At a recent Nature Vancouver event, Damien Gillis discussed the proposed
doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and
wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone – disputing the myth advanced by the Port Authority…
Queer Mexican to be Deported
Herberth Menendez is a 30 year old queer Mexican living with HIV, who immigrated to Canada in 2007. He left Mexico to claim refugee status in Canada because he feared for his life due to the intense discrimination and threats of physical violence he f…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: An Open Party
The Liberal White Paper on party reform has been leaking out over the past few days, and will reportedly be released in full tonight. I’m sure there will be a lot of worthwhile ideas within it, but the one likely to grab the most headlines is the propo…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Video: Whose Economy? Choosing Port Expansion Over Food Security
At a recent Nature Vancouver event, Damien Gillis discussed the proposed
doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and
wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone – disputing the myth advanced by the Port Authority…
Impolitical: They’re not impressed in Peterborough
“No B for behaved” for Dean Del Mastro from the local Peterborough paper in the wake of his attack on Justin Trudeau’s religious bona fides. They’re embarrassed: When we endorsed Dean Del Mastro in an editorial last spring, we did so with the explicit …
Continue readingTea Party put on ice
You know there is hope that the United States is coming around. I know that there are at least 155 million of you that are progressive. Its clear to me every time I visit. Yet you have had this fling with GWB and then with the Tea Party. I mean w…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Group Raises $40,000 on Kickstarter to Film Disappearing Magicians
No pun intended! A threatened colony of magicians in India will be digitally preserved at least by a group that put together a proposal and posted it on Kickstarter. The colony of street artists, magicians and jugglers came together in the 1950s as the life of the traditional traveling performers
Continue readingAmerica 2, Amerika 0
Two clean hits down South this week: In Ohio, a legislative union-busting measure was overwhelmingly overturned by voters. And in Arizona, a Teabaggin’ racist was hoofed out of the Senate in a recall election. Vox populi……
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Media Advisory: Internet metering (usage-based billing) decision to come Tuesday; OpenMedia.ca available for comment
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WHO:
Steve Anderson, Executive Director, OpenMedia.ca
Lindsey Pinto, Communications Manager, OpenMedia.ca
WHAT:
The CRTC has just announced a media/stakeholders lock-up in To…
Things Are Good: Climate Vulnerable Forum Starts Soon
The Climate Vulnerable Forum is a group of countries that are particularly sensitive to climate change and rising sea levels. Every year they meet to find ways to make humanity as a whole more sustainable and more respectful of the environment. Their next meeting is November 13-14.
The Forum’s Dhaka ministerial meeting, at the threshold of […]
CuriosityCat: Liberals, let’s use the Two-Tier Primary system for electing our next leader
In an earlier post I mentioned the problem of raiding or hijacking which bedevil open primaries: your opponents might vote for the weakest Liberal candidate in the hope of reducing Liberal chances of success in the general election.Blunt Objects, in a …
Continue readingwmtc: some good occupy reading: moyers, hedges, rich
Three pieces worth reading:Frank Rich: The Class War Has Begun.Bill Moyers: How Wall Street Occupied America.Chris Hedges: A Master Class in Occupation.
Continue readingVancouver Sun – ‘No LGBT History in the NDP’
The Vancouver Sun and other Post media papers ran a piece on November 5 called ‘Public figures urged to come ‘out’.
It’s not a bad piece except for the fact that it clearly leaves out the one party that has done ground breaking work on the matter. T…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Gas Fracking Industry Using Military Psychological Warfare Tactics and Personnel In U.S. Communities
At the “Media & Stakeholder Relations: Hydraulic Fracturing Initiative 2011” conference last week in Houston, Matt Pitzarella, Director of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs at Range Resources, revealed in his presentation that…
Continue readingTeh Ghey takes on Teh Heterostoopid
Guess who wins.
Bonus: Conan O’Brien may be about to WHAT?
Conan needs an envelope. And the crapaganda whores need a new scriptwriter. Or SEVERAL. And they need to all agree NOT to use the same fucking cliché.
Continue readingwmtc: canada causes cancer, cons are wrong on crime: two easy letters to send
In case you haven’t seen these yet:Through Avaaz, a letter to the premiers of all provinces to oppose the wrong-headed Conservative crime bill: here.Through the David Suzuki Foundation, a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Quebec Premier Jean …
Continue readingcartoon life: http://glenpearson.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/remember-when-we-were-young/
http://glenpearson.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/remember-when-we-were-young/.
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CuriosityCat: Primaries are Infectious: Ask MP Sarah Wollaston of Totnes, UK
In 2009 Dr Sarah Wollaston became the first candidate for election as an MP in the UK to be selected by the Conservative Party through an open primary.Danniel Hannan says this about the primary selection method:Once one party adopts open primarie…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Debating our tactics in Oakland
Todd Chretien reports from Oakland on what happened after the general strike last week—and describes an important debate among activists about tactics and strategy.
November 9, 2011
In the aftermath of the Oakland general strike on November 2, …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Internet metering decision to come Tuesday
The CRTC has just announced a media/stakeholders lock-up in Toronto, on November 15th from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM, when they will announce their decision about Internet metering (usage-based billing). We’ll be announcing the results of the hearing to the p…
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