…hasn’t happened before. Sightline-wise, it’s a helluva bad spot for buses coming on to the westbound Transitway. They do have to nose out to see if the way is clear in both directions if intending to get to the eastbound lanes of the Transitway. Add this to the high rate
Continue readingSpout Demonstrable Falsehoods….And You Too Can…
. …Win Big! “…I don’t believe breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization that does abortions where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortions…” Rick Santorum Falsely linking breast cancer to abortion one day… …On the first day of multiple nominating contests in the 2012 primary season, networks
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Every Man Woman And Child In B.C. Will Receive A Gold Plated Cowboy Hat
At a January meeting with her Alta. counterparts, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said what’s obvious: …[she] bluntly told Ms. Redford that public opinion is against the [Northern Gateway] pipeline in British Columbia – Alberta gets the benefits while B.C. carries the risks of environmental disaster, according to senior officials in B.C. …and
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#cpc #gop #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli #politics In the news; the appeals court in California overturned a ban on same sex marriage. This ban was a citizen inspired law triggered by the then legalized gay marriage laws in California. The court found essentially that rights, once given, cannot be taken away.
Continue readingknitnut.net: Yoplait says it’s not actually their insect
The other morning I went to grab a yogurt out of the fridge. I buy the 16-packs of Yoplait Source. Eight containers on top of eight other containers, all wrapped in a cardboard sleeve. But the bottom of the yogurt container I wanted was stuck to the top of the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Perspective, and the lack thereof #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Take an elementary level classroom in small town school on the northern coast of Newfoundland. Add a bunch of 10 year olds. Toss in some smoked capelin one of them had for lunch. A few taunts and a squirt or two of Febreze later and you had a fine batch
Continue readingThe foreign investment debate
The New Democrats are planning to spend their opposition day on Thursday debating a motion on changing the foreign investment act, in light of the Electro-Motive Diesel shutdown in London, Ontario. That said, I’m not sure that EMD is really the best case for condemning the Foreign Investment Act, considering that the
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As the HarperCon delegation of Ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed to go, were busy writing letters. They sent one to the Government of China loaded with examples describing how Aboriginal
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Islamophobia in Canada: A Primer
by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden became household names, Western fear of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims has also grown. Canada has been
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Alberta’s Electrolux Throne Speech: breathtaking in its vacuity, but quite possibly effective
Your blogger with Tory campaign mastermind Stephen Carter. Below, Charles Dickens, who also wrote a good story; Finance Minister Ron Liepert. It was either the best of Throne Speeches or it was the worst of Throne Speeches. Heck, maybe it was both at the same time. Yesterday being the 200th
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alison redford to appoint a new candidate in calgary-west, say tory sources.
Premier Alison Redford Following claims of voting irregularities at the recently held Calgary-West Progressive Conservative nomination meeting, Tory sources are saying that Premier Alison Redford may find a new candidate to carry her party’s banner in that constituency. The hard fought nomination battle saw former Calgary-McCall MLA Shiraz Shariff shock political
Continue readingBuckdog: Labour Ruling A Blow To Premier Brad Wall’s image
REGINA — Critical in the subtle battle for the hearts and minds of those in the so-called “new Saskatchewan” has been the portrayal of the self-entitled left of the “old Saskatchewan”. Or at least, that’s what the soundtrack of Premier Brad Wall’s Saskatchewan Party government has been since its 2007
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Prop 8 and the Dark Wall of Discrimination
First they were allowed to get married, and then they were told they couldn’t. One day they had human rights, the next day they were stolen. But today in California they won another big victory. “All that Proposition 8 accomplished was to take away from same sex-couples the right to
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: China Looks To Stephen Harper For Lessons In Dirty Energy Exploitation
oilyleaf.jpg Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in China this week to meet with Chinese leaders about how both countries can profit big by exploiting China’s shale gas reserves, as well as by importing Canadian tar sands oil. Harper is scheduled to meet with both Chinese officials, as well as
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Relax, We’re Just Disregaring Human Rights…
Source: CTV News: Canada ‘does not condone torture,’ Toews SaysSource: CBC News: CSIS May Use Intelligence Derived from Torture, Toews SaysSource: CBC News: Cash Compensation will be Sought, SFL says Two things to talk about today, one Federal and one Provincial. Let’s discuss the federal issue first given the gravity
Continue readingProminent Quebec Attorney, A Right Wingnut And Bigot?
After last night’s episode of “Canada Reads”, prominent Quebec attorney, Anne-France Goldwater decided to be really nasty by calling one of the featured authors “a terrorist” and implied that another one was “a liar”. “Carmen Aguirre is a bloody terrorist. How we let her into Canada, I don’t understand,” said
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: I Am A Snout
“Mommy, you’re the core of the family. It’s like, you’re the snout, and Dad is the nostrils. And us, we’re the eyes.” Filed under: Fun, Personal Tagged: family life
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Torture
In the history of the world there has probably never been a nation that didn’t sometimes intentionally torture prisoners and secretly use the information so obtained, however unreliable.But at least we used to be ashamed of it.Not any more.
Continue readingWTF is going on in Panama?
Anonymous Panama has declared war on the Martinelli Government™. Why? Well, for starters, Martinelli & Co. are corporatist to the teeth. Yes, kiddies, the F-word applies. Fascism has come to Panama. And with it come all the usual horrors we associate with that word. Including, you guessed it, GENOCIDE: Ricardo
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dickens @ 200
Nifty little animated biography of Charles Dickens, the brilliant Victorian novelist who would have been 200 years old today, had he not died 142 years previously. Though not his greatest literary achievement by any means, my personal favourite of all his works is “The Pickwick Papers”… such a delightfully curious
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