The Bricks and Mortar Office of the Ombudsman 548 York Street, Fredericton,New Brunswick, at the Staying Connected consultations, in which I participated, Ombudsman Bernard Richard and NBACL President Clarence Box both dismissed Long Term Residential Care and Treatment Facilities for Autistic Youth and Adults as “Bricks and Mortar Solutions” The
Continue readingCanada II: Unethical Oil: Who’s Funding Whom?
The JSL Report blog brings some new information to light on the Ethical Oil controversy. Notice that Ethical Oil and Tony Clement have or had the same donation address. Tony Clement Should Resign: Ethical Oil-Gate About EthicalOil.org | Ethical Oil (link) P.O. Box 1047, 31 Adelaide Street East, Toronto, ON
Continue reading10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free – The Washington Post | #uspoli
An authoritarian nation is defined not just by the use of authoritarian powers, but by the ability to use them. If a president can take away your freedom or your life on his own authority, all rights become little more than a discretionary grant subject to executive will. The framers
Continue readingcmkl: Toilet tales part two: the big reveal
So I took the toilet off to discover the base had been sealed to the top of the drain with heaps and heaps of stuff (felt like about half a kilo) of goo the consistency and colour of bees wax. And I’m guessing, from the location of little bits of
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament in Review: November 17, 2011
Thursday, November 17 saw a Liberal opposition day turned into a discussion about the sad state of water supplies to Canada’s First Nations. But while all parties were able to support the motion, there was plenty of room for contrast as to who was most interested in dealing with the
Continue readingknitnut.net: Welcome home, Oboe
We brought Oboe home from the hospital last night. There hadn’t been any improvement since Friday, but no deterioration either. Poor little guy. Life’s tough right now. But so is Oboe; he’s a feisty little bird. (Although you wouldn’t know it to look at him right now. His personality has
Continue reading264MHz: Perception of Waste, is it the Rule or the Exception?
Many people believe the government wastes vast amounts of money. This perception is created by the media and the opposition making a big deal out of every little bit of perceived or real wasteful spending, which make people assume that waste is pervasive. Governments spend billions of dollars but when
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Mitt The Ripper
The unaffiliated (definitely not co-ordinating with Stephen Colbert) SuperPAC “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow” has just released the following advertisement, which logically proposes that if “corporations are people” then Mitt Romney should be regarded as a serial killer… The way Colbert has methodically gone about illustrating on his show
Continue readingPetition to End Discriminatory Convention Registration Process
As many of you are now aware the party has banned youth and unwaged delegates from registering for convention online. If you weren’t already aware check out my previous post on the issue here. There is now a petition available which will be sent to party headquarters demanding that all
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: No Excuses, Liberal Supporters
One of the oft-repeated refrains from the last elections from those who would vote Liberal was that they couldn’t vote Liberal because of who Liberals voted as leader. It was because Liberals chose Paul Martin as leader or Stéphane Dion or Michael Ignatieff … Why couldn’t we just select a
Continue readingthe reeves report: Liberals opt to tread cautiously into the future
Stage in Canada Hall at the Liberal Biennial Convention. Canada’s die-hard Liberals are wrapping up their Biennial Convention in Ottawa this afternoon. It has been an enthusiastic affair, despite the fact that it is not a leadership convention. (Although the Liberals have had enough of those in the past decade
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Ethical Oil, the Sub-Prime Mortgage Scandal and The Next Great Generation
We are living in difficult times. The ongoing economic crisis started by the 2008 Sub-Prime Mortgage Scandal has all of us thinking about our future. We are vulnerable to unethical appeals to our anxiety in the form of quick fixes and easy profits. The promise of "Ethical Oil" is the
Continue readingLeDaro: Ed Schultz’s Book Vs. Chris Matthew’s book on J. F Kennedy
Chris Matthew advertises his book on John F. Kennedy practically every episode of his show Hardball. Now Ed Schultz has written a book too. It is called Good Night Mitt. I think Ed Shultz’s book is much more fun. Watch the videos and judge for yourself. Visit msnbc.com for breaking
Continue readingCorraling The Dean With A Confidential Missive
NeverMindTheBollocks HereComesTheFireWallVille Well, well, well….. It would appear that Vaughn Palmer got the memo. The ‘secret’ memo that is: …(Conservative Prime Minister Stephen) Harper, far from not having time for (Liberal Premier Christy) Clark, has met with her on non-hockey matters a half-dozen or so times over the past year.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Snow On the Wet Coast
Snow, what the hell?
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Kids Are All Right
The right young Lib motion succeeds; the right one fails. Because the Queen is a chronic, dude.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Keystone, Northern Gateway pipelines raise questions that need answers before approval
The Star: This is the most realistic and sensible perspective I’ve seen on the environment-oil-pipeline dilemma. Olive is right: oil as our primary source of energy is not going to go away any time soon. It took well over 50 years to shift from coal as a primary source of
Continue readingBuckdog: The Liberal Party Of Canada WAS – IS – AND CONTINUES TO BE Hypocritical On Marijuana Reform
Why should anyone take the Liberals seriously on marijuana reform in Canada? “While they were in power, Canada’s former Liberal government introduced marijuana reform legislation a number of times … and then let the Bills die on the order paper session after session, year after year. Why? Well because they
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