Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The NDP has released its Power to Change climate plan, including steps to create green jobs and give effect to Indigenous rights while meeting emission reduction targets needed to contribute to the international fight against climate breakdown. And Christo Aivilis offers his first
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Infuriating Police Escalation
Cops relationship with black people explained in 4 seconds. pic.twitter.com/oHrch32q2t — Dieghoe (@diegheaux) May 24, 2019 Officers should have to watch this, and learn how easily they can serve a racist system of intimidation and ineptitude. “It’s not just about me, and it’s not just about racial profiling,” Atkinson said
Continue readingAlberta Politics: What should we make of the post-election Edmonton Journal editorial urging the UCP to keep the carbon tax?
I suppose we should never attribute to mischief what can be explained by incompetence, but what else are we to make of the Edmonton Journal’s earnest editorial yesterday urging Alberta Premier Jason Kenney not to pull the plug on the carbon tax? “Killing the provincial carbon tax is one political
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: US Shows Hand
As many journalists and others have been saying for a decade, the US was seeking Assange to charge him with an anti-Constitutional law that threatens investigative journalists around the world. The Daily Beast has been tough on Wikileaks. Very tough. But charging someone under the espionage act for publishing classified
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Susan Bradley reports on Dave Phillips’ observations as to how Atlantic Canada is already facing the effects of a climate breakdown. Cameron Brick discusses the importance of seeing ourselves as more than consumers in developing a response to our climate crisis. And David
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Keep your eyes on the story of Jason Kenney’s ‘War Room’ – it’s going to be a boondoggle!
The discovery last week Postmedia was trying to cash in on Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s promised $30-million anti-environmental “war room” at the same time it has its hand out to Ottawa for a federal bailout has rather surprisingly turned out to be a story with legs. The irony of a
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Postmedia bid for role in UCP ‘war room’ illustrates the folly of Trudeau’s lifeline for failing newspapers
Connect the dots, Mr. Prime Minister! That newspaper industry bailout package you’re foolishly planning in the name of preserving democracy is principally designed to keep a corporation afloat that will do anything, no matter how unethical, to destroy your government. If you want proof, look no further than Postmedia’s astonishing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Leader-Post Is “Controversial”
Controversial is a code word for “racist”. That’s according to multiple tweets by the Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan. Reading into the linked article, there was a passage from Wikipedia, not credited to the Creative Commons encyclopedia. They didn't remove all the controversial tweets. They need to apologize for the plagiarism
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kurtis Alexander points out how climate change is exacerbating the gap between wealthy and poor countries. Megan Mayhew Bergman highlights the importance of discussing climate change even where it’s all too often treated as a taboo topic, while Jeff Sparrow points out
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London
Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker. Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we exposed illegal spying on Assange, his lawyers and doctors, and just days before the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Privacy
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: Jody Wilson-Raybould – Ah, Buh-Bye.
Jody Wilson surreptitiously recorded a member of the Cabinet, Michael Wernick – and possibly has recorded others according to a Tweet sent out by Warren Kinsella. Take what you will from that Tweet, but we do know that connections exist between the two. The concept of an Attorney General recording
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: My Social Media Journey (And What Happens Next)
10,000 followers? What the heck? I volunteered for my first political campaign in 1997 for Liberal Diane Marleau in Sudbury, I knocked on doors, and delivered lawn signs. That started a love of politics and political campaigns for me. In the years after I became a member of a Liberal
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jake Bittle writes about rural homelessness as a seldom-discussed issue which calls out for a strong policy response to ensure the right to housing is met regardless of whether one’s community is urban or rural: While the trigger events that cause homelessness
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Elizabeth May at UofR
2 weeks ago Elizabeth May was in Regina at the University and gave the following speech. In it she covered everything from our failed public transportation systems, to SNC-Lavalin’s punishment when they are convicted of corruption for their bribes regarding construction in Libya.
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The only question I have left…
The only question I have left… “Because I knew my minister was not comfortable with us continuing those conversations. I felt I should test with her office before I shared the piece with the Privy Council Office, and I was instructed not to send it.The request I got was from
Continue readingPolitical Potshots: The Leak Came From The PMO (And Other Lies Coming From Canadian Media)
This feels way too convenient to me. Every instinct in my body tells me that the Glenn Joyal leak came from either someone close to Jody Wilson-Raybould – either a former staffer, or from someone inside of her circle. The issues surrounding the Glenn Joyal appointment to the SCC were
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Court Of Public Opinion
Was there ever a question that Chicago PD was not good? Smollett, the actor, has had charges dropped. This is following when he was attacked by 2 men. Later the Twitterverse claimed that he’d paid the men to attack him for being gay, to raise his profile as an actor.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: If Money Buys Things and Minds
You can find no shortage of angry Conservatives who are absolutely livid with the Prime Minister or Rachel Notley for not yet expanding a pipeline to the BC coast from Alberta. Why did they get so mad, and who paid for them to think this way? There’s a BC “researcher”
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Yanis Varoufakis writes that the tendency of capitalism toward stagnation signals the need for greater public input into economic decisions. And Branko Milanovic discusses how the attitude that politics should be governed by greed has undermined the trust between citizens and governments necessary
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: ICYMI, cont’d…
As stated in my previous post, the next few posts will cover various statements, letters, etc. released on SNC-Lavalin’s website that the Canadian media have, for whatever reason, ignored, and continue to ignore… In an open address to Canadians, dated October 26, 2018, [in PDF], SNC-Lavalin’s CEO says: “You may
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