This excellent document comes from Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP and her team of 2011 Women Candidates. I endorse it fully! Speaking to the core values of what we believe all members of the Liberal Party of Canada should embody if we wish to regain the trust of Canadians, members
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Staggered Primaries(?): Unprecedented And Undemocratic
The Liberal Party’s proposal for using staggered primaries to select its next leader is unprecedented in the history of Western democratic political parties. And there’s a good reason for that: its version is inherently undemocratic.The constitutional amendments drafted by the National Board of the party call for a 21 week
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto City Budget – The Problem Is Ford
Numbers Game | Toronto Media Co-op The City budget is not and has never been in a financial crisis according to figures released by the Wellesley Institute, an urban health research and policy institute in Toronto.…Ford, along with the rest of the administration’s allies have often repeated the $774 million
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: God’s 2012 Predictions
Relax. You can now safely ignore all of the kooky predictions and hapless guesswork of zany media pundits about how events will play out in 2012 because The Lord God Almighty has just spoken personally to Pat Robertson and revealed His cunning plans for the New Year… Apparently, a “maximum
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Jan. 3: No news news
I didn’t even attempt to write a blog on yesterday’s Times and Transcript. There was simply nothing in it. The whole day after New Year’s Day edition was about what happened in 1911. But we already knew that. Today’s, January 3, is almost as bad. The front page has a
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Ousting quasi-dictator Harper means putting country ahead of party
As we enter the new year the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing over a new year’s resolution that would be it: a dedication to this single overarching purpose. Even if Stephen Harper
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Things To Look For In Iowa!
When Iowa votes tonight it is important to look at some small surprises there are in the race. So here are general areas to look for: All the counties south of Des Moines including Des Moines (these are rural Evangelical voters who anybody, but Romney needs to make a diffrence) The
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Top Canadian CEOs making Average Canadian’s yearly salary by Noon, says study
By noon today, Canada’s top CEO’s will have made what most Canadians take an entire year to earn. The current Canadian Government is paying that same rate $90,000 per day to look at ways to eliminate public sector jobs. Jobs that the 99% depend on to provide services like food
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 911 Refresher
If you haven’t called 911 in a while, that’s a good thing. Since no one does it very often, it’s good to refresh your mind once in a while, so you remember what a real emergency is. Here is a list of non-emergencies, or ones that are caused by incompetence.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Imperialism and the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools”
In the modern capitalist era, the ideologies of imperialist rulers vary over time, from the early appeals to “the right” to wealth, power, colonies and grandeur to later claims of a ‘civilizing mission.’ More recently imperial rulers have propagated, many diverse justifications adapted to specific contexts, adversaries, circumstances and audiences.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Company Men
I shied away from “The Company Men” in 2010 because it sounded too much like “Up in the Air,” the repellent George Clooney vehicle about corporate downsizing. Both films were far more concerned about the unemployed executive than the average factory worker, but clearly we are in a different period
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Sunny and Cold Day: Time to Think of Adventures in the Mountains
Many, many years ago Lee and I spent a lot of time hiking in the Sierra Nevada of California. Ever since then there is a particular kind of cold, blue sunshine that I associate with mountain mornings, and which make me want to get moving. This morning it’s considerably colder
Continue readingA Novelist's Mind: Lilian Nattel Online: The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak
Let me start by saying that The Winter Palace is so rich with historical detail about Russia in the time of the young Catherine the Great that the atmosphere surrounded me even when I put the book down. The Winter Palace tells the story of the young and naive (or
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Israel, Even the Top Court is an Outlaw
When Israel’s top court runs headlong into international law it’s an ugly day for the rule of law. The Israeli Supreme Court had to decide whether Israeli companies can exploit resources in the Palestinian territory, the West Bank. International law forbids occupying powers from doing just that. Faced with the
Continue readingThe Skwib: Politicians don’t grok satire though
True dat. Alltop groks all forms of humor!
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Proof: Republicans Really Are Anti-Science
republican war.jpg As readers know, I’m a regular monitor of polls capturing various aspects of the public’s views on science. These polls consistently show that for the most part, even if people don’t know a ton about it, they basically think science rocks. Americans know very well that science has
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: SRBP at Seven #nlpoli #cdnpoli
The Sir Robert Bond Papers turns seven years old today. The purpose remains simple enough, as described in the first anniversary post: While much has changed in the past year, the core goal for the Bond Papers is still the same: to contribute to an informed discussion of public policy
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Whose Brain Is Half Full?
Kelly McParland recently nominated the Occupy Movement for The National Post’s “brain half full award.” He scornfully described the movement as: People lying around in tents in downtown parks because somehow that will combat “corporate greed”, or solve one of the two dozen other complaints they had, which essentially boiled
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for January 3, 2012
Here are the first leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012. If you opted to avoid technology over the holidays, here is your chance to get caught up!: Loopholes in law spark rise in illegal surrogacy deals – Law Timeshttp://bit.ly/d62xgF – Insghts from @fertilitylaw (S. Cohen) Fogler,
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