The 20th century began as the age of the dictator. It ended with liberalism having come of age as the ascendant political philosophy across the world. Yet liberal parties everywhere are in crisis. Can they grow with the success of liberalism, or have they been outgrown by the success of
Continue readingNo Comment: Self-Styled Pro-Life “Feminist”
In this occasional feature, we present the best of amusing anti-choice nonsense, found online and elsewhere. In this case, I’m not discounting this woman’s experience with abortion; it is not always the right choice for everyone. However, w…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night Blues Brothers blogging
No reason in particular other than that they cheer me up. Welcome to another Friday night. This is "B" Movie Box Car Blues….
Continue readingcmkl: Remembrance Day: comparative poetry
The poppies, the poems. I’ve gotten yelled at before about this, and this topic very rapidly leads to a proof of Godwin’s Law, but here goes anyway.
Continue readingA Report on Abortion Services in Ontario
A few weeks ago, Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario. (an agency of the provincial government), released a report on the state of abortion access in the province. A detailed copy of the report has been posted by the Institute of Feminist Leg…
Continue readingA lot of good that ‘ethical oil’ business did for Keystone, eh Ezra?
Hehe.
OTTAWA — The stunning Obama administration decision to put the brakes on a major pipeline expansion project linking Canadian oil to Texas refineries suggests the federal government needs to revisit its multimillion-dollar lobbying and marketing strategy to promote Canada as an "ethical" source of energy, observers and industry stakeholders said Friday.
"It clearly didn’t work," said
Continue readingThoughts for Remembrance Day, and Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) figures out the #Occupy movement
It’s a big man who can start a national column with an admission that he got it wrong.This little corner’s been relatively silent on the whole Occupy thing, but now that it’s gotten the Masters of the Universe sufficiently rattled, they’re cranking up …
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: 7 reasons city slickers should support the Canadian Wheat Board
I received this letter from the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board. I think it speaks for itself. The Attack on the Canadian Wheat Board: Seven Reasons Non-Farmers Should Care … and Act On October 18th, Prime Minister Harper introduced legislation, Bill C-18, to dismantle the Canadian Wheat Board. The majority of farmers oppose the […]
Cowboys for Social Responsibility: With friends like this
As anybody who follows Canadian politics should know, NDP MP Thomas Mulcair is MP for École Polytechnique.
As an NDP leadership candidate, Mulcair has just been presented his first big dilemma. And that dilemma links his leadership aspirations right…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Primaries and mustaches
As promised earlier, I’ve written about the Liberal executive’s open primary leadership election proposal. You’ve got to go over to Macleans.ca to read it though; I’ll be occasionally writing for them on Liberal renewal and perhaps other exciting topic…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Fatal Flaw in the Liberal Party Renewal Plan Primary Election of new Leader
The devil is in the details, and Peter Wrightwater of the blog Paper Dynamite Online has just unearthed a major defect in the Liberal Primary Election plan which could have major anti-democratic consequences.He examines the proposed Electoral College w…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tim Hudak Still Won’t Admit To Gay Bashing During Election Campaign…
We’re still talking about that flyer that got them into so much trouble in October:
On Friday the PC Party held firm and refused to apologize. “We addressed this during the campaign,” Alan Sakach, the party’s director of communications, told…
The Common Sense Canadian home page: Why Culture Matters: Prosperity Mine’s Impacts on the People and Land of the Nemaiah Valley
Editor’s Note: In the wake of two major developments regarding the highly controversial proposed Prosperity Mine – the Harper Government’s decision to provide Taseko Mines a new environmental review for an alternate version of the project and the BC go…
Continue readingThanks to Occupy, the term ‘income inequality’ now part of the national conversation
It took the media long enough to catch on but, as Ben Smith notes, ‘Occupy Wall Street is winning’.
A quick search of the news–including print articles, web stories and broadcast transcripts–via Nexis reveals a significant rise in the use of the te…
Continue readingHarper: thin skin or controlling freak?
Scrubbing unfavourable comments from your Facebook page is not reassuring to a nation who depends on you for transparency and an ear for alternative views, Mr. Prime Minister. But you can do what you want and you do exactly that, screw us regular folk…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Competing for the Internet: Weekly Updates from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingJay-Z ripping off Occupy Wall Street?
Looks like it.
Jay-Z is releasing a new line of T-shirts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday via his Rocawear clothing label, but he doesn’t plan to share any of the profits with the protesters.
The rapper was recently seen wearing one of the shirts, which tweaks the phrase "Occupy Wall Street" by crossing out the "W" and adding an "S" to make it read "Occupy All Streets."
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Competing for the Internet: Weekly Updates from OpenMedia.ca
Here’s Lindsey and Reilly with your Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca:
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Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Massive protest in Quebec against huge hike in tuition fees
About 200,000 university and college students across Quebec shut down their campuses on November 10 to protest a projected 75% increase in tuition fees in the recent budget of the Liberal government headed by Jean Charest. Up to 30,000 students and sup…
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