Undeclared MP from BC, Peter Julian has four MPs –
Isabelle Morin, Kennedy Stewart, Brian Masse and Rathika Sitsabaiesan
Thomas Mulcair now has eight MPs supporting him –
Robert Aubin, Francois Lapointe, Jamie Nicholls, Marie-Claude Morin, Alexand…
Of course they executed him…
It’s Georgia. He was a Black man.He could have been my father, my brother, my cousin, my nephew, my partner, my lover, my friend. R.I.P. Troy Davis Executed by the murderous, barbaric, racist white supremacist state of Georgia 10:00 PM Sept 20, 2011The…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s War on Women (Continued)
Well so much for Mother Harper, the friend of women and children. He will fund Planned Parenthood. But only in countries where abortion is illegal.International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda has decided to approve a proposal by the International …
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: "On October 6th vote for proper scaling of the Y-axis. Vote Liberal."
For those worried the Ontario election lacked a meaty ballot questions, comes the most exciting statistical controversy since the scrapping of the mandatory long form Census:There are 13 statistical graphs in the Changebook. Every single one reveals si…
Continue readingTerahertz: CUPE ramps up job action
Sensing that the SFSS has little inclination to respect collective bargaining rights CUPE, representing the locked out SFSS staff, has started fighting the PR war. According to the CUPEsfu twitter feed, their picket lines have moved to SFU Surrey today. They also report that an entire class walked out. Not only that, the CUPE staff […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Profile of Displaced Workers
There’s an interesting new research report from Statistics Canada, by Ping Ching Winnie Chan, Rene Morissette, and Marc Frenette, profiling the workers who were displaced in the recent recession, and comparing the outcomes to previous recessions in earlier decades (the downturns of the early 1980s and 1990s). “Workers Laid Off During the Last Three Recessions,” […]
Continue readingfinding balance
A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind.J. J. GoldwagSo after being overwhelmed, laid low, sucked dry, feeling poor, cranky, lethargic and just darn well out of sorts…I gotta say I am feeling…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Leeds Grenville All Candidates
Only Charlie Taylor of the Green Party of Ontario offered a consistently progressive perspective at last night’s safe and cozy Chamber affair. (I have yet to see a serious disagreement at any of these North Grenville Chamber of Commerce nights let alon…
Continue readingA NorthVan Izzy Stone To Call Our Own?
DeepMiningTheDatabasesHeadLampShiningBrightVilleIn case you haven’t noticed, NVG over at the Blog Borg Collective is doing some really great work combing through publicly available documents online and is pulling out some really nice nuggets.Like, say,…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CRTC Takes a Stand for Internet Openness
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Things Are Good: Gamers Solve AIDS Enzyme Puzzle
If you thought playing games was just for fun, well Foldit is a game that has people solve problems for science. That itself is pretty neat, but what pushes this one over the edge is that Foldit has brought some great results and fast!
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose […]
Politics and its Discontents: Let’s Hope We Never Sink To This Level
While the Harper government is no stranger to fear-mongering, its tactics look both brilliant and subtle compared to the the following two American political ads:Please sign this petition urging Prime Minister Harper to stop threatening Michaela Keyser…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Alert! Episode 187
As protesters gather on Parliament Hill to mobilize against the TransCanada XL Pipeline, three campaigners address the question of using civil disobedience against the tar sands and other causes: indigenous tar sands campaigner Clayton Thomas Muller, G…
Continue readingPrayer and the CFL
The genesis: US college gridiron prayerFootball players aren’t the brightest people in the world. Unlike with other sports, football coaches are like little gods who warp sculpt their wards, guiding not just decisions but shaping a player’s moral…
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Leadership on Healthcare
From a PC government that closed dozens of hospitals (with Tim Hudak personally playing a role as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health) and didn’t even bother tracking wait times, to a Liberal government that has gotten results like the sh…
Continue readingLeDaro: Troy Davis
After desperate pleas to halt the execution – including from Jimmy Carter, the Pope, and even from supporters of capital punishment – Troy Davis was executed.It is a sad story. I don’t think Davis committed the murder in question, or at the very least …
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Brian Topp On Israel’s Recent Prime Ministers
I don’t know quite what to make of this.From Brian Topp’s Globe and Mail Op-ed, "On Palestine, Harper and Nov.4":Mr. Rabin’s successors have failed to carry out his vision, perhaps because they lacked and continue to lack his strength. Perhaps because they have not yet had their fill of war, as he had. Or so some of their conduct would suggest – mirrored, tragically for the Palestinian people, by
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Taxing the Rich
Over at the Globe and Mail Economy Lab our friend Stephen Gordon argues that there are only limited revenues to be gained by taxing the rich. He plays around with some back of the envelope calculations based on CRA data on the incomes of those making more than $500,000 – accurately enough, I think – […]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gerry Nicholls: Full Metal Wingnut?
All that matters [to David Suzuki] is his almost mystical need to stop climate change, even if that’s an impossible task. And this perhaps is why Suzuki is endorsing McGuinty. It actually has nothing to do with those giant wind-turbines ( McGuin…
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