Canada’s own Rick Mercer posted a particularly good Rick Mercer Rant last week, prompted in part by the Conservative Party’s ill-thought-out and poorly timed contribution to the It Gets Better project. The rant quickly gained viral status online with its simple message: It’s not enough to just say “It gets better” and leave it at […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Truth in small things #nlpoli
If the truth may be found in the smallest of things, then the shifts and changes in Kathy Dunderdale’s second cabinet reveal a great deal. “It is very important to me that our government operates as efficiently as possible, while providing qual…
Continue readingThe roaring silence called "progress"
It looks like the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting has been something of a disaster, with the human rights
components being rejected by several of the players, as was any declaration on
the rights of gays and lesbians in the form of decr…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM5 Combining Autisms into One Autism Disorder: Why?
It is common place today to refer to autism(s), plural, rather than autism, singular. So why is the DSM5 combing the autisms into one Autism Spectrum Disorder? It is common in both professional and parent based discussions of autism to encounter …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Toronto and the Patient Revolution
When I wandered through the Occupy Toronto campground today it was quiet, like most places in the city on a lazy, chilly, Sunday afternoon.But there were more tents than ever. The food tent was busy…So were the sign painters…Even on a lazy Sun…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Happy Halloween: The Mystery of the Missing Museum and what Edmonton needs to tell the Tories
Looking for the money: The typical Albertan, and the Albertosaurus, above, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Federal Tories never offered more than $30 million to Edmonton museum project, says MP Laurie Hawn … whoops, the latest Conservative …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta candidate nomination update – october 2011 (part 3).
I have updated the list of candidates who have been nominated or declared their intentions to stand as candidates in Alberta’s next provincial election expected in 2012. Please email comment below or email me at david.cournoyer@gmail.com if there are additions to the list. Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock: CUPE activist Trudy Grebenstein is seeking the NDP nomination scheduled for […]
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Tory donors versus Liberal donors in 2010: The 3 to 1 advantage Harper enjoys
In 2010 the Conservative Party of Stephen Harper received donations from almost three times as many individuals as the Liberal Party did.The Tories raised $17 million from just ovvr 95,000 donors, while the LPC raised only $6 million from just over 32,…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – A World Going Mad for Nukes
German built, Israeli Nuclear Missile SubThis is a big reason why our world needs the Occupy and similar movements. A new report from BASIC, the British American Security Information Council, reveals that a multinational nuclear arms race is brea…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Opposition to Keystone XL Pipeline Heating Up
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The fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline is heating up, with many positive and important developments occuring this past week, excluding the disgra…
Continue readingthis-on-that: New York "foreclosure mill" mocks homeless at halloween party
Speaking of offensive halloween costumes…. For the full story and images, visit the New York Times A former employee of the largest foreclosure firm in New York City, Steven J. Baum, has shared some photos taken at last years office party, revealing what she describes as ‘an accurate representation of
Continue readingthis-on-that: New York "foreclosure mill" mocks homeless at halloween party
Speaking of offensive halloween costumes….For the full story and images, visit the New York TimesA former employee of the largest foreclosure firm in New York City, Steven J. Baum, has shared some photos taken at last years office party, revealing wh…
Continue readingthis-on-that: New York "foreclosure mill" mocks homeless at halloween party
Speaking of offensive halloween costumes…. For the full story and images, visit the New York Times A former employee of the largest foreclosure firm in New York City, Steven J. Baum, has shared some photos taken at last years office party, revealing what she describes as ‘an accurate representation of
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Curious Coincidences at George Mason University: Ed Wegman, Milton Johns and Ken Cuccinelli
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Nearly two years ago, Canadian blogger Deep Climate found the first few pages of plagiarism in the Wegman Report. Since then, he and others have found many more, w…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: The Arrival of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus
PEI’s Atlantic Veterinary College – cited as the reference lab for Infectious Salmon Anemia – has confirmed that the virus has officially arrived in BC’s West Coast waters. Critics of open net-pen salmon farms have warned that this arrival was inevitab…
Continue readingQuebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!
Yes, that would be the same Eric Duhaime, the one who begged the feds, not once, but twice, to somehow intervene in the construction scandal woes in la Belle province, a problem that dates decades that needs systemic changes that not even the feds can touch. That same scandal that ol’ Chrissie Paradis . . . → Read More: Quebecor And RLQ’s Chou-Chou, Eric Duhaime Has Hit a New Low–Enough With The Canadian Arrogant Complacency!
Continue readingthe reeves report: Tension mounting between CBC and Quebecor
Tension is mounting between Canada’s public broadcaster and Quebecor Inc. over access to information requests made to the CBC, and what Quebecor Inc. President and CEO Pierre Karl Peladeau is calling a “smokescreen” around how the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spends its tax-payer funded budget of $1.1B. Peladeau and others have been calling for the CBC … Continue reading »
Canadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa: We’re a Family
Who’re these activists driving the global Occupy movement? Without a single coherent message, what exactly do they want? And their agenda? These are just few of the oft-repeated questions about the hundreds of thousands of world citizens curr…
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: INTERVIEW | The Civic Greens’ Adriane Carr and Stuart Mackinnon
By Tristan Markle and Sean Antrim On October 30, 2011 The MainlanderHere Sean Antrim and Tristan Markle of the Mainlander interview Adriane Carr and Stuart Mackinnon of Vancouver’s Civic Green Party. Mackinnon is an incumbent Parks Board Commission…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Visions of Hell
Imagine being stuck in a room full of jabbering Marylanders in their local Republican Club’s “Iowa Style Caucus”…
For what it’s worth, Newt Gingrich “won” the meaningless event.
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