Back in March Babel-on-the-Bay commented on how sad it would be if Pierre-Karl Pèladeau won the Parti Quèbècois leadership in Quebec and Patrick Brown won the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership in Ontario. We need be more careful in what we do not wish for. Both these men are giants only
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Left Over: Have You Come a Long Way, Baby..?
Was Hydro One right to fire heckler involved in the FHRITP incident? Vancouver lawyer says Hydro was well within their rights to fire heckler By BC Almanac, CBC News Posted: May 13, 2015 10:30 PM PT Last Updated: May 13, 2015 10:30 PM PT This creep is all too representative of
Continue readingIn This Corner: How to build a cabinet using mismatched pieces: pointers for Rachel Notley
Now that the euphoria of the election has worn off, I wonder if Rachel Notley is waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, wondering, “What the hell do I do now?” If she isn’t, she should. She has a big, big job ahead of her,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Take Their Debate Ball and Hide In A Closet
After so much effort from the Greens to ensure all Canadians can hear an inclusive debate, what the Conservatives are doing now is absurd and frustrating. So the Cons are behaving typically. Will the media let them get off? Yes, history shows. Of course, the less the Prime Minister says,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Ontario Made $226.00 on Diamond Royalty
And I thought Saskatchewan/Alberta’s oil royalties were too low. I wonder how much we make on salt, compared to Ontario.
Continue readingValerie Burns: Terrific Debate News
I like this move. I don’t support Mr. Harper, but I support this decision. Now, for our next debate change, can we please skip the part where we get “ordinary Canadians” (read: “moronic Canadians”) to come in and ask the “real questions” (read: “moronic questions”) especially since the questions is
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Autonomedia Books via Leftwingbooks.NET
Autonomedia described itself as “an autonomous zone for arts radicals in both old and new media. We publish books on radical media, politics and the arts that seek to transcend party lines, bottom lines and straight lines.” For years a wonderful source of books at the intersection of autonomous Marxism, feminism, and
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Interesting (online) Things i have read recently
Stalinist caterpillar into libertarian butterfly? – The evolving ideology of the PKK, by Alex de Jong, International Viewpoint, March 11, 2015 What kind of Kurdistan for women? (+ video), by Dilar Dirik, Links Oct. 20 2014 The Women’s Revolution in Rojava: Defeating Fascism by Constructing an Alternative Society, by Dilar Dirik, April
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Oh My
Monday morning CBC news with David Common led with the story of Elizabeth May’s failed PPG skit on Saturday. How’s that for perspective? These are the people who until last month had been considering not even letting the Green Party leader speak at the televised leaders’ debates, and now she’s
Continue readingLeft Over: The Thought Police: Alive and Well and Ruling in Canada
Ottawa considering hate charges against those who boycott Israel Blaney’s office cites ‘comprehensive’ hate laws for new zero tolerance plans By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: May 11, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: May 11, 2015 5:00 AM ET ”ll bet Junior Trudeau is so happy he signed off on
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 17: Freedom for Omar; a Facebook face plant; pollsters get it wrong (again)
At long last, a bit of justice for Omar Khadr. The so-called war criminal was finally released on bail in Edmonton this week, despite the best efforts of the despicable Harper government to portray him as an unrepentant terrorist who committed “heinous” crimes. Just to recap: Khadr was 15 years
Continue readingIn This Corner: An open letter to the new NDP MLAs from someone who has been there
Hello, Newbies Democratic Party MLAs! Welcome to the exciting world of provincial politics. No doubt many of you are still on a high (natural or otherwise) after your exciting and unexpected victories on Tuesday. I’m sure the Dippers who recruited you gave you assurances that you wouldn’t win, so you
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Fair and Balanced Questions
As you probably know, “Fair and Balanced” is the Fox News tagline that exists to trick the more easily fooled into thinking that’s what their actual objective is. Check out today’s story from the Vancouver Observer about “@FairQuestions”, a Conservative friendly researcher who took thousands of dollars in speaking fees
Continue readingLeft Over: Harper, You’ve Been Served…
“Woke up this mornin’ feelin’ fine…” Despite every contrary act of the Harperoids, have to say that today is a good day..yes, C-51 passed, and, notably, with the self-destructive Junior Trudeau’s tacit approval…Omar Khadr may get bail, and, realizing how mean-tempered and petty Harper can be, I’m sure he’s doing
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Hilarious Alberta Election
Last Alberta election it was the ridiculously wrong polling that was the news story. I think everyone is missing the big #abvote shocker: The polls were right! — Kevin Aschenbrenner (@kevwrites) May 6, 2015 Then the Wild Rose Party leader switched inexplicably to the PCs, and blew up her political
Continue readingIn This Corner: Coming to grips the the ungrippable.
Sometimes, there are events that are so huge, it’s difficult to wrap your brain around all of the elements involved, and try to come up with some sort of reason as to why it happened. The Alberta election of 2015 is one of those events. For 43 years, we’ve had
Continue readingBlevkog: Alberta, oh Alberta, what on earth have you done?
Last night’s NDP victory in Alberta changes the discussion a little to the place at which there is a real discussion of NDP in positions of leadership. Not that many years ago, the NDP was either ignored federally or viewed as promoting ideas that were maybe good, but in the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: American and Canadian Food Waste Both Staggering
Here’s a very interesting and instructive blog post about American food waste. See Stunning Photos of What Rob Greenfield Finds After Dumpster Diving Across America http://t.co/vXbwgqi5Is pic.twitter.com/OALsW3lT0n — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) April 30, 2015 As my last blog entry on food waste, Rob Greenfield brought the previous link to my attention.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Made In Canada Conservative Hypocrisy
“Canada had long been a proponent of harmonizing our climate-change policy with the U.S. until the U.S. started to fight climate change.” First it was the “Made in Canada” scam plan (that never appeared). Then it was, “We will act when our American partners do.” Now that Americans are acting,
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