As the US prepares to default on its debt, the resulting economic spiral will punish a lot of people. We need to start thinking about how we can avoid this and take matters into our own hands.
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Politics, Re-Spun: Sporting a Uterus
Following the Women’s World Cup this year has been an enlightening experience for me. So far, some have been heart-stopping (Brazil-USA), and some have been crap (Canada-France), just like any tournament. The Canadians ended up knocked out in the first round bottom of their pool despite (overly) high expectations pumped up to justify the fact […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Canada Taking a Stand!
If there is one thing I agree with the Conservative party it would probably be some of there foreign policy decision. Canada will not go to the The Conference on Disarmament, because North Korea is the chair of the confere…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Expert Warns That TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline Assessments Are Misleading
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An independent analysis performed by University of Nebraska professor Dr. John Stansbury, an environmental engineer, claims that TransCanada’s safety assessments for th…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Lessons in Organization in the Calgary Region: Three Things We’re Doing Right
As per rule #9 of my 10 Rules for Liberal Debate, I’m going to spend this post complimenting and bragging about what Calgary is doing on the federal Liberal scene. Here are just three of the many things that the Liberal Party of Canada is doing…
Continue readingArt Threat: CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his reasons and his criticisms of the state of mainstream news in Canada on his blog Freedom 24 . His bold truth-telling hits to the core of how Canadian […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Cut, Cut, Cut
Stephen Harper would like to cut 4 billion dollars in spending in order to help balance the budget. knowing Harper these cuts of course attacks agencies he is against like Environment Canada that will be getting a 21% cut this year. which is …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Bridge Builders: Cultural Survival in Bosnia
This is as close to a eulogy and an ode as I can write for a place with which I struggle every day. As I write this, a now yearly procession is making its way to the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The remains of hundreds of men of all ages are making their way […]
Continue readingTrashy's World: U2 in Montreal!
What. A. Show.
If you have never had the opportunity to see Bono and the boys, find the time…
80,000 folks in Montreal last night would have enthusiastically agreed with me!
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Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: Canada’s military… is Sweden next???
We have fairly suddenly become a nation of Hawks. War is good and it is necessary. Wave the flag mightily. Buy the best of the best for the troops. Support the troops, dammit! Our identity as brokers of peace and the keepers of peace is perhaps forever gone. Behold the new Canadian militarism. It’s everywhere. Hardly […]
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: The Republicans are Getting Old part 2 (Part 3 will come soon)
Republican morals have of coursed seem the same at least in the capital. one of the most pointless morals that Republican politicians tend to agree with is that
Drugs are Bad!
Republicans, have always were against Marijuana legalization and are alway…
The Equivocator: Mayor Naheed Nenshi speaking at the Canadian Club of Toronto
This is a really great speech. All Canadians, especially the Liberals, should give it a listen.
H/T Rob Silver
Filed under: Alberta, Canadian Politics, Politics Tagged: Great Speeches, Naheed Nenshi, Neshi, Toronto
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: American Petroleum Institute Dreams Of Placing Lobbyists In Every District
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Oil industry lobbyist and president of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Jack Gerard made his industry’s goal clear in a recent interview with Fortune Magazine…
Continue readingTerahertz: Democracy or policy?
With the HST referendum underway and ballots supposedly in the mail (I should have mine in the next couple days…) I’ve had a thought that there may be a bigger question than the subtleties of consumption taxation. The question has to deal with two issues near and dear to my heart: Democracy and evidenced-based policy. […]
Continue readingTerahertz: Canada Day Canada.com article
I almost completely missed a chance at some shameless self promotion. For Canada day I was asked to submit an article to a renewal of their “Real Agenda” issue that ran gathered bloggers opinions during the recent election. I came up with a shorter piece on our country’s need for a vision to replace the […]
Continue readingThe last of Nortel’s legacy sold off
Nortel’s patents sold for 4.5 billion dollars–a true indictment of the many dollars and years of R&D investment. Some of Canada’s top scientists worked there–it truly was an innovative company (unfortunately with bad management). It is also very sad that Nortel’s leadership, including Mike Zafirovski, did not know the true value of what they had […]
The Happy Wanderer: The Republicans are Getting Old! Part 1
The Republicans leaders all over the U.S are getting any new material, and quite frankly I am getting a little sick of proving there ideology wrong, but let’s summaries there whole platform shall we.
1. Cut spending
seems simple and okay eno…
Women are no better than men when it comes to politics
I have read at least two Huffington Post articles, on the newspaper’s Canadian website, about the need for more women to get involved in Canadian politics. One was more focused on the proper means by which women should enter po…
Continue readingTrashy's World: It’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep…
….so why not post something?
I was standing in line at the LCBO on Thursday and eavesdropped on a conversation behind me between two middle-aged guys… probably not holders of PhDs, but not grade school drop-outs either.
Guy 1: Damned lineup! Why don’t they have more registers open?
Guy 2: It’s probably against union rules or something.
Guy 1: […]
Trashy's World: It’s 3:30 am and I can’t sleep…
….so why not post something?
I was standing in line at the LCBO on Thursday and eavesdropped on a conversation behind me between two middle-aged guys… probably not holders of PhDs, but not grade school drop-outs either.
Guy 1: Damned lineup! Why don’t they have more registers open?
Guy 2: It’s probably against union rules or something.
Guy 1: […]