Why I did it: Senate page explains her throne speech protest – thestar.com: Brigette DePape I am moved by the excitement and energy with which peoplefrom all walks of life across this country greeted my action in theSenate.One …
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Driving The Porcelain Bus: Canada Post cuts home deliver to 3 days a week.
Canada Post cuts home delivery to 3 days a week – thestar.com
I swear that I only get delivery 3 days a week now and in the past few months.
Long before this strike, there have been days when the building has got no mail delivery.
So, for me, this of…
Trashy's World: I BELONG!
…to the “anti-Conservative opinion elite”!!!
Woo-hoo! I am SO stoked!
We need a slogan! Ads! Buttons! T-shirts! Celebrity spokespersons!
The CPC is scared shitless, it seems, of those of us who DARE to express opinions that run counter to Con dogma. I fact, they are asking their mindless drones supporters to dig deep into their wallets to […]
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Brigette DePape: Silently speaking truth to power
Brigette DePape: Silently speaking truth to power | rabble.ca
Excerpt:
Brigette was fortunate to have found herself in an unusual position – privileged yet powerless. On the one hand, she was honoured to have been selected as a Senate page, a position …
Excited Delirium: Peace, Dude (It Pays)
The Global Peace Index asks us to consider the economic value of peace. Hint: It’s in the trillions.
Continue readingCrunching the numbers, who Canadians voted for in the 2011 federal election
As previously stated by many liberal bloggers the Conservatives now dominate the rich west, where most of their votes, that put them in a majority government, came from, the NDP are mainly Quebecers and the Liberals are mostly represente…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Senate protester DePape offered job by Michael Moore
Doc maker Michael Moore backs rogue page over stunt – thestar.com
“For a young person to do that and to do it peacefully, and quietly and with grace, I thought it was a very powerful moment,” Moore told The Canadian Press on Sunday from New York. …
PoliTeching: Cross-Border Talks and Cybersecurity Law Consultation Ended
You are not alone if you did not even know there was a public consultation on cross-border talks. Link to Pirate Party of Canada Press release: Transparent Public Consultation Needed for Cross-Border Talks.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Arkansas Families Launch Lawsuits Against Southwestern For Polluting Their Water; New Brunswick Is Open For Drilling
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Houston-based Southwestern Energy Co. is facing more lawsuits because of destructive hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) practices. Southwestern is already accused of conta…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Honour Killings – No place in Secular Canada
The correlation between religion and the capacity to do monstrous deeds is again shown by the following clip which describes a few of the honour killings that have happened in Canada since the turn of century. Most certainly patriarchal cultural norms play factor, but it religion that puts the icing on the cake, the […]
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Woe Canada! More Canadian Shame as South Korean Family In Moncton Forced to Leave Canada Because of Son’s Autism and Epilepsy
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Canada’s shameful and dishonorable conduct towards families and children with autism and other disabilities continues with the forced expulsion of a South Korean family because one of their son’s suffers from autism…
350 or bust: “Stop Harper” Protest by Parliamentary Page During Conservative Throne Speech
A Senate page managed to stand just meters away from the prime minister with a sign saying “Stop Harper” during the government’s throne speech in Ottawa today. Brigette Marcelle De Pape had this to say after being escorted out of the …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Breaking: TransCanada Keystone I Pipeline Shut Down Indefinitely Due to Safety Concerns
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Following a string of oil spills, TransCanada’s Keystone I tar sands oil pipeline has been indefinitely shut down, and banned from restarting operations. To…
Continue readingOn the Quebec question: (5) The Constitution
Final point I want to consider on this issue. Some objections to Quebec separatism or nationalism seem to turn on a fear of “opening up” — that is, amending — the Constitution. After all, Mulroney tried it twice, and was sunk both times. Constitution…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Brigette DePape reminds us of our duty
Some people are upset with the protest in the Senate by Senate page Brigette DePape.The issue is not when and where and how she protested (in the Senate in the middle of the Throne Speech). The issue is that the Canada that we value and have worked har…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: War on Drugs
It’s hard to run a country with everyone squawking in your ear about how you have to be just like them, even if they are failures. The war on drugs is a failure, but Washington is pulling strings in Ottawa and Mexico, and even London too. – If the Pentagon is now taking acts of […]
Driving The Porcelain Bus: A Senate page is fired for saying what most Canadians are saying
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest – Politics – CBC News
Brigette DePape, a Senate page, stood on the Senate floor during the Governor General’s reading of the speech from the throne holding a Stop Harper sign. She was nearing the end of her …
Continue readingTrashy's World: Throne speech – “Stop Harper”
Updated: Presser from Brigitte Marcelle:
“Harper’s agenda is disastrous for this country and for my generation,” Brigette Marcelle says. “We have to stop him from wasting billions on fighter jets, military bases, and corporate tax cuts while cutting social programs and destroying the climate. Most people in this country know what we […]
Politics, Re-Spun: The Social Determinants of Health
(Note: This post contains a portion of the talk that I gave last month at the 16th International Conference of the Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children in Athens). Research has now clearly established that economic, and social variables – more than individual or family behavior – are the most salient factors […]
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: UK Opposed to Europe’s Tar Sands Import Ban
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While most European countries are working on a proposal that would effectively ban the use of Canadian tar sands in the European Union, the United Kingdom has made it clear that the…
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