Citizengate has developed more twists and turns over the day than the backstreets of Marrakesh. While Jason Kenney’s office and SunTV hasten to cover their pale and sweaty butts, others are left scratching their heads. The story so far, based upon records acquired through Access to Information by Jennifer Ditchburn
Continue readingThe Equivocator: …and Boisvenu makes three.
First, Julian Fantino writes about his love of the death penalty in his book. Then PM Harper talks about his support for the government having the ability to kill Canadians in an interview last year. On Wednesday it was reported that Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu suggested that prisoners should be
Continue readingwmtc: pollitt: komen foundation pinkwashes anti-choicers, punks planned parenthood
The one and only Katha Pollitt: The anti-choice movement can be so clumsy, and so weird, we forget that it is also smart and strategic and busy busy busy. Because while you were shaking your head over pink Bibles and stem-cell futurology, Komen was hiring Karen Handel as senior vice
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Boston: No War On Iran
On Saturday, February 4, The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston will co-sponsor a rally and march as part of an international day of action to demand NO WAR ON IRAN. The march, …Read More
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Australian Meteorology Bureau Corrects Record On Former Research Head William Kininmonth’s Actual Climate Change Experience
bom_logo.jpg WHEN it comes to climate change science, as with most things in life, it pays to listen to actual experts with a solid background in their field. On Monday the Wall Street Journal and, later, The Australian newspaper, ran an editorial from a group of climate science contrarians which claimed
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Commercial Free CBC!
Derek Jensen City/Town: Toronto Categories: Other 0 The CBC should be free of commercials. Idea Body: The CBC should be free of commercials.
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: What’s Good for the Goose…
Source: CTV News: Tory Senator: My Let-Killers-Hang Idea Has Lots of SupportSource: CTV News: Kenney’s Office Apologizes for Sun News Stunt While the OAS argument heats up in Ottawa, and it is something we will discuss in the future, we shall focus on these two items for today as it
Continue readingMorton's Musings: As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do
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Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Coal-Powered PAC Runs Harassment Campaign Against Climate Scientist Michael Mann
michaelmann-199×300.jpg by Brad Johnson, cross-posted with permission from ThinkProgress. A coal-industry astroturf group is running a public campaign to harass Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann for his “radical agenda” of climate science. The Common Sense Movement/Secure Energy for America Political Action Committee (CSM/SEAPAC) has established a website asking
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rogers To Respond To CRTC Over Throttling Tomorrow
Rogers is supposed to be responding to the CRTC over evidence the CRTC found of throttling non-P2P applications tomorrow. It is unclear whether if Rogers will in fact respond, and if so whether that response will be made public. CGO was not directly notified by the CRTC’s last communication to
Continue readingOccupy Ottawa: Occupy Boston: No War On Iran
On Saturday, February 4, The Action for Peace Working Group of Occupy Boston will co-sponsor a rally and march as part of an international day of action to demand NO WAR ON IRAN. The march, …Read More
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire for marriage equality
Christine Gregoire has become the first American governor to appear in a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) video endorsing marriage equality. The move comes as the Washington state Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to legalize gay marriage in a 28-21 vote (three more votes than needed for passage). The bill now
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: NDP Move to Protect Old Age Security – Vote on Feb 6th
The NDP used the Opposition day in Parliament today to put forward a motion that the federal government not pay for its agenda on the backs of Canadian Seniors by raising the age at which they will qualify for Old Age Security (OAS). Several times NDP members put the question
Continue readingLizz Winstead knocks it out of the park re: Komen and Planned Parenthood
Of all the posts, tweets and articles on the Komen Cave, Winstead brings the fire and the facts together in the best summation of the whole bamboozle by Brinker and co. Lizz needs to go on Fox News or CNN and debate Nancy Brinker or VP Karen Handel. So far, Komen is
Continue readingthe woodshed: Congratulation Al-Qaida
The overarching goal of any terrorist or revolutionary guerrilla fighter beyond the immediate removal of a given target and the ensuing intimidation is to provoke an overreaction by the authorities, to make things worse not better in the short term, to push them to crack down on civil liberties until
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Waterkeeper Groups Sue Over Gulf Oil Leak Gushing For Seven Years And Counting
Gulf Oil.jpg Like many Gulf Coast residents, I was highly skeptical when both the media and the Coast Guard told us that the tar balls we were seeing wash up on our shores in the months following the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster were not from BP’s oil geyser at the
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: ABA Benefits for Autism: Association for Science in Autism Treatment (ASAT) Educates LA Times Alan Zarembo
The attached letter was written by ASAT Board member Sabrina Freeman Ph. D., and Secretary Florence DiGennaro Reed, Ph. D., BCBA-D to the LA Times Alan Zarembo who did such a poor job (in my humble opinion) reporting on autism issues in a recent LA Times series. In the letter
Continue readingOpen season
Canadian Muslims—be warned. You are being watched, and even ordinary turns of phrase will land any one of you in jail. I nearly blew up when I read this. Whoops. Don’t you go quoting me now, Mohammed. [H/t]
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