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November 17, 2012 Richard Hughes

Cowichan Conversations: Cowichan News Leader Editorial Critical of CVRD’s Alternate Approval Process

Our take: Can’t democracy move with the times?

A dedicated group of people mistrusts the Cowichan Valley Regional District so much it appears willing to knock on doors in the pouring November rain and risk higher taxes to take it down.

And if it turns out the community agrees with them, then hey, that’s what democracy is all about.

But we are not writing today to take sides on the CVRD’s push to make garbage collection a public utility throughout the valley.

We are writing about the frustration being expressed by these citizens about the effort they will have to put in to making their wishes public policy.

The rest of the editorial can be found here.

November 17, 2012 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: More Smoking Guns

Postmedia keeps churning out evidence that Elections Canada has gathered against the Conservative Party of Canada and their misdirection phonecalls made to voters during the last election. What the newspaper hasn’t been able to answer yet, is why Elections Canada has held off for at least 570 days since they got credible reports of the […]

November 16, 2012 vsp

calgaryliberal.com: 2%.

With a week to go Harvey Locke is 2% short of taking on the Tories and winning in Calgary-Centre. It’s that close. That’s some 100 votes. This is a once in 40 years chance to upset the Tories, send them a message, and show that Calgarians w…

November 16, 2012 Mark Crowley

Pop The Stack: Col Mustard, with the Camera, In Camera

Today Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was testifying in a libel case against him. I just tuned in for a few minutes and her this gem: “…in camera” is a bit of an oxymoron because no cameras are allowed.” – Mayor Rob Ford I know it’s a small thing, but it’s

November 16, 2012 Mark Crowley

Pop The Stack: Col Mustard, with the Camera, In Camera

November 16, 2012 Bryan Crockett

Bryan Crockett: Yes/no?

On a lot of specific things, opinions are a pretty binary yes/no or on/off kind of thing, especially when they come to identifying with labels. Are you a Liberal? How about a Conservative? Are you a Christian? Atheist? Muslim? Sikh? The answers to these questions are often a lot less

November 16, 2012 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Giving In

At what point can Canadians no longer claim to be a democratic people? We widely recognize when other countries were running sham elections, but our closeness to our own has coloured perception of crimes here. Some don’t mind so much because the resulting government is the one they think they wanted, and others aren’t even […]

November 16, 2012 christyk

Another Step to Take: Adventures of Baylard Bear and the portrayal of adoption.

I was sent a copy of The Adventures of Baylard Bear by Lucinda Sue Crosby and while the story has its cute moments it has some huge problems. Since I use books to explore life and the questions I have about life, I felt it worthwhile to go ahead and write up

November 16, 2012 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Children Love Saskatchewan

Come to Saskatchewan, and see our Wall. (- This wall is in Ottawa.) That’s the apparent pitch, awkwardly spoken by Regina’s former mayor, Pat Fiacco. Now Fiacco is the head of Tourism Saskatchewan, and in charge of making people want to visit our province. Fortunately there are more lasting tourism draws than Canada’s currently most […]

November 15, 2012 Mark Brooks

Earthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio November 15, 2012: U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein and the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict

On Earthgauge Radio this week, we’re talking about presidential politics and livable cities. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jill Stein this week. She’s the leader of the U.S. Green Party and was their presidential candidate in the recently concluded U.S. election. She joins me for an Earthgauge Radio exclusive […]

November 15, 2012 Mark Brooks

Earthgauge Radio: Earthgauge Radio feature interview with U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein

It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with Dr. Jill Stein this morning who was the Green Party candidate for President of the United States in the recently concluded presidential election. Dr. Stein is a mother, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. She is the co-author of two […]

November 15, 2012 cmkl

cmkl: Take patent discussions, health care out of Canada-Europe free trade talks

Here’s a letter I wrote to my beloved prime minister via the Canadian Health Coalition’s campaign against patent protection and health care’s inclusion in Canada-Europe free trade talks. Please take a minute to sign and send the letter.

November 14, 2012 Mark Brooks

Earthgauge Radio: Tomorrow on Earthgauge Radio: U.S. Green Party leader Jill Stein and the Ottawa Centre EcoDistrict

On Earthgauge Radio this week, we will have the pleasure of hearing from the Green Party candidate for president of the United States, Dr. Jill Stein. Dr. Stein of course recently wrapped up her presidential campaign so we will hear from her about how the campaign went, the Green New Deal, her two arrests while […]

November 14, 2012 James Calder

The Progressive Right: Justin Trudeau in Port Perry #lpcldr

Just back from Port Perry where I got a chance to see Justin Trudeau speak on behalf of his leadership campaign and on behalf of Grant Humes, the Durham Liberal candidate for the November 26th by-election. Some highlights of the stop. Justin started off with a little humour by launching

November 14, 2012 Julie MacArthur

Politics, Re-Spun: ‘This is a Catholic Country’: Birth, Death and Abortion in Ireland

Savita Halappanavar is dead. She joins millions of women who die every year from complications with their pregnancies. What makes her case particularly tragic is that it that she was refused a medical procedure that may have saved her life. Why? Because the procedure was an abortion and she had the misfortune of being […]

November 14, 2012 Saskboy

Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Geist on Copyright vs. Internet

An interesting, long lecture from Canadian copyright expert Michael Geist, given at the U of Sask. recently.
ADDED: Here’s a little on open government, as presented at the U of Regina

November 14, 2012 vsp

calgaryliberal.com: Libs are 2% behind the Tory in Calgary-Centre. Huh.

… of 376 randomly selected residents puts Ms. Crockatt in first place – but pegs her support at just 32 per cent, down from 48 per cent in a similar poll held two weeks earlier. Liberal candidate Harvey Locke had the backing of 30 per cent of t…

November 13, 2012 Richard Hughes

Cowichan Conversations: Cowichan Taxpayers Unite To Block Another Sleazy CVRD Tax Grab!

Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger
Taxpayers from the Far Left, the Far Right and the Far Middle unite to reject the CVRD’s underhanded Negative Billing effort, aka an Alternative Approval Process!
The common ground that unites Cowichan residen…

November 13, 2012 EclecticLip

Eclectic Lip: Newsflash: Canadian PM’s American Idol supports Stephane Dion-esque carbon tax shift

Note: for non-Canadian readers (or, indeed for Canadian readers who don’t follow politics) Stephane Dion was the milquetoast who led the Liberal Party of Canada to its then-worst-ever federal election result in 2008. He ran on a campaign of a carbon tax shift (“The Green Shift“), for which the Conservative Party mocked and savaged him. We’ll […]

November 12, 2012 Richard Hughes

Cowichan Conversations: Horgan Hassles Harried Premier Over Scandulous Spending!

Richard Hughes- Political Blogger

BC NDP House Leader John ‘the Enforcer’ Horgan has come off the bench and whistled down the Premier for her party planning frivolous fiscal behaviour. She was and is clearly offside and out of touch. I missed this release somehow, but it really is special and must to be shared.

In truth it was right there on the NDP Website where you can view it now.