You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows – Bob Dylan C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor – Neath Turcot Union Montréal manager was on engineering firm’s payroll CBC News Posted:
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kirbycairo: Harper and His Cabal, When Men get Desperate. . .
I haven’t watched the thursday political panel on The National for a while but I caught it yesterday and was somewhat surprised by what I heard. The conversation was further evidence that the political mood is changing. Chantal Hébert said that it seems clear now that even Harper and Flaherty
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canadian Senate Expenses Scandal: Harper Must Back Off And Let Justice Prevail
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive | Feb. 27, 2013: Has Prime Minister Stephen Harper finally awakened to the reality that Canada’s appointed Senate is indeed a scandal-ridden ”useless, expensive, undemocratic appendage of government”? That a majority of democracy-loving Canadians don’t really find the unfolding Senatorial soap opera engulfing mostly his appointees that funny? Is he finally admitting the truth: he’s the world’s worst
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: La Banque du Canada dit non au reflet de la diversité sur les dollars -OU – La xénophobie structurelle à la Banque du Canada: le jupon qui dépasse
Quand la nouvelle est tombée l’été dernier que la Banque du Canada avait effectué un nettoyage ethnique dans les images imprimées sur la monnaie canadienne, le faux-pas a fait le tour du monde. Dans un focus group, certains intervenants xénophobes se sont insurgés contre l’image d’une femme aux traits asiatiques
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: No Asians + No Blacks + no gays + no turbans + no aboriginals = No Canada -OR- BankOfCanada’s state sponsored xenophobia
The news of the ethnic cleansing of Canadian c-notes by the Bank of Canada hit like a bombshell last summer. It was revealed that an Asian-looking female figure was gentrified by the federal institution to appease Canadians who expressed xenophobic views in a focus group. The news went viral around
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Top Twenty Things Harper Can Do with Money Saved from Cancelled F-35 Purchase
Looks like Christmas came early : the news leaked that the much-criticized F-35 military jet purchase, first estimated at $16Billion or $25Billion or $30B or $40B, has been cancelled. Did Harper finally come to his senses about a jet which was rumoured not to function in nordic climates, have radar
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Conservative Senator Mike Duffy’s $33,000 allowance is daylight robbery
Senator Mike Duffy has reportedly claimed more than $33,000 in “living allowances intended to defray senators’ costs of maintaining a second home in the National Capital Region”. The trouble is: the Conservative senator and Harper appointee has been an Ottawa resident since the 1970s. He has a home in Kanata, a
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Harper Conservatives and Big Oil turning Canada into a “petro-state”
by The Polaris Institute | December 4, 2012: A new report entitled “Big Oil’s Oily Grasp – The making of Canada as a Petro-State and how oil money is corrupting Canadian politics” released today by the Ottawa-based Polaris Institute found that six main oil industry players, including Enbridge and TransCanada, met
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Tremblay Resigns!
One of the things that stands out in my mind regarding the merger of the cities on Montreal island involves former Verdun Mayor, Georges Bosse. After the merger Bosse became a key player on Montreal’s notoriously secretive Executive Committee. Soon after he was the City’s main shill for the massive,
Continue readingRedBedHead: Rob Ford Isnt The Mayor, He’s A Reality TV Show
Cue circus music: “It’s the Rob Ford Show” OK, OK, I get the joke now. For most of the last two years I’ve watched in horror as our metropolis was being run like a bingo game for compulsive cheaters. It was bad enough that his raison d’etre seemed to be
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Montrealers Getting Screwed By Tremblay
C’mon, tell us how you voted for Tremblay again and again and how much you thought he was a good mayor. Tell us you had no idea that there was corruption at City Hall. And tell us us how you figured out that voting for a guy who was “not
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: The Guardian : What ails Canada?
Maple leaf ragged: what ails Canada? Country's increasingly hardline stances on immigration (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-decoste/kenney-immigration_b_1411909.html), tar sands, indigenous people and Quebec separatism (http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rachel-decoste/pq-immigration_b_1842349.html) spark soul-searching. On the topic of Immigration Canada is one of the few countries in the world that still looks to immigration as a tool for nation-building – 20%
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mitt Romney – Class Warrior
Mitt Romney wouldn’t be the first really rich man to enter the White House. But, as Robert Reich points out, he’d certainly be a lot different. America has had hugely wealthy presidents before — think of Teddy Roosevelt and his distant cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt; or John F. Kennedy, beneficiary
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Right-wing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should step down: POLL
Fifty-five per cent Torontonians want their right-wing Mayor Rob Ford to leave office if he is found guilty in the ongoing conflict of interest case, according to the results of a recent poll by Forum Research. Can you blame them? Last week, Ford appeared in court in a conflict of interest case
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Stephen Harper is Focused – Like a Laser! – to Fund the Afghan Elite’s Dubai Real Estate Purchases
What? No Gazebos?! Stephen Harper is dedicated and determined to lead on Afghanistan’s security. Or at the very least, he’s dedicated and determined to see that Afghanistan’s corrupt leadership can keep buying swanky new property in Dubai when US troops pull out of the country in 2014. For the Conservatives,
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Serving the real masters
“Royal Dutch Shell PLC has begun construction on a $950-million project to capture and bury greenhouse gas emissions, the first of its kind to sequester carbon from Canada’s oil sands. The project is largely funded by government …” So, under rules of our current corporatocracy, private enterprise is welcome to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Treacherous Prime Minister
Douglas Channel Steve Harper’s environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline proposal is an utter sham. Steve says the fate of the pipeline will be decided by science but, after so many years, anyone who puts stock in what Steve says is, well, let’s say cognitively impaired. The fact
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: What To Expect When You’re Electing: Representative Paul Ryan
Ryan Romney.jpg With the selection of Wisconsin Republican Representative Paul Ryan has his running mate, Mitt Romney has effectively pushed his campaign into the climate change denying fringe. While Romney hasn’t been considered a friend of the environment since he began running for national office, his tendency towards flip-flopping made
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Rick Salutin discusses the link between parity of wealth and democratic participation, while pointing out why there’s reason for people to engage much more in the latter (W)hy didn’t the majority ever vote to expropriate the rich and take all their stuff? Perhaps
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Bill C10: Vic Toews Met With Lobbyist for U.S. Prisons Profiteer GEO
During the heated public debates on the omnibus crime Bill C-10, Canadian progressives argued that the Harper Government’s controversial legislation was the beginning of the privatization of Canada’s prison system. Turns out that a leading U.S. prison profiteering company lobbied the federal Public Safety Minister and other Canadian officials. So
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