Here’s the official talking points from the NDP website. And they’re not all wrong. Connections are rife between the Harper government and Quebec separatists, as they are between the Harper government and Tamil Mil…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Why Is The NDP Buckling On The Bloc?
It’s sad to listen to Nycole Turmel’s mea culpa’s in the news as she pleads over and over that she is now and has always been a federalist. Almost half the province of Quebec are sovereignist for God’s sake. It’s a legitimate political stance and suppo…
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: PR Campaign Uses Gays To Clean Up Tar Sands Image
Well, here’s a very special way to have your struggle for equality used by large corporations! The Alberta tar sands, condemned internationally as one of the most harmful environmental projects in human history, is having some understandable difficulties with its public image. Presenting the sands as an environmentally responsible project or merely downplaying its harm is […]
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Why drug store owners – and some politicians – will lose
Shills might like you to believe that their party is on the side of the angels by backing some drug store owners in the province, but all they are doing is showing how little they know about the drug store business and consumers in Newfoundland a…
Continue readingImpolitical: "Kenney amateurism"
So editorializes Embassy Magazine: Five down, 25 to go. But five what?The Conservative government, lead by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, would have every Canadian believe that the 30 men whose names and pictures have been plastered on the Canadian…
Continue readingAn "interim" sovereigntist as well
Oh, NDP. It seems your interim leader,
Nycole Turmel, held a Bloc Quebecois membership while she was also a member of
the Federal NDP. And she’s a current member of Quebec Solidaire provincially
(you know, the guys who think the PQ ar…
eaves.ca: Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months knows I’m excited about BuzzData. This week, while still in limited access beta, the site is showing hints its potential – and it still has […]
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder: 3 Domains Become 2 and Exclude Intellectually Disabled
In the DSM-5 the new Autism Spectrum Disorder will, for the most part focus on those with Aspergers’ and high functioing autism. The vast majority of those with Autistic Disorder who are also intellectually disabled will be excluded. This is clear fro…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Shooting themselves in the foot?
Steve is right that the Nycole Turmel story speaks to the emerging media narrative that the NDP are cynically trying to be popular in Quebec by pandering to separatists.By letting this story blindside them, the party has also reinforced the other emer…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Market Craps on Debt Ceiling Deal
Funny that shortly after the U.S. Congress passed the largest – and arguably most catastrophically stupid – deficit reduction package in history, the market promptly reacted by taking a nosedive. Apparently, the ugly, job-killing “compromise” hastily cobbled together by U.S. … Continue reading →
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Someone Should Do a Shakedown On That Poll
In a somehow unsurprising result, an online poll of the greatest Canadian political book in the last 25 years ended up giving Ezra Levant’s “Shakedown” the top spot.Take a moment to let that settle. This book, a, erm…. “description” of how our focus …
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: From Separatist to Socialist: Nycole Turmel & Quebec
Those who criticize Nycole Turmel for leaving the Bloc Quebecois for the NDP only publicize how well she represents a people who did the exact same thing.It was recently revealed that Interim Leader Nycole Turmel was a member of the Bloc Quebecois just…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: If Stephen Duckett wasn’t fired, why was he paid out in full?
Well, it wasn’t like he didn’t offer to share! Maybe that’s why Stephen Duckett wasn’t fired for the Notorious Cookie Incident ™? Below: Dr. Duckett, AHS Chair Ken Hughes.How do Stephen Duckett, Alberta Health Services and the government of A…
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: McKee and Co. At it Again
McKee is good at two things. He’s good at starting new racist groups in Calgary and, in spite of the small number of members, getting publicity for their actions. He’s also good at alienating his former friends. Thus is the reason for the latest recrui…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Strange Trial of Nycole Turmel
Golly. Who knew you could combine the McCarthy hearings with Alice in Wonderland and make a non-story sound so alarming?“We all support our friends — that doesn’t mean we buy a membership for five years with a party that wants to break up Canada,…
Continue readingAs far as @pogge411 is concerned, caribou are more important than people
Typical bleeding-heart tree-hugger, getting all squishy about caribou and weeping into his tofu. Never mind the jobs involved in forestry and the Ethical OilTM Sands. And where’s he getting his information? From the socialists at the CBC, of cours…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Québec Solidaire
I've been doing some reading about the Provincial Party the interim NDP Leader remains a member of. They are separatists but gosh, just Google them — radical is an understatement.
Continue readingBuckdog: Conservatives – Liberals – Greens All REJECT Former Supporters Of The Bloc Quebecois Who Wish To Re-Engage With Canada
The New Democratic Party of Canada has achieved what the Liberals and Conservatives never could. They have nearly relegated the Bloc Quebecois to the dustbin of Canadian history.The results of the last federal election clearly demonstrates that a large…
Continue readingWhat’s wrong with “crisis pregnancy” centres?
Well, for starters, there is NO SUCH THING as a “crisis” pregnancy. That word is utterly meaningless. And then there’s the fact that all this weasel-verbiage exists for a reason: to bamboozle unwary women (and girls!) into handing their decision-making powers to someone else…someone who is feeding them complete and utter bullshit: A survey of […]
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Raccoon Nation
Toronto has the largest urban concentration of raccoons in the world — about 100,000.
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