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Continue readingTerahertz: My November Cafe Inquiry: Humanism and Interfaith
In December I’m going to be doing a sermon for a Unitarian Church in Surrey on Humanism as part of their interfaith series. In preparation for that, I agreed to do a Cafe Inquiry for CFI Vancouver on Humanism. Realizing that we all (generally) agree that humanism is good, I decided to mix it up […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Dysfunctional Dunderdale Administration #nlpoli
Kathy Dunderdale thinks the provincial legislature is dysfunctional. Well, if the House sat more often than it has since Dunderdale’s been a member, they might be doing better. Dunderdale as premier is carrying on the tradition of her predecessor o…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Harper Stacks Judiciary For American Conservative Movement
Brian Abrams is a former Conservative candidate for Kingston and the Islands. He had a pretty good showing in 2008, but lost to incumbent Peter Milliken. After his defeat, the Conservatives launched an all out attack on this riding. T…
Continue readingTo all those slamming the Occupy movement as one where nobody has jobs
This piece of historical snark from Canadian Cynic via Sister Sage’s Musings says it all:Stand back and admire the brush strokes of the hypocrisy of those who chastise the Occupy movement. The truth is that the media elite so critical of the Occup…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Liberal Renewal
There was a lot of ink spilled about Liberal rebuilding in the wake of the May 2nd shellacking – both among pundits and party members. Although much of that talk has cooled, with January’s biennial convention approaching, it’s likely time to renew the …
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for October 20, 2011
Here are today’s leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
Supreme Court rules web link doesn’t constitute libel -http://goo.gl/uO0AY
Supreme Court nominees get grilled – Toronto Star -http://goo.gl/Gkglq
What Happens if Obama Can’t Fill Ju…
Accidental Deliberations: New column day
It’s bad enough having a federal government whose reaction to social problems is to tell the provinces, “No, you go first in dealing with them. I insist.” But it’s much worse having a provincial government whose response is to refuse to do anything mor…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The CIW and GDP
For decades, many economists have noted that GDP is a crude index of a nation’s well being. Yesterday, the University of Waterloo introduced a better idea. The Canadian Index of Well Being (CIW) has been in the works since 1994, when a group of academi…
Continue readingFar and Wide: Nathan Cullen’s Limited M$%#&%
Just don’t call it a merger, if it makes you feel better let’s say “arrangement” or “limited” co-operation, or “joint nominations”, but NOT that M word. Nathan Cullen’s idea is garnering some attention, and it is an interesting proposal. However, the…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Harper support unequal provinces.
Because Harper promised that Qubec’s will not be under represented in the house of commons other provinces are going to suffer. Ontario instead of getting 18 new seats will only get 13 seats. Meaning that Ontario will have in total 119 seats, but that …
Continue readingImpolitical: Lakoff on OWS
This column is about OWS but like most of his writings, it’s highly translatable: I think it is a good thing that the occupation movement is not making specific policy demands. If it did, the movement would become about those demands. If the demands we…
Continue readingHarper Conservatives: stupid on crime | via @pogge411
Yesterday was the first full day of hearings at the federal Justice Committee on Bill C-10, the Conservative government’s omnibus crime bill. This Globe and Mail report describes the tone of the proceedings as uncomfortable. Based on the c…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Quebecor To CBC: Yeah We’re Corporate Welfare Bums, But…
Quebecor lashes back against CBS’s various allegations. Here they defend the various subsidies they receive for their various magazines and other print publications:CBC/Radio-Canada mentions subsidies received by various magazines of Publications…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: PPM: Controversy, Accountability and Disclosure #nlpoli
On October 3, Liberal leader Kevin Aylward issued a news release in which he claimed that the second MQO poll released the Friday before had been “bought and paid for by the Tories.” In the release, the Liberals also claimed that “[t]he Dunderda…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Lord Monckton Gets Punked By Australian TV Satirists
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YO – check this out.
Jet-setting climate change denier Lord Christopher Monckton has been revealed on Australian television as a fictional character created by comedy gen…
Morton's Musings: Tough on crime, short on facts
Crime should not be a political football. Conservative or liberal means nothing when it comes to facts – two plus two equals four no matter where you fall on the political spectrum:http://natpo.st/p9zppO Jonathan Kay, National Post"The biggest pro…
Continue readingContradictory reactions
On a crazy, busy day on the Hill, the
long-awaited announcement on shipyard contracts was revealed: Irving Shipbuilding
in Halifax won the $25 billion contract to build new combat vessels for the
navy, while Seaspan in Vancouver won the $8 billi…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: In Alberta, being a Tory big shot means never having to say you’re sorry
Tory Love Story: In Alberta, being a big-shot Conservative means never having to say you’re sorry. Below: Freddy Lee Morton.As far as Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is concerned, Alberta Energy Minister Ted “Freddy Lee” Morton i…
Continue readingA Picture Is Worth . . . .
Compliments of the ACLU . . . .Recommend this Post at Progressive Bloggers
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