“Well you know the Conservatives say, and we know the mantra those of us who have to sit through this every day in the House of commons, that Canadians gave them a mandate to do whatever it is that they want to do; a mandate to carry out whatever abuses
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: With St-Denis, NDP Can’t Move On, Only Down
NDP MP Lise St-Denis turned Liberal, and just as her former party capitalized on Jack Layton, so is her new party. The recently elected Quebec MP Lise St-Denis left the NDP and in a carefully crafted statement provided the most potent thrust the Liberal Party can offer to Quebec and
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Shamed before the world
Show of hands, please. How many people expect that the Harper Conservatives will actually do anything to reverse the ridiculous legal opinion from their Justice department about the validity of same-sex marriage?How many expect they will dither around until the case gets to the Supreme Court in three or four
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: ethical oil spokesperson refuses to answer the basic question about whether enbridge gives them cash.
Interviewed on CBC’s Power and Politics, Ethical Oil spokesperson Kathryn Marshall refused to answer the basic question about whether Enbridge is providing financial support to her group. Ms. Marshall has been ruthlessly criticizing environmental groups for their opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline, which Enbridge wants to build. The interview,
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Canadian University Press Archipelago (74th Annual National Conference)
I got in yesterday to the Canadian University Press’ 74th Annual National Conference known as Archipelago (as each member paper is like an island in an archipelago). Anyway it was a long flight in but it has been a great conference so far. I’ll be writing more specifically about what I’ve learned
Continue readingAre Rodents Of Unusual Size Copulating Or Inoculating…
…Or Both? Ratf*cking (definition): In politics, the use of “dirty tricks” to discredit one’s opponent(s). This often takes the form of false or semi-false accusations spread through underhanded means. The term was coined in the 1960s by Hunter S. Thompson and Bob Woodward. But here’s something that has been mini-swirling
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Is It Just Me, or Do These Pork Barrels Reek of Bitumen?
Once in a while, something crosses my desk that makes me cross my eyes and pound my head against the desk in frustration. This is not one of those things. This is one of those things that makes me crinkle up my face and exclaim “What the hell?” If you
Continue readingWhen it doesn’t get better
Via The New Civil Rights Movement, I found out a sad thing today. The young man who made this “It Gets Better” video… …has taken his own life. Eric James Borges, who took the time to remind bullied queer kids that life will get better, and whose own life was
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Dystopia is our neighbour
The US schools with their own police, Chris McGreal, The Guardian, Jan. 9, 2012 “…Like hundreds of schools in the state [Texas], and across large parts of the rest of the US, Fulmore Middle has its own police force with officers in uniform who carry guns to keep order in the
Continue readingWith Thanks to Jamie Calder…
A new site popped up recently that I must pass on. It’s aptly named Sorry World and expressed the following sentiments held by many of us on the left/cener-left Sorry World. We messed up. We know you look to us as one of the last great strongholds of common sense
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why is Ron Paul the Rodney Dangerfield of the GOP race?
For those following the Republican Party’s nomination proceedings it must be at least somewhat curious how the second place finisher in New Hampshire gets ‘no respect’. While I’ve heard the Texas congressman described by some as a ‘wacko’ for his Libertarian views, I would welcome a Presidential election in November
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Heroin, Foreign Groups And Large Pipes: The Kathryn Marshall Story
Pictured: Kathryn Marshall who, upon seeing this photo, will be embarrassed only by the CBC logo above. I can’t help it. When I think of laying pipe, I think of Kathryn Marshall. That’s in no small part due to the fact that as Ethical Oil’s spokeswoman, she’s a big proponent
Continue readingknitnut.net: Oboe update
He’s still in the hospital. He’s not out of the woods yet. The vet wants him to get a little better on his own before she treats him, because she doesn’t think he’s strong enough or stable enough right now to survive stressful treatment. For example, she’ll need to anaesthetize
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-12 21:30:00
VISIONS: THE PRODUCER CO-OP OPTION: There are basically two types of cooperatives, consumer and producer. The former is a mutual aid society of purchasers banded together to get the best possible value for their dollar by cutting out the capitalist middleman. By banding together the members of such co-ops not
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory and her friend C built a snow fort tonight
Before dinner. From the heap of snow built up at the end of the driveway. It was all that Irene and I could do to convince her to come in for pizza. Pizza for crying out loud. That’s how much fun they were having.
Continue readingthe woodshed: Headlines we wish we could use
The United States Marine Corps – America’s No. 1 fighting force (sorry, I couldn’t help it)Tweet The Rev. Paperboy Feed
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Sorry World
Sorry World A site apologizing to the world for having let Stephen Harper become Prime Minister
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 12: addendum to the day’s blog.
1. I forget to mention a local boosterism item that the Moncton TandT seems not to have heard of. that’s odd. The TandT usually remembers to print long stories about Moncton or the New Brunswick itself becoming famous – you know, for opening a snack bar, whatever. But here’s a
Continue readingChristy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: On the chopping block, Canada gay marriages
Canada has an estimated 15,000 legally-recognized same-sex marriages. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has its way, 5,000 of them would be invalid. All because the couples were originally from outside Canada when they …Read More
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