The RCMP have opted not to pursue their investigation of the government’s decision to improperly reallocate border infrastructure funds to put toward G8 legacy projects in the Huntsville area – even though such reallocations without parliamentary approval go against financial administration laws. Which isn’t to say that they couldn’t reopen said investigation
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A simple truth
For British Columbia Liberals, the BC Rail/Basi/Virk story is like a slow growing cancer. Left unresolved, it is metastasizing, nudging the afflicted party toward an inevitable conclusion. I’ve tried to understand why Liberals, or at least ethical members within the party, have not demanded an end to this distress through
Continue readingeaves.ca: The Canadian Government’s New Web 2.0 Guidelines: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Yesterday, the government of Canada released its new Guidelines for external use of Web 2.0. For the 99.99% of you unfamiliar with what this is, it’s the guidelines (rules) that govern how, and when, public servants may use web 2.0 tools such as twitter and facebook. You, of course, likely
Continue readingOdd Happenings in Mont-Royal
So imagine this. You are an MP of a riding in the middle of Montreal. You’re not any MP, though, you are a Liberal MP. Your party has held this riding since 1940 and not only that, the first time you ran for this riding, you won it with 91%.
Continue readingOdd Happenings in Mont-Royal
So imagine this. You are an MP of a riding in the middle of Montreal. You’re not any MP, though, you are a Liberal MP. Your party has held this riding since 1940 and not only that, the first time you ran for this riding, you won it with 91%.
Continue readingWhatever comes of this ruling, it’s important to pay attention…
Countdown to Canada’s polygamy/polyamory ruling At 1 p.m. EST tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 23), the Supreme Court of British Columbia will announce its ruling on the constitutionality of Canada’s broad anti-polygamy and anti-polyamory law. We’ll post news here ASAP, along with the official response from the Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association (CPAA)
Continue readingCommunique from AW@L a year and a half after the G20 occupation of Toronto…
AW@L Statement of Support for G20 Resisters and of Continued Resistance Against Colonial Capitalism It has been a year and a half since the most massive police operation in canadian history targeted our communities and abducted our friends into the grips of the (in)justice system. In this billion-dollar ‘security’ operation,
Continue readingI don’t know what happened to their facebook shitstorm but…
after what the police did (and got away with) before, during and after the g20/g8 occupation of toronto, this offers at least a little satisfaction…even if it’s only one beest being targeted. “you are cowards and bullies. tools of the corrupt. puppets for your masters.” if what you’re reading here
Continue readingthe woodshed: We spent a billion dollars for this?
Note that most of these people were arrested in pre-dawn raids BEFORE the G20 demonstrations began, thanks to the use of infiltrators and police spies and agents provocateurs. And it cost taxpayers about a billion dollars, not including the fake lake and Tony Clement’s gazebo.obviously these 17 people posed an
Continue readingCrucial question about the Palestinian freedom rides…
Are the Freedom Rides a detour for the struggle?Linah Alsaafin Is Palestine’s an anti-colonial or civil rights struggle?(Ryan Rodrick Beiler) Last week, six courageous Palestinians attempted to defy racism, segregation and apartheid by boarding Jewish settler-only buses in the hopes of reaching Jerusalem, a city off limits to Palestinians in
Continue readingThis site looks amazing…
The Icarus Project envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of ‘mental illness’ rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are commonly diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions.
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: The Wildrose Party’s Redford Files: Not nearly as funny as the first time…
The Redford Files website: evidence the Wildrose Alliance is on the ropes. Below, an image grabbed from the site. If “the Redford Files” really are “authorized by the Wildrose Party,” as the blog-style attack website that appeared on the Internet a few days ago indicates, it is the best evidence
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: david dorward to seek progressive conservative nomination in edmonton-gold bar.
David Dorward Accountant and recent Mayoral candidate David Dorward is expected to announce this morning that he will seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in Edmonton-Gold Bar, according to a reliable source. As the PC candidate in the 2008 election, Mr. Dorward placed a strong second to MLA Hugh MacDonald in
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Sigh
Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner describes the politics of ruthlessness: Each time the tone seems to have reached bottom, down it goes again. When the House of Commons marked Remembrance Day, each party stood to say a few words honouring the dead, but MPs from the Green Party and the
Continue readingMorton's Musings: What is liberalism?
Talking tonight to an Alberta Liberal I was asked 'what do I believe as a liberal'. I thought at first about what I don't believe in — the Conservative crime bills, a bellicose foreign policy and abandoning First Nation youth. But then I thought being a liberal is not a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Contorted cats.
Continue readingOWS is growing up (OV: not so much)
Last week was a busy one for Occupy Wall Street in NYC. Protesters were viciously “de-camped” early on before rallying to mark the protest’s 2-month anniversary with a “day of action” on Thursday that culminated in a pretty amazing march of 10,000 or so (and some awesome guerrilla projection art).
Continue readingFree to be Human
An Interview with David Edwards
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