The real class warfare: law firm representing banks and mortgage servicers mock homeless at Halloween party

This is beyond sick. It may have been a 2010 party but one has to wonder what these folks are doing this year. So bank industry, so privileged, so American.

The media and economists wonder why Occupy is happening. It’s right in front your faces, assholes.

Between the crying billionaires, Erick Erickson’s “suck it . . . → Read More: The real class warfare: law firm representing banks and mortgage servicers mock homeless at Halloween party

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On July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits

"Oh say dear Kate, you may want to have that growth on your head checked out."

Ah Conservatives, so in love with our country. Not! Preferring to honour war and celebrate a couple of brainless twits from some other country, rather than honour Canada’s national news and entertainment network with 75 years . . . → Read More: On July 1, Conservatives booted CBC 75th anniversary tribute for a couple of Britwits

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Another step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.

Conservatives have a very well defined hierarchy of idiocy. The National Post is about midway down the pack, excelling at Disingenuous, Lacks Moral Clarity and Will Do Anything to Further a Conservative Meme. Not to mention the bottom of the pack for Empathy.

Then you have Sun Media. It’s right there in the basement, . . . → Read More: Another step down the Conservative evolutionary scale. Sun runs homophobic McVety ad. Bonus Shaidle charm offensive.

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Canada’s Shame

We are mute with shame here in Canada.  Shame for our Professional Media.  Even our beloved CBC doesn’t have the decency to cover the new American Revolution.  You were there for Egypt, you covered the hell out of Libya, sickeningly slick graphics and foreboding intro music and all.  But when our biggest trading . . . → Read More: Canada’s Shame

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Tell Leah Costello that Dick Cheney is not welcome in Vancouver

Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing Bon Mot book club. It is appropriate however that a member of the cocktail wienie set is responsible for inviting such a ‘controversial’ criminal to our country and fair city. Protests are being organized and a healthy turnout is expected.

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Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.

Haroon Siddiqui hits these columns out of the park. Much needed to be said but our media has been reluctant to shout out the obvious.

‘Islamophobia: The new anti-Semitism‘

Just as the Muslim world turned against the U.S. and Europe, Americans and Europeans turned against Muslims, including their own minorities, nearly half of . . . → Read More: Two powerful Star columns on Islamophobia. The new anti-Semitism. Tactics of Islamophobes.

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“God bless Canada”? God has nothing to do with it, Mr. Harper. Also, caption this photo.

Why not just get it over with and just imitate American presidents to maximum effect. How about an edict that Canadians must now hold our hands over our hearts during the “Star-Spangled Banner” “O Canada”?

Keep god out of our politics and government, sir. I know that shouldering a whopping Napoleon Complex is hard work . . . → Read More: “God bless Canada”? God has nothing to do with it, Mr. Harper. Also, caption this photo.

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wherefore art thou, Canadian Constitution? local corporate government operating in federal jurisdiction

Part 3 in Priscilla’s series on municipal government.

 

The Nature of Corporate Government – Part 3

It appears that Lumby Council’s Noise By-law regulation circumvents basic rights offered to breathing people under the Canadian Constitution.  Lumby’s Noise regulation allows a Bylaw Officer to enter someone’s property to ensure compliance.

First of . . . → Read More: wherefore art thou, Canadian Constitution? local corporate government operating in federal jurisdiction

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Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.

Dawg posted a video tonight I wish I had never seen. No, not a clip from the latest slasher flick. Worse. Michael Coren, using the meme begun by disgraced ‘historian’ David Starkey that it’s ‘not racism, it’s culture’, went on a riot of his own on Fox News North with Brian Lilley gleefully cheering him on. His rampage . . . → Read More: Michael Coren: “It’s not about race. It’s about culture”. Bullshit.

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Montreal police dragging feet on investigating infamous Christianist Twitter troll ‘David Mabus’?

I’ve read the name ‘David Mabus’ a few times on Twitter, mostly in tweets from PZ Myers. Montrealer Mabus (real name: Dennis Marcuze) has made a name for himself by threatening atheists with “decapitations, executions and genocide”.

Montreal police have received over 3,000 requests for investigations of this individual and they are not happy with the number . . . → Read More: Montreal police dragging feet on investigating infamous Christianist Twitter troll ‘David Mabus’?

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Smart Meters? Not so fast!

Bill Tieleman posted on his blog this morning about his objections to the SmartMeter Program that BC Hydro is attempting to foist upon us.

BC Hydro claims the completely safe wireless-transmitting smart meters will save you money and the environment by letting you — and them — monitor electricity usage. Then you can . . . → Read More: Smart Meters? Not so fast!

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Will Harper jeopardize Canada’s status as ‘lowest terror risk among western economies’?

Canada has been largely free from terror attacks experienced by other western nations at the hands of Islamic extremists, thanks in large part to the Liberals’ refusal to engage in the gratuitous invasion of Iraq. While we have experienced mostly home-grown terrorism over the years, the biggest threat to our future could be . . . → Read More: Will Harper jeopardize Canada’s status as ‘lowest terror risk among western economies’?

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Rob Ford, caught talking on cell phone while driving, gives mother and daughter the finger

Class. The new Toronto. The new millennium of unbridled Conservatism is upon us. They do what they want, when they want and the law be damned. With our media protecting them, it will only get worse. There’s only so much a single local paper can do. Good on the Star.

According to the post, . . . → Read More: Rob Ford, caught talking on cell phone while driving, gives mother and daughter the finger

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