Canada Post is experiencing record profits. Current moves by the Harper administration to legislate an imposed contract on postal workers is an exercise in ‘corporate branding’. Harper is determined to demonstrate to the corporate sector that he will n…
Continue readingChronicles of a Pure Laine: Saint-Jean hangover
Saint-Jean celebrations in Montréal were kind of damp this year. Even though I live at walking distance from Parc Maisonneuve, I skipped the big event. Despite the weather, The Gazette reports that attendance at the show and the preceding parade was…
Continue readingReport: WI judge David Prosser assaulted female judge prior to union bill decision
The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that, in the height of the contentous decision on the union busting bill in in that state, WI Supreme Court Justice David Prosser grabbed fellow justice Ann Walsh Bradley by the throat ‘with both hands’.
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Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Fortis fighting two tin-pot bureaucracies
Newfoundland and Labrador based Fortis is seeking compensation for seized electricity production assets seized by two governments half a continent apart. The company is seeking payment for its interest in a Belize electricity company seized this week …
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Have the NDP Fallen Into a Trap?
Tom Mulcair and Jack Layton – Protecting Canadian UnionsIt’s possible Jack Layton doesn’t know Admiral Ackbar, but one wonders whether the two should meet.The longer the NDP filibuster continues on, the more I feel that they’ve fallen into a highly cle…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Tabatha Southey eviscerates the Cons’ determination to force Canadians into a state of constant and unregulated online surveillance at their own expense:Bill C-51 seems to indicate a shift. It makes accessing…
Continue readingHalf an Hour: gRSShopper Graph API
Just setting up the gRSShopper graph systemURL: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?api=graph&apikey=[key]&cutoff=[unixdate] unixdate: cutoff is the unix date; the API will deliver results only greater than the…
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: Perhaps Masada isn’t the best example to emulate…
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Perhaps you could attribute it to Faytene Grasseschi not taking enough history at Simon Fraser University. I am happy for the former Faytene Kryskow that she apparently had a great time … Continue reading →
Continue readingPaper Dynamite Online: Another History Lesson For Chantal Hébert
In her June 13, column, "Harper’s persistence may pay off in Quebec," Chantal Hébert wrote: "It is no coincidence that there has been a non-stop disengagement from the federalism-versus-sovereignty front since the 2006 [Quebecois] nation resolution." At the time, I criticized Hébert for not recognizing that the decline in the sovereignty movement has much earlier origins.In the intervening weeks,
Continue reading@TorontoPolice Tweeter guy weighs in | #G20
… with a few nice words about accountability and regaining public trust.Here are some suggestions for you.Do something about the assholes who brutalized Lacy MacAuley.Out the sons of bitches who kicked Adam Nobody in the face after he was cuffed and …
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: wildrose drops the alliance.
As hundreds of party members meet at their annual general meeting in Calgary this weekend, political observers may have noticed a quiet marketing shift that has seen the Wildrose Alliance drop the word “Alliance” from their logo on their website and url in their press releases (using wildrose.ca instead). It also puts behind them a […]
Continue readingBuckdog: Flooded Saskatchewan Community Looted After Evacuation
It’s hard to imagine anything lower than what has happened in the flooded and evacuated community of Roche Percee, Saskatchewan. The village has been looted!”The mayor of a flood-ravaged Saskatchewan village says he and other residents evacuated from t…
Continue readingReport: WI judge David Prosser assaulted female judge prior to union bill decision
The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that, in the height of the contentous decision on the union busting bill in Wisconsin, that state’s Supreme Court Justice David Prosser grabbed fellow justice Ann Walsh Bradley by the throat ‘with both hands’.Th…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sure It’s the Right Thing. But That Doesn’t Matter in Harperland.
Another international disgrace for Canada – thanks to Greasy Steve Harper.The Canadian delegation to a UN conference in Geneva agrees that chrysotile asbestos fully deserves to be labelled as “hazardous” but Harperland will veto even that basic protect…
Continue readingThe Skinny: Cathie from Canada gets it on the G20 Toronto weekend
I am not able to comment on Cathie from Canada’s blog. I’ll just reply be stating that Police Chief Blair doesn’t get it that the failure of the G20 weekend was that Chief Blair, Premier Dalton McGuinty, Stephen Harper, and other officials violated the…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Be careful what you wish for
Hmmm … in spite of the highly touted muscle of a Conservative majority government, maybe locking out the postal workers and then expecting them to be quickly legislated back to work wasn’t such a great idea after all.Back in the “bad old days” when t…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: A Message to Every Alberta Liberal: End the Writing off of People
I was reading one comment made over on Calgarygrit’s blog made by a fellow by the name of “Frank” I felt this sinking, sickening feeling. Every single time I hear someone saying we shouldn’t attempt to bring in a group of people…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Shorter Canadian Stance On Asbestos
While the Canadian government agrees that asbestos is a dangerous product, the electoral concerns of the Conservative Party trumps scientific reality.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: H of C like the Pink Bunny — they keep going and going and …
… going and going … the debate in Parliament on the back to work legislation for the locked out workers at the Canada Post Corporation, that is. (Kady O’Malley has a good analysis of exactly what the NDs are up to and how the filibuster…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: The Star Phoenix gets it
viaIts taken a long time, but the meaning of Canada’s G20 tragedy finally seem to be sinking in.Here’s today’s Star Phoenix editorial: But as embarrassing as Vancouver was to the nation, what happened in Toronto is much more serious and frightening.Alt…
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