Looking upward and looking forward, I see some parallels today between the weather, between those fixtures in the sky and us, and our political struggle. The clouds may cover or block out the sun, they may make the world dull, dreary, cold and harsh. Like a certain other party; they
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Dead Wild Roses: Liberal Viewer – Pepper Spray the best condiment.
Liberal Viewer is taking a fine tooth comb to the action of the police during the OWS protests. More importantly he is speaking directly to what the character of the US is about. It the US a constitutional democracy or is it a autocratic oligarchy that will defend the interests
Continue readingcmkl: The weekend is here and wages are falling
Phew. Made it through another week. Work is really busy these days. I hope y’all will see why soon enough. And then immediately afterwards we will have the workers paradise here on earth.
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: To Lead or to Serve – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Over the past quarter century, political parties have too often lurched away from being mass movements of individual Canadians sharing a common vision of the public good, and towards being backdrops for individual party leaders who speak the language of democracy while wielding near-absolute power over their elected caucuses.
Continue readingAkaash Maharaj - Practical Idealism: TVO’s The Agenda: To Lead or to Serve – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Over the past quarter century, political parties have too often lurched away from being mass movements of individual Canadians sharing a common vision of the public good, and towards being backdrops for individual party leaders who speak the language of democracy while wielding near-absolute power over their elected caucuses.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Slater Street …
… in Ottawa while atop one of OC Transpo’s über-cool double deckers! Wheeeeee!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Liberal Party of Canada Presidential Candidates’ Debate Report Card – Nov. 22/23
On November 22nd and 23rd I listened to/attended two debates of the four candidates currently running to be President of the Liberal Party of Canada. The first was a phone debate run by the excellent facebook group Liberals Rebuilding the Liberal Party (moderated by Gerard Kennedy) the second was held
Continue readingTrashy's World: This won’t mean anything or matter…
…to anyone outside the NCR, but wow! Hasn’t the demolition of the old Gallery building on the corner of Albert and Elgin ever made a difference streetscape and skyline-wise? It has totally changed the look of the area! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Republicans – Stupid, Mendacious, but with great PR.
How many ‘wtf’ moments are republican political candidates allowed before being branded too stupid to breathe? Michelle Bachmann must be getting super close to the limit by now. I’m not really sure what to do with this level of intellectual bankruptcy on her behalf. Coupled with the puerile servitude of
Continue readingcmkl: Occupy movement: was there an exit strategy?
This will also be unpopular with many of my friends and readers. But it’s been bugging me since the first few weeks after the occupy movement took hold across North America.
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Together, we can do it
In October, TCU Place in Saskatoon played host to the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour’s 56th annual convention. This year’s convention was another overwhelming success with 500 to 600 delegates in attendance. Convention delegates were treated to a number of presentations by a variety of accomplished speakers, some of whom you
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That Annoying Twitter Access
I’ve seldom seen a journalist whine so much about politicians who are too accessible to the public. Look no further, you can find them in the Calgary Herald. Mayor Nenshi has even replied to a tweet from me, and I don’t even live in Calgary, so obviously he must be
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: What Super Committee?
It seems the so called committee that was going to save the U.S deficit crisis (yeah right) ended up doing nothing. And those so called triggers that would have come into effect in order to force politicians to work together was a big joke apparently, because since most automatic spending cuts
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Occupy Canada – Tough going in the Canadain Winter.
Protesting the norm, the accepted, what is deemed credible will never be an easy task. Defenders of the status quo will defend their system with rationalizations that make sense to them and others in the system while dismissing outright, criticism and alternate points of view presented. This process of in-group/out-group
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Burnaby Overwhelmingly Rejects Anti-Gay Municipal Party
Parent’s Voice, the municipal political party whose sole purpose revolved around revoking the Burnaby District School Board’s anti-homophobia and anti-bullying policy, has been soundly defeated. Parent’s Voice was a staunch opponent to the existing school board’s policies acknowledging GLBT students—policies that demonstrably help reduce harassment and bullying that has historically
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Dewar Ideology Lets Have Everything!
“The orange wave stopped in Manitoba,” (Dewar) Yes it’s true, but only in the sense that the west of the country didn’t fly straight into the NDP like Quebec. But there are to many things wrong with Dewar’s plan for a western strategy to get seats The NDP can’t have it both
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Liveblog – BC Civic Election Returms
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: No Engagement – Occupy Regina to be Occupy City Hall
Mayor does not want to engage the protestors Mayor Pat Fiacco maintained on CJME’s Morning News on Monday, he would not engage the protestors. “We’re busy, we’re very, very busy and we’re doing what City Hall is supposed to be doing,” Fiacco said. He acknowledged some people wish the City
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Economist: Universal Health Care is Good!
A new report done by top economist warns Canada that it should stay with Universal Health care. It states that although Health Care spedning is growing too fast for revenue’s the principal of a public health care system should be kept. Him like me is worried about the future of
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Douglas Coupland on Hockey and the Canadian Identity
“Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice. Canadian teams playing within the NHL are, in effect, a microcosm of Canada’s ongoing process of trying to remain a country – battling constantly not only against Americans but against other teams from within their own country. It’s ugly
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