This goes in the ‘no s7!t’ pile of obvious conclusions about what happened last year during the G20 conference in Toronto, but it’s still worth reporting to the general public that what went down last year was just plain wrong.
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Blast Furnace Canada Blog: Black going back to the clink
Looks like Lord Conrad Black couldn’t catch a break after all. US Federal Judge Amy St. Eve, who originally sentenced Black to 6½ years in prison on fraud and obstruction of justice, had the case remanded to her after the US Supreme …
Continue readingwmtc: if the world sucks, why hasn’t anyone told me? i respond to joe denial
“If that’s really happening, why don’t I see it in the news?”I bet many of you may have encountered a question like this one. You’re speaking to a co-worker or a classmate, or discussing an issue on a blog, or you’ve wandered into the comments section …
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Canadian Progressive Media Alternatives
There are ample alternatives to the Huffington Post Canadian version, but you have to look. What would be really helpful is an aggregator of ALL of the progressive publications. Count me in if you want someone to help with the task.
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Dutch Pass Net Neutrality Law. Where’s Ours?
Net neutrality is being implemented the world over. Where is it in Canada?
Continue readingExcited Delirium: I Want My CREDO Mobile Service
CREDO is a service in the US that gives mobile subscribers an opportunity to break away from mainstream carriers that are supporting Tea Partiers, Climate Change debunkers and other media clowns that are contributing to the decline of society.
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Hello? Hello?
I’m normally not one for telling tales out of school. But having sat it on a handful of meetings between Prime Ministers and Premiers, and having regularly set up phone calls for a Prime Minister with several of his provincial counterparts – sometime…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Unquestioned
Yes, Chantal Hebert is right to point out the glaring disconnect between the help the media has offered the Cons, and the constant scorn it’s received in return. But there’s even more glaring evidence of the Cons’ manipulations in how the party is curr…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Evaluating Tax Cuts: You Read It Here First
Don Drummond has an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star concluding: Federal and provincial governments and the Canadian business sector should [establish] monitoring mechanisms that will permit regular reports to Canadians on whether the Canadian corporate tax revolution is producing benefits for them. As an advocate of corporate tax cuts, he believes that such benefits exist. […]
Continue readingThe Future of Sharing
I loved this. So I’m sharing it.From #pdf11, Jay Rosen on “The Future of Sharing”:Watch live streaming video from pdf2011 at livestream.comA text version of his presentation is here.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Scheer Success
Andrew Scheer has been elected House of Commons Speaker. I met him in 2004, when we were federal candidates in adjacent Regina ridings. I was the no-shot NDP candidate against then-Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and he was the long-shot Conservative candidate against veteran NDP MP Lorne Nystrom. At the end of that summer, we were […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: War on Drugs
It’s hard to run a country with everyone squawking in your ear about how you have to be just like them, even if they are failures. The war on drugs is a failure, but Washington is pulling strings in Ottawa and Mexico, and even London too. – If the Pentagon is now taking acts of […]
The Progressive Economics Forum: Does Capitalism Save Lives?
I was watching CNBC and happened to see this panel about how the number of Americans killed by natural disasters has declined over time. It was also noted that, in early 2010, fewer people died in Chile’s earthquake than in Haiti’s earthquake. The discussion quite reasonably outlined how improvements in emergency preparedness, building codes, and […]
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Releasing Government Bad News Under Cover of a Hockey Game
Based on the bad news coming from the BC and Canadian governments under cover of game one of the Stanley Cup finals, we should be wary of the Canucks going to seven games. It used to be Friday afternoons were a great time for governments to release bad news. The week’s media cycle was drifting […]
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Bright, Shiny Objects
CNN unwittingly demonstrates with this sorry spectacle why so many people have come to thoroughly despise the mainstream media. By the way, if you want to read an interesting article on this subject, let me recommend an excellent piece that … Continue reading →
Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- The McGill Institute’s Election Content Analysis includes plenty of interesting information on how this month’s federal election was covered. But the most noteworthy point looks to be the lag time between dev…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The system is broken: strategic voting, coalitions, and the political regime under which we live
While I can of course see the rationale for strategic voting, there is much to be said for voting with one’s conscience. When we consistently choose the lesser of two evils, our choices are reduced to evil, and the results are evil. When everyone hol…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: HuffPo takes on the Great White North
What a pleasant surprise when I saw the other day that Arianna Huffington launched a Canadian version of the Huffington Post. I was annoyed, as were other users, that for some reason the US pages were blocked — fortunately the webmeisters at AOL f…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Anonymous: The Commons and the Last of the Outlaws?
The ongoing attacks on net neutrality constitute a new round of enclosures of the modern commons. If the original enclosure movements during 16th and 17th centuries in England signified the opening overture of capitalism, then the contemporary attacks on the electronic commons are certainly part of its fully formed fruition. Taking what was once common, […]
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