“…Nothing happened” Elizabeth May’s passionate speech imploring our “tough on crime government to get tough on electoral crime!” The video is a week old, but is as relevant at my writing, as it was back then. There’s been additional evidence of micro-targeting though that points to a national party being
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Rough Week For Democracy
I know it’s going to be a rough week for the Conservatives, when there are election-levels of traffic coming to my blog for political information. I don’t know when I’ve had so many hundreds come through liblogs.ca, of all places, to my site. And that’s on the weekend! Canadians don’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboFever: Facts and Questions about 2011 Election Theft
I’ve got a bad case of RoboCon Fever. And the only known cure is plenty of Sixth Estate. Read his summary of events, filled with facts, and come back if you’re not up to speed. It’s only the greatest national mystery, underway for you to solve it before the RCMP
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dances With Oil
If Stephen Harper were a character in a Hollywood epic movie about the western Canadian frontier, and went to live with the First Nations people, I can’t help but think his alternate name would be Dances With Oil. He sure doesn’t dance with the one he brings to the ball.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: One. Stop Subsidizing Fossil Fuels
Two. Put a price on carbon. These are two easy things to do in legislation which will have the crucial effect of curbing air pollution. If the market is the God of the modern political power brokers, then the market has to contain the solution to climate change. We have
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: CBC Pat On The Head
There there CBC, it’s okay. The Conservatives are going to put you out onto the street anyway. If you can’t be fair during an election, Don’t expect the public’s protection. You’re so busy spinning a tale, The truth was missed, soon you’re for sale. The CBC was so busy running “gotcha journalism” they forgot to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Paint a Rosy Picture
Murray Mandryk is concerned there may be no “real opposition” in the coming legislature. I’m not surprised that there won’t be. The Green Party of Sask. has been campaigning on that expression, and that has probably not been noted in Mandryk’s paper or elsewhere in the SK media. The fiction presented to the SK people […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dream No Small Dreams – End Poverty
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the point of inactivity where it counts the most. When a man has his feet nailed to the floor, do we stop the bleeding, but leave […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pile of Carp – RBE’s plan to close schools
It shouldn’t take a genius to figure out that kids are better off when they are able to walk or bike to school, and don’t have to get onto school/city buses each day. Sadly, there are few geniuses at the Regina Board of Education. They want to take away more schools, in growing neighbourhoods, so […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Shooting the Shit… Literally
“Don’t shit or piss in the park.” It’s not the first thing you’d expect to hear from a city Councillor in an informal chat about Occupy Regina. It’s not even on the top ten. But it was what I remember hearing first from Councillor Clipsham. Perhaps that’s because he repeated it several times. I asked […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Regina Passes Fourth Night
I’ve had a great time every evening I’ve stopped by Occupy Regina in Victoria Park. The protesters are an eclectic and growing group of educated, and less educated, working, and disabled, homeless, and housed people from many different backgrounds. Tonight I talked with long time friends, friends recently met, and met a homeless woman named […]
Accidental Deliberations: Presented for discussion
And we’re off, with the first major internal point of discussion in the NDP’s leadership race. As a matter of strategy, it’s fairly easy to Nathan Cullen’s announcement as a logical move – both to build his own name recognition at a point when most com…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Greens Launch Healthcare Platform Planks
A portion of the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s healthcare proposals are available on CBC.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates – Press Release
I sent this to various Saskatchewan media yesterday. It appeared in part in the Star Phoenix and Leader Post. This province has had its laws constructed and maintained over the last 20 years by the NDP (coalition w/Liberals), and Sask Party. To exclude other parties from the debate on TV is to only give the […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: More Debates – PROTEST!
October 14, 2011 Friday 5:30 p.m. in front of CBC Saskatchewan, Broad St., Regina, SK Help me take back control of our political system from media executives who pre-package our political choices. Democracy belongs to the people, not to CBC, CTV, or Global big-wigs. If Link or Yens and other NDP candidates show up to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Debate Injustice
It’s going to be a busy week for protesting injustice. On Saturday the Occupy Regina protest is underway, and now on Friday evening I’m again organizing a protest in front of CBC. Last time was for the federal election’s anti-democratic debate format that excluded (subsequently elected) Green Party leader Elizabeth May from the Broadcast Consortium’s […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but has fallen to the spyware wolves. Avoid download.com and cnet.com or lose your computer to the wolves. == And the Saskatchewan election campaign isn’t even […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Green Party of Sask Leadership Meeting
I attended the Green Party of Saskatchewan’s leadership meeting on Sunday, at the Glencairn Community Centre. There were probably close to 50 people in attendance, with others voting by email.
More to come…
Blunt Objects: Debunking "What If Lizzy May Was In The Debates?"
A few people out there have stated something so simple, so ground in common sense, that it defies logic to argue against it: that had Elizabeth May been in the national televised leaders debate during the 2011 federal election, the Green Party wouldn’t…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Let the Green Revolution Begin!
First, they start having riding associations dropping like flies, plus an entire provincial party and almost two.Then, the leader sidesteps a constitution-mandated review of her time in office, thereby shutting down any challengers.After that, they go …
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