THE WINGNUTERER, THE ORIGINAL BLOG TO USE THE ALL-CAPPS DEVICE I GUESS YOU’LL HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR IT THE ORIGINAL BLOG IS DELETED AND THE NEW ONE DOESN’T SEEM TO DO IT ALSO IT DOESN’T SEEM TO GET UPDATED
Continue readingMike Powell Fanclub: Radio Topics, October 4th
Happy Tuesday all!
At 8:05, we’ll be joined by CCCA president Jordan Charbonneau to discuss what’s going on in Centretown, as well as their upcoming AGM.
We’ll also touch on some of the following:
The final provincial election discussion for 4 years! Maybe!
Anil Naidoo gets Desmond Tutu endorsement.
Paul Dewar enters the NDP Leadership race. So does Nathan Cullen.
The […]
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Important victory for democracy and freedom
New York, NY. Monday, October 3, 2011—Today, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman announced that a final settlement has been reached in a federal lawsuit brought by Goodman and Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar again…
Continue readingViews from the lake - eh?: Ethical oil
Anyone following the latest news on the Keystone Project is aware of the heavy and very public resistance to the project in some parts of the US and Canada. To counter that resistance, the Canadian government and oil producers are advertising heavily i…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Occupy Wall Street and the Champagne Party
As frantic efforts to revive the Old Capitalist pig continue.And the Occupy Wall Street protests grow.It seems that some of the fat cats on Wall Street.You know…these pampered pussies…Still don’t get the message. But are caught on video watchi…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: "He didn’t know when staff training began"
Lots of fingers pointing in BC Place service debacle, CKWX News, October 2, 2011
The accusations are flying over Friday night’s debacle at BC Place…
Fans complained of long line-ups, overflowing toilets, not enough staff members, and food and bever…
Continue readingcmkl: Smell ya later MSIE
For the first time ever last week the number of Firefox visitors to my blog exceeded the number of Internet Explorer visitors. By less than three per cent admittedly, and my audience is neither statistically significant nor representative of the popula…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Let us make one thing perfectly clear
Ontario is parliamentary democracy, albeit within it’s own constitutional jurisdiction. As such it is the Ontario legislature that determines who will be in the government and form the Cabinet. As in all parliamentary democracies a government is legiti…
Continue reading2015
With an unusually high number of overlapping provincial and territorial elections overlapping this year, the Fall of 2011 makes for a busy electoral season. With few fireworks in Ottawa as we settle into the normalcy of majority rule in Ottawa, the nat…
Continue readingNWT Election Results
With PEI’s election results now all but declared, Northwest Territories goes to the polls.For results, follow along here.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Mr. Morriss Gets Acquainted With Irish Confetti
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Originally posted at ScalingGreen.com.
Merriam-Webster: Irish Confetti – “A rock or brick used as a missile.”
We recently wrote about professional clean e…
A Different Point of View....: Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail – the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism – has published a news story that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic policies of W…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Rejoice Liberals!
Down to third-party status federally. Teetering in Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia. In opposition everywhere else.Except in PEI.The province that makes up 9% of the federal Liberal caucus decides to stick with Ghiz:Ghiz’s Liberals return to pow…
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: David McNally on Global Crisis and Global Resistance
David McNally teaches political science at York University in Toronto and is active in many social justice movements in that city. On Sept. 24, 2011, McNally spoke at the Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee Shop as a featured presenter at Winnipeg Radical Bookfair and DYI Fest. His topic: Global Crisis – Global Resistance. Length: 60 minutes […]
Where’s the outrage from country music stations over Hank Williams Jr. calling Obama ‘Hitler’?
Remember the Dixie Chicks when they compared Bush to Hitler? There was an ugly kickback, with country music stations banning the band’s music, accompanied by death threats and despicable editorials in conservative newspapers.Contrast that today with th…
Continue readingBeware of False Patriots
“Beware of false patriots who come disguised as harmless Beavers but are really vicious Asses”One must be wary of these most foul of creatures for the will wrap themselves in the flag, passing flag laws, attaching “Royal” to nearly everything in the na…
Continue readingNational Newswatch favourite Daily Mail gets Amanda Knox verdict wrong. Makes up quotes.
The state of modern British journalism.Later in the story, quotes are attributed. You can’t make this up, folks. Wait, of course you can!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Sun Bows Out
Won’t apologize for those trans bashing ads– that the Natty Post already grovelled over–but won ‘t run them again either.Can anyone who actually watches the channel tell me if they’re still running the Ethical Oil ads that the Saudis threatened …
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: VIDEO: Frum Versus Martin on Trudeau
Thanks to CPAC, you can now watch the full debate between David Frum and Lawrence Martin on the resolution: Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s most disastrous prime minister. Click here.You can also check out my rebuttal here, and Koby has a thing or two to say on the matter, as well.
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Manitoba Election
Not exactly a buzz of excitement here in Winnipeg about tomorrow’s election (contrary to the Rock ‘em, Sock ‘em Sun News promo). Both the NDP and PCs have run quite nasty and thoroughly uninspiring campaigns offering slightly different flavours of … Continue reading →