The NDP’s sin in the Turmel business was assuming they were dealing with people who have an internal moral compass. They should have known better. The Liberals made the mistake of thinking there was a low point past which the PMO wouldn’t stoop and th…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: EPA Proposes First-Ever Federal Fracking Rules
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The U.S. EPA is poised to enact the first ever rules on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with a proposal that would allow the agency to regulate the practice under the Cle…
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Marvellous Kindle Giveaway
I’m giving away one Kindle when my mailing list reaches 500! How to Enter: Just join my newsletter, The MonkeySphere, and you’ll be entered in the draw. (Click on the link or fill out the form to the right.) How to Enter Twice & Three Times: Buy Marvellous Hairy (paperback) (Kindle edition) and/or The Amadeus […]
Continue readingArt Threat: Nude Wall Street performance art ends in arrests, charges
Three artists were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Monday for participating in a site-specific performance designed to protest US and international financial institutions.
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Acquisition of Easements by Prescription
The Court of Appeal decision in Kaminskas v. Storm, 2009 ONCA 318 sets out the law well on acquiring real property rights by prescription. IV. LAW & ANALYSIS The Applicable Principles Methods of Acquisition of Easements by Prescription [20…
Continue readingBuckdog: Canadians Should Be Thrilled That The Bloc’s Day Is Done And Former Supporters Are Re-engaging With Canada!
… but don’t be surprised if blood enemies of the New Democratic Party try to denigrate Quebec and the Quebecois yet again in an attempt to score cheap political points. It could be argued that attacks on Nycole Turmel for CHOOSING CANADA are highly …
Continue readingFar and Wide: Under The Table Cloth
Rather than debate the details of the NDP Interim Leader Nycole Turmel story, I think the potential political importance is more a macro-level consideration. There is a wider narrative developing, with each successive “tension” the idea that the NDP ar…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3967…Will They Call Them The Nordiques?
Or the Nationales?That is the question being posed by the WFDS today. Er, here is the question: What will the new Quebec City NHL team be called?Coz they are getting closer to getting a team with what happened on Long Island yesterday. Len Berman re…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: No thought, please. We’re Danny.
In the summer doldrums, odd things poke through to grab your attention. Like this piece in the Calgary Herald about a speech Danny Williams gave back in June. Williams said the federal government spends "too much (time) worrying about how o…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3966…Apparently
We have a new winner in the Who Gives A F*ck Category. Daniel Bedard reports in this morning’s Globe and Mail that Nycole Turmel, “The new leader of the federal NDP was a card-carrying member of the Bloc Québécois for five years and quit the soverei…
Continue readingBuckdog: When Stephen Harper Was A Western Nationalist – (Read his famous ‘Firewall’ letter)
Here is Stephen Harper’s famous ‘Firewall’ Letter ….. advancing Alberta ‘nationalism’ in an unpatriotic statement AGAINST Canada.Dear Premier Klein:During and since the recent federal election, we have been among a large number of Albertans discussin…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Nycole Turmel & The Media’s B.S. Loyalty Test
This is a story that isn’t a story.
NDP interim leader Nycole Turmel has a long history as a union activist and progressive. She was president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada for a number of years and can point to a significant victory for …
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3965…Note To Julian Fantino
When you are in Italy and chilling with the cabinet would you give a big hello to Mara Carfagna and tell her that I named my dog after her?Much appreciated.You cannot miss her; she is, according to Maxim Magazine, the hottest politician in history. To…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3964…Julian Fantino Kisses A**
He’s in the homeland, Italy, and the Postmedia people tell us that Canada’s associate minister of national defence is praising the Italians for their great military yadda, yadda, yadda.Italy, of course, is the only country to lose World War Two twice, …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Any Port In a Storm, Even the NDP
How does somebody who has been a Dipper for six months get to lead the NDP? Better yet, how does someone who was a separatist supporter just six months ago rise to NDP leadership?Is the NDP so bereft of leadership talent that it has to appoint so…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3963…We Got A Good Immigrant Here
Have, got, whatever.And we are trying to force him back to where he is from.His name is Matt Bonner and he is special. As in a special athlete, NBA player and a scholar.Check this from TSN, The Sporting News: “Bonner never received less than an “A” a…
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Aaaaaand they’re off!
A favourite strategy of the Conservatives is to deflect discussion of the issues and instead try to make it look as though even an opponent’s participation in the conversation is somehow illegitimate. The best example was the focus on Michael Ignatieff’s years abroad but it’s a ploy they’ll use whenever the opportunity presents itself. It’s interesting to see the Globe and Mail doing it’s part by blasting the news that interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel was a member of the BQ for several years — as if it was a closely guarded secret that somehow implies something deeply significant. And it will be equally interesting to see how many other media players are quite happy to reinforce the frame while indulging in their favourite game: speculating about all the possible negative consequences for the opposition. It must be a slow news day. Of course, as Greg Fingas points out, the force of this shocking revelation would be somewhat blunted by the fact that prior to 2006, Turmel was deeply involved in NDP politics over a much longer period. So while the Globe story provides a brief history of her career with the PSAC, her previous association with the NDP is…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Economic Disaster One Averted. Economic Disaster Two Unfolds.
There are two types of economists at work today. There’s the A Team, guys like Krugman and Stiglitz. There’s the B Team, guys like Harper and the people advising American politicians. The A Team win Nobel Prizes. &nbs…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: The Edible is Political
Many thinkers and activists who are deeply concerned about the scope and gravity of the environmental crisis pay too little attention to how far the production of animal flesh and fluids for human consumption is implicated in global ecological degradat…
Continue readingThe New Kids in the Bloc
This is the real reason that an NDP/ Liberal merger is impossible. The Liberal Party of Canada, if nothing else, is the party of the “NO” vote, the party of two official languages, and the party of the constitution.As long as the NDP favours aban…
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