The public utilities board review of the Muskrat Falls project may be a set-up but the lawyer for the board is certainly making Nalcor pay for every single inch of ground. Here’s one of her recent letters for the record straightening out Nalcor’s counsel. Again. This is the kind of
Continue readingWe Don’t Have a Speaker! We Have a Stevie Spiteful Yes Man!
I honestly don’t know why people are so shocked about our adorable speaker, Andy Scheer. I always knew he would be a hyper-partisan speaker. Others speculated about whether or not he could be non-partisan, as well, despite the fact that the Harpercons would’ve preferred someone older. And when push comes to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Cons Go After Our Medicare System
They promised they wouldn’t go after medicare. But that was then and this is now. The Conservative government is putting the provinces on notice that Ottawa plans to shrink the rate of growth in health transfers. As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty prepares to meet his provincial and territorial counterparts Monday
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Burning question
An even faintly ethical government, confronted with reprehensible behaviour that escapes any ramifications based merely on a technicality, might be expected to at least turn its mind to trying to fill in the gap. Anybody want to take bets on who’ll even waste their breath suggesting that the Cons could
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Heads In the Sand, or Rolling?
I find it to be a very difficult day to be a proud Canadian. If you don’t agree with scientific fact that there is climate change from our pollution, you’ll probably be offended if you read this blog post. I hope you are offended, because I’m angry, and you should
Continue readingQP: Grudging admission of belief in climate science
With so many issues on the headlines across the nation, it’s always a guessing game to see which one will top off QP. Today, Nycole Turmel led off with a question on Quebec’s proposed legal challenge for long-gun registry data, to which Harper gave his usual assurances about not targeting
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: A diamond is forever
Perhaps the most iconic irony of the whole crisis at Attawapiskat is the presence, a scant 90 km away, of the De Beers Diamond Mine at Victor Lake. The top 1% and some of us 98%ers could be wearing diamonds pulled from the traditional territories of the poorest 1%. If
Continue readingBlunt Objects: No Prima Facie Breach of Cotler’s Privilege – Speaker Scheer
And unlike Warren Kinsella, I tend to agree with Scheer’s ruling. The fact is that there’s little in the way of any sort of precedent that I can find with a small cursory glance to prove Cotler’s face of a breach of his parliamentary privilege. Granted, I’m not in any
Continue readingThe Incredible Lightness Of Being David Frum…
…Lies In The Darkest Of Hearts More on what we reckon Mr. Frum is really up to to follow…. .
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Beautiful Attawapiskat Christmas Carol
The song is Jesus Ahatonia, written by St. Jean de Brebeuf in 1643. Absolutely beautiful.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CCLA: Three principles for any new ‘lawful access’ legislation
From the Canadians Civil Liberties Association: The writing is on the wall (or in this case perhaps it’s the homepage) – it is only a matter of time until the government unveils its most recent incarnation of ‘lawful access’ legislation. As has been pointed out by others, ‘lawful access’ is
Continue reading"Anything goes!"
Shorter Conservative Speaker Andrew Scheer. The notion of Parliamentary privilege becomes a nullity, and Canada edges closer to becoming a de facto one-party state.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Regifting
The Liberal Party’s Million Conversations campaign to raise a million dollars has featured almost daily e-mails from current Liberal MPs, past Liberal greats, and Paul Martin. These letters have taken on an increasingly frantic tone, culminating in Jean Chretien’s warning yesterday that Harper may re-open the abortion and Same Sex
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Inequality and Climate Injustice: A Durban Post-Mortem
The United Nations climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, ended 2011 with a whimper. After a year in which climate disasters rolled across the globe, major polluting nations like Canada chose to ignore them, seeking instead to disrupt the Durban negotiations, then blew the world a raspberry, by officially
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Message to Police Boards: Join Us
Should police be defending the people that are cutting their benefits and pensions? Or should they join us?
Continue readingStaffroom Confidential: Fix the teacher? What about society
One of the five items in the BC education plan is to improve “teacher quality”. Evidently Minister Abbott, after his many visits to schools and conversations with teachers, has come to the conclusion that there is a “teacher quality” problem. This despite overwhelming evidence of the negative impact on educational
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: De Beers decision to dump sewage into Attawapiskat played role in current housing crisis
In case you missed it, see the full APTN story here.I just note I think it’s an important story because of all the haters on the Globe and Mail and CBC sites that have posted ugly, racist and totally unsubstantiated claims in the comments section, blaming the Attawapiskat residents about
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: De Beers decision to dump sewage into Attawapiskat played role in current housing crisis
In case you missed it, see the full APTN story here.I just note I think it’s an important story because of all the haters on the Globe and Mail and CBC sites that have posted ugly, racist and totally unsubstantiated claims in the comments section, blam…
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: De Beers decision to dump sewage into Attawapiskat played role in current housing crisis
In case you missed it, see the full APTN story here.I just note I think it’s an important story because of all the haters on the Globe and Mail and CBC sites that have posted ugly, racist and totally unsubstantiated claims in the comments section, blaming the Attawapiskat residents about
Continue readingCompetitive corporate taxation does not guarantee deficit reduction
The nerve displayed by the rich and their largely conservative backers both in the U.S. and Canada can reach staggering proportions at times, from in your face taunting through their TV stations like Fox and Sun News, to a flood of gibberish coming from their die hard columnists in the
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