On behalf of the Edmonton-Leduc federal NDP riding association, please allow me to wish you and yours all the best this holiday season. The support of community members as yourself is what keeps our organization going forward, and all of us really appr…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Muskrat Falls: the PUB review story #nlpoli
The Telegram has the best account of the unsuccessful effort by the public utilities board to get an extension on its review deadline for Muskrat Falls. The whole thing is worth reading, right down to the bit where natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy disputes the role of the consumer advocate
Continue readingAbortion to be recriminalized
Time to wake up and smell the coffee, folks. The countdown towards recriminalization of abortion has already begun. Because the Harper government borrows its moves from US far-right playbooks—voter suppression, assorted other dirty tricks, strategic vocabulary—it’s worthwhile briefly checking out how the latter mainstream their fringe positions. Two words: “salami
Continue readingMark Steyn brings out the best in the wingnut. Brent Bozell: Obama is a “skinny, Ghetto crackhead”.
C'mon Bozey, say something outrageous. This is Fox News! Half-assed Canuck Mark Steyn is a lovely person. He attracts same. While on Fox News, filling in for some host or something, Steyn managed to cajole the following statement from the very religious, very wingnutty head of the Media Research Centre,
Continue readingWill The (not)Premier’s Year-Enders Come Back To Bite Her?
TheThreeFingeredGrift Self-HoistingPetardVille Don’t know about you, but I’m surprised that there has been so little reaction to Christy Clark’s extensive and pretty wide-ranging year-end/round-up interviews that she held with pretty much any and all the media outlets in Lotusland, friendly or not-so. For all kinds of reasons, including the fact
Continue readingA Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land: Review: Disidentifications
[José Esteban Muñoz. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.] How do we come to be who we are? How can we relate to what we are told that we are or that we must be … especially when those messages from
Continue readingwmtc: mayan ruins in georgia are "wild and unsubstantiated guess" that "no archaeologists will defend"
Have you heard that 1,100-year-old Maya ruins have been uncovered in the US state of Georgia? Did it seem a bit hard to believe? There’s a reason for that. If you haven’t heard this, try Googling “Mayan ruins found in Georgia”. You will find copious blogs, forums and tweets, all
Continue readingMore #CPC *cough* Respect for Veterans
For a period of 28 years from 1956 to 1984 DND indiscriminately sprayed millions of litres of Agent Orange and other highly toxic defoliants on CFB Gagetown exposing thousands of military personnel and civilians to their deadly effects. In 2007 the government offered a one time payout of $20.000 to
Continue readingExponential Book: On the road again
A long and tiring term is coming to a close. Time to celebrate the holidays, then head out to Vancouver for a few days, to end 2011, and then it will be a new year and a new term. The Winter term of 2012 is also going to be very
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leadership 2012 Candidate Profile – Thomas Mulcair
From the moment Thomas Mulcair chose to run as an NDP candidate for Parliament, he’s earned both more scrutiny and more attention than any other NDP represenative other than the leader who recruited him. Indeed, during slow news months there were even highly speculative stories about Mulcair trying to take
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Economic Climate and Inequality
The December issue of the quarterly Economic Climate for Bargaining publication I produce is now on-line. This issue has a number of pieces on issues of inequality, including: Rising inequality is hurting our economy Labour rights, unions and the 99% Canadian economy bleeding jobs; public sector cuts to intensify Recession
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: Dec. 23: The silly season, lack of ethics, the usual…
There is really no news in today’s Moncton Times and Transcript. There is just triviality, horoscope, comics… In other words, it’s business as usual at the TandT. That makes Norbert’s column particularly annoying. He gets off on a rant about how newspaper news media just report silly news in this,
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canada Goose Egg
This morning, Statistics Canada reported zero economic growth in October. While growth had been driven by strong mining and fossil-fuel exports during the third quarter, Canadians got a lump of coal in October. This Christmas goose egg should come as a wake-up call to economic policymakers. It follows Labour Force Surveys
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This Week at the Ontario Court of Appeal – December 23, 2011
Each Week Wise Blog analyzes recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal. Tarion Warranty Corporation v. Kozy The main issue on appeal was whether the Respondent was considered a “builder” within the meaning of the term in the Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act (“ONHWP Act”). The appellant, Tarion
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Match Made In Heaven
One of the very last products still advertising on Fox News North, it seems. Otherwise, they drone on endlessly; one yearns for the appearance of Dr. Ho.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Diabolical Christmas Gift to Big Oil – Selling Out Canadian Workers
Any doubt that the federal government has turned Canada into a petro-state beholden to Big Oil can be put to rest by this chilling account from yesterday’s G&M. The Alberta Oil Patch appears to have persuaded Ottawa to let them fill Tar Sands jobs with Third World labour. Alberta is
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Amen, brother, amen #nlpoli #cdnpoli
nottawa asks a good question about politicians, university professors and journalists and discovery of a fairly obvious point about public life in Newfoundland and Labrador since 2003. – srbp –
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