Today’s New York Times editorial isn’t pulling any punches about Obama’s debt ceiling deal, calling it precisely what it is – a capitulation….The deal would avert a catastrophic government default, immediately and probably through the end of 2012. T…
Continue readingConservatism: not a politics
…but a diagnosis. I’d missed this one: it appeared last week. But you should read every word of it, not merely my excerpt. Anyone who thinks we can sit down and break bread with these people—look for what we might…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Scientist, You May Speak Freely
Quite the kerfuffle erupted last week over the federal government muzzling a leading fisheries scientist whose work could shed light on the reasons for the crashing of salmon stocks off the west coast of Canada.
This has led to further criticism of th…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Happy Civic Holiday… and why Obama did the deal he did.
To all of you in Canada who get this first Monday off, whether it’s called Civic Holiday or whatever, all the best to you. As for politics on this day, attention has turned to our US neighbour’s attempts to get their debt ceiling agreement in place before they default tomorrow. A tentative deal has been reached, which still has to be voted on and passed, but many progressives and liberals – both in the US and here in Canada – are dismayed at the Democrats and President Obama’s unwillingness to force the Republicans to compromise more in the agreement. They view it as a sellout of Democratic and progressive/liberal […]
Continue readingPlatform pieces
I haven’t even read this yet, so I’ll save substantive commentary until after my yard work is done. But there is a bit of chatter about it on twitter (check #nlpoli). Here’s a copy of the document at the heart of the Liberal platform announcement from earlier this morning:
The Disaffected Lib: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln Respond to Obama’s Capitulation
What startled visitors at Mount Rushmore this morning.
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: There’s no danger of Murdoch style press scandals in Canada! Really! Got that? Now go back to sleep
Gotcha! Britain’s Private Eye magazine satirizes the Murdoch Fambly Saga across the Pond. Nothing like the Eye in Canada, more’s the pity! (Where is Michael Bate now that we need him?) Below: Rupert Murdoch, in happier times; Kory Teneycke, late of…
Continue readingIs The Clark/Campbell/Falcon/Klingon Government Cheating On HST Sales Job?
WouldYouBuyAUsedCarFromThisGovernmentVilleIn my opinion, based on their words, deeds and actions, they are.And, in the opinion of Sean Holman, it doesn’t even matter any more one way or the other because many who oppose the corporate tax shift perceive…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Debt deal is Okay!
The debt deal that is currently being rushed to in the last few days before a default. This deal supports 1 trillion in cuts first over the next decade then having a joint committee that would look into another 1.5 trillion in more cuts. Medicare and S…
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the benevolent direction of a more transparent, fiscally responsible mother country, suffers from the twin flaws of naïveté and vagueness.The Herald’s
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the benevolent direction of a more transparent, fis…
Continue readingCrazy Bitches R Us: Dreaming big: Canadian self-government must be preceded by reforms.
The Calgary Herald’s idea that international governments should negotiate with Canada as one government to another, rather than returning Canada to colonial status where the country can benefit from the benevolent direction of a more transparent, fiscally responsible mother country, suffers from the twin flaws of naïveté and vagueness.The Herald’s
Continue readingMaybe it’s just me
…but today’s National Post carries a headline that made me do a doubletake to find out if it was about a real story or just an analogy for the Great Out-of-Control Debt Ceiling Debate that’s been dragging on in the States lately. Kn…
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Welcome to Rob Ford’s Toronto
Although there certainly wasn’t a lot of merriment around the gravy fountain at my election night party last October, the one consolation I took from Rob Ford’s victory was that the next four years would be entertaining. If you’re the sort of person wh…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
This and that for your long weekend reading.- I’m not ordinarily a huge fan of spending much time in the present focusing on the past. But Dan Gardner’s suggested label for today’s holiday looks to be well worth adopting – if nothing else as a reminder…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Wisdom of the Great – George Orwell
A visit to Orwell’s Bastard motivated me to seek out the wisdom of Orwell himself, to find guidance to our troubled times. Revisiting the wisdom of great people long past is a sure way to recalibrate one’s moral compass. Here are a f…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama the fox outsmarts the dogmatic Tea Party
The dust slowly settles over the political heart of the great American nation, and dimly through it we can sense the outline of a strategy crafted by a veritable fox of a president.With one party gripped by the throat by an extreme group, and the other…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3961…So Tim Hudak Slips Again
According to the Toronto Star at least.Apparently Tim Hudak was or is against abortion and that has everybody up in arms.Except for may be voters.Look at it this way: the Conservative leader is probably not getting votes from them that is for abortion…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3960…Just When You Thought It Was Safe
To plug the TV back in OWN announced that they have hired Rosie O’Donnell to host a daily talker and they are going to perpetually run re runs of Oprah.For historical reasons.As if.OWN, in case you don’t know, is Oprah’s OWN [get it?] network. And is …
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: A Tar Sands Partnership Agreement in the Making?
Campaigns against tar sands production have grown rapidly over the last four years. From the relative obscurity in Alberta to an international lightning rod for people trying to address all manner of concerns from indigenous and community self-determin…
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