The Conservative government’s 2009 pledge to deliver $25 million in prize money for the arts remains an empty promise. Responding to widespread backlash after making $45 million in cuts to arts and culture funding, the Harper government announced the Canada Prizes for the Arts and Creativity — $25 million to be doled out annually to […]
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THE FIFTH COLUMN: Why You Must Vote on Monday May 2, 2011
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Continue readingTerahertz: More strikes against Harper
Because 2 in 5 Canadians still think Harper is the least offensive option, here’s a bit more ammunition: Apparently student’s votes don’t count: No votes cast Wednesday in a special ballot at the University of Guelph should stand, according to the Conservative Party of Canada. The party wrote Elections Canada on Thursday to request that […]
Continue readingTerahertz: Canada.com-It’s time to talk about abolishing the monarchy
I got another piece published on the front page of Canada.com in the “Real Agenda.” This time I argue that it’s time to due away with the monarchy. It’s time to talk about abolishing the monarchy The power of our Prime Minister’s Office has been growing in leaps and bounds since Trudeau sought to centralize […]
Continue readingTerahertz: 2 votes, 2 weeks
May 11th. Just over one week after the federal election, myself and voters of Vancouver-Point Grey will be going back to the polls to vote for/against Christy Clark in the byelection she just announced. Perhaps she’s hoping that since the NDP don’t even have a leader yet (not till Sunday) and are likely busy fighting […]
Continue readingTerahertz: My vote for BC NDP leader: Mike Farnworth
After a long campaign, highlighted more by how much the leaders agreed than any substantive disagreements (except maybe on who hates Gordon Campbell the most), voting has commenced for the BC NDP, and I have made my votes. It’s a preferential ballot, and I tried to balance competing needs in my head, yet I don’t […]
Continue readingTerahertz: Election debate live-blog
Follow here for my live-blogged thoughts on the English leader’s debate that I’m watching from the SFU Highland Pub.
English Leader’s Debate
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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 readingArt 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 readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: Akaash Maharaj – Global News: Analysis of the NDP Platform
My analysis of the NDP’s platform for Global Television News. It has proven to be a politically shrewd, but fiscally improbable document. Ultimately, could Layton deliver on his his five key areas during his first 100 days, as he promises? Not unless t…
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Low Income Cut-offs – A Lesson for the #CPC
Yesterday my post talked about how sad I thought it was that Conservatives did not acknowledge poverty in Canada. And this morning to my surprise there was a comment arguing that …. the poverty line isn’t real. I am sorry that I didn’t define clearly enough what I meant by poor…. ..
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HUMOUR:DARTH HARPER:
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: How Poor is Poor Enough?
Harper and Alexander Recently Conservative Chris Alexander made the assertion that Canada has eradicated poverty. Statements like this are disheartening. Many Canadians have to make the difficult choice between paying the rent or buying food. And because people in Canada… ..
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: What are Stephen Harper’s standards? Felons inside the Prime Minister’s Office
It is hard to say what Stephen Harper knew about Bruce Carson. In one breath he says that “I knew Mr. Carson had had difficulties with the law…” But in another breath says “The fact is, I did not know… had I known these things, obviously I would not have
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HUMOUR CANADIAN POLITICS: WHAT HARPER WANTS:
Continue readingForecast: Grim With Heavy Chances Of Losing Country
Still insanely busy, but I just can’t remain silent on the current electoral campaign …
I mean, the ongoing electoral campaign that began months ago (you know, before everyone actually proclaimed that *now* we’re running elections?) – but I digress….
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: 10 headlines capturing the "work" of the Harper Regime
The Globe and Mail has released a photo slide show titled “A look back at the biggest headlines from Canada’s 40th parliament” with 8 of the 10 headlines either critiquing or outright slamming the Harper Regime’s path of governance. The two exceptions? The first was the state of Jack Layton’s
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Riding hashtags – now with edits!
So I made up hashtags for every riding. With Twitter being abuzz, I think this it would be good to get some standardization when talking about individual ridings. Here’s my effort:NewfoundlandAvalon – #ava Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor – …
Continue readingRight of Center Ice: Would Harper prorogue parliament again?
A thought for progressives to discuss: Layton has two votes this week with one potentially mattering significantly more than the other. If Layton supports the budget on Thursday can he really vote alongside the expected Liberal non-confidence motion on Friday? He could certainly vote against an Opposition Day non-confidence motion,
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