I hate everything and everybody but I sure love to spend their money. But, of course, isn’t that true of most of these Harpercons and those Rethuglicans south of the border these days? I’m only mentioning it because it seems that the speculation regarding Stevie Spiteful’s potential successor have begun.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will Your Next Banana Be Chiquita?
Mine will be, given that the Harper government, aided by by one of its fronts, ethicaloil.org, has issued a fatwa against the company for its resolve not to use tarsands oil for its transportation needs. In a rare departure from Harper’s find-no-fault-with-corporations-policy, he and his ministers are in high hypocritical
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A binding guarantee may be provided by an email
Pintar v. Consolidated Wholesale, 2011 ONCA 805 is a good source for the principle that a guarantee, which of course must be in writing, can be provided by email. The Court writes: [2] There was ample evidence to support the motion judge's conclusion that the appellant's email at 5:31 p.m. on July 30, 2009
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Liberal News Media? – Capitalism is Trampling on Journalism.
People still cling to the idea that we have a liberal news bias in the media – Let’s look to the problem of global warming in an example from Media Lens. “[…] Equally disturbing is the variation in media performance across the globe. A wide-ranging Reuters study on the prevalence
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Letter to Supporters: We only have 24 hours
We only have 24 hours until key matching support ends. Please sign up now to avoid missing this opportunity. Become a monthly donor in the next 24 hours and indie ISP Distributel and domain registrar Hover will double your contribution every single month in 2012. Even contributing $3 will make
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Modest Inflation Outstrips Wages and Canada Social Transfer
Statistics Canada reported today that the annual inflation rate remained 2.9% and the Bank of Canada’s core rate remained 2.1% in November. The monthly increase in consumer prices slowed to 0.1% in November from 0.3% in October. The monthly increase in core prices slowed to 0.1% in November from 0.2%
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Allan Joseph MacEachen is a lion of Canadian politics
Born July 6, 1921 MacEachen is a many-time Cabinet minister, a retired Senator and was Canada's first Deputy Prime Minister. First elected in 1953 under the leadership of Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, MacEachen was re-elected in the 1957 election. When Lester B. Pearson formed a Liberal government in 1963, he
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Conservatives going ‘bananas’ over non-use of tarsand oil
Apparently, some Conservative ministers are either bored in Ottawa as Christmas approaches, or they’re trying to seek out new “enemies of Canada” to demonize. The new foe of Canada is now apparently Chiquita and bananas; all because they don’t want to use tarsand-based oil. Kenny and Rona Ambrose are urging
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Do Bananas Have Libel Lawyers?
I can’t find it anywhere. h/t
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Breaking news from the DFO
Statement from the Federal Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Keith Ashfield, on Negative Infectious Salmon Anaemia Test Results in British Columbia Salmon “After Canada’s reputation has needlessly been put at risk over the past several weeks because of speculation and unfounded science, additional in-depth, conclusive tests, using proper and
Continue readingMorton's Musings: I agree with Stephen Harper: Kim Jong-il violated the basic rights of the North Korean people
When he's right he's right: http://natpo.st/trjQ7B "Prime Minister Stephen Harper also weighed in on the issue and said North Korea should "close this sad chapter in its history" following the death of leader Kim Jong-il, and use his death as a means to achieve "positive change" going forward. In a
Continue readingThe Skwib: Jesus visits the Denver Broncos
I’ve been without TV for the last three months, so I haven’t witnessed all the miracles Jesus has performed on behalf of the Denver Broncos and Tim Tebow, but I do remember the Elway years… Alltop knew Mormonism was all real!
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Nalcor and the Muskrat alternatives #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Nalcor’s capital works submission to the public utilities board for 2012 included a last-minute addition of an upgrade to the power lines that connect the Avalon peninsula to the rest of the island. The submission is dated September 22. That’s really important because the Bay d’Espoir/Exploits generating complex has a
Continue readingAn accord imposed
One would think that healthcare accord negotiations would be a difficult task, slated to take place over the course of the remaining two years of the current accords, with discussions over benchmarks, deliverables, and ways in which to reform the system to meet changing demands as acute care funding models
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Jim Flaherty Joins the GOP in Bid to Stick it to Workers
I can understand now why Stephen Harper claims to only watch American news. How else can his government follow the trends, though the GOP are lagging? Jim Flaherty announced an increase in payroll taxes ages ago. The parties who claim to support lower taxes are instead increasing them, though only
Continue readingTrashy's World: Ah… les Habs…
Stay classy, Quebec nationalists, stay classy… Maybe they should worry more about winning a few hockey games. Geoff Molson, owner of the Montreal Canadiens, released a statement Monday afternoon saying that the ability to speak French is important to coaching the Montreal Canadiens. “Although our main priority remains to win
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: National Post poll bad news for Alberta Tories … in the unlikely event it’s right
A word of advice, boys: don’t bet all your kibbles on the results of a one-day demon-dialer poll! Alberta political analysts or the chances they take may not be exactly as illustrated. Toronto’s National Post – or, as I prefer to think of it, the National Pest – states in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Great American Debate (With a Poll!)
Hard to believe that’s not necessarily an oxymoronic construction, I know, despite the terminology having been debased by countless so-called “debates” as part of the contrived circus/televised horse-race that is the primary political process in the USA. This past weekend, ABC News staged an ideological face-off, ostensibly about the proper
Continue readingLullaby Monday….
AllThePickingThatFits SelfTaughtVille Back when I was a younger whipper-snapper and I was kinda/sorta fighting with my department head for all the usual reasons that young whipper-snapper junior faculty do, I took a trip to Winnipeg that doubled as one of those ‘come and have a look see and see what
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