Okay Liberal Party of Canada, you obviously haven’t figured out where you went off course, why Canadians snubbed you at the ballot box. Every newspaper I pick up is filled with stories and quotes from Liberal party members and seniors within the par…
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Green Party of Canada: Focus on the Future, Part II: Creating Local Opportunities for Success
In Part 1 of this series, I took a little look at how the Party has ended up where we are at today, through the lens of the struggle between the “grassroots” and the “Central Party”. The strategy of the Central Party has been to continue centr…
Continue readingBetterParks for Vancouver: Vancouver park board resurrects summer camps
By Sandra Thomas, Staff writer May 5, 2011Seven Vancouver parks will see the return of summer day camp programs this year, albeit part time. Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper told the Courier he’s wanted to have the summer playground c…
Continue readingHere it comes……BOHICA and the Conservative Minority.
No, I have it correct. The Minority.
39% is not a majority, it’s just the FPTP version of Demockracy.
Bend over, here it comes again….. And with 39% of those 60% of eligible voters now deciding to keep their heads firmly entrenched up their…..(…
Continue readingthis-on-that: Sportsnet fires host following anti-gay marriage tweet
Or it may have just been the last straw in a strained work environment. Whatever the reason though, kudos to SportsNet. After a spate of tweets in support of a hockey agent’s anti-gay marriage stand, Rogers Sportsnet decided Wednesday to fire on-air host Damian Goddard. “Mr. Goddard was a freelance
Continue readingthis-on-that: Sportsnet fires host following anti-gay marriage tweet
Or it may have just been the last straw in a strained work environment. Whatever the reason though, kudos to SportsNet. After a spate of tweets in support of a hockey agent’s anti-gay marriage stand, Rogers Sportsnet decided Wednesday to fire on-air host Damian Goddard. “Mr. Goddard was a freelance
Continue readingthis-on-that: Sportsnet fires host following anti-gay marriage tweet
Or it may have just been the last straw in a strained work environment. Whatever the reason though, kudos to SportsNet.
After a spate of tweets in support of a hockey agent’s anti-gay marriage stand, Rogers Sportsnet decided Wednesday to fire on-air host Damian Goddard.
“Mr. Goddard was a freelance contractor and in recent weeks it had become clear that he is not the right fit for our organization,” the sports giant’s communications director, Dave Rashford, said in a short statement.
Some background leading to today’s development.
Good riddance, Damian!
Continue readingRecreating Eden: May: The Change is Magic
Within a couple of days of warm weather, leaves burst out on the trees here, changing the whole world for the better.Since this photo was taken, the canopy has become more green, and there are places where you can actually sit in the shade. What an ama…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Five Economic Tests for Harper’s Majority Government
This article was first published at the Globe and Mail’s Economy Lab. As Parliament resumes after Canada’s historic 41st election, all eyes are on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and how he delivers on his campaign promises of growth and stability. With no encumbrances to its decision-making powers, the Harper majority government will be responsible — […]
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: More Reasons Why Leadership Delay Is The Wrong Path
Over the past 10 years, we have all witnessed how Leadership campaigns suck the oxygen, energy and funds out of the Liberal Party faithful. So now Alf Apps and the Party’s National Board of Directors (and apparently every single last person connected …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Our reactions to homeless people
It is quite natural to feel some sense of revulsion towards homeless people. They may be smelly, unclean, imposing on our presence and saying strange things; this kind of appearance and place in society is diametrically opposed to the ideals most of us…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Reforming the Liberal Party: Who are we, and why are we here?
In my Liberal reform posts so far I’ve focused on questions of leadership and questions of structure. These are important to building the party into an accountable and efficient vehicle, but unless you know where you’re driving to and why you’ll still…
Continue readingOn Communication and National Board of Directors
On Monday night the Canucks scored twice in the first period, apparently. I say apparently because I wasn’t watching the hockey game, I was on a conference call with twenty BC riding presidents, most of the LPCBC executive, and two members of the LPC…
Continue readingOn Communication and National Board of Directors
On Monday night the Canucks scored twice in the first period, apparently. I say apparently because I wasn’t watching the hockey game, I was on a conference call with twenty BC riding presidents, most of the LPCBC executive, and two members of the LPC National Board of Directors. In BC. During a Canuck Playoff game. […]
Continue readingknitnut.net: Goodbye Rita
I read the papers and the obituaries almost every day. I don’t know how anybody can die in this city without me finding out about it, especially if it makes the news, and especially if they’re a friend of mine. But Rita did.
I ran into my friend John last week and he mentioned in […]
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: LPC MPs had to write letters to talk to Leader Iggy?
«All MPs should have easy access to the leader. They should not be required to write a letter requesting an appointment. (This became the practice during Ignatieff’s leadership.)»
-MP Karygiannis
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/11/pol-l…
Continue readingThe Mumpsimus Blog site Community Blog List: The Mumpsimus Blog – Buddhism in the West
I’ve been reading James Coleman’s excellent book, The New Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2001) of late. Subtitled, The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition, it chronicles the many threads of Buddhism on its complex journey into Western cu…
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Micheal Ignatieff In Retrospect
In a recent column, Kate Heartsfeld recounts an incident which occurred less than a week after the election:Five days after the federal election, I was sitting in a car dealership in suburban Ottawa, reading the paper and drinking my watery free cof…
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: Happy Bob Marley Day
Wow. 30 years already.
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Precarious Labour
Precarious labour refers to the explosion of short term, temporary and part-time jobs issuing from the economic crisis of the mid-1970s. A crisis in profitability combined with competitive pressures unleashed by the entry of China, India and the former…
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