These are some of the goodies that were left on the tables this morning at the Alberta Party Leadership Convention.
The award for “Most Swag” goes to Glenn Taylor. Including a fascinating fortune cookie…
Ahhhhhh… so THAT’S how the cookie crumble…
These are some of the goodies that were left on the tables this morning at the Alberta Party Leadership Convention.
The award for “Most Swag” goes to Glenn Taylor. Including a fascinating fortune cookie…
Ahhhhhh… so THAT’S how the cookie crumble…
Last week in Washington, as the Senate discussed the F35, the red flags were everywhere. Robert Haddick, in Foreign Policy, reported that:The troubled and long-delayed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program came under renewed scrutiny this week. The Air Fo…
Continue readingRoyer’s introduction talks about his book, which should have been called “Randy’s Excellent Political Adventure”. Royer is a “political philosopher and visionary” with years of business experience. Bold, courageous, unconventional. Talk of Calgary’s mu…
Continue readingAfter a brief introduction, Easton takes the stage and talks about how important it is to him that the party does things differently, including how all the leadership candidates are pulling in the same direction and sharing some laughs.
Easton takes c…
Continue readingIntroduction from Tammy’s mom: The day has arrived, and isn’t it exciting? “Woot woot”, as those Facebook people would say… (laughs)
Throw to a video from Sam Gregory, the young man who spearheaded the Save Our Fine Arts organization. He met Tammy a…
Continue readingAs awful as it has been for those whose lives have been turned upside down, the worst outcome of the deplorable, authoritarian policing at last year’s G20 summit in Toronto was not the targeting of a few dozen militants plus some random people for (oft…
Continue readingIn yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingIn yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingIn yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah…
Continue readingGlenn Taylor begins by thanking his fellow candidates. Points out that when Peter Lougheed and David King were building a progressive Alberta, he wasn’t all that thankful – he was busy skiing (big laughs). Taylor hypes up the strength and growth of the…
Continue readingMuch has been made of Jack Layton’s “controversial” comments on a possible Quebec sovereignty referendum.The fact is that it is a very rational and defensible position. Based on the closest precedent, the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation, Quebe…
Continue readingNation, after a relatively early night and a morning spent fighting off my hayfever (the battle wages on), I find myself sitting in Salons 8-10 at the Shaw Conference Centre.
The membership of this party is streaming through the doors, on their way to…
Continue readingBecause everyone, even nurses, deserve poetry. Silent Noon Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,– The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ‘Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup-fields with silver […]
A very interesting class action lawsuit has been launched here in The Hammer. It involves students of Redeemer University College and their parents who claim they were ripped off by an enticing “forgiveable loan” scheme to offset the costs of the t…
Continue readingWe’ve been living on the Plateau now for six months, and I don’t know how many times I’ve passed rue Demers. But it wasn’t until a week ago that I really saw it.At one point, someone built a series of small workers’ cottages–from the city’s evaluatio…
Continue readingMore serving and protecting by the Toronto Police. (Yeah, right.)
Via CBC and the Star, news that Gabriel Jacobs is filing a human rights complaint over the way he was treated at the G20.
Let’s review the sordid allegations: Guy in a wheelchair. Drag…
Continue readingWhen Newsweek ran an article naming Grand Rapids one of America’s 10 Dying Cities, instead of just writing letters to the editor, 5 thousand residents participated in a 9 minute vibrant and upbeat lip dub video which was put up … Continue reading →
Continue reading– Comment by Neurodiversity Blogger Kev Leitch of LBRB on the recent paper indicating that children have been compensated for what, based on an analysis of the symptoms, appear to have been autism disorders.
Neurodiversity, to the extent that it has …
Continue readingIt’s my fault. I heard Stephen Harper and Jack Layton call their parties “federalist” enough times that I started to believe it. Sure, they are not seperatist, but why isn’t the Prime Minister jumping on Mr. Layton for this “50% + 1” nonsense. Wh…
Continue readingTHE SECRET TRIAL 5 INTRO VIDEO from The Secret Trial 5 on Vimeo.
Last night’s Marxism Conference programme ended with three excellent short films from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF). More about CLiFF when I write about Marxism…