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
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Leaking Pipeline
Oh. My. Oily. Oliver. What bad timing. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge reported a leak from one of its pipelines on the day public hearings began into the company’s planned Northern Gateway pipeline. And don’t you love this? Enbridge declined to describe how it could be safe to continue operating a
Continue readingAbout that northern pipeline…
Poetic Justice! Enbridge reports leak from U.S. pipeline as Northern Gateway hearings begin. This is nothing new for Enbridge, the leak, that is. They happen all the time. From 1999 to 2010 Enbridge had 804 leaks, spilling more than 16,000 barrels of hydrocarbons into the environment per year. New
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: "Mistruths and half-truths" from our government
Stephen Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline parody, National Affairs Columnist Thomas Walkom, The Star “The federal government’s claim that big-money foreign interests are trying to hijack hearings into a proposed west coast oil pipeline is, at one level, high parody. It is also deeply disturbing. “…The bad foreign interests are the
Continue readingeaves.ca: Ethical Oil and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Process
This piece is cross-posted from the Toronto Star’s Op-Ed Page. This week the “ethical oil” argument adopted by the federal government took an interesting twist. While billions from China pour into Canada to develop the oilsands and fund the construction of the Northern Gateway pipeline, on Monday the government announced
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-11 01:42:00
CANADIAN POLITICS QUÉBEC: POLITICIANS LEAD CHARGE AGAINST PENSIONS IN QUÉBEC: It seems that in almost all countries there is a concerted effort to deny workers the pension benefits that they have worked and struggled for. Canada is, of course, no different, and the following open letter from the Canadian Union
Continue readingNew Hampshire’s Magic Eight Ball….
….Is A Little Cloudy. After all. It did manage to pick Johnny McCain in 2008 and The Shrub in ’04. But. In 2000 chose the even then old and crotchety McCain before he got Roved with the black baby story in SoCaro. And as for 1996? Well, that was the
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