Occupy Ottawa started as a solidarity movement in support the Occupy Wall Street movement. On Sunday, the movement defined itself as truly Canadian. More than 750 Occupy Ottawa protesters marched through Ottawa’s downtown core. The protesters’ sang…
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Progressive Proselytizing: The sensitivity of the Ontario election results to the Green Party vote
One of the interesting results of the Ontario general election was the collapse of the Green Party from its 2007 peak of 8% down to just over 3% in 2011. In this post I run the math on various counterfactual scenarios to see what would have happe…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Irony, thy name is Johnny…
Or Steve…This article on the MotherCorp site is all about Ukraine’s imprisonment of the main Opposition Party leader… and how the PM is a tad worried about it. But this is the line that had me rolling on the floor laughing: Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Tuesday Canada was troubled by the prison sentence. […]
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Canada Gay Marriage
From Dominic Poliquin, this 60 second short puts a sweet and lovely spin on the Canadian Heritage Minutes, a popular series of short films illustrating important moments in Canadian history. On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the wor…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Canadian Corporation Behind Efforts to Shut Down Occupy Wall Street Has Ties to Big Oil
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Occupy Wall Street is about challenging the power of the richest 1%. But what happens when that 1% owns the land of the occupation? It has been revealed that a Canadian company was behind…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Oxymoron of the Day: Modernizing the Monarchy
The UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, wants to modernize the monarchy. In our modern day and age, you see, the practice of preferentially selecting male over female heirs is the wrong symbol and really ought to be changed so first born daughters can…
Continue readingThings Are Good: UN: Canada Prevented Torture
The Afghanistan war that has been going for 10 years(!) has caused a lot of horrible things to happen to all the belligerents. The American forces have been accused of torture and other horrible actions to Afghanis, and in Canada a few years ago there was accusations that Canadian forces let people be tortured as […]
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Learn about gay and trans kids? No. Have them protest abortion? Okay.
A group of parents in B.C. are adamantly opposed to the Burnaby school district enacting an LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying policy. Catholic school districts in Ontario want to ban rainbows and Gay-Straight Alliances. Charles Adler is worried that a calendar that is a teachers’ reference (and notes the Transgender Day of Remembrance) might cause kids to become 
Pop The Stack: What Are They So Angry About?
On October 15 the #occupywallstreet protests will arrive at cities around the world and in one of the birthplaces of the movement in downtown Vancouver. The Vancouver based magazine Adbusters actually inspired the protests that have been going on in New York. The decentralized nature of the protests has led to some
Continue readingPop The Stack: What Are They So Angry About?
On October 15 the #occupywallstreet protests will arrive at cities around the world and in one of the birthplaces of the movement in downtown Vancouver. The Vancouver based magazine Adbusters actually inspired the protests that have been going on in New York. The decentralized nature of the protests has led to some
Continue reading350 or bust: Climate News: Carbon Pricing in Australia And Oil Orgies In Britain
Yesterday Australia took a huge step toward a clean energy economy and tackling climate change. The Australian House of Representatives passed the Government’s package of 19 bills setting up a carbon pricing scheme from July 1, 2012 by a vote of 74 t…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Government Too Big To Fail
While talking about market regulation, I came up with an example of a situation where I think more government oversight and fines would be useful at protecting Canadians. It occurred to me, that it’s practically a metaphor of Saskatchewan’s current Sask Party government. “Unfortunately companies that are too big to fail get neither the government […]
The Wandering Joe: Oh yeah, torture…
I’m not sure why this wasn’t more of a story during the election, but the Afghan Detainee issue has once again made the papers. Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around
Continue readingThe Wandering Joe: Oh yeah, torture…
I’m not sure why this wasn’t more of a story during the election, but the Afghan Detainee issue has once again made the papers. Afghanistan’s internal security service and police use torture and other abusive methods to extract confessions from suspected insurgents held in a number of detention centres around
Continue reading350 or bust: “Canada’s The Best Country In The World”
It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada. Me and mine have much to be thankful for today, having narrowly avoided a serious health crisis among one of our own. So this Thanksgiving I am grateful for the blessing of good health, and I can even appr…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s the Sound of Cracking Ice
Growing up in Ontario back when it used to have winters, young boys gravitated to frozen ponds, streams and lakes. We’d skate or play hockey or sometimes just marvel at walking across expanses of frozen water. One sound that instantly…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies: Canadian “Democracy” and (not) You!
So, Ontario, Canada’s most unbearably self-righteous Province, just concluded another one of those spiffy “election” things everyone is getting so worked up over these days. As of this writing, it’s still not entirely clear just how low the voter turnout was but it seems to be definitely below 50%—the lowest in Provincial history. The McGuinty Liberals […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 99% Paying The Taxes
This video demonstrates that nothing has been done in more than 25 years to close the tax loopholes that Reagan supposedly wanted to close in 1985. Obama is saying the same things, literally, as Reagan did. The Bush(s), Clinton, and Obama governments since have lost ground for the 99% of us. This is one big […]
Politics, Re-Spun: Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples […]
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Top 10 under-reported facts about a decade of war in Afghanistan
Top 10 under-reported facts about a decade of war in Afghanistan | rabble.caExcerpt regarding “Women’s Rights”The “women’s rights” rationale has been exposed as a cynical sham. I’m not sure who really takes this fraud seriously anymore, but it’s import…
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