Today our Prime Minister is forcing Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence to pay $1300 a day for some Accountant to come into the community to take control of the local finances. According to the CBC, The federal government is forcing the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation to pay a private-sector consultant about
Continue readingHarper shutting out auditor general from Commons committee meetings
I’ve largely refrained the past few weeks from posting about the grossly anti-democratic manner in which our government has chosen to conduct itself. Other bloggers have been documenting the atrocities better than I could and let’s face it, the whole corrupt Contemptuous mess has me silenced. For once. But this
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ‘Twas Just Before Christmas in the House
Our clever Grinch of a Prime Minister gets a lyrical beating here. (If Harper is the Grinch, who is the little dog?)
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: EPA Connects Dots Between Groundwater Contamination and Fracking in Wyoming
niobrara-shale-map1.png The tables turned on the gas industry today with the release of a new report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) connecting the dots between fracking and groundwater contamination in the state of Wyoming, located in the hear tof the Niobrara Shale basin. The report is sure to leave many
Continue readingBrigette DePape marches on. Shows up at Durban Climate Summit.
Proving she’s no one-hit wonder, Brigette DePape showed up in Durban to peacefully fight for the future of Canada and the world. The inspiration for countless of Canadians after her silent Stop Harper moment, DePape is evolving into a spokesperson for other causes such as preventing further climate change. I’ll let her speak for
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Things I wonder about
1. — Exactly who is the federal government representing as they try to suppress evidence that they are suppressing evidence of the ISA threat to westcoast fisheries? From Tamsyn Burgmann, Canadian Press: “The possibility that a potentially devastating fish virus has migrated into British Columbia salmon is concerning enough to
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Violence is not child’s play
Making war has been a human pursuit for thousands of years. Playing at war, it would seem, is at least as old. This ancient Greek toy, a model of a war chariot, fashioned from clay, has survived the millennia to bear witness to our enduring attachment to violence and domination.
Continue readingQP: Reserving the power to change the law
There was a rather muted energy in the Chamber as Question Period got underway, for whatever the reason. Nycole Turmel started off by asking about details around the Perimeter Security Agreement, to which Harper said that they just gave them all kinds of details, and reminded everyone that the NDP
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Ethical Oil is Snake Oil
Talking about ethical oil is like saying guns don’t kill people. Well they don’t. People kill people. But sometimes they use a gun to do it. Oil isn’t ethical or unethical (unless you add corn … get it? ethyl alcohol? Sorry, corny I know, but I couldn’t resist. And it
Continue readingBrigette DePape marches on. Shows up at Durban Climate Summit.
Proving she’s no one-hit wonder, Brigette DePape showed up in Durban to peacefully fight for the future of Canada and the world. The inspiration for countless of Canadians after her silent Stop Harper moment, DePape is evolving into a spokesperson for other causes such as preventing further climate change. I’ll
Continue readingMorning after madness. Kansasanine Katherine Sebilius vetoes FDA-recommended morning-after pill
You can take the girl out of Kansas but you can’t take the Kansas out of the girl. Former governor of one of the most backward states in the nation, current Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebilius has vetoed the long-anticipated availability of over-the-counter morning-after pills. Despite the recommendations
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Half Eaten Sandwich Sells for $2
I did it! You can thank me later for upending a longstanding tradition of women only being correct. My wife stated that it was not possible for me to sell a half eaten sandwich on UsedRegina.com, but I did it on Tuesday. It took a couple months, but someone finally
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yup…
December 8 and no snow. Love it!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Will Durban Climate Talks Leave Us On the Wrong Side of History?
floods-in-kennedy-road.jpg Guest post by Heather Libby of TckTckTck.org, originally published on Huffington Post. Whatever happens, the next 48 hours will change the world. The Durban climate negotiations dance on a wire. Sway but a little, and everything falls. For the past ten days scientists, politicians, faith leaders, health leaders, artists and unions
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: ChristianWeek covers Prairie Bible Institute but leaves out the wounded
While Canadian media was part of a blitz of coverage about abuse allegations at Prairie Bible Institute, evangelical media in Canada has been silent, until now. ChristianWeek is finally covering the story. For the most part the coverage is fair, using one of their writers for the main story and
Continue readingVideo: Bill O’Reilly uses umbrella to strike man, walks away with broken umbrella, asks police to arrest victim
Unbelievable. This from a man who specializes in ambush interviews, broadcasting them edited without advising his audience. It’s hilarious watching media elite O’Reilly walking away with a busted weapon over his head, whining to a cop that he should arrest the actual victim for getting in the way of his
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: A note on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism
GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties in national polls, and now faces considerable competition for the nomination from a surging Newt Gingrich. One problem for him
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A talk with Murray Calder
I had a good talk today with Murray Calder, a former Member of Parliament, about the future of the Liberal Party. Murray allowed me to speak directly on the blog about our discussion. We spoke of many things but a central point Murray made was that the median age in
Continue readingAlberta values are not Western values
Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson recently gave a talk to a standing-room only crowd of Torontonians about how a set of Western values has captured the country. Ibbitson was, I suspect, making a mistake common to Eastern pundits. He was assuming that what might be called Alberta values form
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