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…
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: Canadian Hulu 2011
Shortcut to this page: http://j.mp/aaa2011
Canadians don’t have Hulu, but we do have access to most American shows via Canadian network websites.
Here is my list of TV to watch this year, with links to their Canadian web location.
The Best:
-Weeds (Showcase)
Drama:
-Pan Am. (CTV)
-Terra Nova (City)
-Desperate Housewives (CTV)
Comedy
-The Simpsons (Global Sunday night or iTunes)
-The Office (
Buckdog: Saskatchewan Election Called For November 7th
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, timed his official election call for 6:00 pm today, just moments after the Saskatchewan Roughriders finished their match against the Edmonton Eskimoes. The problem for Wall was that instead of a joyous Rider victory to s…
Continue readingImpolitical: Channelling disillusionment
A friend sent this along in the past week sometime and its sentiment is good. From Matthew Yglesias, on “Obama and Small Donors” and the larger point, it seems to me, on channelling disillusionment: Nick Confessore writes that the Obama re-election cam…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: If God lived on earth, all his windows would be broken
It's an old expression (Az Got volt gelebt oif der erd, volt men im alleh fenster oisgeshlogen) but that doesn't mean it's not true.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Florida DUI convictions based on faulty breath test machines
This would be of only mild interest EXCEPT we use the same Intoxilyzer 8000 machines here in Ontario.
How many questionable results have been recorded here?
"For years, drivers across Florida have been arrested and convicted of DUI charges base…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Video: Israeli privilege is unsustainable – Amira Hass
“Inhuman, immoral and unsustainable” are the words used by Amira Hass to describe what she terms “the State of Israel and the privileges it endows to Jews only, at the expense of Palestinians.” Hass was at the University of Winnipeg Sept. 30, to provide a unique perspective on the Palestinian struggle, that of an Israeli […]