WithPotentialSavingsLikeThisLeftUnpluckedNoWonderWeNeedMoreRevenueVilleIt’s the Friday afternoon before tonight’s big football game in downtown Lotusland and I’m pretty sure a whole lotta folks are starting to breathe a little easier now that they can …
Continue readingTime for another Slutwalk, this time in Brooklyn
In Saudi Arabia, the religious police regularly patrol the country for citizens who may be flaunting the Kingdom’s version of Islam, especially when it pertains to women exposing too much flesh.
Think this kind of thing only happens in the in the medieval backwoods of Riyadh? Think again. In Brooklyn’s Park Slope . . . → Read More: Time for another Slutwalk, this time in Brooklyn
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Victory for Insite
The Supreme Court’s decision that Insite must remain open is a tremendous victory for reason over ideology. Canada’s Conservative government sought to close a safe-injection site in Vancouver, despite physical evidence that it reduced drug use, re…
Continue readingThe National Pest “apologizes”
A few days ago, the National Pest published an extremely homophobic (and blatantly accusatory) ad about public schooling in Ontario. Today, we get this non-apology apology, or non-retraction retraction, if you will… Earlier this week the National Post ran an advertisement that has caused some controversy. The ad, bought by the Institute for Canadian Values, […]
Continue readingWise Law Blog: This Week At The Ontario Court of Appeal: 11-09-27
Each week, Wise Law Blog reviews recent decisions from the Ontario Court of Appeal. Commencing this week, Alim Ramji, a student-at-law with Wise Law Office, takes over the Court of Appeal beat.
Beck v Beckett
The appellant, Brenda Beck …
Continue readingQP: Brison’s golden opportunity for levity
The banter between gay MPs Scott Brison and
John Baird enlivened an otherwise dull Friday question period.
It happened after news hit the wires that Baird tried
to order business cards that were gold-embossed, English-only, and omitted bo…
LeDaro: Ron Paul thinks assassination of Al-Awlaki should be condemned
“No I don’t think that’s a good way to deal with our problems,” Paul said in a media avail after his remarks at the Politics + Eggs event here. “He was born here, Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Obama, Kucinich and Class Warfare: civil war in America or democratic renewal – these are the choices at hand
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson “There is a class warfa…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: No Technical Recession, Not That It Matters
Today’s GDP numbers (a sprightly gain of 0.3% at basic prices in July) ensure that there will not be a so-called “technical recession” in Canada — at least, not yet. Economists have a perverted definition of “recession”, whereby it’s considered official only if real GDP declines 2 quarters in a row. That’s hilariously arbitrary. And […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The State of the Economy and Labour’s Response
The advanced economies, including Canada, risk falling back into recession because of government spending cuts and a looming financial crisis. The Canadian Labour Congress has been calling for our federal government and the G20 governments to respond by putting jobs first. This paper summarizes the economic situation as of the end of September, 2011 and […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 28, 2011
Wednesday’s Day in Review comes a day later than usual. But I’ll plan to stick to the new schedule for future editions, as the anchors which nicely point to interventions from the current day seem to have a habit of disappearing later. The Big IssueOnc…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: The Pyschology of 9/11 “Truth” Denial
Various psychologists talk about the different reasons why people accept the official version of events surrounding 9/11 as opposed to the theories of those who dispute the now generally accepted narrative. While not subscribing to any particular conspiracy theory advanced … Continue reading →
OpenMedia.ca: Familiar Troubles for Canada’s National Broadcaster by Mary Vipond
Columnist says while the evolving media landscape poses new challenges, the CBC
remains entangled in a balancing act it has faced since its inception.
Paper Dynamite Online: Was Trudeau A Disaster? Far Frum It!
On Tuesday, David Frum and Lawrence Martin debated the resolution: Pierre Trudeau was Canada’s most disastrous prime minister. The event was part of a four-part series on historical topics sponsored by the MacDonald-Laurier Institute and the Ottawa Cit…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Bring Out the Printing Press!
That’s the only way out of the deepening crisis of the advanced economies, according to FT economics editor Martin Wolf in his column today. “It is the policy that dare not speak its name: the printing press. The time has come to employ this nuclear option on a grand scale. The alternative is likely to […]
Continue readingNottawa residents shafted by Elections Ontario
So this week, the crack news team at the Enterprise-Bulletin has been following up on this business of Nottawa residents having to traverse to Ravenna in order to exercise their democratic right. All for the sake of an inch, it seems. As we write in our editorial in today’s e-dish-un: According to the standards, an […]
Montreal Simon: Brad Trost and the Zombie Threat
Holy jumpin’ Joan of Saskatchewan !!! I gotta give the Con wingnut Brad Trost some credit eh? Not only does he look FABULOUS in a dress. I hear he’s declared a holy redneck jihad against Great Ugly Leader.“The battle over the IPPF continues…
Continue readinggritchik: Tory MP Maurice Vellacott is a jackass
Today, Vellacott declares International Planned Parenthood Federation a “nefarious” organization and complains they are performing procedures on women that he believes are actually early abortions. His two page rant, so eloquently titled, The Dupes of Hazard Reruns – International Planned Parenthood’s Weasel Words, Dishonesty, Deceit and Death, is full of ignorance, rage and hate. Tell me, […]
Obama kills American. Republicans applaud this most Republican of all Democratic presidents.
Progressives none too happy with the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki. But Republicans like raging Islamophobe Steve King are tickled pink. Republicans are applauding Obama for once. One holdout is Ron Paul. “No I don’t think that’s a good way to …
Continue readingCIA undermines aid agencies
That the CIA does sleazy stuff is hardly new. Perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised then that they exploited children to help track Osama bin Laden.In order to confirm his presence in Abbottabad, they sought DNA samples from the residents of what th…
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