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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…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Excited Delirium Book: Chapter 66 (Watching the Quake Real-Time)
Author’s Note: The following is Chapter 66 of the my online book “Excited Delirium”. Please post comments. Please tell your friends about this story. If you’ve missed a chapter, please click here for Chapter 1 (Prelude) or here …
Continue readingOccupy Denver Elects a Leader . . . .
and our Four-Footed-Child heartily agrees with the choice . . . .Boris: Who’s the speaker at the 8:12 mark ? ? ? ? Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
Continue readinggritchik: Frank Klees likes Frank Klees
It’s a little old, but still worth a giggle.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Alert! Episode 194
Karen Devito on the Canadian boat to Gaza shares experiences of her group’s detention by Israeli authorities, *Toronto Star* columnist Thomas Walkom on the Eurozone’s bail-out efforts for Greece and Martine Elois of Échec à la Gue…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The Inflation-Control Target
So, the 2% inflation target has been renewed as it now stands. (Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.) The background report from the Bank of Canada is pretty self-congratulatory, though it does somewhat revise the current regime to underline the point that monetary policy also […]
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry citizens moved their bank accounts from corporate banks to local citizen…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hey Guys, Is This Warning Clear Enough for You?
By “guys” I’m referring to the ‘day late, dollar short’ Liberals who seem intent on taking a well-deserved dirt nap.It’s a warning. From the International Energy Agency. It couldn’t be clearer.”The world is likely to build so many fossil-f…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: It’s Hard to Make Priorities
Mayor Fiacco could use a little more tact. It’s hard to be personable though, when you’re out to violate citizens’ Charter right to free assembly. It’s funny how the occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo was praised by people and the media here, but a similar occupation in Regina is condemned by some politicians, and […]
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The tone deaf Christmas tree tax
The US Department of Agriculture has announced it is imposing a fifteen cent tax on all live Christmas trees. The 2 million raised from this tax will be spent to create a board that promotes and advertises buying live Christmas trees. This is…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Occupy Canada movement remains unscathed following phoney attack by MACLEAN’S
The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as Maclean’s Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in Canada.
Coyne’s cover story acknowledged that anyone li…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Must Be A Slow News Day
No less than three progressive blogger types are arguing over whether the Sunshine Girl should be phased out and yet none of them have provided a picture of the girl that triggered the debate (Marie-Claude Bourbonnais). So, apparently that’s become…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Wireless service complaints on the rise in Canada… but so are Big Telecom profits
Hey Canada, it’s time for more competition
Canadians have been speaking out about their wireless services in growing numbers. In fact, complaints about services from Big Telecom companies such…
Art Threat: New Nordic Documentary Cinema – Identity and belonging made visible
To describe the topic of Nordic documentary cinema as unexplored would be an understatement.
Continue reading"But anybody can do that." – Jim Flaherty
Oh dear, this must hurt…
The Conservatives have not liked how the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has been doing his job. They have gone so far as to limit the information they give him, yet despite attempts to kneecap him, he has been on th…
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Too Much Success? Nope, Just a Reason to Put More Money in Transit
More and more people in the Montreal region are using public transit, a report by the group Transit says. In 2006, Quebec set out to increase use of public transit by 8 per cent in six years. The good news is that that goal has been surpassed everywh…
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: The Future of North American Politics
Today the Globe & Mail opened its commentary on the American 2012 election with a column by Pittsburgh journalist David Shribman. Shribman presents a bizarre description of the American election as a stark choice between two extremes: democratic socialism (higher taxes, more public healthcare, prosecution of Wall Street criminals) or Republican corporatism (lower taxes, less […]
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