I get that he is a wee petty man full of hate. I understand that he would benefit more from spending his spare time on a professional’s couch then writing a book about hockey (snerk). I recognize that although he is smart enough to be tactically cunning, he isn’t intelligent
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Mysteries Surrounding the GOP Race, MSM, CNN and the CBC
Something’s smelly with the GOP primaries, but as a Canadian progressive, I’m not concerned about the race. What I am concerned about is how the CBC is ignoring Ron Paul, the only candidate worth mentioning.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqsnE9bGWs Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingthe reeves report: SOPA delayed, but Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act carries on
Sums It Up Quite Nicely. | Image from The Guardian.co.uk 18 U.S. Senators have withdrawn their support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) due to an overwhelmingly negative online reaction, including a Google petition that garnered over 4.5M signatures and the Wikipedia-led blackout of over 7,000 popular websites. Here
Continue readingWill Globe & Mail’s first Public Editor (aka Ombudsman) make a difference? The question of Sylvia Stead.
Public Editors, or Ombudsmen as they are more often known, can be iffy things. Defined loosely as “one that investigates, reports on, and helps settle complaints”, the role can be broadly defined. The New York Times is probably the best example of an effective Public Editor, where its ‘Ombudsman’ researches
Continue readingBlevkog: HRM Transit Strike Coming?
The thought of a transit strike in even a mild winter will raise the hackles of those of us who regularly use the service, whether the bus or ferries. I hope that with the vote union’s vote being so overwhelming (98.4%) that this is merely the opening response to a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Man Is Not A Piece of Fruit
“I put 34 years into this firm, Howard, and now I can’t pay my insurance. You can’t eat an orange and then throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit” – Willie Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. In the play, Willy Loman
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Stephen Harper’s Wooden Head
“Learning from experience,” the American historian Barbara Tuchman wrote, “is a faculty almost never practised.” The truth of that claim is readily apparent in Canada. In fact, Stephen Harper is the incarnation of Tuchman’s axiom. In a report for the Centre For Policy Alternatives, David MacDonald examines three possible scenarios
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Drugs, Drugs, Drugs. Which are good, which are bad?
The marijuana legalization policy, which passed at last weekend’s Liberal convention, has been generating a fair amount of media buzz this past week. The strongest arguments in favour of it come, somewhat surprisingly, from this National Post editorial and Toronto Sun column, while this Globe article raises some legitimate questions
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Socialism that Works in America
What! Socialism in America? Say it isn’t so. Better start the protests now. Filed under: Humour, Politics Tagged: Bill Maher, Socailsim, Superbowl, USA
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: When Management Locks the Doors
Quick: what do U.S. Steel, Rio Tinto, and Caterpillar all have in common? They’re all enormous, flexible global companies, given carte blanche by the Canadian government to purchase important long-standing profitable assets here with few if any conditions, who promptly locked out their Canadian workers in an effort to extract
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for January 23, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Monday, January 23, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: Analysis of the MegaUpload Indictment – TalkLeft Balsillie, Lazaridis out as co-CEOs at RIM | CTV News Ontario unlikely to meet court delay reduction targets | CTV News Athletic therapist claimed she was fired
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Erin nicely challenges Brad Wall’s efforts to tilt the playing field against poorer provinces when it comes to Employment Insurance and equalization. – But I’m not sure we can expect much change to EI in any event. After all, as Dr. Dawg notes,
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: New Item on Menu – The McFox Sandwich
My neighbour told us of an experience he had with the local McDonalds. He was sitting in one having breakfast and found himself offended by a debate playing out on the television, that included racial slurs. So he went up to the counter and asked if they could change the
Continue readingBuckdog: Right Wing American Jewish Magazine Calls For Assassination Of Obama If He Doesn’t Attack Iran ….
The on-going mental illness, inherent in 21st Century Right Wing thinking, is going to take the whole world down ….. “Musing openly about murdering President Barack Obama is certain to stir some attention. So is publicly suggesting it’s a job for Mossad – Israel’s no-nonsense spy agency with its long
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Seen in Nunavut?
Perhaps not…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: The Pickton Inquiry – why was there so little done? You decide
VANCOUVER • It was April 2000, the height of Robert “Willie” Pickton’s killing spree. Dozens of women were already missing, and 23 more would vanish. The Port Coquitlam pig farmer was trolling for skid row prostitutes, driving them to his farm, murdering them, disposing of their bodies and going back
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: ‘Canada is becoming a jingoistic petro-state’
Who made that declaration a couple of days ago in the US? The Nation? Daily Kos? Some other left-wing publication? Nope. Slate did – and Slate isn’t exactly known for its left-wing tendencies. A rather unflattering portrait of it’s northern neighbour: It’s well known that America’s dependence on foreign oil
Continue readingknitnut.net: The high cost of loving an animal
Oboe at the Vet's I know there are people out there wondering why anyone would spend twelve hundred bucks to save the life of a bird that could be replaced for $75. It’s a reasonable question. Reasonable enough, in fact, that I asked it of myself several times last week.
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