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…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Koch Konnections (aka “If They Can Do It, We Can Too!”)
If the Koch Brothers can do it, we can (and should) too!
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Bar association says Tory MPs should back off CBC access case until court rules
The Canadian Bar Association says a parliamentary committee should back off its campaign against the CBC until the Federal Court has a chance to rule on the issue.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stop The Meter milestones: One year, one message, and over 500,00 engaged Canadians
Last week we celebrated not one, but two major milestones in our campaign to stop the pay-meter on Internet use. One year ago Tuesday, we launched http://StopTheMeter.ca in response to the CRTC’…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn’t produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro by Tim Naumetz
MP Dean Del Mastro says the CBC has no choice but to hand over the documents to an in camera meeting of the Commons Access to Information and Ethics Committee, even though the Federal Court of Appeal is at the moment deciding whether the broadcaster mu…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Big Revenue Increase for TV, Pay Specialty Channels, Industry Report Shows
Canada’s TV broadcasters, specialty and pay channel operators have achieved their largest annual revenue increase in almost a decade.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cain Accused of Messin’ with White Woman
At least Clarence Thomas’ accuser, Anita Hill, was also black. Now Herman Cain has a real problem. His fourth accuser has come forward in the company of, wretch, attorney Gloria Allred, and she’s white.Sharon Bialek claims Cain …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Prop Betting and Hedging Bets
As a poker player, talking about betting with non-poker friends often illustrates some pretty basic misconceptions with the process. Correcting some of these misconcep…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Beyond Platitudes
For a party desperate to stay on the political radar, the notion of “intense debate” is an underlying must. Ideas that challenge the status quo particularly attractive, not just in the name of change for change’s sake, but as a vehicle to get juices fl…
Continue readingExplaining Gay Rights
Not exactly relevant in Canada, but still useful for dealing with your fundamentalist relatives over the holiday season. [Via.]
Continue readingeaves.ca: Weaving Foreign Ministries into the Digital Era: Three ideas
Last week I was in Ottawa giving a talk at the Department of Foreign Affairs talking about how technology, new media and open innovation will impact the department’s it work internally, across Ottawa and around the world. While there is lots to share, here are three ideas I’ve been stewing on: Keep more citizens safe […]
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bill Moyers on What America Used to Mean
Bill Moyers looks back to his roots to find the greatness that was his United States of America:Henry and Ruby Moyers were “common laboring people.” My father dropped out of the fourth grade and never returned to school because his family needed …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Inspector General To Investigate Keystone XL Conflicts
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NRDC's Switchboard blog reports that the Inspector General will investigate the conflicts of interest and incompetence surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline permitting proce…
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: When The Enemy Capitulates …
You Don’t Reposition Your Troops And Leave Yourself Open To Attack!__________A week ago, I published a series of post highly critical of how Liberals handled their response to the government’s Fair Representation Act (FRA). The gist of these posts was …
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Sen. Bert Brown Confirms What PDO Readers Already Knew
Namely that Postmedia News got it wrong on the Senator’s new override proposal for a reformed Senate.Re: “Father of Triple-E Senate rethinks ‘equal’ part?; Proposal gives Ontario, Quebec veto power on legislation: professor,” The Journal, Nov. 3.This article mischaracterizes the intent of our Senate reform proposals and wrongly insinuates that
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