Toronto News: Take buyout or be laid off, Ford warns workers – thestar.com… but, we know (from the past 8 months as an example) that he won’t listen.Rob Ford: “If someone else can come up with a solution, let me know.”I have a solution for him (regar…
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth Is Clueless
If you’re going to riot:dress appropriately
Just like everyone else, I’m following the UK riots closely. The commentary coming out from this event is, like all things sociological, tied-in with each commentators ideology. Some of the ideas put forth …
Morton's Musings: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14
I was put in mind of this passage when I heard today of the sudden death of a young woman. I did not know the woman, but I do know a young man who was devastated at her loss. The truth is we really do not know what tomorrow brings.
Continue readingImpolitical: The lifeblood of parties
What a great blog post at digby’s tonight. The post was about intra-party critics and their usefulness, in light of much of the Democratic generated criticism of Obama of late. These two last paragraphs in particular were notable, on a grassroots group…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
I had two of these links stashed away for a while — kinda laid back, not really blues, but good enough to work with. When I came across a third I decided to put them all together and call it a change of pace. The first performance was recorded on Roy Rogers’ couch. I never fail to be amazed at the sound Norton Buffalo could get out of a harmonica….
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Introducing the Con Klown Hypocrisy Award
Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can’t seem to decide who is this week’s winner. So please help me out .Here are the candidates in no particular order:(1) PHILLIP HINCKLE, the 64…
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Geology of Kakakiwaganda Lake (Rock Lake)
Every summer we spend about a week at our favourite Bed and Breakfast Whispering Pines On the Bay which is about half-way between Sudbury and Killarney Provincial Park. Not only does it have gracious friendly hosts and interesting guests from all over …
Continue readingIs There An Irony To Be Found In David Cameron’s Misspent Youth?
AllTheBadParentingThatFits?BlueBloodVille
“….This is not about poverty, it’s about culture. A culture that glorifies violence, shows disrespect to authority, and says everything about rights but nothing about responsibilities. In too many cases the…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Auto Labour Costs and Auto Industry Recovery
I was recently invited to speak to the annual management briefing conference sponsored in Michigan by the Center for Automotive Research, a fine outfit which does the best research work in the continent on auto employment, workers, and skills. My slides are available here. My panel was addressing the current UAW negotiations with the Detroit […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Market Mayhem
The wild swings in the North American financial markets this week serve as yet another reminder of the weakness of any linkage between levels and changes in financial asset values and levels and changes in real economic variables. This is apparent for both bonds and equities. In the case of the US and Canada, the rise […]
Continue readingJennifer S. Bryson: terrorism and the ‘proliferation of pornography’
Since Breivik, I swear the right has gone around the bend. I mean seriously bent.Here’s the set up:Pornography is not a necessary cause of terrorism. The abolition of pornography would not lead to the cessation of terrorism in the world. Terrorism exis…
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Who is this?
Anybody recognize this skinny kid? Here’s a hint: 40 years ago as of August 8, he entered the Venezuelan military academy as an officer cadet. His original hope was to become a big-league baseball pitcher. (He’s a southpaw.) Baseball took a backseat to a passion for history and eventually politics, though, as he read up […]
Continue readingMorton's Musings: US Appeals Court Rules Against Health Law Mandate
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If the health care legislation is struck down by the Courts there will be no way for President Obama to bring back a modified form with this Congress.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA (AP) – A federal appeals court panel on Fri…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Little Help for the Little Guys: Giving small business a fighting chance
Small business and entrepreneurial ventures are a top priority for the Canadian government. In fact, they’re so important that the government has decided to declare 2011 the Year of the Entrepreneur.
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The Progressive Economics Forum: MMT: What it Means for Canada
Arun Dubois’ blog post yesterday on Modern Monetary Theory has prompted me to write my own take on the subject. For those interested, an interesting thumbnail sketch of MMT, essentially functional finance augmented by a full understanding of monetary operations, is explained at http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2011/06/modern-monetary-theory-mmt-in-nutshell.html. While MMT deals with the details of monetary and fiscal matters, […]
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: What happens when you throw a leadership contest and no one shows up?
Maybe Nycole Turmel has a friend who’d be willing to step in and help the Bloc out:
Bloc faces growing pressure to delay choosing Duceppe replacement
There is growing pressure within the Bloc Québécois to delay choosing a permanent successor to for…
Continue readingkirbycairo: Why Are Explanations Suddenly the Same as Support????
I find the recent discourse on the riots in England sad and tragic but I guess it is typical of any state apparatus from Syria to the UK to marginalize insurrectionists, calling them common criminals or terrorists.What really aggravates me is that if o…
Continue readingLaila Takes On The Lotusland’s Least Exclusive Club
AllTheRealNewsThatDoesn’tQuiteFitBloggodomeVille
Like a number of bloggers before her, including a fine post from Ian Reid, Laila Yuile, looks the members of our local proMedia ‘Club’ in the collective eye and decides that she doesn’t like what she se…
Continue readingDavid Cameron, former Bullingdon bully, criticizes rioters
It is always such a challenge to divorce the class angle from British affairs. Two of the most vociferous critics of the recent rioters in London and other cities have been Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson. As it turns out, t…
Continue readingThe new new McCarthyism
Because everything old is new again. I refer to Toronto City Councillor, homophobe and stalker Giorgio (formerly George) Mammoliti, finally coming completely unglued. This being 2011, of course, the commies aren’t under his bed, but showing up on his…
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