Here is what the NDP will do for the people of Ontario:Economy, Taxation, JobsRolling back corporate tax cuts. History has shown that lowering corporate taxes does nothing to create jobs. In fact, often, what happens is the corporation uses the new mon…
Continue reading#OccupyWallStreet. ACR notes.
CNN is desperately trying to fit these actions into a construct they can understand and capitalize on.
Today’s suggestion is that #OWS will become a political party. A Liberal "tea party".
Their fear of the unknown is palpable.
The me…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Feingold gets it: The message of OccupyWallStreet is that people have been ripped off
At last someone has dug down to the root of the swell of public protest that has manifested itself in the OccupyWallStreet movement:Feingold rejected the argument — made even by some of Occupy Wall Street’s sympathizers — that it has failed to ar…
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Tory Candidate Blames Campaign Troubles on Tim Hudak
More Tory troubles. This time, however, it’s with an active Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate who comes clean about how difficult it is to deliver her leader’s divisive and destructive message to voters.[London Free Press, Miller blam…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Steve, You’ve Got Mail. Stop Being Such a G__damned Socialist!
Dear Exalted Ruler, you have mail from the OECD and the IEA. They want you and other world leaders to cut out the billions of dollars you waste each year on fossil fuel subsidies. Yes, your Grace, that means the Tar Sands too.The Orga…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Why politics is stupid much of the time: the flip-flop attack
Trying to save is drowning campaign the day before e-day, Ontario C leader (I’ve redacted the P) Tim Hudak was in Mississauga today, where he used Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty’s decision to cancel a controversial local power plant project to frame th…
Continue readingLeDaro: Spanish duchess marries
She is 85 and he is 60. She is one lucky hag. Maybe the man is impressed by her title of duchess.Spain’s Duchess of Alba Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva and her husband Alfonso Diez pose at the entrance of Palacio de las Duenas in Seville after thei…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Fair & Challenged
Fox News dispatched their fatuous cub reporter Griff Jenkins to Liberty Plaza recently to interview some of the dirty hippies and bizarre characters at the Occupy Wall Street protest, but uh-oh, he encountered this guy instead: Unsurprisingly, Fox never aired … Continue reading →
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Representative democracy, public participation and social media
There was an interesting controversy in Waterloo this week. A city councillor, while sitting in Council listening to a delegation of residents who were concerned about a proposed development in their neighborhood, tweeted disparaging things about the d…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: What people are saying about the Ontario Liberal plan
Here’s a collection of quotes about the Ontario Liberal plan to move forward together:”He is trying to build a healthier, greener, more prosperous and better educated province…McGuinty’s experience in government will be needed in the coming years.”-O…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: ‘But for’ remains test for causation
Donley Investments Limited v. Canril Corporation, 2011 ONCA 625 is a good source for the (uncontentious) point that the test for causation is 'but for':
3. Faulty causation analysis
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Globe: CRTC to keep its hands off online video
By Susan Krashinsky for The Globe And Mail
The federal broadcast regulator has said there is still no conclusive evidence that Internet-delivered TV services such as Netflix (NFLX-Q116.972.071.80%) are disrupting the traditional TV business in Canada.
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Canadian Dimension Feed: Taxes and the Ghost of Bob Blair
Robert Blair died in April 2009. “Bob” – as he was best known – headed Nova Corporation and became in time a very wealthy man. Unusual in the oil and gas sector, he was also a staunch Canadian nationalist, refusing to let Nova j…
Continue readingCNN on Occupy Wall Street: “Bang on the bongos, smoke weed!”
If there any doubts that CNN turned a far right with the hiring of far right blogger Erick Erickson and Breitbart flunky Dana Loesch with no progressive counterpart, take a look at how one CNN reporter characterizes a news story.
The reporter, Alison Kosik, deleted the tweet. . . . → Read More: CNN on Occupy Wall Street: “Bang on the bongos, smoke weed!”
Continue readingLeDaro: Has Huffington Post run out of stories?
This is one of the most disgusting stories I have read on the Huffington Post, and I am a regular reader of the Post. It is about a bridesmaid having sex with the groom. It is so disgusting that I will provide the link but I will not post the video on …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Greenpeace Calls On Congress To Investigate Koch’s Illegal Practices
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Greenpeace USA today called for a full Congressional investigation of Koch Industries and the illegal practices detailed in the Bloomberg Markets Magazine piece, &qu…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Right-wing Economic Ignorance. . . . .
The issues surrounding the Vancouver ‘safe injection site’ are actually an excellent illustration of what is wrong with right-wing ideology here and abroad. I have heard right-winger continually criticize Insite because it is a “waste of taxp…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Great week for an election….
…and golf! It really is October, right? I wonder if any researcher has ever run a statistical analysis of the correlation between weather conditions on E Day and the success rate of incumbents? Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Bought My New Winter Bike
Well my old Supercycle winter bike finally died after two winters and I decided to go searching for something better to replace it with, something with a somewhat better derailleur and switchers.I went to look at bikes at the Ottawa re-Cycles and foun…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Candle Power!
Who knows where our power is coming from in the future?
Canada’s candlelight providers: ready to meet the surge in demand that comes from people wanting to turn the lights on but rejecting every possible means of making that happen.
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