Even though I don’t support Civil Unions, because they aren’t enough Gay people should be given complete marriage rights, but In Rhode Island a bill passed to give civil unions to Gay couples in that state. Now that means that all the new England state…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Canada Day 2011
This has been a difficult year. In Alberta, a forest fire ravaged the town of Slave Lake. In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Souris, the Assiniboine and the Red Rivers have inundated huge swaths of prairie farm land. In Quebec, the Richeleau River has t…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: On the Hydraulic Thesis
The Hydraulic Thesis is related to the interplay between the rise of states in certain societies and the production of large scale irrigation and other ‘hydraulic’ systems that increase per area food production. Historically we see there is a loose tem…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Mushy Middles, Dirty Words and Why we Must Rebuild the Centre
When I posted on why Jack Layton should drop the “brothers and sisters” socialist talk if he hoped to survive the next four years, I received several comments and many emails, telling me that I was wrong.Many of his followers actually fully support the…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Strauss-Kahn case near collapse, officials say
If it does collapse the attitude of Europe towards American justice will be interesting:
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The new revelations are likely to buttress the view of Strauss-Kahn's supporters, who complained that the American authorities had rush…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Tops for June
Muskrat Falls. Provincial Tory political fortunes. Those are the two main themes running through the most popular posts for June. Nalcor negotiating Muskrat transmission with Hydro-Quebec Dunderdale disapproval doubles Well, she asked for o…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Alberta Liberal Survey: Laurie Blakeman
Last week I sent a survey to every Alberta Liberal leadership candidate currently announced. Ms Blakeman was the first to send in the survey (and, might I add, the only one to do so on time) and she’ll be the first to have her answers posted. Bel…
Continue readingDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Happy Alberta Day, Canada! Get used to it!
Labour relations in Alberta, circa 1999: The authorities, in this case the Calgary Police Service, openly intervene in a labour dispute on the side of the employer. Your blogger, in white socks (!), is at bottom left. Below: John A. Macdonald, not yet …
Continue readingMind of Dan: Wind power blows
Cross-posed from Irregular Climate
In The Know: Coal Lobby Warns Wind Farms May Blow Earth Off Orbit
Panelists debate whether the U.S. is doing enough to heed the warnings of coal industry scientists who say turbines could blow the Earth right into the…
The capacity for critical thought – how do we build it?
Just as we wind down the first half of 2011 in preparation for Canada Day, three disparate blog posts are jumping out at me:At Sixth Estate, Government of Canada Issues Statement Opposing the AlphabetAt Politics and its Discontents, Sun News …
Continue readingChavecito speaks
Uh oh. Looks like the bastards and spooks were right about one thing, after all. Chavecito DID have cancer… …and now, let’s hope his confidence is well founded, and that he doesn’t have it anymore. In which case my last post about him is, at least, correct in that respect. BTW, that “knee surgery” of […]
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-06-30 23:30:00
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR COLOMBIA: STOP VALE UNION BUSTING IN COLOMBIA:The other year workers in Ontario and Newfoundland were “treated” to an exhibition of just how hard hearted and tight fisted the international mining giant Vale is. But Canada and Brazi…
Continue readingCase against Strauss-Kahn falling apart
“It is a mess, a mess on both sides.” That’s the conclusion of one person involved in the investigations. The accuser has been found to have lied about multiple aspects of the case. Her past and present includes involvement with those knee deep in …
Continue readingThe Maple Crown, or why you should leave the Union Jack at home
As we suffer through more breathless coverage of the royal visit (as an unrepentant monarchist, even I am done with the ridiculousness of the coverage), I felt that I should point out a bits of basic civic literacy surrounding the monarchy that seem to…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3888…Speaking Of Free Speech
I just grabbed this off of Radio-Info.com and OMG.Monday, June 20, 2011 Neal Boortz’ “dead thugs” comment is causing a divide Talk host Neal Boortz made the comments on his radio show in Atlanta last week, saying “This town is starting to look like a …
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3887…My Un Heroes: CSBC Haters
Re Le Affaire Erickson-Gillis, Peter Worthington in the SUNs reports that the story on SUN TV “…provoked so many complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (some 4,300 of them compared to a yearly average of around 2000), that the CBSC be…
Continue readingTemper. Temper. Justice Prosser grabs reporter’s microphone
It’s looking more and more like the allegations against Wisconsin judge David Prosser that he has violence issues are bearing fruit. When the embattled justice was asked by a reporter about the incident where he alleged tried to strangle a female justi…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3886…My Hero: Krista Erickson
A couple of nights ago on SUN TV the only hot woman on Canuckistanian TV Krista Erickson just went off on Margie Gillis who, and coz it isn’t on TSN or RDS I didn’t know this, is a superstar ballerina. Anyhow, big ups to Miz Erickson for representing …
Continue readingcmkl: Boy if I was trying to do something serious
Like, say, get media attention for a real issue, like say the flotilla to Gaza, the fight against the dismantling of Greece’s social programs, or even trying to get across town in under an hour, I’d be a might pissed right now. It seems the entire medi…
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 3885…My Hero: Margie Gillis
You probably have heard the story but it bears repeating.A couple of nights ago on SUN TV the only hot woman on Canuckistanian TV Krista Erickson just went off on Margie Gillis who, and coz it isn’t on TSN or RDS I didn’t know this, is a superstar ball…
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