continue readingFlat Earthers, here’s an event you don’t want to miss. Breakfast with Rex Murphy.
You have to wonder about these big-time charitable foundations. Last week we discovered that the much-heralded Susan G. Komen Foundation was nothing but a front for rabid right wingers and Republican henchmen. Now I see the Heart & Stroke Foundation here in Vancouver is hosting a breakfast with Rex “Never
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Response and Irresponsibility #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The premier whose government was responsible for directing the search effort for a young boy in Makkovik is now calling for an investigation into the actions of the people who weren’t responsible for the search. From CBC: Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier is calling for a review of the military’s role
Continue readingMorton's Musings: What noted Ontario judge played in Love Story (1970)?
Justice Durno. He played a goalie.
Continue readingIn self-defence
…may I and the rest of the 60% who voted against Harper in 2011 fire warning shots over the heads of Conservative cabinet ministers?
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: Negotiate, don’t legislate
With the appointment of a so-called “fact finder”, the BC government is apparently orchestrating its plan to legislate BC teachers and impose a contract. I say “so-called” because the government has appointed one of their own…we cannot expect any serious, independent report from an appointed government bureaucrat. He is not
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