David Mitchell explains the power of a carbon tax in less than 5 minutes using… furniture as an example? Yes furniture! Just watch it. And if you liked that, then you will love this.
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta progressive conservative leadership videos on demand.
Some YouTube videos from Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership candidates:
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Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Fueling jihadist sentiment
The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussed
by Gareth Porter, CommonDreams.org
In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and t…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Everything by the book, but books were wrong
High-rise tank is new solution in farming fish,
by Arthur Max, Associated Press, from Seattle PI
KAMPERLAND, Netherlands (AP) — Adri Bout trawled Dutch waters for 25 years until he recognized the ocean’s limits. Now he raises 100 tons of turbot a …
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Shooting themselves in the foot?
If the NDP pick Brian Topp for their new leader, a man who has never run for public office, are they shooting themselves in the foot?Well… yesterday he compared himself to Brian Mulroney. Yes, that will be a winning message, won’t it.
Continue readingALTAVISTAGOOGLE: "If You Are Not Annoyed [at military spending] There is Some Problem" (Ron Paul)
Americans were not attacked in 2001 because of their way of life, and certainly not because of their wealth (Ben Laden was far richer than the average American). Americans were attacked because of their military presence in the Arab world. Ron Paul knows this. Do you?
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Grace TV building for sale
Peter Youngren’s World Impact Ministries has put the Grace TV building in St. Catherines on the market. The 18,000-square foot structure is listed at $775,000 and described as a “high profile building located in the heart of the city’s financial … Continue reading →
Continue readingEdwin Current: Ontario Party Supporter Stereotypes
This may be nothing but I have come to notice some commonalities with the Canadians that support the various political parties in Ontario. I’ll elaborate a bit below. The Green Party A bunch of stoners who seem to think that the green party wants to legalize marijuana. The PC Party
Continue readingEdwin Current: Ontario Party Supporter Stereotypes
This may be nothing but I have come to notice some commonalities with the Canadians that support the various political parties in Ontario. I’ll elaborate a bit below.The Green Party A bunch of stoners who seem to think that the green party wants to l…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Ontario Party Supporter Stereotypes
This may be nothing but I have come to notice some commonalities with the Canadians that support the various political parties in Ontario. I’ll elaborate a bit below. The Green Party A bunch of stoners who seem to think that the green party wants to legalize marijuana. The PC Party
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Word to the bland, blasé and banal – apathy is living death
A song came on the radio today that I have loved all my life – except this time, it was a cover, and it spoke something to me that I would like to share. It was a jazz cover of “Ode to Billy Joe.” That might be fine, and might work well, but the …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Moron Nation
(click pic to enlarge)As I watched a storm sweeping in over Toronto this evening, I couldn’t help thinking about how Rob Ford is planning to turn the city I have come to love into a dirtier, uglier, place.It turns out that muni…
Continue readingLong live death! (2)
The broad streak of fascism in the American Republican Party once again finds expression. Should a citizen who cannot afford health care simply be allowed to die? Recall that this crowd is the backbone of the “pro-life” movement. As though…
Continue readingcmkl: PDFs are poison, part sixty seven: “But people want to print it” if only they could
I usually tell people that unless the document is only useful in print (like say signage for a conference or a campaign) or if its conversion into HTML would take so much time that its publication would be irrelevant, PDFs have no place on websites.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "Common Sense"
Some politicians have drawn quite a crowd by suggesting the government is essentially simple. Our task, as liberals (note the small 'l'), is to try to turn that crowd while introducing all types of unattractive complexity. Instead of telling t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The great consumer sellout
Michael Geist raises a good point about the lack of discussion of digital issues in Ontario’s provincial election. But it’s worth wondering whether Canada’s Western provinces are even able to have the debate which Geist rightly sees as vital:Copyright …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: De duobus malis minus est semper eligendum
Between two evils, choose the lesser one (Cicero – De Officiis)It's a pretty obvious point, although it sounds more profound in Latin. Still, often we overlook the good in the search for the perfect and in the result get the worst. Sometime comprom…
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: still refusing to govern myself accordingly.
It is a flash from the past, but it made the latest issue of Avenue Edmonton Magazine as one of the five most entertaining battles of the last five years. Thanks to Chris Labossiere for snapping this photo. Tweet This Post
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Two Polls Give Ontario Grits Smiles
One from Ipsos Reid and one from Nanos Research confirm the trend seen in the Harris-Decima poll that was out only a few days ago, which blew the race in Ontario wide open.First, the Ipsos Reid poll gives the Ontario Liberals the lead with 38%, with th…
Continue readingDelicious and dangerous irony: China to buy Italisn bonds
How much of a disaster is the EMU? Look no further than the spectacle of the Italians going cap in hand to the Chinese for a bail out. The fact that the Italians are tapping the Chinese is not the … Continue reading →
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