Why are the Harper Tories hell bent on destroying data from the life saving long gun registry? A high profile Toronto lawyer thinks he knows why: It’s like throwing a bomb into a crime lab because they didn’t want any evidence left there.We couldn’t have said it any better.
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Friends of the Bloedel Conservatory
I’ve been greatly honoured by being invited to join the Board of the Friends of the Bloedel Conservatory. You might recall that the last Park Board tried to close this jewel on the hill in an effort to cut the budget. With an incredible outpouring of public support and the
Continue readingScene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012. Rodney Kirkland Sr. edition.
Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night. UPDATE: Dr. Dawg has the goods on an Oakland cop, annual salary $202K and unbelievably works for the Youth and Family Services agency, who beat down a pregnant woman with leukemia from a bicycle and allegedly beat her as she was being carried away on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How The LPoC Can Win In B.C.
Rae told a Vancouver audience Saturday he still sees a need for his party’s informal ban on oil tankers along B.C.’s north coast, which is right where Enbridge wants tankers to load up with oil coming from Alberta’s oilsands via a new pipeline. A formal ban would kill that cursed pipeline;
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: NEB: "ally", First Nations: "adversaries"
Confidential federal tar sands strategy targets Aboriginal and green groups, Greenpeace Canada, January 26, 2012 “As controversy increases over the Harper government’s attacks on environmental groups, Greenpeace Canada today released internal government documents obtained under Access to Information legislation showing that the Harper government has explicitly identified environmental and aboriginal
Continue readingDumb on crime indeed
Much of Harper’s “tough” on crime agenda has been described as dumb and that is particularly true in the area of parole or supervised release. Inmates in our prison system live in an environment of constant tension where even the most insignificant mistake can have extremely dire consequences.Prisoners are also
Continue readingThe Enlightened Savage: Super Saturday Nomination Results
Nation, with Daveberta away from his blog (and its comprehensive coverage of the nomination races taking place across the province) for the next week, someone has to step up and fill the void. I guess, by process of elimination, that means “me”. Not to fear: You’ll be getting my thoughts
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Stephen Maher reminds us that the Harper government now lecturing us about the need to attack social programs because of a federal deficit is the same incompetent group that caused the deficit in the first place through reckless tax slashing and vote-buying
Continue readingOakland: violent cop identified
Last evening the Oakland, CA police used high levels of violence to break up a demonstration by members of #OccupyOakland. One officer, badge #119, threw a young, 100-lb, pregnant woman off her bicycle (@56:00), putting her in hospital. An unconfirmed report states that he struck her as she was being
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: On everything but rollerskates
Line up, put your kisses down.
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: VIDEO: Kerry-Ann Taylor makes a compelling case for Peggy Nash
Today, the NDP federal leadership hopefuls battle each other again during the party’s second official all candidates debate in Halifax. In this 30-sec YouTube video pitch, Kerry-Ann Taylor endorses Peggy Nash because “she’s a fighter …Read More
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: City Plan to Develop Municipal Mind Monitoring Software Expected to Jump Start Local High Tech Industry
In a move described by some observers as onionesque, the City’s Policies and Procedures Committee is recommending the city issue an RFP for the development of what will be known as MMM Software. The Request for Proposals for Municipal Mind Monitoring software comes after a review of the latest moves
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: From Bad to Worse: Transferred from Red Onion to Wallens Ridge State Prison
Wallens Ridge State Prison This is the latest dispatch from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party-Prison Chapter, and author of Defying the Tomb: From Bad to Worse: Transferred from Red Onion to Wallens Ridge State PrisonBy Kevin “Rashid” Johnson On January 20, 2012,
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: So Who Would You Like to Send to the Moon?
Newt Gingrich frightened even Republicans this week with his plans to develop a colony on the moon by 2020. He had obviously given this a lot of thought, because he indicated that the colony would consist of 13,000 people and would be named the 51st state. What he didn’t say
Continue readingknitnut.net: I borrowed a blind octogenarian
The Human Library took place yesterday at the War Museum and five branches of the Ottawa Public Library. There were sixty “human books” which people could borrow for one-on-one 20-minute conversations. They included: CBC radio personalities OC Transpo bus driver Muslim woman Sex worker Peking Opera performer Children’s Aid worker
Continue readingExcited Delirium: If Davos Isn’t About Capitalism, What’s Stephen Harper All About?
Stephen Harper vs raging grannies. This is what Conservatives and capitalism are all about? Bullies and braggarts?
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Seizing Expediency
The cuts Stephen Harper wants to make to Old Age Security are driven by ideology, not necessity. Consider the Public Appointments Commission and the Employment Insurance Financing Board. Both departments were set up by the Conservatives. And, although both agencies are on record as having nothing to do, the government
Continue readingBrian Burke has had it up to here with Don Cherry
Don Cherry loves the Leafs. He loves them almost as much as the Bruins. However, he does not love Leaf coach Ron Wilson. In fact, Cherry uses every little slip of Wilson’s (granted, there are a lot) to rail against Leaf management for not doing exactly what Mr. Cherry wants.
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