According to a recent Forum Research survey, Tim Hudak’s conservatives were getting a 41% approval rating from Ontarians, while the Liberals were somewhere around 26%, the NDP at 22% and the Greens at 8%.
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Continue readingIt may be only a matter of time. Are there plans in hand to deal with these impact events? [H/t leftdog]…
Continue readingThere is a series of letters in today’s Star that articulate the ongoing sentiments of ordinary Canadians a year after people had their Charter Rights ripped away by an out-of-control police force during the G20 Summit in Toronto. There is also one by…
Continue readingThere is a reason that we who want to save our environment are losing the war and may lose it outright unless we gird up our loins and fight to the death, politically speaking. The reason is simple: no government set in authority over us will appl…
Continue readingHume: Under Ford, city’s reputation for tolerance is strained – thestar.comWhile Ford’s hordes cheer him on in the most unseemly manner, cutting off their collective nose to spite their collective face, they have little to offer aside from insults …
Continue readingFirst off, Stephen Taylor speaks true (or at least trueish, for him):The Liberals were very much absent from the debate. The interim leader and about 2/3 of his caucus were absent from the votes. Mailing it in had a few Liberal partisan friends wonderi…
Continue readingNearly two months past the May 2 federal election, Canadian Dimension is still getting articles commenting on how this election has shaken up the political landscape of this country. Here’s one by Hans Modlich, a longtime political activist whose…
Continue readingLater today, an asteroid about the size of a large bus will pass very close to our planet. Although it will not strike us, it will pass very close to earth orbiting satellites. The closest it will come to the surface of Earth will be about 11,000 kms. …
Continue readingAllTheContactsThatFitClark’sVilleStationLast week, when we followed up on a report from Sean Holman (sorry Sean, had it as JFowlie in the original post), aghast, about what appeared to be a made-up-on-the-spot patronage appointment for former media mav…
Continue readingSome interesting quotes from the presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.”I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I’m not blaming this on President Obama; …
Continue readingThe Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Act is pretty much dead. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that ensuring a competitive political system by subsidizing candidates is a violation of the First Amendment rights of those candidates who accept gobs of …
Continue readingCampbell v. MacRae Estate, 2011 NSCA 57 is a sad estates case. The underlying case deals with undue influence and is not exceptional. That said, the Court makes a statement about evidence of “passing comments” which may be…
Continue readingImpolitical rightly points out that the Harper Cons are well on their way to implementing every single odious policy that was rightly labeled as unacceptable overreach when included in Deficit Jim Flaherty’s 2008 fiscal update. Now if only somebody had…
Continue readingThe New York Times has a good article about the differences between traffic planning in the USA and Europe. The article shows ways that European cities move people more efficiently by supporting mass transit and sustainable transit solutions like bicycles rather than supporting a car culture.
Cities including Vienna to Munich and Copenhagen have closed vast […]
Assorted content to start your week.- Following up on yesterday’s post, the Hill Times reports that even the first set of cuts from the Harper Cons’ majority looks to have a serious effect on our federal government’s ability to function for itself rath…
Continue readingA fellow climate activist recently said that climate change is a gift to humanity, if we choose to accept it. What I understand from that is that climate change is a massive wake-up call that we humans need to change the way we are interacting with our…
Continue readingSlavery isn’t just a historical oddity anymore. Companies are taking advantage of a poor job market to squeeze free labor out of our children. These companies are who the Conservatives and Liberals are working to promote and protect. People like this w…
Continue readingThe outcome was inevitable. The mail will be delivered on Tuesday. But the parliamentary filibuster was worth it. What we finally had in this country was a genuine debate. And the “Harper Government” — remember that’s the phrase they themselves chose&…
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