MONTRÉAL—At a convention held here March 25-27, Québec solidaire concluded the second round in the process of adopting its program. More than 350 delegates from party associations across the province debated and adopted the party’…
Continue readingthe woodshed: In which it is revealed that I am now a best-selling author and a new Spiritual Leader of the Moment(tm) is crowned
Our Man in Abiko, who laboured at the same Great Metropolitan Newspaper that I did for many years, though at a different time than I, is someone I have known slightly for some time now. I came across his eponymous blog looking for other expat blogger…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Strategic voting depends on your ridings poll numbers.
The majority of ridings are essentially a lock before the election even happens. A minority have a good competition and a small number end up being too close for poll aggregates to predict the day before the election. There is thus a reasonab…
Continue readingCo2 Art: Rap Troubadour, Baba Brinkman, Says, "Don’t Vote for Mean People"
“Don’t Vote for Mean People
Don’t let Stephen Harper hold democracy for ransom.”
That’s the message of a new vid by self styled “rap troubadour”, Baba Brinkman, who also happens to be the son of Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray (Liberal).
Asi…
Continue readingNot an Official Green Party Canada Site: Green Party Canada: Week 2 of the 2011 Election
Not a terribly impressive week for the Green Party of Canada. The debate about the debate has mostly run it’s course, is there anything there to replace it?
Canadian Dimension Feed: To Libya with God on our side
“The United States should not try or be widely perceived as trying to manipulate religion in pursuit of narrowly drawn interests.”
~ The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, February 22, 2011 Task Force report [Engaging Religious Communi…
Continue readingNunc Scio: Tim Minchin’s Storm
Sometimes I forget I have a blog. After relentlessly promoting this video to friends, strangers, and heads of state for the last week, I somehow neglected to put it in the one place where I have total control over content. Brilliant. Anyways, it gives me very great pleasure to present Tim Minchin‘s Storm for your […]
Continue readingHarper G8 deception…
Kudos to where they are due: Joe Warmington in Sun Media today. “We found that money expended for the G8 infrastructure projects under the Border Infrastructure Fund were approved by Parliament without any indication that $50-million of the appropria…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: We get 30 cents back – People for Corporate Tax Cuts, Canada
People for Corporate Tax Cuts – Canada
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Breaking up with Stephen Harper
Millions of Canadian women are doing it. And so should you! Mildly funny and certainly clever. Make your own “break up with Stephen Harper” video and send it in. {Video by itsoversteve } Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Breaking up with Stephen Harper
Millions of Canadian women are doing it. And so should you!Mildly funny and certainly clever. Make your own “break up with Stephen Harper” video and send it in.{Video by itsoversteve }Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingLiberal Video Depot: Breaking up with Stephen Harper
Millions of Canadian women are doing it. And so should you! Mildly funny and certainly clever. Make your own “break up with Stephen Harper” video and send it in. {Video by itsoversteve } Please send LVD your political and news videos and clips.
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-04-12 11:36:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: STRAIGHT FROM THE OTHER END OF THE HORSE-HARPER QUOTES: To the tune of ‘Those Were The Days’…things the Conservative leader would like forgotten. For the original sources of these quotes see this link. Stephen Harper in his own wo…
Continue readingA grain of salt
Noteworthy in this Globe and Mail article describing the results of the latest Nanos Research daily tracking poll, is that in every single region, except the Prairies, every single lead or deficit between the Tories and Liberals is about half the size …
Continue readingPrime Minister unveils new promise at leadership debate
“If you don’t vote for me, I will barbecue this cat”
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Art Threat: Donald Trump goes to Washington – The dark side of TV ratings and presidential posturing
The ideology of television is not to prepare for the future, but to reflect the endless totality of the Now.
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Canada’s 2011 Federal Election: ’tis better to have loved and lost . . .
With the annual retreat of snow and ice blessedly underway, the crap and crud that mysteriously didn’t make it into my back lane dumpster is revealed in all of its putrescence. I call this a mystery because I don’t know how apparently sentient, reasonably healthy, bipedally-capable adults with opposable thumbs could miss the dumpster’s gaping […]
Evilness: The Harper Campaign Follies Just Keep on Rolling
So a leaked draft of an Auditor General report suggests that the Harper Tories mislead parliament (yet again) on the expenditure of $50 million of taxpayer dollars in pork barrel spending in Tony Clement’s riding during the G8 Summit. Now it’s not …
Continue readingArt Threat: Dialogue in bite sized pieces – Speak in Images embarks on a national participatory photo project
This is you receiving an invitation. An invitation to participate in a project just recently born in Vancouver called Speak in Images / Parler en Images. An invitation to speak up in a tiny but effective way about what issues matter to you in the Canadian federal election in a time when we are being […]
Continue readingSudbury Steve May: Canadians Deserve Better From the Fourth Estate
I’ve been troubled by the mainstream media’s coverage of the 41st General Election so far, and by all accounts, it isn’t going to improve. Specifically, my concerns relate to the media managing, and creating, the messages being conveyed to the e…
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