Note: we've interviewed @ThomasMulcair @JustinTrudeau and @ElizabethMay this campaign. @pmharper was to join us this week but cancelled 1/2 — The West Block (@TheWestBlock) October 11, 2015 His team told us he decided not to do any more nat'l interviews. No worries we have a show full of great content
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Terahertz: Joyce Murray on physician assisted dying
Just over a week ago, I commented on a post on Joyce Murray’s page (the Liberal MP and candidate in Vancouver Quadra) asking her position on physician assisted dying. She had just attended a panel on the issue and I was curious what her take was. What I didn’t expect
Continue readingTerahertz: Will the real Marc Boyer please stand up?
My Storify of figuring out who’s actually running for the Marijuana Party in Vancouver Quadra. [View the story “Will the real Marc Boyer please stand up? [Solved]” on Storify]
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 39: Big (yawn) trade deal; Harper plays niqab card; Notley bombs
The big story this week was a trade deal. Wait, wait! Please don’t stop reading. Canada has joined 11 other countries in something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a collection of countries including big dogs (the U.S., Japan), middle-sized dogs (Canada, Mexico, Australia) and some pups (Vietnam, Brunei). The combined gross
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 39: Big (yawn) trade deal; Harper plays niqab card; Notley bombs
The big story this week was a trade deal. Wait, wait! Please don’t stop reading. Canada has joined 11 other countries in something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a collection of countries including big dogs (the U.S., Japan), middle-sized dogs (Canada, Mexico, Australia) and some pups (Vietnam, Brunei). The combined gross
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Contemplating the Jays and Democracy
Right now we’re determining who the best baseball team is in the AL East, over 5 games played over more than 5 days. The winner will go on to play 7 more games to determine the best in the AL. Then 7 more games to decide who is the World
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Ready
Advance polls are open. Be sure to get out and vote.
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: From here, you can smell the fear.
There was a candidates meeting the other evening for the federal election candidates in the local electoral district. It was this national election in microcosm. The event in a church was sponsored by the Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness. Like this election, the candidates’ answers to homelessness were too
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: What’s in Store for Canada
In 2011 Harper ‘won’ a majority government on the heels of lying to Parliament about the true cost of the #F35 boondoggle (which we still don’t have a plane from), and proceeded to lie to us about the cause of the election fraud seen across the country. In 2015 Harper
Continue readingLeft Over: Just Try and Vote, I Dare Ya..!
Just got back from voting ..had to wait an hour. The advance polls here in Victoria (on the People’s Republic of Vancouver Island) are showing us, first hand, how Harper has gutted Elections Canada.. Dickens would feel right at home..a clerk (I am not making this up) has to hand
Continue readingLeft Over: Just Try and Vote, I Dare Ya..!
Just got back from voting ..had to wait an hour. The advance polls here in Victoria (on the People’s Republic of Vancouver Island) are showing us, first hand, how Harper has gutted Elections Canada.. Dickens would feel right at home..a clerk (I am not making this up) has to hand
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Is NATO Chastising Russia Because They’re Beating ISIS?
Do we really understand who the ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ are in the Middle East? Maybe we need to pull back for a few moments to reevaluate what we’re doing instead of exacerbating the situation like Stephen Harper wants us to do.
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Agony Amidst the Ecstasy
I think of my greatest heroes, the people I admire and respect the most – Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Thoreau, Emerson, Walt Whitman, Blake, Dickens, Shakespeare, Spinoza (who has been called, “The prince of philosophers”, and rightly so), Jesus, the Buddha, Shankara and Lao
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A sinking world, and sane responses to it
My country is sinking like a rock (for reasons of corporate oligarchy, neoliberalism, corporate rights agreements, and an addiction to oil revenues and the politics of a resource extraction-based economy, and the thorough corporate domination of the political process), though the great majority of my fellow citizens do not realize
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Say’s Law – Supply Creates Demand
“A well-known dictum of macroeconomics is Say’s Law: that supply creates demand.” I independently discovered this, I didn’t know it was called Say’s Law. Before I created the Pet Foil Hat Technology, no one bought foil hats for pets. My supply, created the demand. The same can be said for
Continue readingExcited Delirium: This Guy Came Asking For A Job Renewal Today …
Let’s take Stephen Harper’s attack ad on Justin Trudeau and treat this election like a job interview …
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Election Numbers … Yes, We’re That Close
Swing ridings hold the key to the October 19 election. PLEASE discover all you can about the leading progressive candidate in your riding and consider helping Leadnow within the next few days so they can organize even better information.
Continue readingLeft Over: Composure Under Pressure…..
I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to stop comparing and contrasting (thanks so much to all my Uni profs. who beat that concept into my
Continue readingLeft Over: Composure Under Pressure…..
I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to stop comparing and contrasting (thanks so much to all my Uni profs. who beat that concept into my
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Reasons I Can’t Vote Conservative
Originally posted on jadecypress: Some of you are aware that I am fairly active on Twitter, which is my social media of choice. (@CBCGardener, if you’re looking for me there.) I made a commitment that I wasn’t going to post anything about the election and that I was going to
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