Earlier this week, finance minister Tom Marshall announced a second increase in the estimate for offshore oil production for 2011 and with it an increase in provincial government revenues. Marshall…
Determined to continue their “tough on crime” posturing summer tour, Vic Toews and Jason Kenney unveiled 32 new “most wanted” names and faces, this time people who were convicted of…
// Gary Mar, one of the new Conservative leadership contenders in Alberta, is arguing that we need to privatize healthcare to capitalize on the freed-up savings of “wealthy…
When the riots broke out in England, I thought it would only be a matter of time before they spread to Glasgow. Because that city has a lot of poverty…
In another post, commenter Terrence links to a demented little screechfest from semi-lucid bigotblogger Pamela Geller. For the fortunately uninitiated, Geller is one of those turds who’s achieved minor notoriety…
Chilean high school and university students are currently involved in a mighty struggle against their government’s unfair and inequitable privatized education policies, which date back to the neoliberal “reforms” of…
While QMI outlets brag about Fox News North's 'walloping' of its news rivals on certain days, things aren't looking so rosy for the right wing propaganda channel in future days.…
. ....Exaggerated. Now go there. I command you. And give Ian your ideas on how to slay the boredom. _____Never done that kind of thing before....The power!.....Does this mean I…
250 doctors and public health professionals think they can persuade Con MP Kellie Leitch to value ethics and health over political instructions. Which raises the question: after five years of…
It has been a horrifying spectacle, watching the pinky faced David Cameron morph from a socially liberal Con into a red faced authoritarian.Nearly 2,800 people have been arrested so far.…
Troubling article from ars technica on Canada's second favourite PM of all time's assault on internet freedom.Even the government's own Privacy Commissioner is upset about the lawful access idea. On…
Some riots we like, some not so much - by Oliver Heinrich I've been swamped with work - and working on a longer post on science geek stuff that I…
Everett Coldwell tweeted these disheartening stats, which are about to get a whole lot more lopsided:Civilian casualties since 2005, the year Israel vacated #Gaza Strip: Gaza 3262 (including 696 children),…
An interesting graphic that's making the rounds today courtesy of the ACLU: In the last decade, New York drastically reduced its prison population and at the same time experienced a…
It's a lot easier to train two people than eight. Especially when one of them used to produce websites. Today I think went pretty well. We were done a bit…
This is the first installment of the Ryan Painter Show Episode 1 Please feel free to leave a question or comment. I will respond….promise! Filed under: Uncategorized
AllTheRootsThatDon'tQuiteFitGrassVille Here's the lede from Jeff Nagle of Black Press: "Metro Vancouver has lost a court battle against the provincial government over the expropriation of part of Pacific Spirit Regional…
Let me repeat what James Morton said:Hudak would ‘suspend’ $122M GO Transit deal going to Quebec Errh, I though we had more or less concluded Quebec is part of Canada.…
