I will be the first to admit this post is somewhat speculative. However, given the blatant actions of the Harper regime over the years I don’t think I’m going to be proven wrong. Additionally, the Harper regime may not be the first Canadian governm…
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Canada II: AAND Under Harper Government
I will be the first to admit this post is somewhat speculative. However, given the blatant actions of the Harper regime over the years I don’t think I’m going to be proven wrong. Additionally, the Harper regime may not be the first Canadian government to enact this type of campaign
Continue readingCanada II: Ezra Levant and Sun News Network
Today both Ezra Levant and the Sun News Network have been asking scary questions about uses of money by the Attawapiskat community. They are suggesting malfeasance in an effort to discredit Chief Spence for political purposes.
Why was Chief Spence’s…
Continue readingCanada II: Ezra Levant and Sun News Network
Today both Ezra Levant and the Sun News Network have been asking scary questions about uses of money by the Attawapiskat community. They are suggesting malfeasance in an effort to discredit Chief Spence for political purposes. Why was Chief Spence’s partner paid so much per day? Why did they buy
Continue readingCanada II: Ezra Levant and Sun News Network
Today both Ezra Levant and the Sun News Network have been asking scary questions about uses of money by the Attawapiskat community. They are suggesting malfeasance in an effort to discredit Chief Spence for political purposes. Why was Chief Spence’s partner paid so much per day? Why did they buy
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Guest post from Conservative house leader
Peter Van Loan published this item when he was an opposition member during the time Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada’s Liberal government. Van Loan’s subsequent behaviour, and that of the government he supports, demonstrates he is well versed in the hypocrisy of Conservative Party politics. My Saddest Day
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Grand New Low for Pro-Life sites equating Abortion to Sandyhook Elementary Victims
Hypocrisy is flowing from the anti-choice sites like turds from a overfull diaper. The idea that they are somehow committed to the preservation of life is the weapons-grade bullshite that religious thinking actively promotes. The pious fucks are equating abortion to the recent mass murder at Sandyhook Elementary School. How
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: When will Scalia just shut up?
Antonin “Nino” Scalia, the current dean of the US Supreme Court and a very staunch conservative, has always had a way with words especially in the opinions he authors for the majority or in dissent. There is no question he is a champion of free speech and expression — he
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Immigration "reforms" actually regressive
We’re starting to see the fallout from the Con government’s proposed changes to immigration policy. And while I agree that such policies need a reboot every now and then to meet current trends (and to a lesser extent, changes in social morés), what is shaping up to be what we’ll
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Boom! – Rights of Women – Justice Ginsburg
Filed under: Ethics, Feminism Tagged: Feminism, Responsibility, Rights of Women
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: The Etymology of “Death By Trolley”: Explaining The Name
Death By Trolley gets its name from The Trolley Problem, a philosophical thought experiment within the domain of morality and ethics. There are multiple formulations of The Trolley Problem. One of the most well-known versions invites the hearer to imagine that a trolley is on its way to running over
Continue readingNorthern Insight: A government of universal deceit
Theoretically, politicians are stewards of the nation’s resources and regulators of industries that exploit public assets. Yet those chamberlains receive contributions worth millions of dollars every year from the people they are supposed to regulate. …
Continue readingImpolitical: The week in Harper’s judgment
Harper appointed this Senator:Housakos, a member of the Conservative caucus since late 2008 and an influential fundraiser for the party, came up at the inquiry Wednesday. According to testimony, Housakos met at an exclusive club with two men who now f…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: BC`s unethical investments not smoking hot
BC Investment Management Corporation may come to regret its rush to invest in big tobacco firms. After adding shares in eight of nine tobacco stocks in fiscal 2012, bcIMC had $237 million more invested in cigarette manufacturers. I can`t determine if t…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Taxpayers on hook for Liberal "campain" funding
BC Liberals and friends had better start worrying because Vaughn Palmer may be taking off gloves and blindfold. The pundit who has all the tools, and a toolbox, laid implements aside frequently during recent years but he now seems ready for action. Gov…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Savita Halappanavar’s Death – Victory for the Irish Catholic “Pro-Life” Murder Brigade
I needed some time to digest this story… Sorry folks but that is a lie. I needed some time to come back to a (relatively) coherent state before I could write reasonably about what went down with Savita Halappanavar. A post filled with nothing but white-hot rage and invective against the pustulant ass-pimples known as […]
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Gaza, the ethnic media, and PMS
There are two stories that have emerged the last few days. They are totally unrelated but it does raise questions about a certain world leader, PMS. The events of the last twenty four hours or so in Gaza and southwestern Israel have raised the stakes much further and higher
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Pro-media: watchdogs or lapdogs?
Katie Hyslop has a worthwhile piece in The Tyee about the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation. Teacher Decries Pension Plan’s ‘Unethical’ Investments, The Tyee, Nov. 13/12
“[Paul] Hutcheson started researching the B.C. Teachers’ Pension …
Northern Insight: Ethical performance lacking at bcIMC
I’ve been comparing the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation to the Washington State Investment Board. They’re very similar in terms of purpose and goals. Here are a few key stats:
bcIMC
managed $92 billion as of March 31, 2012;
earned …
Blast Furnace Canada Blog: How are we honouring our veterans? We’re not
This is Remembrance Week. The days up to and including November 11th were long ago set aside to remember the men and women in military uniform or law enforcement who made the supreme sacrifice — in wars and police actions that were sometimes j…
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