The CSEC commish, entrusted to the task of ensuring CSEC doesn’t break the law during its spying on, err, for this country, is not coming out smelling like a rose. It was a puppet head trifecta today – the new CSEC *watchdog* defending NSA puppet CSEC to the PMO puppet
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OPSEU Diablogue: Something is off this December — we’re ditching the parties for placards
Something is definitely off this holiday season. Instead of being invited to the usual round of parties, we’re getting invitations to demonstrations and press conferences. Instead of decorating halls we’re decorating placards. How oblivious Health Minister Deb Matthews is to … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Arnprior rally to oppose ongoing cuts to rural hospital
Arnprior is an Ottawa Valley community 66 kilometres north of the nation’s capital. The town is built around the mouth of the Madawaska River and has a population of more than 8,000 residents. The communities around Ottawa, including Arnprior, are … Continue reading →
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: You Can Vote, But You Can’t Travel in Canada
This situation is BS. A Manitoba MP is crying discrimination after two aboriginal women were not allowed to board a plane with her, even though they had tickets. Niki Ashton, who represents the Churchill riding for the NDP, said Gail and Joyce Nepinak were scheduled to fly to Ottawa from
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Credibility of the Ruling Elite is Being Shredded – Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11012 ‘And what happens in moments of breakdown is that people not only turn against an ineffectual liberal elite that is not able–that in essence–that has presided over political and economic paralysis, or certainly political paralysis, but they also jettison the values that elite purports to defend. And that’s what’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: First Nations Get $0.3M for Solar Research #skpoli
The Conservative government generously gave First Nations in Saskatchewan enough grant money to build one impressively sized solar array that could power a half dozen homes. Ontario is going with $5,000M. SaskPower gave 10 times this much to the UofR to research how to put CO2 underground so more oil
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: George Osborne’s Economic Policy: More Poverty, Worse Public Servies
Check out @chakrabortty’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/409810696763760640 Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Austerity, Conservatism, neoliberalism
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: On getting e-mails.
There was an executive decision years ago when this blog started that there is little need to waste time editing comments from others. To be fair, your writer also does not waste time commenting on the inane ramblings of other blogs. You only need read the occasional blog to see
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 300 Years Is Bogus
Thanks to another letter writer, Michael McKinlay, I caught this opportunity to again offer a better future perspective than SaskPower’s current President has done thus far. http://saskboy.wordpress.com/2013/09/15/an-irrational-mixup-at-saskpower/ I’m writing in response to SaskPower President and CEO Robert Watson’s comments in the November 25th article, “SaskPower set to overhaul power grid“.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: ONE WEEK SALE AT KERSPLEBEDEB LEFTWINGBOOKS!
It’s December, and it has been a busy year here at Kersplebedeb – getting this new site off the ground, publishing several new books and pamphlets, and just continuing with all the other little tasks, duties, and pleasures that this work brings As will happen every so often, our storage
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: php test
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Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: $110k Owen Sound MPP shrugs off 6-year PSW wage freeze, calls for two years more
Bill Walker walked into the room with a big smile but his body language gave away his discomfort of being a Tory MPP in a union hall. He constantly fidgeted with his purple scarf and never strayed far from the … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Poirier should hold Gallinger to account for treatment of VON PSWs
Today we’re in Owen Sound to talk to the media about the VON’s treatment of 35 Personal Support Workers. In the scheme of things, 35 part-time PSWs represent a small portion of the tens of thousands of workers that make … Continue reading →
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013
The man who was a terrorist Became a hero And passes into legend. I am glad to have lived while you lived. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.exciteddelirium.ca%2F2013%2F12%2F05%2Fnelson-mandela-1918-2013%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Nelson+Mandela%2C+1918-2013’; addthis_pub = ”;
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Jacob Ernest Goertzen 1941 – 1971
This picture of us was taken just months before he was killed on a snowy B.C. highway. His obituary from the local paper, so many years ago today: J. E. Goertzen Driver for D. and D. Transport, Chilliwack, Jacob Ernest Goertzen of 9095 Sunset Drive died December 5 in Vavenby near
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Polanyi on the Persistence of Economic Dogma
In reading Karl Polanyi’s 1944 classic, The Great Transformation, I’ve come across some passages regarding the persistence of the doctrines of economic liberalism (what we would today refer to as neo-liberalism) despite the onset of economic crisis. Despite being written almost 70 years ago, it sounds like it could have
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Rob Ford is Not a Nice Man #TOpoli
If you defended Rob Ford during his election campaign in 2010, I would have simply said you made a mistake. His angry outbursts against the media, and his ridiculous comments about bike lanes placed him firmly in my political opponents category then. Plus he had a history of drunk driving
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Last day to help fund Great Bear Rainforest wilderness cameras
BC-based conservation group Pacific Wild deploys stunning imagery to help protect the Great Bear Rainforest from the impacts of logging, salmon farms and, in recent years, proposed oil tanker traffic. Through the world-class photography of founder Ian McAllister and by coordinating visits from filmmakers and photographers from around the world,
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: VON Grey Bruce — Nobody respects a cheapskate
Sometimes the government and its contract health providers just don’t know where to draw the line between fiscal responsibility and simply being cheap. Nobody respects a cheapskate except for other cheapskates. Already saving a bundle by whisking patients out of … Continue reading →
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Mental Health: Strike looming over province’s failed promise
Hopefully Kingston Mayor Mark Gerretsen made some phone calls yesterday. Having met with unionized staff members from Frontenac Community Mental Health and Addictions Services, he expressed concern about a potential strike tomorrow (Wednesday) that will impact directly upon the municipality … Continue reading →
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