As some of you may be aware, during my more prolific days on the ‘Kog, I decried the decline in the quality of journalism, a trend which I directly attributed to the establishment of the 24-hour cable news stations. The need to fill airtime has superseded the need to inform,
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wall Divesting From Russian Liquor #skpoli
We've contacted the fed gov't & Ukrn-Cdn groups to determine best way to support freedom & democracy in Ukraine. We will act on that advice.— Brad Wall (@PremierBradWall) February 24, 2014 Premier Brad Wall says gov't is looking at options to pull Russian liquor products from provincial stores in response
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: A Liberal Protests Trudeau’s “Direct Assault” on Grassroots Democracy
by: Obert Madondo Is Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau beginning to a act a lot like a control freak? Like Stephen Harper? It would appear so. At least according to star Liberal candidate Zack Paikin. Paikin nuked his own candidacy for the Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas riding to protest Trudeau’s decision to block Christine Innes from contesting
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Governing in Secret #cdnpoli
.@joeoliver1: "we'll talk a little later" as he gets into car. Let's see if Greg Rickford talks. #hw— Laura Payton (@laura_payton) March 19, 2014 Canada's new Minister of State for Science and Technology is Ed Holder – former insurance broker— Quirks & Quarks (@CBCQuirks) March 19, 2014 @pmharper jumps in
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Nahlah Ayed in Regina for Minifie Lecture at #UofR
She was crunched for time in writing a speech, something she’s not used to doing either, so she wrote a diary of her recent coverage in Ukraine and made it interesting by giving the back story to reporting in a region that could break out into open war. She grew
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PRISM: Hack The Planet
Most people would consider “Hack the planet” to be some sort of black-hat hacker battle cry. It might more accurately describe the unconstitutional efforts of the United States of America’s NSA spy agency. From a comment on the story: ““The intelligence community’s top-secret “Black Budget” for 2013, obtained by Snowden,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Eight Measures Against University of Ottawa’s Burgeoning Rape Culture
by: Obert Madondo A student member of the University of Ottawa’s board of governors says the university’s response to recent report sexual violence against women is not enough. Anaïs Elboujdaini, a political science student who spearheads the Independent Initiative Against Rape Culture, proposes eight measures against rape culture on campus and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #TellItToTheJudge Because #TellVicEverything Went Sideways
Vic Toews becoming a freaking judge was the most predicted patronage appointment since Harper put Duffy into the Senate, and we know how well that turned out. It looks terrible. The bench should not be used as a retirement home for burnt out politicians. That’s what the Senate is for,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: International Women’s Day 2014: College and university women express solidarity with Anne-Marie Roy
by: Obert Madondo Via: Rabble.ca March 8, 2014 International Women’s Day We stand with Anne-Marie Roy. We’ve been there too. As women who have held elected positions at our college or university students’ union, we write in solidarity with Anne-Marie Roy, the President of the Student Federation of the University of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oil Putting Food on Families
Pardon the Bushism. The CPC’s spin regarding the oil crowding out grain shipments by rail must be inspired by Dubya. @saskboy @LHubich That's an odd argument. Isn't grain literally the food?— Stefani Langenegger (@SLangeneggerCBC) March 07, 2014 Elizabeth May provides some sanity on the issue. “The current rail cars used
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Rights groups demand independent oversight of federal agency CBSA
by: BC Civil Liberties Association | Press Release Public inquiry recommended oversight in 2006 – no action since that time The BC Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Council for Refugees and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers today called on the government to end its long inaction on the need for
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Putting The Ass before the Court
Brad Butt is an ass. Look what other election fraudsters are working with him to reshape Canada’s Election law. Borys Wrzesnewskyj, the former Liberal MP in Etobicoke Centre, successfully went to court to have the May 2, 2011, election results in the riding overturned due to ballot irregularities. Conservative Ted
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: 400 peaceful Keystone XL pipeline protesters arrested at White House
by: Obert Madondo Nearly 400 youth were arrested on March 2 outside the White House during the XL Dissent, a non-violent, student-led action to stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. The students had marched from Georgetown University, where US President Barack Obama made a significant climate change speech last summer, to the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: #Tarsands Polluting Groundwater and Rivers
As scientists have demonstrated in the past, the strip mining and tailing ponds employed on a Mordorific scale in northern Alberta are polluting ground and river waters. Sorry #tarsand shills, but turns out you’ve been lying all along when you’ve said that areas surrounding the tarsands are not being polluted.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: TRANSCRIPT: Justin Trudeau’s speech to the Liberal biennial convention
by: Obert Madondo Speech by leader Justin Trudeau to the Liberal Party of Canada’s biennial convention convention, held in Montreal, Quebec, over the weekend: My friends, my fellow Liberals; what a great Convention! Thank you for your work. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your passion I want to paint
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: How the NSA Endangers a Free Society
Some NSA efforts to destroy Assange and intimidate people supporting Wikileaks have been revealed. ANTICRISIS GIRL was a system to spy on Wikileaks searchers. – This other item is big news too, because Matt’s been an important journalist covering Wall St. crimes.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Fair Election Fraud Act #elxnfraud #cdnpoli
Conservative media pundits are happy to be able to say “fair” and “election” in the same sentence as “Conservative”, because saying “fraud” was getting old even 2 years ago. @kateheartfield War is peace.— Dan Gardner (@dgardner) February 04, 2014 1. Conservatives did not consult Elections Canada. [The Conservatives avoid and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That Old Joke
How can you tell a spy is lying to Parliament? Their lips are moving. Or at least I’d assume they were moving while he was telling us that they didn’t conduct mass spying on Canadians, while also defending illegal mass “meta-data” spying on us. MT @CBCAlerts "#CSIS says they don't
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Tarnishing the OC
“Lord” Black is a criminal. "Honours do not make a man" ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html… insists the man who renounced Canadian citizenship to become a "Lord." OK, then.— CC (@canadiancynic) February 03, 2014 Here’s another person bringing disgrace to the Order of Canada. == As a factor of being 20 years out of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Trudeau Makes Senate Change in Liberal Party
This is a clear about-face from being willing to welcome Mac Harb back into the Liberal fold. I really wonder which idea is actually Trudeau’s. Trudeau kicks Liberal senators out of caucus o.canada.com/news/national/… via @canadadotcom #PN #SenCA #cdnpoli— Christina Spencer (@Spencerpress) January 29, 2014 This explains some things RT @OttawaCitizen
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