I’ll have more on the New Democratic Party’s leadership race – or lack thereof – later. But for now, here’s an interview with candidate Romeo Saganash posted on the McGill Daily’s web site yesterday.The McGill Daily: What prompted you to run for the ND…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Party with the plutocrats
From Sister Sage’s Musings
“Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing Bon Mot book club. It is appropriate however that a …
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Marching Backward
When it comes to foreign policy, Canada has traveled a great distance since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. Lester Pearson would not recognize his country.There was no greater supporter of Israel than Pearson. But the man who won the Nobel Prize …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will That Be One Smirk Or Two?
Watching the news last night, I was reminded once more of how personally repugnant my decision to vote for the McGuinty government is. I cited the reasons for my shift in yesterday’s post, and although from my perspective there is no reasonable altern…
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for September 27, 2011
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:
Supreme Court could rule by next spring on constitutionality of health care reform – http://t.co/GtuNDcHs
Conrad Murray/Michael Jackson Trial Begins Tomorrow -http://t.co/1FDwuh2v
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Dead Wild Roses: Some Americans DO have a clue and are running for Public Office.
I would vote for Elizabeth Warren if I could, but I cannot. What I can do is help spread her rational message to the rest of my readership, a good percentage being American. Consider this your partisan announcement from Canada for the day. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Debt Crisis, Elizabeth Warren, Fair Taxation, Politcal […]
350 or bust: Clinton: Climate Deniers Make U.S. Look Like a Joke
Via Think Progress, Bill Clinton, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, blasting the Republican Party for supporting denial of climate science: “The best thing you could do is make it politically unacceptable to engage in denial,
Continue readingThe Vancouver Club, Dick Cheney and pedophilia
When socialite Leah Costello announced that Dick Cheney was to speak at the Vancouver Club, I thought nothing more of the venue, concentrating on the horror of a war criminal about to besmirch our fair city.In my many walks around downtown Va…
Continue readingThe Skwib: A writer writes
april 26 grading blues, a photo by dewberry1964 on Flickr. Ignatius was working. That was the first rule for writers. It wasn’t about the tools, his teachers had said, way back in school. It was about discipline. Work. A writer must write, even if, as Thomas Mann said: “A writer is someone for whom writing […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Unequivocal: Today’s Right is Overwhemingly More Anti-Science Than Today’s Left
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Last week, I took to task a really poor USA Today op-ed making the following claim:
"In short, for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-scie…
The Happy Wanderer: Scary is Governing with Ignorance
It’s been blogged about again and again, but that is because it’s so stupid and at the same time, scary. With their majority government, the Tories are looking to spearhead an omnibus “tough on crime” bill to increase jail time among other th…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Meaning of CLOUD
Several weeks ago, the first results of CERN’s Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets (or CLOUD) experiment were revealed. This experiment was designed to study the chemical factors behind cloud formation and, more particula…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A Court is to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter
R. v. Lawrence, 2011 NSCA 84 deals with the responsibility of a Court to give very strong consideration to jointly recommended proposals for disposition in a criminal matter. A joint submission resulting from a plea bargain, while not bindi…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Baird’s UN Rant Is A Museum Piece
Baird was the attack dog for the Harper government at the UN yesterday with his meandering rant that read like it was written by the Israeli ministry of international propaganda. Claiming people and nations who didn’t support Israel were akin to appeas…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Taking your brain out of neutral #nlvotes #nlpoli
He said. She said. Claim. Counter-claim. Simple conflict. Simple news story. No problem? Problem. Well, maybe. You decide. Jay Rosen is a journalism professor at New York University. He doesn’t like “he said,she said journali…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Certainly not Talia herself, obviously: Rather, its the footwear and what’s on the t-shirt. From the Sun Family Blog:Speaking of the Toronto Sun crashing, it hit bottom (again) today (Sept 25). […]Today’s Girl was wearing a T-shirt with b…
Continue readingDon’t call it a vote to extend the mission
Thanks to a bit of clever wordplay and
misdirection aided and abetted by certain clueless media types, the government
now touts how Parliament voted to extend the mission in Libya. Which is a bit
false – the government has t…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: YES! US Senate Passes CARA, Combating Autism Reauthorization Act!
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina
Excellent! The US Senate has now passed CARA, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act, and it should soon be headed to President Obama’s office where it has already been indicated the Presid…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Will Gary Mar reinvent the Alberta Tories? Fat chance!
Gary Mar at the wheel of the new, improved, “reinvented” Alberta Conservative Party. Alberta politicians and the parties they lead may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Mr. Mar, Ralph Klein and a Tory electoral strategist speaking with an A…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Suddenly, a search for a Liberal candidate in Edmonton-Goldbar as Hugh MacDonald prepares to pull the plug on politics
Hugh MacDonald with your blogger at the Sept. 10 Liberal leadership vote. Everything is exactly as it appears.With wild-eyed Alberta Liberal party officials about to launch an unexpected search for a candidate in Edmonton-Goldbar, about the last safe G…
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