Short one today, as I’m trying to work through dissertation revisions. But I thought it was worth noting how few of Ontario’s registered political parties have bothered to put together a platform as yet. It’s kind of sad, given that we have fixed elect…
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Little Bit of This
Politics in North America are not going too well in my opinion. I don’t know many people happy with how it’s turning out either, which makes the election(s) this Fall all the worse because few are optimistic about the results then too. It’s no wonder so many bail out of taking any responsibility for the […]
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: GOP Congressman Warns That EPA Could Be On The Chopping Block After 2012 Elections
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Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL) told an internet-based radio program earlier this week that if the GOP is able to sweep the 2012 elections, government agencies like the Environment…
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Doug Ford as Ozymandias (or How I learned to story worrying and love libraries.)
“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that society has found one more way to destroy itself.” – Isaac Asimov OZYMANDIAS I met a traveller from an antique … Continue reading →
somecanuckchick dot com: Rainbow Pipeline Leak — Three Months Later…
It has been 3 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. Initially, the Alberta media were told by Plains Midstream Canada that only a few hundred barrels of oil had leaked from the Rainbow Pipeline… There
Continue readingTerahertz: Someone take May’s shovel away
After erupting on Twitter yesterday, Green Party leader Elizabeth May is trying to defend her comments on her blog. She repeatedly falls back on the “precautionary principle,” stating that if we don’t really know if Wi-Fi is safe, then we should be careful. Never mind the similarities between this and the “teach the controversy” or […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: The T.O. Fords – one buffoon deserves another…
buf·foon [buh-foon] –noun 1. a person who amuses others by tricks, jokes, odd gestures and postures, etc. 2. a person given to coarse or undignified joking. So, Rob Ford is an example of a gene pool gone wrong terribly … right? We can agree on this, correct? If you doubt that at all, then look no further […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: National Popular Vote
We all know that the current electoral system is broke in the U.S . In 2000 Al Gore won the Popular vote and he still lost the election. 2000 wasn’t the only time if you continue to look back in history 1 in 14 times the winner of the national vote los…
Continue readingTerahertz: Those kooky Greens
I’ve been considering running in the upcoming Vancouver municipal election and the thought of seeking a Vancouver Greens nomination had crossed my mind, but I think I don’t think I’m quite ready to sign on with them yet. Two news items today reminded me how prominent anti-science environmentalism is in the party. First, the BC […]
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: What Jack Layton Sees In Interim NDP Leader Nycole Turmel
The intensifying scrutiny of Nycole Turmel, NDP leader Jack Layton’s choice to replace him while he’s away for cancer treatment is healthy for Canada’s democracy. But the negativity by the right-wing media misses the point. Self-rig…
Continue readingTrashy's World: YES! Two smoking cessation aids now part of Ontario Drug Benefit Plan!!
This is great news! When I quit 7 years ago, I used Zyban, the patch, nico-gum… everything I could get my hands on! And they worked! Fortunately, the costs were covered under my drug plan… but most folks aren’t so lucky. Lower future health care costs will many times over pay for the costs of […]
Continue readingcmkl: Crime rates and government spending
So crime rates continue to decline. Not just nuisance crimes and property crimes but also crimes where people get hurt or worse. And it’s been going this way for nigh on forty years.
Continue readingTerahertz: The limits of Godwin’s Law
Godwin’s law, simply stated, is that any internet debate will eventually decay into one side making a reference to Nazis, the Hitler, or the Holocaust, and at that point loses the debate. This works fine for discussions of creationism, free speech, and even libertarianism, but when discussing far-right political extremists, it can potentially be a […]
Continue readingEuropean Jihadists and brothers in hatred; Anders Behring Breivik is the mirror image of Muslim fanatics
One can easily connect the dots and say that the Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik, the man that killed 68 young adults, teenagers and children at a Labor organized summer camp on the island of Utoya, is no different in ideology and in action fro…
Continue readingcmkl: I am really hoping Jack Layton is all right
I saw his presser today. He looked very thin and not well. I hope that whatever they have found is at a stage where they can beat it back into nothingness and he can extend his life expectancy and that his quality of life is somewhere up around approac…
Continue readingBob Rae, Opposition Leader?
I wish a speedy and complete recovery for Mr. Layton. That said, I wonder if it is only me who immediately wondered whether the NDP, looking for an interim leader with strong skills and experience, would turn to one of their elder statesmen? Will we be…
Continue reading350 or bust: Response to Norway Horror: Faced With Inhumanity, We Must Be More Human
The contrast between Norway’s response to the brutal terror attacks last Friday and that of the United States after 9/11 couldn’t be starker. Imagine if President Bush had instead said, like Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg,…
Continue readingTerahertz: Albertans: More progressive than their government
A couple years ago, the Alberta government bared a storm of criticism and pushed ahead with an ideologically-driven cut when it delisted gender reassignment surgery as a covered medical procedure. This is a procedure even Iran pays half for. So it’s good to hear stories like this: The landslide winner of a radio station’s controversial […]
Continue readingeaves.ca: Depression and Decline: American Irresponsibility is Ending the American Era with a Bang
Despite the assurances of US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner it is increasingly likely there will be no debt deal. The United States is going to default on its debt. I know it sounds crazy, but I believe it is going to happen. If it does, this is the black swan event no one imagined or […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Problem with Rebuilding
Me like many Liberals are facing an identity crisis. We have no longer became the natural governing party of Canada we are rather seen as another left wing party. In order for us to rebuild we need to attract the votes that we lost which are …
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