If you’re the government and you want to find “gravy” – to pick a random metaphor – that you can eliminate in the provision of services in order to reduce the deficit, what do you do? Why, you hire an auditor of course. An auditor has specially traine…
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CalgaryLiberal: Lets Raj and Roll: I’m Excited
Last Saturday Raj Sherman was elected as Alberta Liberal Leader. On Monday he was brought in, officially, to the Alberta Liberal caucus. A quick media scan: [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Curiously, on the Saturday night the reporters surroun…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: PC over Promising.
In PEI the PC’s in the province who are losing terribly in the polls are trying to gain support promising something that PEI can’t afford. The Pc leader Olive Crane said if elected she would reduce the P.S.T in the province from 10% to 9%.
“For a one…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Riotous Double Standards
Some riots we like, some not so much – by Oliver Heinrich
I’ve been swamped with work – and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I hope to post by Monday. In the meantime, my old friend Oliver sent along the above cartoon, hopefully th…
RedBedHead: Why Is The NDP Buckling On The Bloc?
It’s sad to listen to Nycole Turmel’s mea culpa’s in the news as she pleads over and over that she is now and has always been a federalist. Almost half the province of Quebec are sovereignist for God’s sake. It’s a legitimate political stance and suppo…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Could Ontario NDP Pull A Layton?
This is interesting:
The Forum Research survey found Hudak’s Tories at 38 per cent — down from 41 per cent in June — to McGuinty’s Liberals at 28 per cent, up from 26 per cent. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath jumped to 24 per cent from 22 per cent an…
RedBedHead: China & Canada: It Was Never About Human Rights
There’s much foofaraw in the media about the visit by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to China. Are we now neglecting human rights in the interests of profit? Have we stopped supporting liberation struggles, like those of Tibet? NDP Foreign Affairs…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Proof That Cowboys Are Kind of Morons
Apparently riding bulls whose nuts have been twisted to drive them into a frenzy of pain and rage is a stupid, fucking thing to do. According to a recent study, rodeo contestants are 20 times more likely to suffer a “catastrophic injury” than is a foot…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Is An Asshole
Hey, sometimes you want to be all intellectual and stuff; analyze underlying trend and put it in its proper context to provoke scholarly debate. But some shit just deserves to be called by its regular name.This guy was all for spending $1 billion on a …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Live Stream: 48-Hour Greek General Strike Against Austerity
The fight is on. Greek workers are under a massive assault as international bankers, speculators, governments and capitalists try to force a brutal austerity package down their throats. Last year’s austerity has already doubled the unemployment rate to…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Tories Sneaky Social Engineering
I often thought that the right wing canard directed against the left that we were interested in “social engineering” was one of the more banal and pathetic insults that they tossed around. It presumed a “natural” state of human nature, any deviation fr…
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Something to Watch: Federal Liberals in Calgary
With the new seats coming federally in the House of Commons to the economic seat of Canada–Alberta–the province will finally get a more reasonable level of representation. No longer will each of our votes matter less than Ontario or Quebec …
Continue readingCalgaryLiberal: Leaked Ad: Minimum Wage
This is the second ad in a set of three. The first ad was on education and this one is on the minimum wage (which is pertinent because of it being in the news recently). Again, as I’ve written before on the set of ads, it’s a set that is no…
Continue readingRedBedHead: The Tories’ Bankrupt Brains
“I see, said the blind man to the deaf dog, who wasn’t listening anyway” is a phrase that comes to mind reading reports of federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s press conference on the economy. Generally speaking we expect governments to do more to s…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Coming Decline of Harper’s Values Coalition
Ipsos is predicting that Harper’s “values-based national coalition” of Tories might have a brighter future than the cobbled-together Mulroney coalition had:
Darrel Bricker of Ipsos
The interesting thing about what happened in this (May 2) election . ….
CuriosityCat: Harper’s Right to Appoint Senators
Lot’s of faux indignation amongst media and bloggers and politicians over Harper’s decistion to appoint three senators, including two who ran for election to the House of Commons, and lost. To judge from the response by some, you would think that Harpe…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Harper’s Canada
Deep Throat II
A sneak preview of how Canada will look after four (or five) years of unfettered majority rule by the Conservative Party, courtesy of Deep Throat II, who was given a copy of Harper’s Five Year Plan in a brown envelope in the Delta Hote…
Most Clear Insight Into Harper’s Mind Thusfar…
While perusing a Toronto Star article today entitled Harper’s Tories Leave Mulroney Cold I came across this quote from an annonymous Tory MP:
“Being in power is better than not being in power,”I don’t think a more clear insight into the mind of Ste…