NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, rightly told her candidates to stop “trading on” Jack Layton’s name.
Too bad she didn’t heed her own advice. Putting her face on the banner was unnecessary.
Far and Wide: Job Killer
In politics, once you are forced to argue beyond neat soundbites, you’ve probably lost the battle. For instance, when one politician comes to town and SIMPLY announces 200 new jobs to a region with plus 9 percent unemployment, that is a slam dunk opti…
Continue readingthe woodshed: What’s good for the goose is apparently criminal defamation to the gander
Apparently it is okay for neofascist dingbats to smear the reputation of a respected academic, trade unionist and blogger by spreading lies about him being a supporter of the Taliban, but if you say mean things about a police spies and agent prov…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Astral pushes for CRTC to clamp down on Netflix by LuAnn LaSalle
Astral Media says foreign Internet competitors like Netflix should be subject to the same rules as Canadian broadcast providers.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Quebecor survey just another attempt to tear down CBC by H
Writer takes issue with Montreal Gazette editorial regarding the use of taxpayers’ money to defend the CBC’s court case with the federal information commissioner.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TV ad volumes must be lowered
More than 7,000 Canadians responded to a call for comments from the CRTC on sound volume in ads and the overwhelming majority said loudness was a persistent problem.
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Popeye Algorithm #nlpoli
"I am who I am. That’s Premier Kathy Dunderdale speaking to reporters about comments her benefactor Danny Williams made on Monday about Elizabeth Matthews and the botched effort by Williams, Dunderdale, Matthews and natural resources minister S…
Continue readingThe Drudge conspiracy site.
I had an interesting conversation at my place of work the other day.
Re: Obama’s Birth Certificate.
I cannot respond to a lot of things at work, have to be all diplomatic and the like. But I am going to post about it here, and lay out the groundwork…
Politics and its Discontents: Time For A War On Error
Although I rarely reprint items from the newspaper in their entirety on this blog, occasionally someone says something so succinct and insightful that I can’t resist. Roman Haluszka from Newmarket has the lead letter in today’s Star that underscores t…
Continue readingThings Are Good: Stoves and the Majority World
We looked at the Paradigm Project and Stove Man before in June. They have been busy making more videos about what they are up to in the world of helping people (and the planet) by providing them with efficient stoves.
It’s amazing what a stove can do.
Episode 3: Meet the Makers from The Paradigm Project […]
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: The leveled playing field of educated workers in Canada
New immigrants are more likely to be unemployed than individuals born in Canada, according to data from Statistics Canada. While immigrants with more education face less unemployment, the disparity between them and individuals born in Canada is far gre…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Environmental Impact Deemed "Limited" For Potentially Explosive Shale Gas Pipeline Into Lower Manhattan
Last Friday, exactly one year after the massive natural gas pipeline blast that killed eight and leveled a San Bruno, California neighborhood, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) brought the controversial New Jersey-New York gas line one st…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On wedges
Greg offers up an important response to the Cons’ initial line of attack on Brian Topp. But let’s also note how the latest barrage fits into the Cons’ broader strategy in taking on the NDP.Remember what happened as part of the silly season of summer, w…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Debt Crisis: A Case of False Memory Syndrome
The acclaimed author, Milan Kundera, has written that, “The struggle of man
against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” But the ongoing
world financial crisis shows how false memories can fool us and make us
unable to confr…
Writings of J. Todd Ring: The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our physicality. On the one hand, we have, as people of the modern world, embraced our physi…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: It’s a Good Thing Tim Hudak Wasn’t Around When Plavnice Podatransk Came to Canada
The latest Tim Hudak ad focuses on his grandfather, a Czech immigrant who “believed in the value of hard work”. There is even a close up shot of his immigration papers dated 1898.All I can say is that it was a good thing that Tim Hudak wasn’t around th…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Polluters Join Forces To Pressure Obama On Oil And Gas Drilling
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In the wake of President Obama’s speech on job creation last week, major players in the energy industry have banded together to put pressure on the president to speed u…
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off. And still, Timmy-boy, you screwed it up. You screwed it
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off. And still, Timmy-boy, you screwed it up. You screwed it
Continue readingDTK: Oh, Dear Hudak.
It should have been easy to run McGuinty out of town. Why, he raised taxes! Horrors! There’s unemployment and everyone blames unemployment on the current government. Gas prices are high. That green energy thing seems like such a rip off.And still,…
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