It’s a straightforward question: what are people talking about? What’s capturing their attention and imaginations? Public conversation. Nothing gives you a better sense of a community or a society than gauging what people are talking about. (24/7 on Ki…
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The Equivocator: Veterans vs. OWS
Today is Remembrance day. I would personally like to thank all those who have served and are currently serving in Canada’s military. When I opened the editorial section of the Globe & Mail today, I saw the editorial cartoon (pictured … Continue reading →
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Ottawa Pays Tribute to Late Vancouver Occupier Ashlie Gough
(Originally Published on Occupy Ottawa website) The Occupy Ottawa Movement observed a moment of silence before its General Assembly last night to commemorate the death of Vancouver Occupier, Ashlie Gough. The 23-year-old Victoria native died …Rea…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Crisis in the encampments: Can the Occupy movement be saved from itself?
Millions of Americans are as mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!In the largest action of defiance since the 2008 economic collapse, an estimated 650,000 angry citizens moved their bank accounts from corporate banks to local citizen…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: RE: Rae calls for end to turf wars
Last night I was sent a link to an article in the Winipeg Free Press about Bob Rae calling out Liberal cliques, Liberal navel gazing, and turf wars. The Globe and Mail pipes in as well. I couldn’t agree more. Mr. Rae has signaled that he wants C…
Continue readingTory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Whatever they pay her is not enough.
Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women – Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down on Lisa Raitt whilst adding Rona Ambrose to the mix.
It’s not so much that Taber and the Globe love to exalt Conservatives but it is that Taber does . . . → Read More: Tory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Continue readingTory Taber wanks on for the Conservatives. Again.
Whatever they pay her is not enough.Jane Taber has made quite a reputation for herself as a hagiographer for women – Conservative women, that is. Today, Taber doubles down on Lisa Raitt whilst adding Rona Ambrose to the mix.It’s not so m…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from progressives who have been criticizing the system (some since Woodstock) …
Continue readingWicked Caption Writing Person at Globe & Mail goes viral
These celebrity photo captions from the Globe & Mail drip snark, most with an Occupy Wall Street twist. They’ve ignited a Twitter frenzy and with good reason.A couple of samples:”Occupy this, losers,” Chris Albrecht, the super-wealthy president/CEO…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Globe and Mail’s RoB shocks by questioning our economic system
The Globe and Mail – the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism – has published a news story that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic policies of W…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Lets Raj and Roll: I’m Excited
Last Saturday Raj Sherman was elected as Alberta Liberal Leader. On Monday he was brought in, officially, to the Alberta Liberal caucus. A quick media scan: [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Curiously, on the Saturday night the reporters surroun…
Continue readingGlobe & Mail whines that Canadian political scandals are too boring
You want to know why our political scandals are so boring, Elizabeth Renzetti? Because the big, juicy ones are being hidden by the guilty party, the Conservatives. And you journalists are too lazy and too beholding to that party to uncover the scandals…
Continue readingdjkelly.ca: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Every day has a story. But not every day has a story that changes so much in your life. For ten years I haven’t told my story because it’s not special or unique compared to anyone else’s, especially on that day. But I now realize that it’s an important story
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Globe editorial by confounded ideologue
The Globe and Mail presented an editorial this week that appears to be written by a confounded ideologue seconded from a Toronto high school paper. It really is the most appalling example of careless ignorance and misunderstanding. Coming from a sour…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.
– Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons’ justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority:
We don’t have a “silent majority” in Canada. It appears we have instead an …
Impolitical: Today in the bizarro world of Canadian politics
Two choice items from the Globe today: “Harper makes ‘remarkable’ gains in best-prime-minister ranking” and “Cinephile Stephen Harper drops in on Crazy, Stupid Love.” “He loves movies,” we’re told. Meanwhile, this is the big context of the week, p…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Still feigned indignation
At the very least, the media finally seems to have picked up on the reality that all Canadian national parties include some former Bloc members and/or sovereigntists in their ranks. But that leads to the next obvious problem: that it’s scolding the NDP…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Capitalism vs Democracy
This article in the Globe & Mail about the ongoing debt crisis in the USA and Europe caught my attention. Not because it offered any interesting or unique insight into the origins or solution to the present debt crisis facing western capitalist nat…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Double Standards And Chauvinism In The Nycole Turmel Affair
For over a week now, politicians, the media and pundits have relentlessly sniped interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel for her past association with the Bloc Quebecois. To them, it’s not enough Turmel canceled her membership with the Quebec separatist…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Layton Announcement Roundup
Not much to add on this end to the news that Jack Layton is taking a temporary leave of absence to deal with a new form of cancer. But let’s note a few of the pieces which stand out in the day’s coverage. – The CP reviewed the outpouring of best wishes…
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