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In This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 28: Your bribe is in the mail; Republicans are Trumped
So, have you received your bribe yet? Stephen Harper’s utterly shameless federal Conservatives are in the process of giving away $3 billion in tax dollars to “hard working Canadian families” (is there any other kind of Canadian family?) in the form of monthly cheques for families with kids. The benefit cheques
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To Senate Or Not To Senate
There will be no questions. Well, almost none, as per usual. Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaking with Premier Brad Wall at legislature today. #yqr #skpoli #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/MUHNM5gbcN — Natascia Lypny (@wordpuddle) July 24, 2015 Gluttonous child has gorged himself on the ice cream; now declares a moratorium on more ice
Continue readingLeft Over: ..Stay Away from Runaround Soudas…
Dimitri Soudas buys Liberal membership ahead of Eve Adams’s nomination vote Adams, rival Marco Mendicino vie Sunday for party’s nomination in Eglinton-Lawrence riding By Laura Payton, CBC News Posted: Jul 23, 2015 5:42 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 23, 2015 6:28 PM ET OMG… Wish I could sand-blast my eyes
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oil Is Not A Four Letter Word
Coal is a four letter word, however. Perhaps Wall is a bit touchy about fossil fuels because Saskatchewan produces more greenhouse gases per person than any other Canadian province [link added], and is one of only three provinces whose emissions have risen since 1990. The province contains only 1 per
Continue readingA. Picazo: A Word To My Critics:
To those accusing me of seeking to defend Blatchford, as intent to undermine undermine Guthrie/Reilly, or as somehow actively championing an odious twitter persona I’m on the record as having no sympathy for: My intention in writing this piece was to promote an honest discussion about the case itself, because
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Insane! Ludicrous! Plaid!
I knew this was a Spaceballs movie reference when I heard “ludicrous mode”. “Ludicrous speed” is attained by a spaceship in the Spaceballs movie. #Tesla Roadster in my driveway on Canada Day. pic.twitter.com/x1TX0GpVhe — Saskboy K. (@saskboy) July 3, 2015 It leaves us wondering what comes next for Tesla. Bizarre
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: To Be Left On The Moon
Some of these items found in Armstrong’s closet, were to be abandoned on the surface of the Moon. More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light. Among the trove: a 16 mm
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Scared to Dumpster Dive For Food?
Don’t be. Be proud about recovering good food that has been wasted. If you’re staying away because of a fear you might have to pay a ticket, in the unlikely case you’re ticketed for some messed-up bylaw in your city? Rob will pay your fine. If you get arrested or
Continue readingExcited Delirium: The Cons are Buying the Election … With Your Money
The Conservatives begin a tour to promote themselves and their broken policies. Using our money. This is criminal.
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: it’s coming apart
this article touches on points related to the Neocolonialism and Noise thing i wrote a few days ago, and which i continue to think about Maybe the best thing to say is just that contemporary culture is complicated by a deep confusion about underdogs and bullies, that we can no
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 27: ‘Ice’ to see you; El Chapo el escapos; oil spill oops.
The big non-news in Edmonton this week was the announcement that the area surrounding the new arena, previously known by the rather prosaic ‘arena district’, has been renamed Ice District. (Apparently, it is just ‘Ice District’, not ‘The Ice District’, according to the pretentious PR hacks behind this rebranding.) The
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Revolutionary Expectations and the Fight Against Austerity
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Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Brad Wall On “Sustainably Developing Our Energy Resources”
Originally posted on John Klein – Regina: Brad Wall says “…we need to do better in terms of more sustainably developing our energy resources…” Unfortunately what he means is he wants to find ways of ensuring fossil fuels and uranium come out of the ground at an increasingly profitable pace,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: APEGS in Saskatoon 2014 January
John Klein: Here’s when I learned that Saskatchewan is a world leader in air pollution. Yay us! Originally posted on John Klein – Regina: One interesting fact is that Saskatchewan produces more carbon dioxide pollution per capita, than any other jurisdiction in the world. Yay Number 1! A summary is
Continue readingExcited Delirium: It’s Spelled R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N
It’s OK to call it as it is when it comes to recession. Ooops … not in Canada.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Rob Nicholson: Conservative curmudgeon.
Would the Harper Conservatives prefer a nuclear war? It really makes you wonder when you hear the undiplomatic comments of Canada’s foreign minister. Canadians had reason to be embarrassed on Monday when the success of the Iran nuclear talks was announced. While most of the world was rejoicing, Canada’s Foreign
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Protesting Censorship in Sask will get you Censored
A Swift Current person censored a dancer criticizing the Saskatchewan Government. The Premier’s home is Swift Current. A recording is available and is not really work safe. Rosie Bitts Interrupted at Chautauqua via Soundcloud
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Bernie Sanders: Australian Perspective
Here’s a facebook comment from Australia I enjoyed. Aleta Langdon: A POLITICAL TIP FROM AUSTRALIA: The Republicans, Fox and Rupert Murdoch want Hillary to win the nomination so that they can crucify her in the Presidentials. (So much history, so much scandal, so many unanswered questions, so much to criticise,)
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Greece and the death of democracy, economics and civility
Greece and the death of economics, and democracy, and civility, and so much more Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Irrespective of whether it was total capitulation, there are already a multitude of analyses trying to decipher what (and how) exactly happened in
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