As those politically inclined know, the Liberal Party is holding a convention in Ottawa this weekend, where delegates will be voting to elect different candidates to various party positions, and also to vote on several different policy resolutions. One of those is to adopt a US primary-style system to open
Continue readingThe Skwib: How Anne of Green Gables Destroyed the World
“Like most of you I was inclined to say the war was caused by fish.” However, after a close examination of the evidence, Cadman Michaels — who held doctorates in theoretical physics and history, but who called himself an Alternate Historian — could say now with some confidence that the
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: from worse to worser for Dunderdale and Company #nlpoli
Add Ron Penney to the list of former senior provincial public servants questioning Muskrat Falls and/or the way the provincial government is handling the project. In a letter to the Telegram, the former Peckford-era justice minister joins with David Vardy to call for a full, independent review of the MF
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: If A Newspaper Nobody Reads Goes Behind A Pay-Wall
…will anyone read it less? And, oh look!, Revenues are down again. I think when I run past the Postmedia building this morning I’ll throw dimes at the windows, see if I can trigger a staff riot.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: ‘eavy ‘angs the ‘ead #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome! Kennedy is wading deeper and deeper into the political morass called the Muskrat Falls project these days and finding that it is a sticky, stinky, mess. For not one, but two days running, Jerome has been trying to explain to VOCM’s afternoon radio call-in host why
Continue readingImpolitical: Another Summerville endorsement
Well, I’m pushing it a little here. But there is an interesting endorsement of sorts for a constitutional amendment proposal co-authored by Paul Summerville, the removal of the leader’s veto over policy, in the form of Andrew Coyne’s positive citation of the proposal: There are some exciting-looking proposals in this
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Enbridge Tells Joe Oliver To Shut Up
Pictured: Joe Oliver consulting the youth. The oil pipeline corporation Enbridge which has: averaged over 1 oil spill per week between 1999 and 2008; spilled 800,000 gallons of oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River; the potential of facing criminal charges for failing to properly maintain its Michigan pipeline; been accused by
Continue readingcultural sn:afu: Little Victor Update | the TV zombie
I think I’m about to find out how much TV is too much TV in the safe development of a child’s mind. My two-year old son can recognize Dog The Bounty Hunter’s voice, and has now started to respond to … Continue reading →
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Pope Benny and the Gay Plot to Destroy Humanity
When I heard that Pope Benny had described gay marriage as a threat to humanity at first I was shocked. “This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself,”
Continue readingTrashy's World: Public transportation…
… Bus version… Barbados buses versus OCTranspo. Based on recent experience. There are 3 types of buses to take in Barbados: the full-sized buses that we have here in Ottawa (no A/C though), smaller versions of said buses… and minivans whose sole goals seem to be to cram as many
Continue readingEthical Oil? Puhleeze!
I just finished watching Inside Politics with Evan Solomon. In this episode, he’s speaking with John Bennett of the Sierra Club and Kathryn Marshall of Ethical (sic) Oil. I turned off the player about 8 minutes in. Ms. Marshall was too much for me. And I mean it. Too. Much.
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Hey, here’s an idea…
Reading Ross K’s list of stuff the Harper Cons are doing to “celebrate” the War of 1812 gives me an idea.Maybe if the gay pride parades across the country promised an “1812” theme this year, the feds would give them money? How about some rainbow flags mixed with the Union
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-12 01:35:00
CANADIAN LABOUR NEWFOUNDLAND: TROUBLE IN PARADISE It is a very old story out in Newfoundland way. Fish processing companies come and go, opening, closing and reopening elsewhere. All, of course, to keep labour costs as low as possible no matter what the effect on local communities. The Ocean Choice International
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Cell Phone Squeeze: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Happy New Year pro-Internet community! Here’s Lindsey with your first update of 2012: read more
Continue readingSlouching Towards A Big-Ass State Of Petro.
HewersOfWoodCarriersOfWaterAndSqueezersOfRock NewlyMiddleEasternVille As Boris over at The Galloping Beaver points out – we already have a lot of the pillars in place to become a Petro-addled Banana State, what with our…. “….military glorification and the princeling ministers with their Quadaffi-esque sense of entitlement….“ And just in case you thought we
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EthicalOil. Ezra. Shares an address in Toronto with Tony Clement. Minister of Gazebo’s in Muskoka. From a website in the archives… 02/ 19/ 04 12:21 pm Fourteen Canadian Alliance Councillors say: “CHOOSE TONY” Fourteen members of the former Canadian Alliance National Council released a statement today, declaring their support for
Continue readingFalse positive: private profit in Canada's health care: No Legal Requirement to Cut Lab Services
Residents around Thessalon and on St. Joseph Island, both east of Sault St. Marie in northern Ontario, have been recently told that their community hospitals will no longer be taking blood samples ordered by their family doctors. This follows a trend across Ontario to force all non-hospital patients to use
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Toward amoral petro-state
An Open Reply to Joe Oliver’s Propaganda for the Petro State ENERGY & EQUITY: Nikiforuk joins the fray. Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee “Canada’s Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver has just pulled a Hugo Chavez: he’s penned a formal and desperate attack on democracy and interfered in the nation’s allegedly impartial
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dr Strangelove and the Oil Pipeline
Well in case anyone didn’t understand why the Harper Cons are calling native people and environmentalists “radicals” and “foreign interests.” Leave it up to Tom “Strangelove” Flanagan to explain Big Oil’s plan for Total World Domination. The branding of opponents as “radicals” is part of a strategy to make sure the
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