To Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, new Canadians are “foreigners”. Lack of political experience? Anti-immigrant prejudice? Both. Earlier this week, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and the Liberals pledged $12 million in tax credits for b…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Gains-burgers
Ian Reid is back at his computer station this week and that is good news for blog readers. He wrote a piece at The Real Story last October that is worth reexamination because the subject of defective journalism continues to be an issue at the…
Continue readingEveryone hates a narc. Or, let the identities of the undercover G20 cops be known.
There is nothing lower in human life than an undercover cop. They are supreme cowards and nothing less than snitches. The G20 cops who narc’d on the 17 accused of causing ‘mayhem’ at Toronto’s G20 deserve to have their identities exposed, as has alread…
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: Brian Topp Taking Leadership Lessons From Ignatieff?
It’s the only thing I can think would be going on in his head. Quebec Nation was a key contributor to Michael Ignatieff’s 2006 leadership loss. And it will be the undoing of Topp’s (2 day old) campaign as well. But hey, what do I know.
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The laughfest known as “the Tea Party Republican Debate” continues apace. Candidate Michelle Bachmann was in especially fine form last night, hinting darkly at horrible side effects from the cancer-preventative HPV vaccine; theories which have long since been debunked and dwell on the ragged edge of politics in the murky conspiratorial caverns that house ideas […]
Red Tory v.3.0.3: Paul Martin on the Economy
Some sober reflections on the present state of the global economy by the former Prime Minister. Not a lot of insight beyond the obvious, but Martin does provide some sound advice regarding the current sovereign debt crisis in Europe (that … Continue reading →
Who Knew Watercarrying Could Be So Profitable?
ExclusiveCashCowHolyBucketVilleRemember which Lotuslandian media outlet got the english TeeVee exclusive when the figurehead currently running the Gordon Campbell Legacy Government decided to announce that there would be no fall election?Well….Guess …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Hillier: A 2 Hillier Day!
From his Facebook page today:Seems like Randy hasn’t got the ixnay on the mudfolksway message from Hudak Central; as of this morning he was still claiming that the McGuinty No Skills Left Behind tax credit was aimed at foreigners, rather than…
Continue readingElectronic Intifada: A Bay Area children’s museum shut down a planned exhibition of Gaza children’s drawings…
Gaza children’s images of war censored under pressure from US Israel lobbyby Nora Barrows-FriedmanPro-Israel organizations pressured an Oakland children’s museum to cancel an upcoming exhibition of drawings made by Palestinian children in the Gaz…
Continue readingOntario Government says No to Queer Catholic Students
For some time now we have been waiting for the Ontario Government to enforce the law in Ontario schools. The law in question is with respect to Gay Straight Alliances or GSAs. The Ministry of Education requires that all schools adhere to Policy/Pro…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Christopher Hume On Ignorance
As usual, The Toronto Star seems replete with thought-provoking articles and ideas. In a column by Christopher Hume entitled, If ignorance is no excuse, how do leaders manage to get elected? published yesterday, Hume reflects on the current crop of p…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Watch the Climate Reality Project on Wednesday at 7:00 PM Your Time
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7:00 PM on Wednesday, your time, marks the commencement of the Al Gore-led Climate Reality Project.
A live webcast that will last one hour, the Project was annou…
Montreal Simon: Another Good Reason Not to Ban Internet Anonymity
Not only do Big Business and Big Brother want your real name.So does the mob.Three years ago, after the suicide of a popular actress who had been bullied via the Internet, South Korea introduced a radical policy aimed at stamping out online hate. It re…
Continue readingNow that Bachmann’s toast, does that open a door for Palin?
With Bachmann’s monumental gaffe over the HPV vaccine during the last debate, there is little doubt she has jumped the shark and landed in the belly of the also rans. You knew she’d implode after the departure of her sanity crutch Ed Rollins, but this …
Continue readingCanadian Political Viewpoints: Thanks for the Help, Now Get Lost.
Source: CBC News: Canada Rejects Majority of Afghan Interpreters’ Refugee ClaimsAfter getting a good night’s sleep, but waking up fairly early, I found myself browsing the news websites and was greeted by this headline. Now, you have to do some digging…
Continue readinggritchik: Andrea Horwath: Do as I say, not as I do
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.
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