Last year I wrote an essay on the differences between a unitary system of government and a federal system of government. At the time, I argued that our forefathers made the right decision by choosing a federal system for the … Continue reading …
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Slap Upside The Head: More Letters Wanted For The Purple Letter Campaign
The Purple Letter Campaign is a really great letter-writing campaign in B.C. with a simple goal: Get the government to adopt official policies to make schools safer for GLBT students and staff. The campaign, which was started by community members Ryan Clayton and Kaitlin Burnett, asks for people like you to share your stories and […]
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Government Too Big To Fail
While talking about market regulation, I came up with an example of a situation where I think more government oversight and fines would be useful at protecting Canadians. It occurred to me, that it’s practically a metaphor of Saskatchewan’s current Sask Party government. “Unfortunately companies that are too big to fail get neither the government […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but has fallen to the spyware wolves. Avoid download.com and cnet.com or lose your computer to the wolves. == And the Saskatchewan election campaign isn’t even […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anonymous Promoting Occupy Saskatoon Protest
Someone identifying with the Anonymous Internet group may have decided that Saskatoon sounded obscure and cool enough to be participating in Occupy Wall Street, that they deserved a little extra boost of attention. The Saskatoon news media jumped all over it, but with an unbalanced article that appears not to have made an attempt to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 99% Paying The Taxes
This video demonstrates that nothing has been done in more than 25 years to close the tax loopholes that Reagan supposedly wanted to close in 1985. Obama is saying the same things, literally, as Reagan did. The Bush(s), Clinton, and Obama governments since have lost ground for the 99% of us. This is one big […]
gritchik: The morning after
I’m tired but elated this beautiful morning. 53 seats. Pretty exceptional if you ask me when just a few weeks ago people were counting Liberals out.
I’ll have more to say later. For now my focus is on finding a Starbucks on our way out of …
Red Tory v.3.0.3: WPITW
A trifecta of sexism, ignorance and paranoia today: In fairness to Republican hopeful Herman Cain, at least he had the decency to preface his crackpot theory with the caveat of not having the facts to back it up. Too bad … Continue reading →
Writings of J. Todd Ring: The struggle is not between left and right – it’s between democracy and corporatism
We must unite the people now, or the people and democracy both will lose. Not only are partisan loyalties and divisions increasingly irrelevant and out-moded, but divisions along ideological lines of left and right are also outmoded and largely obsolet…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Depression Not Out of the Question
Watch our “economist” Primer Minister manage us into a economic depression (and ecological depression).
Continue readinggritchik: The ONDP campaign has become a farce
This was raised yesterday. And now that I’ve seen it for myself, I agree. What a joke.
Spotted in the riding of Trinity-Spadina this morning. On public lampposts. One passerby summed it up nicely: Not cute, NDP.
gritchik: Tim Hudak continues to campaign from the gutter
It’s a lie, what Hudak’s saying. He’s become desperate as his once certain victory is slipping away and is now using this disgusting, bigoted rhetoric to try to motivate his social conservative base. He’s counting that voters believe the shit he’s shoveling, even though his claims have been completely discredited and revealed as the lies […]
Slap Upside The Head: National Post Apologises for Publishing McVety Ad
The National Post, Canada’s largest right-leaning national newspaper, has apologised for publishing a transphobic advertisement from the Institute for Canadian Values, headed by anti-gay lobbyist Charles McVety. The ad—which pretends to be written by a doe-eyed, four-year-old girl—is headed by the phrase “Please! Don’t confuse me!” “I’m a girl,” it reads. “Don’t teach me to […]
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Occupy Wall St. – Letters to friends and family, and an overview of what is unfolding now
What is happening is momentus. It could go wrong, it could fizzle out, or it could be co-opted, but at present, by all I can see, it is hopeful: here are a few letters I sent to friends and family on the subject, that aimed to clarify and also to empow…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Design Regina – Larry Beasley
We can fix Regina at the same time that the urban health and community issue is being better understood across Canada. The problem is that most people live outside of downtown metropolises, but want to spend most of their day downtown. First are some destructive steps: Most cities are not determined by modern developers, they […]
gritchik: Hudak’s rally tonight in Vaughan
Ten minutes after the event was supposed to start. Really, really bad sign.
I’m hearing that Team Tory could barely get 200 people to come see PC leader Tim Hudak. What makes it worse is that the room can easily hold 500.
gritchik: Hudak supports homophobic flyer, doesn’t support choice
Kind of tells you everything you need to know about Tim Hudak.
Continue readinggritchik: Tim Hudak supports homophobic campaign literature
Tuesday, when Mr. Hudak was asked if he backed the flyer he responded with a terse “of course.” I was just chatting with a Tory friend. This election, not only does he have a Liberal lawn sign, he told me that his second choice would be the NDP over the Tories. “Hudak has run a […]
gritchik: When politics turns ugly
The distribution of these flyers was disgusting – gutter politics in the truest sense of the definition – and the most desperate political tactic I have witnessed in a long, long time. Yesterday, because of these flyers, I donated to EGALE Canada and asked that they direct the money toward Ontario. If you feel similarly, […]
Council discussing serious issues in secret?
Can’t help but notice on tonight’s agenda for Collingwood Town Council there are several issues that are being taken behind closed doors. While there’s a couple that would be understandly be dealt with in private, a couple I have concerns. One is the Admiral Collingwood Place development; developer Steve Assaff is making a public deputation […]