Nation, Premier Alison Redford told her caucus late last week that the new cabinet would be notified on Tuesday of this week, the day before being sworn in. Her instruction to all was to “Not worry about it, and enjoy your weekend with family”.Well, I …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers Exposed: Cancer Risk In Crossett Arkansas Blamed On Georgia Pacific
Brave New Foundation, which is producing a series of videos called "Koch Brothers Exposed" taking a close look at many aspects of the billionaire Koch Brothers' business interests, just released a new installment probing the link between …
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Canadians show ambiguity towards multiculturalism
On the 40th anniversary of Canadian multiculturalism, there is much to admire about the country's approach to diversity and pluralism. The model, articulated by then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau on Oct. 8, 1971 and later enshrined in the Constitut…
Continue readingHere’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 4
.Here’s to the Land of the People Rising…Who see the Golden Era….Now is cached with rust…”Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters Wednesday that he expects British Columbia to repay $1.6 billion it received from Ottawa to implement t…
Continue readingMurray Dobbin: We’re Seeing How Badly Harper Misread Canadians
Posted as is from Thetyee.ca. All publications are the right of the poster, Murray Dobbin, Greg Perry (cartoonist) and The Tyee. We’re Seeing How Badly Harper Misread Canadians Occupy Wall Street — and now Bay Street? The 99 per cent? Conse…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: A History of Violence: 1989 – 2011
Well, here it is. We think that most will agree that this will be the best article posted on the blog, or at the very minimum the most informative and perhaps most useful. The following is a living document. We will continue to add information as we co…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Whatever became of the investigation into the PC Party’s purloined list?
The Tory membership list, purloined again! Alberta Conservative campaign strategists may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Premier Alison Redford; PC Party President Bill Smith.Now that the Alberta Progressive Conservatives have chosen a new leader…
Continue readingOctober Is Women’s History Month
Reposted from rabble.ca. All credit for this publication goes to National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) Women continue to raise our social conscience, give voice to issues of inequality and work to build a future free of discrimination…
Continue readingHarper Valley: Occupy , October 15th
Filed under: Political Humour Tagged: occupy, october 15, poster, sign, vancouver
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: A Notice
Hello all,I suppose with the writ dropped for the Saskatchewan election, many of you are expecting this blog to become a wildfire place for information and the like…However, I must sadly suggest that this will not occur. Allow me to explain, before e…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but has fallen to the spyware wolves. Avoid download.com and cnet.com or lose your computer to the wolves. == And the Saskatchewan election campaign isn’t even […]
CathiefromCanada: Lese-majeste
The Globe and Mail reports on the implications of the Insite decision : The Insite ruling forged a new means to strike down laws if there is scientific or statistical evidence showing that a regulation worsened the danger that an individual or group f…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Can we believe anything they say?
Pavco’s convention centre and stadium deals fascinate me. People residing beyond BC’s lower mainland are probably more pissed-off than fascinated. These deals clearly demonstrate the disaster potential when public and private enterprises work together …
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Mike Powell Fanclub 2011-10-10 23:04:57
Happy Tuesday! I hope that everyone had a good long weekend and is getting over respective tryptophan comas. Here’s what we’ll be talking about tomorrow:
Election reasons rolls on:
Incumbency, FTW in Ottawa.
Newfoundland and Saskatchewan elections end and begin.
It costs a million dollars to not use the old US embassy.
Ottawa unemployment on the rise.
Expect a long cold […]
ACR: October Edition.
Well, we seem to be about the only blog that decorates for the Holidays, so why break with tradition?
In other housekeeping notes, we are going to finally upgrade this sad ol’ thing to a newer version. Wheeee.
More bells and whistles and drag and drop …
Impolitical: Attack of the Wildrose
Doesn’t it seem a little early for the foreboding political attacks on Alison Redford? Or is the Wildrose afraid of being out-Danielled?Admittedly, I’m not completely up on Alberta politics but it seems like it would be very tough to make the case on d…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: What Does Richard Warman Do With the Money He is Awarded?
The article we’ve been plugging will be up tomorrow. We think our readers will really appreciate the amount of work the writer put into it.* * * * * &n…
Continue readingHarper’s holey war on science
Another day, another muzzled scientist. This time it’s Dr. David Tarasick, a member of an international team of researchers who recently discovered a vast hole in the ozone layer over Canada’s Arctic. This discovery comes just as Environment Canada…
Continue readingPeter Kent makes lemons out of lemonade
“Designed to Fail”. That should be the motto of Peter Kent and the Conservatives’ ‘environmental mismanagement’.
NDP Environment Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax, N.S.) accused the government of creating a climate change plan that is “designed to fail.”
“There’s absolutely no reporting mechanism, we know nothing about where this money went,” Ms. Leslie told . . . → Read More: Peter Kent makes lemons out of lemonade
Continue readingcmkl: Mallory dresses herself
Does she ever. Our household seems to be evolving toward a routine where I make Mallory her breakfast then take her upstairs to shepherd her through getting ready for school/daycare and then dropping her off. I can remember a fairly recent time when th…
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