On the heels of the statement from the Canadian Privacy Commissioner last week, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario adds her voice to the chorus warning of the dangers of the Harper government’s coming lawful access legislation: …we must be extremely…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Spooky stats…
… but aren’t they all? No word on the number of human / vampire children, tho’… 100% disgusting! $616 million — The value of “other miscellaneous by-products, including other processed, frozen or cooked meats” manufactured in Canada in 2009. This category (311611U) includes “blood, dried, edible” and “blood, dried, inedible” as well as all kinds […]
Continue readingQP: Cultural problems
Despite it being Halloween, MPs declined to
turn up in costume, unless “bland” was the theme they were going for. But more
on that later. Nycole Turmel kicked it off by asking about a new stimulus
package, seeing as only oil and gas is th…
Morton's Musings: Right on Crime
CONSERVATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SOLUTIONS — http://bit.ly/sNSUR5
A very interesting website where Conservative Americans set out (what look like Liberal) justice reforms
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Court date rapidly approaching
All legal arguments have now been filed in the unprecedented case against the Sask. Party governments’ anti-worker, anti-democratic, unconstitutional labour laws. As reported earlier in this blog, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and 25 additional plaintiffs (SFL et al) plus 3 intervenor unions filed their legal arguments in the Saskatchewan Court
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Viewing mining’s effects on First Nations through the lens of aboriginal rights
Monday, October 31, 2011
A Guest Post by Bonnie Docherty, Lecturer on Law and Senior Clinical Inst…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Happy Halloween
If anyone is still looking for last minute Halloween costumes, here are a few politically-themed ideas:At the Party…Senate Page: Black dress, white gloves, and long braided pony tail. Be sure to hold up home made “Stop Harper” stopsign at the most in…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Don’t Look At This Picture
Words fail me. Although, just to get the obvious out of the way: he’s taken, fellas. Or gals. Or whatever.
Continue readingCuriosityCat: A Prime Minister challenges a Chancellor: Could this be the end of the EU?
An epic struggle for the future of the EU was started this morning when a Greek politician threw down the gauntlet, challenging both those within his country who opposed his leadership as prime minister, and the latest ‘solution’ of the EU financial cr…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Baby Bullshit
The world’s 7,000,000,000th baby was not born this morning in Ottawa. Or rather, there’s no way to tell which of the baby’s delivered on October 31st, 2011 is the 7,000,000,000th, because nobody is, for example, peeking into all the yert…
Continue readingCongratulations to the Palestinians … and UNESCO
Allow me to add my cheer to those that went up at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 36th General Conference after delegates approved Palestinian membership. The move was particularly courageous considering th…
Continue readingProfit, wage, NDP, and tax revenue growth in Newfoundland and Labrador
Although I covered it off in my rebuttal to the Minister of Finance Thomas Marshall in the last post I thought maybe a graphic would be a more compelling way to illustrate what has been going on in Newfoundland and … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Recovery Demands Increase in Labour’s Share
The just-released 2011 ILO World of Work Report is a must read for progressive economists. Released on the eve of the G-20 meetings, the report underlines the gravity of the current global employment situation and warns of the need to put job creation first if we are to avoid a very extended period of high […]
Continue readinggritchik: When political campaign ads go wrong
This one’s right up there with the Christine O’Donnell “I’m not a witch” ad.
Meet Herman Cain.
And a spoof here.
Trashy's World: Thinking about sex with a vampire? Planned Parenthood is there to help…
… help watch SoCon heads explode when they see this, that is! Let’s face it: vampires can rack up a lot of sexual partners over the years. Your vampire might be the same age as you, or she or he might be thousands of years old. But no matter how old you are, if you’re […]
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Great line of the day
Gene Weingarten writes about online journalism and how it makes its money with goofy cat pictures: “Who, What, When, Where and Why” has now been overtaken by “Huh?”
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Leading nowhere
After several months of interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel being neatly edited out of far too much coverage of Canadian politics, it shouldn’t come as too much surprise that she’s behind Bob Rae in the latest Nanos leadership polling. But I’d think the m…
Continue readingAdam M On The Front Page: Sarah Silverman Discusses Racism in the Republican Primary With Rachel Maddow
See it here via The Huffington Post.
Continue readingAnother reason for the right to hate the troops
First they booed one at a GOP debate. Then, they laughed at one whose brain was smashed in. Now, they are about to escalate the hate for the troops because veterans are joining the Occupy movement in greater and greater numbers.Expect our troops t…
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