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
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Willing to Bet on Your God? – Choose rationality instead.
Betting on infinity is a tough choice to justify. Pascal tried and failed… will you?
Filed under: Ethics, Religion Tagged: god, infinity, Religion, theramin trees
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: What I learned at the Climate Action Network’s Conference
Friday, November 4, 2011
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I was in Montreal, where I joined with elected officials, civil servants, labour activists, e…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Pte. Thomas Earl Butler: 17 March 1896 – 1 March 1917
It’s been over ninety-four years since my paternal grandmother’s brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. Grandma bore his death with pain right up until her ow…
Continue readingHave a koch and a $mile ? ? ? ?
The right-wing-billionaire-zealot brother$ koch are about to fully engage their database war on the rest of the civilized world.Feature article in today’s GuardianUK reveals the details: The secretive oil billionaires the Koch brothers are close to lau…
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Prosperity Redux: a disappointing decision for the environment, First Nations and the EA process
Monday, November 7, 2011
Today, November 7, 2011, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) announced that Taseko Mine Ltd.’s gold and cop…
Continue readingOpen primaries and the entrenchment of problems
It seems that during the big Liberal
telephone town hall on Sunday, interim leader Bob Rae was talking about the
possibility of moving the party toward implementing a kind of “open primary”
system when it comes to choosing their next lead…
Recreating Eden: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the NDP: a Forum
Here’s an invitation that may be just what you wanted!You would like to know more about the history of the NDP and its record as a force for change in Canada? You would like the chance to discuss the issues currently being defended by the NDP team of …
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Anglophone Thoughts on Unilingual Judges and National Unity
I’m probably the last person in the country to weigh in on the Harper regime’s English-only Supreme Court judges and Auditor-General. But since nobody I’ve read has yet said the only thing worth saying on this subject, I’m going to do so anyways. Plus, my interest was piqued by a scurrilous column by apparently well-meaning […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Remember those they left behind
From the Globe and Mail, Sergeant Ed Wadleigh reminds Canadians to think of those the fallen left behind: But if I could ask one thing of all Canadians for Remembrance Day, it would be this: Spare not a thought for the fallen. Think instead o…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Pathological Commitment to the Ideology of Austerity Brings Only Economic Stagnation
The curse of austerity – thestar.com
This is a very insightful analysis of our current situation. Here’s a bit of a gloss on it:
Neither the private sector nor consummer spending seems to be able to stimulate growth in the economy. This is the real …
Continue readingLeDaro: Herman Cain Hat Quotes
Impact of sexual harassment revelations.Read more quotes here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pulpit And Politics: The Book
With the ascension of the federal Conservative Party, there have been two important attempts made to measure the influence that religious voters–especially those associated with The Religious Right–wield within the Harper government. One of the…
Continue readingcartoon life: Landscapes IV book just arrived
Fedex and the printer were busy. The book collecting the 20 images from this series just arrived. Same terms as the cat book, if you want one. I’ll put up a page for it soon.
Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad, painting
Politics and its Discontents: Finding Freedom in Handcuffs
That is the title of Chris Hedges’ latest column at truthdig.org, written after his arrest for sitting on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs in New York. It is a powerful indictment of the immorality that pervades the ethos of unfettered capitalism…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Why the The Leadership Needs the Power to Appoint Candidates
Evil IncarnateOf all the proposals I’ve heard floating around so far to change how democracy is done within the Liberal Party, the question of taking away a leader’s power to appoint candidates is the worst. It’s the only one that I cannot ever agree w…
Continue reading350 or bust: Mark Ruffalo On Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline: I Look At My Kids and I Say I Can’t Betray Them
I’m looking out the window of my home office today, rejoicing at the sprinkling of snow on the ground. Yesterday rain fell outside, while a confused fly that should have been hibernating buzzed around inside. Both are examples, along with the tem…
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