I remember that day as if it was just yesterday. Started in the morning in Niagara Falls at the Burroughs campaign. Hit the Valeri campaign in Stoney Creek in the afternoon. Headed over to the Powers campaign in the late afternoon and evening and counted ballots in Freelton. Yes I
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Roundup
A quick look at just a couple more days of developments in the NDP’s leadership race… – Niki Ashton proposed an increase in immigration, particularly when it comes to family reunification. – Paul Dewar challenged Thomas Mulcair to take a position on bulk water exports, provoking at least somewhat of
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Inuit Country
This year ’s “Indian Country” theme issue of Canadian Dimension deals with a specific group of indigenous people in Canada, the Inuit. Inuit are indigenous occupants of the arctic in Canada, the US, Russia and Greenland. They have a distinct land base, distinct legal status, distinct culture and distinct colonial
Continue readingTrashy's World: A follow-up to my post yesterday…
… about Tim Thomas being an idiot. I don’t usually copy and paste an entire text, but this letter by former Chicago Bear Tim Wrightman is an example of how Thomas should have handled the Obama invitation. Class. 100% Pure class. I hope someone shows this to the Bruin Goalie…
Continue readingknitnut.net: A sign
Yesterday morning I was walking to work along Gladstone Avenue when all of a sudden a dead bird came hurtling out of the sky and crashed head first into a snowbank right in front of me. It was a pigeon: I could tell by its little pink feet sticking out
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Kremlinology 37: United in Differences
As the Newfoundland and Labrador news release noted, the energy ministers from the four Atlantic provinces got together on Monday for a gab session. Those who stood waiting for Jerome!’s latest tweet on Muskrat now know where The Oracle had been all day. In Prince Edward Island, they issued their
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Harper to First Nations: Bother my MP’s, not me, with your issues.
I’ve not seen another article come out yet on the meeting that Harper had with the First Nation’s Chiefs other then this one, but from the First Nations perspective, their concerns appear to have been taken rather lightly by the PM, to say the least: First Nations leaders will be
Continue reading350 or bust: Why I Am Putting All My Eggs In The Citizens Climate Lobby Basket
Citizens Climate Lobby is a well-organized grassroots organization made up of Canadians and Americans who want a sustainable future for their children, and are willing to work on creating the political will for a sustainable climate. In the process, they are empowered to claim their own political power in a
Continue readingImpolitical: The coming public service job losses
There’s a new study out by the CCPA on federal public service job cuts. The study suggests between 11,000 to 22,000 jobs could be lost in the Ottawa area and between 60,000 to 70,000 jobs across the country. This would be done in the next few years and up to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Corbella Story Collapses Utterly
In a story a week or so back, Licia Corbella intimated that someone in the environmentalist camp was signing fake names to the list of people asking to make oral presentations to the NEB panel holding hearings into the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Never mind that this doesn’t make sense as part
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Adjournments of criminal matters
An adjournment is re-scheduling of a court appearance. The granting of an adjournments is at the discretion of the judge, but in practice is a frequent occurrence. The judge must be guided by the requirements of s. 537 and 803: 537. (1) A justice acting under this Part may (a)
Continue readingImpolitical: You can call it what you like
Fun exchange from last night’s train wreck Republican debate. Newt looks like he wants to strangle Romney. Seriously.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Wading through Locke on Muskrat (Part 2) #nlpoli #cdnpoli
[continued from Part 1] Oil Prices In Slide 20, Locke turns a comparison of the cost elements of Muskrat Falls and Nalcor’s isolated island scenario into a chart. Locke notes in red at the bottom of the slide that the only difference between the two scenarios is fuel prices. In
Continue readingThe likely uselessness of today’s Gathering
Harper’s big Crown-First Nations Gathering happens today, for as much as he’ll be there (which will be until lunch, at which point he takes off for Davos). And while Harper did meet with a few chiefs last night, there is
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: CasaPound: Ezra Pound’s daughter defends fascist papa
Top: Ezra Pound/Mary de Rachewiltz The daughter of the American poet, Ezra Pound, is demanding that the Italian extremist organization CasaPound stop using her father’s name. Mary de Rachewiltz was spurred to take legal action by the Christmas killing of two Senegalese traders in Florence. The perpetrator, Gianluca Casseri –
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: City Council January 3, 2012
A prayer for judicious action tonight opened the meeting at 5:30. First there was a presentation by Costco to get a gas bar in their Vic East parking lot. Mr. Rogers keeps saying ve-HICKle. A couple questions from Councilors O’Donnell and Findura. After the presenters were seated, another councilor argued
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Second Forum poll shows Wildrose still soaring: Press 1 if you believe it, Press 2, if you have your doubts…
A Forum Research Inc. spokesperson counts up support for Alberta’s far-right Wildrose Party. Below: Forum President Lorne Bozinoff. Well, that’s one strategy for establishing your polling credibility: If you come up with a poll that other pollsters, bloggers and the usual complainers dismiss as an outlier, do another one that
Continue readingThe Smart Affair….The Media Closes Ranks
(Google-Cache Screen Shot Of The State-Of-Play, Monday Jan 23rd @ 9pm) Conflictyness’RUs HerdVille So. On Saturday CBC British Columbia British Columbia’s news division let it be known that it plans to ignore its own Ombudsman’s ruling regarding the potential for Legislative Bureau Chief Stephen Smart to be placed in a
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: surveys show big-tent tories and ideologically polarized opposition.
A new survey released in the National Post by Forum Research Inc. shows Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives with 38% province-wide support and the opposition Wildrose Party sitting at 29%. This survey shows the Liberals at 14%, New Democratic Party at 13%, and the Alberta Party with 3% province-wide support. Danielle Smith
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