Now Winter Nights Enlarge Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours, And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy towers. Let now the chimneys blaze, And cups o’erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine. yellow waxen lights Shall wait on honey love, While youthful revels,
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Canada is a Better Place with Pat Martin in Parliament
I’m a Liberal, but there’s a lot about the NDP that I like. Foremost is the straight talking approach of some of their MPs. In the few televised committee hearings I’ve watched (such as the Mulroney graft inquiries), Pat Martin stood out as someone who asks intelligent, incisive questions. Over
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Welcome Winter…
Ah… the first arctic high pressure system off the season has descended from the North. Overnight temperatures have descended to a frosty -35 degrees Celsius. Time once again to embrace hot chocolate, snow tires and multiple layers of clothing. Filed under: Housekeeping Tagged: Edmonton, Winter, Woo-Haa
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #17
Cold beach Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Marc Lee presents an alternative economic vision to the capital-first-and-only approach that currently serves as conventional wisdom. – Meanwhile, Andrew Jackson suggests five philosophical principles that can help the NDP to form government in 2015 on a social democratic platform: More – not
Continue readinggritchik: Hudak huffs and he puffs, etc.
Yesterday, an email from the PC’s landed in my inbox threatening to force an election in the next year. Seriously? Pretty big talk from the guy who blew a 12 point lead over the summer. Also ridiculous: his demands for a legislated public sector wage freeze. Hudak knows this will
Continue readingConservatives set to legalize hate speech
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has signalled the government’s intentions to support a private member’s bill from backbench Alberta MP Brian Storseth that will repeal Sn. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. That section presently reads: Hate messages (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group
Continue readingwmtc: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, as long as you don’t mind being beaten and abused
Further to an older post “the definition of a police state depends on where you live – what country, and what postal code “, I present these without comment, because what is there to say? Police drag OWS protester by her hair Police officer calmly and methodically uses chemical agent
Continue readingUS: fascism goes to college
Meet Lieutenant John Pike, above. His telephone number is 530-752-3989. His email is japikeiii@ucdavis.edu. Don’t hold back—Pat Martin this pig. When University of California at Davis students protest nonviolently on their own campus, this is what happens in Amerika. Some accounts here and here and here. A professor calling for
Continue readingOpen Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricadesee also my post last night: Police use pepper-spray against sitting Students
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Pension Shell Game
Tom Walkom writes that the only real pension is a defined benefit pension — the kind of pension which allows you to know how much you will receive in retirement — like the Canada Pension Plan. For the past thirty years, private pensions have been disappearing, through company bankruptcies. Or
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Let Quebec Pay
The federal government is not only going to destroy the long gun registry, but is going to destroy all the data too. However, Quebec wants to keep the registry and maintain it on its own. They are willing to foot the bill as long as it gets the data. Why
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
A very moving video showing the deep emotional bond between a gorilla and the man who raised him:
Continue readingImpolitical: Speech of the week
A must see speech from the European parliament, November 16th. It’s Nigel Farage a member of the UK Independence Party who holds nothing back. It’s entertaining, sure, but they’re not laughing much in the EU these days. It is a good point that he raises, about the democratic legitimacy of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Government Hate Crime Initiatives Will Outlaw Linking To Hate Speech
Joe Brean is usually careful about these stories, so though I don’t see where anyone in the gov. has said this explicitly, I will assume he’s got it right re the criminal code enhancements that will offset the repeal of Section 13 of the CHRA: One of the Criminal Code enhancements
Continue readingImpolitical: Optimistic enthusiasm
Optimistic enthusiasm as a form of realism: How does your organization respond to new opportunities? Most companies launch new things, try out new initiatives, brainstorm new approaches. The internal response (or reaction) to these ventures is a cultural choice, one that often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. If your organization
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Traffic for the New Dawn #nlpoli
Nalcor’s own studies back NG as Muskrat alternative Quebec adds 300 MW of wind Free advice Court docket now online One statement, three stories The Truth Deficit Typical Economy to slow down? Unseen wounds are no less real Vote SRBP as best political blog in Canada – srbp –
Continue readingThe Mike Harris Liberals
While debate on the seat redistribution bill gets underway, the Liberals have decided to throw caution to the wind, and outline their radical proposal of redistribution a) without adding new seats, and b) still respecting some of the established floors, though not all. It’s ballsy, I’ll grant them that, but I’m certainly
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Coming soon
I hope to meet a few Northern Insights readers at Thursday’s event.
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