Hey Newt, pass me that copy of Little Red Book. Sure Rick, how about we spark one up? As the US right does everything it can to destroy not only its own reputation but the economic and human health of its citizens (excepting of course the 1%), it keeps tainting
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 11, 2012: Overtime risks and misconceptions – Canadian HR Reporter Woman “upset” with TV ‘Judge Judy attacks 65-year-old man with hammer Court allows Texas to force women into medically unnecessary sonograms before abortions 1,000 South Americans
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Access to Abortion under Siege in the US – The Guttmacher Institute’s Depressing Overview
The pace is accelerating at which a woman’s right to choose is being taken away from her. The US is going crazy, one state at a time, the Guttmacher Institute documents the slide into insanity. “January 5, 2012 By almost any measure, issues related to reproductive health and rights at
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Smoking Pot Not As Damaging to Lungs as Cigarettes
Many people come to my blog to read about things neither of us wish were happening, but they want my opinion about it along with some facts I’ve found. Here’s some news that some people may find very interesting, and it backs up a study I remember reading about years
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Wanted: new CRTC chairperson
The process to find the new chairperson of the CRTC is officially underway, less than two weeks before outgoing chair Konrad von Finckenstein’s term expires on January 24.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will The Legendary Harper Vindictiveness Rear Its Head Again?
A report in today’s Globe suggests we could soon be seeing another instance of Harper bullying and intimidation tactics. Well-known for his intolerance of and disdain for dissent, and given his Natural Resources’ Minister’s recent musings about radicals having infiltrated the environmental opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Oil Is Their Lifeblood
If there was any doubt that the Harper government is owned by the oil companies, Joe Oliver’s rant last week against foreign “billionaire socialists” should put an end to any misconceptions. As Jeffrey Simpson points out, Oliver’s oxymoron was yet another example of Harperian hypocrisy. Canadian money flooded Washington a
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: Now they’re after your cell phones
Get ready for price increases, more bureaucratic red tape, and disrespectful customer service. We have reports that the Big Three cell phone giants (who control roughly 94% of the market) are trying to trick the government into shutting out independent competitors. Some of them are going so far as to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom puts the Cons’ anti-environmental hysteria in perspective by noting how our cabinet ministers are going out of their way to sound like the most fringy of lunatic Tea Partiers: America’s Exxon Mobil, Britain’s BP, France’s Total E&P, China’s SinoCanada Petroleum Corp.
Continue readingFar and Wide: Radicals And Learned Responses
Even if the Conservative argument is true, that we’ve reached a point where environmental review processes are bogging down economic development, it’s an after the fact assertion, rather than a fair read of present reality. One must cleanse their mind of any historical context to even begin to comprehend the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Would a Romney Victory Mean the End of the Conservative Movement?
Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary with 40% of the vote and appears to be heading toward winning the Republican nomination. Unlike most of his opponents, he has not “surged” but just plodded along, attacking when he needed to attack, and standing up to the blows from his tag-teamed conservative
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Free Speech Throwdown: Warman Vs. Des Rosiers
I attended the Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech in Canada debate held by CIJA last night, pitting Richard Warman against Nathalie Des Rosiers of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. I intended to live-blog the event with my new, incredibly sexxxy Acer Iconia, but the place didn’t have wifi, so these
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: Liberal Delegates Might Want to Read This
From: Maria Minna [mailto:mariaminna@rogers.com] Sent: January-09-12 3:17 PM To: undisclosed recipients: Subject: Constitutional Amendments. January 9, 2012 Dear Liberal Colleagues: I want to share with you my concerns with the major and sweeping changes being proposed to the Liberal Constitution. I believe that, if passed, they will have a major
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Preston Manning: Because one day you’ll be out of office too
I don't agree with the entire piece — especially the digs at the Liberal Party — but he does make a good point about the danger of complacency. In part, at least, that's why we have work to do! http://bit.ly/zFFUnO Preston Manning "One lesson worth considering is this: When you're
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The real story of the Ottawa office #nlpoli
Nobody’s been in the job since since January 2010. There’s no evidence that the two people who held the job actually did anything substantive during the time from 2004 to 2010 that someone held down the position known derisively as the Ambassador or – as your humble e-scribbler preferred –
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Locke and Muskrat Falls: some quick points #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Memorial University economist Wade Locke delivered a presentation on Tuesday night about Muskrat Falls, a project he had already endorsed publicly. The Harris Centre at Memorial University, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council and the MUN economics department’s Applied Economics Research Initiative sponsored the talk. The pdf of Locke’s slides should
Continue readingLet’s not elect the GG
Amidst the nonsense that the Young Liberals were proposing with severing our ties to the “British Monarchy” as part of their convention resolutions (despite the fact that we have no ties to the British Monarchy and instead have a separate and unique Canadian one), crypto-republican columnist Stephen Maher came up
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Judging the judge, again
Also read: J. Leask: Questions of perspicacity and impartiality B.C. Appeal Court overturns cocaine conspiracy acquittal…, Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, Jan. 10, 2012 “VANCOUVER — A three-judge panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned the acquittal of four men accused of a cocaine trafficking conspiracy and has ordered
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Senator Discloses New Information on How Conservative Patronage Works
The South Asian Focus has printed an in-depth interview with Conservative candidate-turned Senator Salma Attaullahjan, and I have to say, she sounds like a complete dunce: Most of the time I used to spend volunteering… This was the reason that many people actually wanted me to come into politics. I
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