The Supreme Court’s decision that Insite must remain open is a tremendous victory for reason over ideology. Canada’s Conservative government sought to close a safe-injection site in Vancouver, despite physical evidence that it reduced drug use, re…
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Lawyers Win
There are no winners in the upcoming legal battle between tobacco companies that hid the dangers of smoking, and the governments who regulated and once encouraged the use of the cancer causing drug. The losers are clearly the Canadian taxpayers, and everyone who has lost a loved one to the normalization of a deadly addiction. […]
Edwin Current: Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP Only After Political Gain?
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and almost right leaning. Some claim Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP are only
Continue readingEdwin Current: Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP Only After Political Gain?
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and a…
Continue readingEdwin Current: Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP Only After Political Gain?
It’s becoming more and more clear that the Andrea Howarth led NDP party is NOT the NDP of the past fighting for social injustice. In fact, I think this NDP’s new direction seems like a deceptive representation of the NDP brand and almost right leaning. Some claim Andrea Howarth and Ontario NDP are only
Continue readingTerahertz: I was wrong on Dix
In the BC NDP leadership race, I ranked my top candidates as Simons, Farnwroth, Horgan, Dix, and Larson. While I had been disappointed with Carole James’ approach as leader, and her generally ineffectiveness, I found Adrian Dix’s campaign to be too harsh and likely to lead to an opposition of negativity. I specifically said “His […]
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: So.. I’m Not A Liberal Now?
So.. I’m not a Liberal now? Every single time someone takes a potshot at Raj Sherman for his political past it’s an affront to me. He was a federal Liberal first in his political career… as was I. When I was in high school I was an …
Continue readingTerahertz: For the good of the province
Congratulations are oddly in order for David Hahn. I say oddly because it’s extremely rare to see an overpaid executive of a crown corporation fall on his sword like Hahn did as he quit BC Ferries to save the corporation upwards of $1 million per year. Hahn had previously announced that among his attempts to […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Curb Your Urge to go Stateside
America is going to start building a fence to keep out “terrorists” from Canada. If you’ve got ripped MP3s on your iPod, good luck staying out of the courts. The Appease American Imperialism Act is almost through the House of Cave-ins. With aggressive idiots like this working for Homeland Insecurity, why would you want to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Civics, Humour, Space, and Water
I’m going to assume that Calgary’s Civic Camp is a success, because they have an awesome mayor who nobody expected to win. == Things could be worse. These disasters will make you smile. == http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/dawn/20110915/vesta20110915-640.swf Embedded video from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Vesta is a minor planet in our solar system, […]
Excited Delirium: #occupywallstreet grows while MSM misses the message
Why is mainstream media ignoring the #OccupyWallStreet protests?
Continue readingTrashy's World: How disgusting is this?
Never have seen one of these abominations before. Gotta run out and spend it on something I can flush down the toilet!
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Continue readingTrashy's World: Ontario PCs stabbing each other with glee…
When I was a municipal pol back in the day, I didn’t have a whole lot of use for MPP Eves, but he did watch out for his constituents – much like Norm Sterling did. So it is a shame that Hudak’s right-hand hick man sees it fit to slam one of their own… BTW […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: If Canada had Ethical Standards We’d Arrest Cheney.
But we won’t. Complicity in torture and violating international law is the business of other countries, certainly not the U.S. “Human Rights Watch is urging the Canadian government to “be prepared” to bring criminal charges against former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney when he visits Vancouver on his book tour next week. The New York-based rights […]
Terahertz: Point Grey NDP General Meeting
Tonight I attended the BC NDP Point Grey General Meeting. The meeting was fairly well attended, given there’s no threat of a general election until 2013 and this was not the annual general meeting. Around 15 people made it out. The primary purpose of the meeting was to add a few new members to the […]
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Public poll on the state of democracy: please respond – your views and your voice matter!
Please answer the following question below, share this poll with friends, and leave your comments as well if you wish. (Naturally, of course you can only vote once! This poll aims to be as democratic as possible!)
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Adapt Early
Our competitive advantage is that we’ve not yet adapted to large urban growth, but we have that opportunity now. Or we can be “a mid-size city with big city problems.” Traffic congestion is about to explode in Regina. We are only 11km from top to bottom, or west to east. Sprawl will make commute times […]
Herbinator: UN Walkouts
Canada walks out on Iran’s UN speech in 2009.Canada walks out on Iran’s UN speech in 2010.Canada walks out on Iran’s UN speech in 2011. I wonder what the rules are for UN Walking? We should have some guidelines, shouldn’t we? From the last three walkouts I’ve determined that the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Earth Overshoot Day – cause for a pause to reflect
Yesterday, September 27, the Global Footprint Network declared as Earth Overshoot Day: the day that humans have used up all renewable resources available for the year. Not good. This obviously cannot continue. Limitless growth in material consumption a…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Yeah, paid a pretty penny for this…
…but I think it’ll be worth it!
Let y’all know tomorrow…
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