Alternate Voting – or AV – will have massive implications with respect to voting in Canada (and will hopefully marginalize all of those who vote for dogs instead of cats).
Continue readingGeoff at Mount Allison: Polar Bear to visit Mount Allison for Convocation
In case you haven’t subscribed to Mount Allison University’s RSS feed here’s the recent post about Ursula coming for Convocation (4 days away).
Polar Bear to visit Mount Allison for Convocation
2011-05-12 09:51:51
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Take off, eh?: Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15
LOL.Edit: Hey, good for the Tories on deciding to make good on their promise.
Continue readingTake off, eh?: Tories back off campaign pledge to show a surplus by 2014-15
LOL. Edit: Hey, good for the Tories on deciding to make good on their promise.
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Fiscally Reposible? Yeah Right
The Conservatives are going to reduce the Corporate taxes by more for next year. If this years budget passes (which of course it will) the corporate taxes will be 16.5% the next year the Harper Government wants to reduce it to 15%. The cost for these c…
Continue readinggay persons of color: Courage Unfolds Campaign promotes equal human rights in Asia
The Courage Unfolds Campaign and video highlight the challenges faced by LGBT people in Asia and promotes equal human rights through the use of the Yogyakarta Principles, which address the broad range of human rights standards and their application to …
Continue readingRequiem For A Lightweight….
…”How Can Someone Possibly Be Less Popular Than Gordon Campbell?”From our good friend Mr. Beer ‘N Hockey on last night’s (almost) live blog of the feature bout between challenger David Eby and she who hid behind her cornermen even after the bell rang…
Continue readingPoint Grey By-Election (Almost) Live
Eby v. ClarkThrillaOnBlancaVille8:01pm…Polls closed…Pretty heavy late turnout at two polls I passed in rain on ride home outta CremeVille on way home to near Eastern Townships this evening.8:06pm…Looking for….Did Greeniacs lay off their candida…
Continue readingArt Threat: Know Your Lines – Center for Urban Pedagogy’s latest poster tackles redistricting
The Center for Urban Pedagogy’s latest issue of Making Policy Public takes you behind the scenes of the largely invisible redistricting process in which politicians often get to choose their voters, instead of the other way around.
Continue readinggritchik: Duped
Again.
All I know is I sure as hell didn’t vote for these guys.
Just Another Willy Loman: Three weeks late and a hundred bucks short
This might explain a lot. When I got home from work today, there was a letter from the Liberal Party of Canada in my mailbox, in a fairly large envelope.
My first thought was, hey these guys are not down and out. This is a very aggressive move. Hit y…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: A brief history of a long Liberal history of talking about reform
We’ve all been absorbed since the election with issues of Liberal Party reform, and over the last week I’ve made my own contributions to the debate:May 5, 2011: Renewing the Liberal Party: LeadershipMay 6, 2011: Real change isn’t forced top-downMay 7, …
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: The Liberals’ Darkest Hour
Our electoral loss is not our darkest hour, what we face now, is.Many believe May 2nd was the worst day for the Liberal Party of Canada, they are wrong. What is to follow in the months and years to come will be the blackest period in our history. This …
Continue readingJohn Laforet - President - Wind Concerns Ontario: On Dalton McGuinty’s Support for Killing, Harming, and Harassing Endangered Species
Welcome to Dalton McGuinty’s Industrial Green Ontario. That’s right. If you’re an industrial wind developer and want to ‘kill, harm or harass’ endangered species – all you have to do is ask the government nicely and give them some money. In exchange for $230,000 bucks, the Government of Ontario is prepared to lease Ministry of […]
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how major investment bankers (e.g., Goldman Sachs) have effectively triple penetrated their investors and the global oil market, which affects all of us by driving up […]
mike watkins dot ca: PC Party Confusion
A word association test: If handed a federal election ballot that displays a candidate’s name beside the "PC Party" label – what do you make of that?
Some may mistakenly believe the candidate represents Stephen Harper’s party due to long …
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: NDP Leaders: Stop Sugar-Coating Brosseau’s Election
As a Canadian secular progressive who has followed US politics closely for a few years and is just now making a serious effort to get into Canadian politics, I have not been impressed with how I’ve seen the NDP deal with the Berthier-Maskinonge, Quebec riding. Firstly, their selection of Ruth Ellen Brosseau – a 27 […]
When Colin Hansen Speaks…
…..Reality WeepsColin Hansen, Christy Clark’s campaign manager in the Point Grey by-election, was caught doing his well-patented ‘shuck and jive’, one more time when he tried to explain why his horse doesn’t show up for all-candidate debates.First th…
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: An idea for sticking it to the oil companies – No boycotts, just put up your hand
Canadians are getting hosed at the pumps again, just as summer has arrived and we all start thinking about jumping in our cars for a trip to the cottage, trailer or a simple vacation. Raising prices 10 cents per litre at the pumps means we’re handi…
Continue readingmike watkins dot ca: Dear 16 year old Me
One bad sunburn before you are 18 doubles your chance of developing melanoma…
This is a very powerful video. I’m showing it to my children, tonight.
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