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Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: What is Mesothelioma? A Question I Am Sure The Harpur Government Well Knows The Answer To
Think of Stephen Harper and his minions when you watch this video. He and his government are directly responsible for cases of this dread disease in developing countries such as India.Please sign this petition urging Prime Minister Harper to stop threa…
Continue readingJames Laxer: TWO CENTURIES AGO: TECUMSEH’S FREEDOM SPEECH TO THE MUSCOGEE PEOPLE
On September 20, 1811, Tecumseh rode into Tuckhabatchee, in present day Alabama, the capital of the Muscogee people. Twenty warriors, members the Shawnee, Kickapoo and Winnebago nations, rode with him. The last months of a tense peace between the United States and the native peoples led by Tecumseh were quickly
Continue readingImpolitical: A fair take on the green energy issue in the Ontario election
Hey! A reasonable newspaper column on green energy I can get behind! For the first time this campaign: ” Energy flashpoints and the politics of power.” The right wing insists we can’t afford to subsidize power in this province. Funny, but this countr…
Continue readinggay persons of color: DADT finally officially repealed
After nearly two decades of the US government forcing gay and lesbian troops to lie about who they were in order to serve in the armed forces, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT), the US military’s ban on openly gay service personnel, officially ended on Tue…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Topp is Top?
At least, according to Warren Kinsella, he is.But the very Léger Marketing poll he used to defend has a conflicting report within it. I don’t have full access to the numbers (when I do, I’ll go a lot more in-depth into it), but the Montreal Gazette gi…
Continue readingDeifenbaker beneficiary of Texas school book revisionist philosopy
Don’t like the way history paints your ideology? Need to retrofit your history to fit the picture you have in your mind? Need heroes in a party with so few, if any? Give an old time Progressive Conservative a whitewash, put a cape on his back and make …
Continue readingeaves.ca: Canada Joins the Open Government Partnership
I’m in New York today for the launch of the Open Government Partnership and it looks as the Canada is now a signatory (or at least has signed a letter of intent). No commitments are outlined, but I will link to them when they are posted. The Open Government Partnership was launched by the White […]
Continue readingLiberals lose Toronto because…
Toronto Politics can get pretty messy. That is the case today with Rob Ford and his right wing gang attempting to remake the city. Remake maybe too generous, he is destroying much of what has taken decades to achieve, one of the world’s most livable c…
Continue readingPaying the wealthy to cut the poor
Simplistic yes, but it does the trick. $90,000 a day is peanuts to the Conservatives. It always comes down to cutting jobs for those whose lives depend on them. That’s not peanuts.The Canadian Press obtained a copy of the so-called “statement of work” …
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Ontario’s version of the US birthers – the ‘turbine truthers’
I’m of course talking about the anti-Wind turbines folks, better known as Wind Concerns Ontario. They’re in the background of the Ontario election – allying themselves with the Conservatives who they feel will nix the Wind turbines project if they’re elected. BigCityLib has a column on them this AM, noting their book’s connection to Energy Probe, the so-called environmental group.
I won’t take credit for the ‘turbine truthers’ label; that comes from Martin Regg Cohn in the Star yesterday:
Until we stop subsidizing the rest of the energy sector, and most of the corporate world, it makes no sense to selectively pull the rug out from under Ontario’s green […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: I’m in Washington DC…
… and lines from my favourite all time TV show keep coming back to me… And right now, I hear a helicopter coming in low heading in the direction of the White House… JOSH: Victory is mine! Victory is mine! Great day in the morning people. Victory is mine! DONNA: Good morning, Josh. JOSH: I […]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Lawsuit Against Ezra Levant? Place Your Bets!
Given that lawyers involved represent “enemies of the West”, I’m tempted to cheer for the home-town boy. But, given past experience, when any organization Ezra’s involved with gets sued, they tend to cough-up. I’m wondering how long b…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Vote Compass Ontario
The CBC is at it again. And being someone who follows politics I find it very enjoying to try these voting compasses. Even though I can’t vote in the up coming election me being not in the province in question and all. It is still slight…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Dirty Business: Who Funds Wind Concerns Ontario?
Dunno, really. There have been rumours that the PWU (Power Workers Union) is behind them, but nothing really solid, and its clear that however it raises funds, WCO’s core membership are local NIMBY’s. However, their new book, Dirt…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Palestinians Would Be Foolish To Trust Obama or Netanyahu
There’s an old saying that goes “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me”. I’m not sure what the appropriate riposte is when you’ve been scammed by the same dishonest brokers a hundred times over. That sadly describes the behaviour of th…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The NDP and Regressive Social Policy: education #nlpoli
those who are interested in education policy and the current election campaign will be fascinated by a chunk of one conversation that broke out on Twitter Sunday. Two of the participants were Mark Watton, former Liberal candidate in the Humber …
Continue readingTributes and the empty desk
In the event that you missed it yesterday,
the fall sitting opened with a tribute to Jack Layton in the House of Commons.
With his desk sitting empty for the day, tributes were made by Nycole Turmel,
Harper, Rae, Louis Plamondon and Elizabe…
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: U.S. opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline: it’s not what you think it is
The headquarters control room of the Keystone XL pipeline: caution, pipeline operations may not be exactly as illustrated, on this blog or on those run by the Alberta government. Below: The Keystone pipeline as environmentalists see it. Below that: the…
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