And look! He’s entertaining visits from some friends in high places…again: El Ecuadorable was there, along with Fidel and Raúl Castro. And it looks like a good time was had by all. And on the health front, too, the news is nothing but good: The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, informed on Friday, via telephone […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Global University Rankings
The European University Association (EUA) recently released a report they’d commissioned entitled Global University Rankings and Their Impact. The report was written by Andrejs Rauhvargers. According to the EAU, one of their major motivations in commissioning the report was that their member universities are “often under pressure to appear in the rankings, or to improve their position in […]
Continue readingRedBedHead: Mayor Ford Says: Come To City Hall Thursday, July 28, 9:30AM
Well, well, well, normally an invite from Rob Ford would end up in my garbage quicker than a brochure to take out a subscription to the National Post. But sometimes when opportunity knocks, you just have to listen. And this, I think, is one of those mo…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Vancouver East MP Libby Davies joins the fight for an unmetered Internet
In a letter sent today, Vancouver East MP Libby Davies encouraged her constituents to join her in signing the Stop The Meter petition. The Deputy Leader for the NDP writes:
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On the Green Party platform.
Finally — for now, at least, until the Tories and NDP release the rest of their platforms, and the Libs release anything at all — I’m going to take a quick look at the Green Party of Ontario’s platform. It’s the shortest, and the slimmest when it com…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don’t we have AC on Montreal’s public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it’s too expensive and it decreases fuel efficiency, thereby harming the environment. Yet, …
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don’t we have AC on Montreal’s public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it’s too expensive and it decreases fuel efficiency, thereby harming the environment. Yet, …
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Same old story, slash-and-burn edition
So can Canadian progressives agree that eliminating environmental regulators is generally a short-sighted move which prioritizes a foolish focus on slashing government gratuitously over a society’s long-term well-being?Of course, I ask for no particula…
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Government Site Black Balls Dion’s Senate Reform Op-ed
A Parliament of Canada web page intended to provide information on the Harper Government’s Senate reform legislation has mysteriously omitted Stephane Dion’s opinion piece for the Edmonton Journal, "Senate Plan Needs Sober, Second Thought".The LEGISinfo web page has over 100 links to articles, columns and editorials on Senate reform, published between June 21 and July 22 of 2011. Dion’s Op-ed,
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Could News Corp. Double Agent Neil Wallis Be Behind Climategate Hacking?
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As if this week’s Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal wasn’t enough, it now appears that the University of East Anglia CRU email hacking scandal (a.k.a. Climategate) might …
Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper and North American Union (NAU)
I am not familiar with the NAU concept and recently heard about it. It sure sounds scary. Are Canadians aware of the deals like these by Stephen Harper? It sounds like selling out Canada to US.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": God Bless You, Elwy Yost
Sad news. Elwy is gone. Elwy Yost is the reason I love films as much as I do. He is an even bigger reason why I like old films and classics. He was one of a kind and he has now gone to join Ford, Lubitsch and the rest in that great cutting room in the …
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html
Continue readingThe Skwib: The Labour Party’s response to Margaret Thatcher
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Continue readingMorton's Musings: Female Presumptive Rule
I find it astonishing that there is a gender based presumptive rule remaining in Canadian tax law – constitutional or not it is offensive: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/07/20/ottawa-father-benefits.html An Ot…
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: NDP Needs to Launch a Culture War
Back in April, 2010, EKOS pollster Frank Graves got into a lot of trouble in the neo-con blogosphere for advising the Liberal Party to “invoke a culture war” on the Harper Conservatives. “I told them that they should invoke a culture …
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: The Facts About India’s Infant “Sex Changes”
Canadian and international press outlets reported last month that in India, the preference to have male children is so strong that parents are having their female infants surgically assigned (a.k.a. “sex changes”) to male. There were all sorts of problems with this story, but some of the verdicts have come in. Here are the facts 
Art Threat: Blue Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Strip
An award-winning 2002 documentary on Gaza from filmmaker James Longley is now available on line.
Continue readingThe Worst Thing The Campbell-Clark Government Could Ever Do…
….Would be to not reappoint Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond as the province’s child representative.And make no mistake, it is this government, a government currently being run by the very person who knows best about all that this government did wrong regard…
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