With GOP presidential contender Rick Perry’s team being accused by Herman Cain of leaking claims of Cain sexual impropriety and registered Republican Sharon Bialek recounting a sexual assault at the hands of Mr. Cain, it appears the right is turning …
Continue readingWilly Loman: Generational Occupancy
I don’t know what’s going on. I’ve been away for far too long. It looks like my world may have started to change. The long haired freaky occupation. Has been compared to my generation So I shouldn’t find a new revolution all that strange Read more »
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: I Do Not Support the Occupy Movement.
The Occupy Movement is against democracy and capitalism. Think about that. Ponder that.I love freedom.I like to be free of disease. Free from food poisoning when I’m too lazy to cook my own food. I like the freedom of changing jobs without having to worry about my health insurance coverage (unfortunately, I do for pharmaceuticals). I like that my city is free from the smell of garbage that
Continue readingConservatives fairy tale budgeting
Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer, told us Finance Minister Jim Flaherty could not meet his deficit targets. The NDP and other opposition parties have been telling the Harper Government this for months now. Tomorrow, Flaherty will announc…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: BC Tap Water Alliance Calls for Resignation of Energy Minister Coleman Over Fracking
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The B.C. Tap Water Alliance (BCTWA) called today for the resignation of British Columbia’s Energy Minister Rich Coleman. The demand comes on the hee…
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: What’s the point?
Blogging. Really? You write a blog. Haha. Alright…
That was what I figured most people were secretly thinking when I told them I was starting to write a blog for the school way back in August 2008, even before the first day of class here at Mount A…
Continue readingImpolitical: Consistency on merit based appointments
In the news this past week, we have seen that Senator Leo Housakos is not thrilled with the Auditor General appointment: “Tory senator remains critical of unilingual AG appointment.” He’s against the unilingual appointment, fair enough, the job require…
Continue readingMy parents deserve healthcare too!
Last week the Canadian government decided to stop accepting sponsor application for parent and grandparent applications. They have decided that they can’t process any more sponsorship application for parents of Canadians who are still living abro…
Continue readingSaskatchewan
With polls closing in just a few hours in Saskatchewan, we bring to a close a very busy fall provincial election season.I am assuming there will be links to live results at some point, here after 8 p.m. CST (that’s 10:30 p.m. in Newfoundland)Other site…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Cartoon: ISAv Salmon
Check out this new cartoon from Gerry Hummel. In recent weeks British Columbians and concerned media and citizens around the world have been rocked by the revelation that multiple species of wild Pacific salmon are showing signs of being infected by a …
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Backroad Mapbooks GPS Map Review (Ontario)
Read the review on my Richard’s GPS Trail Maps site.
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: On fact based policy making
The gun lobby will tell you that police don’t use gun registry information to make tactical decisions.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
After discovering their suspect had several guns registered to him, Camrose police decided to call in the RCMP Emergenc…
Marginal Notes: Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2011 MEDIA ALERT Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay. The city of Calgary has been contemplating evicting Occupy Calgary Activists from Olympic Plaza. The labour movement supports the Occupy Calgary movement and urges City Council to let the protesters stay. “The Occupy
Continue readingMarginal Notes: Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2011 MEDIA ALERT Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay. The city of Calgary has been contemplating evicting Occupy Calgary Activists from Olympic Plaza. The labour movement supports the Occupy Calgary movement and urges City Council to let the protesters stay. “The Occupy
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Setting the tone
We’ll find out soon whether the latest Sask Party vote suppression has any impact one way or another on tonight’s election results. But even if not, it may nonetheless be rather significant in setting the province’s narrative for the next four years.Af…
Continue readingImpolitical: The "new politics"
This doesn’t feel new at all: Scrapping the long-gun registry has been a particularly controversial issue for Ashton as MP for a northern Manitoba riding, one that has a heavy aboriginal population. She has sided with the government before and voted to…
Continue readingPample the Moose: Official Bilingualism, Officers of Parliament and Supreme Court Justices
Much ink has been spilled of late about the decision of Stephen Harper to appoint a unilingual Supreme Court Justice (Michael Moldaver) and a unilingual Auditor-General (Michael Ferguson) in recent weeks. We’ve seen the usual range of commentary, whic…
Continue readingThose French…They Have A Different Word For Everything.
AllTheF-WordsThatFitBCPlaceVille….Including, ‘Fraud’.At least when it comes to cables that work a certain retractable roof in LotuslandAllegedly.Bob Mackin has the story:”….The French headquartered cable erection company hired by a Quebec steel sub…
Continue readingthe woodshed: Things go better with Koch!
The Koch brothers (not exactly as pictured above) would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony, or at least the world’s billionaires anyway. Unfortunately, the song they want to teach them appears to be the Horst Wessel Song. Class wa…
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Herman Cain is C(r)ooked
How despicable can one get to ask for sexual favours in exchange for a job prospect?Herman Cain, Mr. gospel music singer, puisly married for 50 yrs, serial harasser, all-round sleeze needs to resign his quest for the presidency of the USA.Like, yesterd…
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