(The following was inspired by Deepak Chopra’s quackery-laden and hypocritically self-serving review of Richard Dawkins’ book, The Magic of Reality. Enjoy).I find myself saddened – yet also outraged – by Richard Dawkins’ latest written offering, an i…
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Occupy NB Moncton – Results
We had a good crowd of about 500 people in Moncton, which is quite large for a city this size (the same proportion would be 20,000 people in Toronto). Zero police. A lot of horns being honked in sympathy. Loud drums. Union support. No politicians (none…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Doug Saunders nails it: Tax the Crooks!
Doug Saunders Still wondering what the Occupation Movement is protesting about in New York, thousands of other American cities, and now hundreds of cities throughout the world?Then read the article headed We need a global army of tax collectors in toda…
Continue readingReal Canadian Politics is now Copper Roof Politics
Hello. Real Canadian Politics is now Copper Roof Politics.This change extends beyond the name however. Readers will notice the same great content from the same authors, in a much more interactive and cleaner looking environment.The new website features…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will the Anchor Hold?
With each passing day the Occupy Wall Street movement, in New York and elsewhere, grows more resilient. It shows itself to be more than a mere protest, the standard venting over one egregious malady or another, but rather a rejection of an entire…
Continue readingWelcome to our new website
Welcome. Real Canadian Politics is now Copper Roof Politics. This change extends beyond the name however. Readers will notice the same great content from the same authors, in a much more interactive and cleaner looking environment. The new website feat…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Air Canada union wants deal on essential services
CUPE makes a fair point. Either the relationship is the normal one with a strike as an option or it is essential services where there is arbitration etc. Leaving everything in limbo is most unfair to the workers and the public:
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Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Mostly competent government
Since the end of the federal government’s fiscal year 2010-11 was in March, you would think that a government run by the party touted for its competence in managing our money would have long since produced financial statements. You’d be wrong. The closing financial statements for 2010-11 haven’t been made public nearly seven months after the end of the fiscal year — and about a year-and-a-half since spending was initially approved. … Sources have told Global News the accounting records are printed, and an internal calendar indicated they would be made public in September. Public Works and Treasury Board, the federal departments responsible for compiling, printing, and tabling the public accounts, wouldn’t explain the delay, nor say when the documents would be tabled. The article implies that this isn’t the longest delay we’ve ever seen in the publication of federal financial statements but that’s not the point….
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Big Media’s Search for the Meaning of the Occupy Phenomenon
#BigMedia ‘s search for coherence, for an articulated purpose or clearly enunciated demand, for the “real meaning” of the #occupy movement is amusing if not characteristic. (“What do they want?” “What are their d…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: In leadership news…
…Justin Trudeau won’t run, but Thomas Mulcair will.So this sets us up for a Mulcair-Topp battle for Stornoway. All early indications are that Topp and Mulcair will play nice with each other, while their supporters mercilessly smear each other in the …
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: From October 15th forward, occupy and dream together
Let a thousand flowers bloom.
The quote, I learn, is a mixed up paraphrase of Mao Zedong’s quote from 1935 (‘let a hundred flowers blossom’), but it does get to the point. The New York General Assembly for Occupy Wall Street’…
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: If all the Occupy movement accomplishes is…
If all the Occupy movement accomplishes is to remind a public that protests and activism aren’t merely something that “fringe activists” do, and If all the Occupy movement accomplishes is to politically re-energize a public that has largely grown too apathetic to vote, and If all the Occupy movement accomplishes is to remind society that 
Northern Reflections: A Country For The Young
John Ibbitson, in the Globe and Mail, worries about declining voter turnout. In all recent federal and provincial elections, turnout has gone south:Ontario set a grim new standard last week, when only 49 per cent of electors cast ballots in its provinc…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Occupying Montreal
On this rainy morning avec une gout de grippe I reluctantly picked up the phone and canceled the STM transport that was scheduled to get me in my motorized chaise de ronde down to the Occupy Montreal demo in Square Victoria.
Can’t be there to w…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Nycole Turmel sums up what Canadians should rightly expect from their government – but figure never to get from the Harper Cons:Canadian families aren’t looking for finger-pointing. They’re not looking to shi…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Irony, thy name is Johnny…
Or Steve…This article on the MotherCorp site is all about Ukraine’s imprisonment of the main Opposition Party leader… and how the PM is a tad worried about it. But this is the line that had me rolling on the floor laughing: Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Tuesday Canada was troubled by the prison sentence. […]
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Taking Hope From Right-Wing Ridiculousness
I almost never spend any time reading material from the right-wing blogosphere — I can appreciate that understanding the discourse of various categories of opponents is worthwhile, and I respect those like thwap who occasionally put energy into a…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: At long last, a "churchie la femme" has been busted …
Finally, after more than a quarter of a century, a Roman Catholic bishop in North America may finally be held to account in the courts — the legal courts, not the canonical ones. The sex abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church has had a rel…
Continue readingTory Taber, fresh off Hoeppner tribute, soars the friendly skies with Lisa Raitt
Jasmine honey, get the fuck out of the way. I’ve got a new assistant. Hi, Jane!It never ends with our little Jane Taber. Her job as she knows it is to do one thing: shill her ass off for the Conservative party. Her assignment this month it seems is to …
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: An excess of chutzpah: pollster attacks colleagues over methods, accuracy #nlpoli
Corporate Research Associates president Don Mills is criticising his professional colleagues for their use of online surveys to conduct opinion polling. CRA uses telephone surveys. In two election polls released in September, MQO reportedly used a comb…
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