Tim Naumetz points out what strikes me as a surprising trend of potential NDP leadership candidates expressing concern about the cost of participating in the race:“Money is a big deal,” Nova Scotia NDP MP Robert Chisholm (Dartmouth-Cole Harbor, N.S…
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We haven’t done announcements of new blog affiliates since we started at the new site in June, and it’s about time we did. The honours for the restarting of this goes to The Ontario Leftist. Please welcome him to Progressive Bloggers.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
Say hello to Ray Wylie Hubbard. He’s originally from Oklahoma but thirty seconds into this song and you probably won’t be surprised to find he’s now based in Texas. I’m sure there’s a story behind his lead guitarist — the Les Paul he’s playing might be older than he is and it doesn’t look like a particularly old guitar. This is Down Home Country Blues….
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: "It Can’t All Be True": Canadian Government Launches New Fracking Studies
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According to Environmental Minister Peter Kent, the Canadian government is entering into the shale gas debate by launching two simultaneous studies of fr…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Yellow Report Alerts
Does everyone know that coal and oil technology for energy creation were both subsidized when they first started being used?? Does everyone know that they are still subsidized?? So why are so many people against subsidizing renewable energy sources that will only do down in price and make gains in
Continue readingEdwin Current: Yellow Report Alerts
Does everyone know that coal and oil technology for energy creation were both subsidized when they first started being used?? Does everyone know that they are still subsidized?? So why are so many people against subsidizing renewable energy sources that will only do down in price and make gains in
Continue readingEdwin Current: Yellow Report Alerts
Does everyone know that coal and oil technology for energy creation were both subsidized when they first started being used?? Does everyone know that they are still subsidized?? So why are so many people against subsidizing renewable energy…
Continue readingI think the more wealthy european nations want to have a desperate and cheap labour force/source near to home…
Greek workers strike, protest against brutal austerity measures By David Walsh; 23 September 2011 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/gree-s23.shtml Tens of thousands of Greek public transport workers, teachers, civil servants and air traf…
Continue reading@LornePW keeps the police accountability file up to date
Big tip of the porkpie to Lorne over at Politics and its Discontents.There are times when the sheer inertia and toxic, paranoid self-pity at the core of dysfunctional cop culture makes you want to just give up. Fortunately, Lorne’s got the energy and d…
Continue readingImpolitical: Environment Canada cuts expand beyond ozone monitoring
Good reporting at iPolitics this afternoon, following the trail of the government’s Environment Canada cuts: “Oilsands monitoring plan threatened by cuts: experts.” The looming job cuts at Environment Canada spell trouble for the federal government’s…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Liberal scorn for sustainability
Before joining the Vancouver Sun, Fazil Mihlar was Senior Policy Analyst at The Fraser Institute. In his years with the newspaper’s editorial board, Mihlar has continued to serve philosophical goals of the reactionary foundations that finance his for…
Continue readingHalifax the new Palestinian homeland?
From the Daily Show yesterday.Halifax NS by sjmorris123
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Vote by mail
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Continue readingQueer-liberal: McGuinty’s first big mistake in Election 2011…
TheStar Hudak and Horwath scold McGuinty for missing northern Ontario debateIn my humble estimation, Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty has been (mostly) kicking Tory leader Tim Hudak’s butt during this Ontario election campaign. McGuinty’s cause has bee…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Get a diaper – `cause you’re gonna wet yourself over this…and other marketing hype and assorted drivel
The amazing, fantastic, hyper-good stuff we have for you today, oh my God!! You better get a diaper, or at least a towel, `cause you’re just gonna wet your pants when you see THIS!!!!! (Brought to you by your corporate masters and a slick and sleazy …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC funding under microscope in Conservative surveys by Bill Curry
Columnist says a string of Conservative surveys is putting CBC funding under the microscope as the Harper government debates how big a hit Canada’s public broadcaster will take as part of government-wide restraint plans.
Continue readingThe Orange Curtain descends on free speech
Funny, when a Christian or a Jew is silenced from speaking out or protesting a meeting, the right hails them as heroes and victims, and screams ‘suppression of free speech’. If you live in Orange County, free speech only works one way.When Muslims are …
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Review of Dennis Edney’s Lecture, “The Rule of Law in an Age of Terror”
“Human rights have a dysfunctional relationship with justice. The language is certainly beautiful, but it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go,” charged Dennis Edney in a scathing lecture at the Faculty of Law at UBC on September 15. Edney worked from 2004 to 2011 on Omar Khadr’s defence against charges stemming from the July […]
Continue readingActs of Citizenship: Trying to understand outrage at ONDP’s 1% HST reduction in gasoline
This portion of the ONDP platform has probably received the most discussion, usually vacuous outrage, especially by self-styled environmentalists. So, I’ve been trying to figure out what is so egregious about the proposal to claw back 1% of HST from the oil companies who at last check were doing quite
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Refuting Every Point
It’s not often that you get a serties of points like this just begging to be refuted:> I don’t think most of us want our dentists to be “out of the box” thinkers.I do. I totally don’t want my dentists practising the way they did when I was a kid, I…
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