And there goes another one
Jim Baker, incumbent Conservative in Labrador west announced today he won’t be seeking re-election in the fall. Baker claims he made the decision in 2007. Odds are you’d have a…
July 2011
The news of the world
The other big story in the world, beyond the debt ceiling biggie in the U.S., is the unfolding U.K. phone-hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's tabloid News of the World. Some…
From bad policy to useless data
Remember this government’s oh-so-inspired decision to scrap the mandatory long-form census in favour of a voluntary “national household survey”? Well, a lot of those surveys are coming back incomplete, which…
Tory leadership frontrunner Gary Mar’s call for P3s closely follows public P3 flop
Gary Mar at his campaign launch. Actually, he’s illustrated exactly as he appeared!What’s with these “conservative” politicians, anyway? I thought conservative was supposed to mean “disposed to preserve existing conditions,…
Wedding
Note the Saskatchewan and Roughtider flags over the wedding? The Imperial March was my entrance music. No, I forgot to do Live Long and Prosper in my vows.
Wonderful, wonderful site – Yggdrasil Distro…
i went looking for more work by ward churchill and came across these purveyors of free anarchist literature which has a reading of churchill's work in their list of audiobooks...Pacifism…
Web hosting: how the other 90 per cent live
Lately I've been doing some work on other people's websites, hosted elsewhere. It's a bit new to me how things are done these days, so forgive me if I show…
This is…breathtaking in its scope and power…
i was directed to this piece of writing by ward churchill via a post on mostly water. i tracked it and him back to znet. really should be reading more…
Augusto Pinochet…marijuanero?
Pothead? For some odd reason, this article in Patria Grande makes me giggle uncontrollably: A marijuana plantation has been found in a sector of a hacienda where lie the ashes…
I, for one, would like an HST job – and it might sway my vote.
If you’re registered to vote in BC, and provided that Elections BC hasn’t completely screwed up your voter registration (I have, at times, received three voter information cards for variations…
Photo Challenge 22 – Negative Space
Mollie’s choice of the NEGATIVE SPACE theme seemed to be a fairly well received one, with ten entries for this round including some newcomers and some we have not heard…
Molly’sBlog 2011-07-06 22:20:00
AS I SEE IT:PSEUDO RADICAL BABBLE:I've been at this game (leftism) for over 40 years now, and I certainly have accumulated a scrapbook full of "stupid things lefties believe and…
Excuses! Excuses!
Apparently, voter apathy was not restricted to the young at the 41st election. Below are the numbers broken down of the wall of shame known as the non-voters: 18 to…
Quotable: Simón Rodríguez on the importance of questioning everything
“Enseñe los niños a ser preguntones, para que, pidiendo el por qué, de lo que se les mande hacer, se acostumbren a obedecer… a la razón, no a la autoridad,…
Monarchy, meh.
I think I am where most Canadians are on the Monarchy. I don’t really care about them. I don’t like it when people are fervently pro-Monarchy. Conversely, I don’t like…
A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
Arthur Bloch or Martin Henry Fischer or others -- attributed to many
Bob Rae Advocates For Online Voting
During a press conference yesterday, Bob Rae responded to a question regarding a Statistics Canada report on the reasons why 7.5 million eligible voters didn't go to the polls on…
3910…Kirk Brant: Shut The F*ck Up
Kirk Brant is a self promoting and self aggrandizing 41 year old Mohawk man from Kanata, a communications officer for Aboriginal And Northern Affairs Development Canada, and for his mid…
Brit Climate Secretary Warns Experts – Climate Change Increases Threat of War to UK
Britain's climate secretary, Chris Huhne, will deliver a blunt message in his next meeting with his country's defence experts - climate change could reverse the advances in democracy and prosperity…
gary mar’s unfortunate timing. public-private partnership evicts 29 veterans and seniors.
Only days after it was revealed that 29 veterans and seniors are being evicted from the Pubic-Private Partnership (P3) Seniors Residence at Colonel Belcher in Calgary, PC leadership candidate Gary…