Ran across this article today: Saskatoon could face human rights complaint after refusing to yank ‘Merry Christmas’ message from buses. I think people like the complainant in this article are getting more airtime than they deserve thanks to the nature of media these days, but either way, it’s still an interesting conversation. Honestly, I’m
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Elizabeth May’s Diabolical Plan to Change Canadian Politics
Elizabeth May’s diabolical plan was tucked away in plain sight, in a tiny publication on Vancouver Island: “What I want to be able to do is get better research and support and make it available to backbenchers who don’t get much help from their own parties. ‘There are lots of
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: CPP reform: Pensions and population health objectives should be linked
There are two accepted axioms in health care: 1. The older you get, the more health care you use. 2. Wealth is closely linked to health, or what policy wonks like to talk about as the “social determinants of health.” … Continue reading →
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: An open letter to the Green Party
Dear people in the Green Party, I will be blunt. Parliamentary politics have failed. We are clearly at an impasse, and we are fighting an advancing forest fire with a garden sprinkler, and running backwards as fast as we can. We are steadily losing ground. Do not pretend we are
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Good thing these guys don’t want to run the provincial economy or anything…
Because they sure as hell can’t add. Can you spot the Tories’ bad math?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Waiting for Day 666 #RoboCon
The judge in the Council of Canadians’ challenge to 6 Conservative MPs election victories on May 2, 2011, will rule in the coming year he’s indicated. It may be April or later until we have a bilingual ruling on the most important court case in the land. I expect appeals
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Hello world!
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Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Like Canada, growth in U.S. economy not going to workers
As the Ontario Tories gear up to take a run at suppressing the wages of working people north of the border through attacks on unions, fixed benefit pension plans and overall public sector compensation, the U.S. Economic Policy Institute shows how dramatic the difference … Continue reading →
Continue readingValerie Burns: Flashpoint Finale, Just Horrible…
Greg Parker almost had an epic TV death. With three bullets in him, alone, and with the villain holding a pistol in his face, he spat blood and defiance in what he must have thought was his last moment alive. Sam almost had an epic TV death too, facing a
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Do you think it is easy to write history books?
As if the lock-out wasn’t enough for hockey fans, it looks like one long-anticipated stocking stuffer won’t be ready this year. We haven’t heard a peep from Harper since this story last Christmas: PM Harper’s hockey book to drop next year OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper — the hockey
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: This is not the answer
I’ve been listening, reading, watching to the various reactions to Friday’s tragic events – political and others. Aside from the formal gun lobby going silent, many conservatives are doing whatever they can to spin this global conversation away from (much needed) gun control. Like this Republican Congressman who thinks school
Continue readingSlap Upside The Head: Russia Goes After American Pop Divas
Less than a year ago, the Russian city of St. Petersburg passed a law banning “homosexual propaganda,” with expected hysterical results. From equal rights marches to rainbows on milk cartons, no one seems to be safe from the accusing eyes of the ruling United Russia party in their search for
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: President Obama’s words for a nation, and the world
If you missed it earlier, you can watch it here. It is the most moving speech I’ve ever heard.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Workin’ For The Money
I always find it so interesting to see people making well in excess of $100,000/year. I really have to stretch to find ways to spend it all in my imagination. Feels a bit like Brewster’s Millions. There are some jobs where I think it’s acceptable to make well more than
Continue readingCritical Brain Candy: I had forgotten just how much cable TV sucks
I was away for work last week and at some point each night, while trying to relax before sleep, I’d turn on the TV in my hotel room. I’d spend a good 15 to 30 minutes surfing around trying to find anything that was remotely interesting to me, and I’d
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Shooting at a Place of Education
The mass shooting in Connecticut was tragic, and it’s amplified by instantaneous news making irresponsible reports, misidentifying accused suspects, and encouraging copy-cats by propelling the shooter to world-wide notoriety instead of leaving them in obscurity where they came from. It doesn’t take a malicious act such as this to harm
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Timely #RoboCon
Arthur Hamilton is the Conservatives’ Lawyer in Federal Court today. May 2, 2011 was election day, and it was 592 days ago. There was an Elections Canada investigation underway immediately after, despite the agency being aware of complaints 3 days prior to the election. Hamilton is possibly the lawyer who
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: A Proof is a Proof #RoboCon
How do you show that a crime of statistics, like election fraud robocalls, is effective? Several ways. The Conservatives who benefited from the crime want ordinary citizens to come up with protected phone records that show victims were robocalled, play recorded examples of the crime, provide names of people who
Continue readingIn This Corner: Alberta Liberals, as always, their own worst enemy.
There’s more a-feudin’ and a-fussin’ in the Alberta Liberal ranks. Here’s the background. Calgary MLA Kent Hehr posted a blog last week calling for the so-called ‘progressive’ parties (that would be the Liberals, the NDP, and I assume whatever is left of the Alberta Party) to unite as a single
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