Video presentation – shots of Regent Park with voiceover by Prue on growing up in a poor neighbourhood and the importance of making sure children have opportunity. Talks about his success as mayor of East York, building community centres and daycare, paying down the debt without raising taxes. I’m a
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: NDP convention 2 Bisson speech
Bisson is being nominated by France Gelinas and by a spokesperson for UFCW Canada. Third nominator is an activist for an anti-homelessness group – missed her name, but she’s emphasizing that Bisson has raised the most money of any of the candidates (and thus can raise money for the party)
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: NDP convention
Liveblogging from the NDP convention. Bisson has raised the most amount of money followed by Tabuns, Horwath and Prue. We’ll see the relationship between money and votes soon. My prediction is that Horwath will win since her significant lead in the labour vote will give her a boost overall. Steel
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: NDP convention (4): Tabuns
Cheri DiNovo introduces Tabuns, mentioned “democratic socialism” in her review of party history. Tabuns represents the best of the NDP’s traditition. he has an industrial economic vision, zeal for a prosperous province, represents new direction and our founding values, feminist, unionist, environmentalist, democratic socialist Peter Tabuns. Ravi Joshi: I support
Continue readinglocal values trump john tory ambitions
Yesterday’s by-election has demonstrated the power and the importance of local and grassroots politics. Unlike the former riding of Dufferin-Grey-Wellington-Peel (now Dufferin-Caledon), which has been used in the past by many Conservative leaders (incl…
Continue readingredjenny: Great Depression Cooking with Clara
Celebrity cooking is HOT and, lately, so is the Great Depression. 93 year old Clara reminisces about the Depression while showcasing cheap, nourishing food. I love this online cooking show. Maybe it’s because I’m a big fan of history, food, frugality, …
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: I hate you all.
Yes, that’s me at the wheel of a Hummer. And if you look closely, I am showing you some disrespect with a hand gesture. Not that it’s needed! By driving one of these things, you are basically saying, “Fuck the environment, and fuck YOU”.Who the hell drives these things? It’s
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: I hate you all.
Yes, that’s me at the wheel of a Hummer. And if you look closely, I am showing you some disrespect with a hand gesture. Not that it’s needed! By driving one of these things, you are basically saying, “Fuck the environment, and fuck YOU”.Who the hell drives these things? It’s
Continue readingMy Canada Includes Justice: I hate you all.
Yes, that’s me at the wheel of a Hummer. And if you look closely, I am showing you some disrespect with a hand gesture. Not that it’s needed! By driving one of these things, you are basically saying, "Fuck the environment, and fuck YOU".Who the hell drives these things? It’s 2009. There’s talk about whether it might be too late to reverse the damage we’ve done to the environment. There was
Continue readingredjenny: Sharing Work and Food – Imagine That
Here’s an article by Wayne Roberts of the Toronto Food Policy Council, quoted in full because I don’t know how to link to it on Facebook. SHARING WORK AND FOOD CREATES AN UPSIDE TO THE ECONOMIC DOWNBY Wayne RobertsUnlike most people, Thomas Homer-Dixo…
Continue readingredjenny: BBC’s The Big Read top 100 books
A friend passed this on. She says the BBC believes the average person will only have read 6 books from this list. At least 6 of these I had to read for school. It is definitely a British list but there are several important books on it.1 Pride and Prej…
Continue readingJacked Up: Open and Accountable to who?
Because after promising openness and accountability, as well as strong leadership, I haven’t seen any of the above from Harper’s Conservative government. Apparently, neither have the federal watchdogs.
Continue readingJacked Up: Harper Spreading Democracy… ?!
So the Harper government is creating an agency that will help spread democracy abroad. Good for them, fledgling democracies do need all the help they can get in getting established. My problem though is that this is coming from Harper, a man who doesn’t even know the definition of democracy.
Continue readingredjenny: Worst Headline Ever
If there were an annual worst headline award, The Sun would probably win pretty much every year. Today’s paper screamed “‘Enormous’ fraud at City Hall”It makes it sound as though the city council or mayor has been caught doing something corrupt or frau…
Continue readingan ethnic, big-city, liberal canadian in small town conservative USA
Canadians are filled with optimism and excitement in anticipation of the visit by non other than the grand-pumba himself, U.S. President Barack Obama. Many Americans across the United States are filled with optimism and hope that their new President is…
Continue readingJacked Up: Duffy’s time in senate has been a grotesque scene.
Now I’ve always known that Stephen Harper was lacking when it came to foresight. His in-action on environment, denial of a recession etc are all good enough indicators that he’s more concerned with immediate political gain than he is about actually analyzing a situation and contemplating the possible outcomes of
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Kormos endorses Horwath
This comes as a bit of a surprise. See also this earlier (and now revised) post for a roundup
Continue readingJacked Up: The Arts
So according to the 2001 census as reported today by CBC radio one, the average earnings for someone who made their living from the arts was $22,000 dollars annually. Not only that, but since then it has decreased by a third, to $14,000 dollars per year. These figures are even
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Bisson bags the north
An update to my earlier look at endorsements of the NDP leadership candidates: an additional four northern Ontario MPs have endorsed Gilles Bisson meaning he has the unanimous support of the NDP’s 7 federal Members of Parliament from northern Ontario.
Continue readingJacked Up: The end of Conservatism
That’s what Andrew Coyne wrote about today. Basically he said that the Harper governments decision to spend so much and go into a deficit is the last straw, and that they now have failed to uphold any fiscal Conservative values. All of which could have been a lot less serious
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