Horwath weighs in
Finally addressing the big issue of week one that the NDP curiously declined to speak about: For a week, Andrea Horwath has been reluctant to talk about the issue sucking…
September 2011
We Can Only Hope Hudak Unleashes Hillier And MacLaren
Because only more of those guys can turn these numbers around.h/tPS. Ipsos-Reid also has the Libs up a bit.
Why Tim Hudak Is Done
Tim Hudak's Conservatives get caught making mass calls from ... New Brunswick.
General Posting
Source: Globe and Mail: Prairie Farmers Vote to Keep Wheat Board So, we have a few things to talk about today. I realize that I've spent a bit too much…
$20 billion± procurement – no bid, no competition
The Harper Government of Canada is continuing on a path to acquire Lockheed Martin F-35 multirole fighter jets. First Canadian deliveries originally were anticipated in 2016 but the U.S. Air…
QOTW on Tim Hudak
From Big City Lib: You know, I don’t know what more Tim Hudak could do to prove his “Principled Conservatism” bonafides short of personally hurling a brick through the window…
Sell the Zoo, cut daycare and eliminate late night buses and save … 1/8th of what Mayor Ford wants to cut …
Oh yes, close libraries too. Sounds like the gravy train was carrying a lot of kids. Seriously, this is what happens when you make wild assertions about cutting taxes and…
Ed Broadbent’s Endorsement Of Brian Topp Is Huge
"NDP president Brian Topp is running to replace Jack Layton as leader, having already secured the support of Quebec MP Françoise Boivin and former leader Ed Broadbent.The trio appeared together…
First Nations Women Arrested For Protesting Hydrolic Fracking On Their Land, Charged with “Intimidation”
lle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers, one of the women arrested this weekend for peacefully protesting the plan to “frack” on Blood Reserve land, released this statement yesterday: On September 9, 2011, we…
Test for stay pending appeal
Hart v. DuBois, 2011 MBCA 75 deals with a stay pending appeal: 5 It is, however, necessary to consider that decision sufficiently to permit…
Word Clues
According to the St. John’s Board of Trade, “Newfoundland and Labrador’s considerable assets include … captive consumer market worth over $10 billion annually.” Interesting choice of words that. “Captive”. Prisoner.…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Simon Enoch rightly criticizes the Cons' fair-weather commitment to democracy in the wake of a fairly resounding vote on the part of Canadian Wheat…
Tea Party Republican Debate
Hey, there’s another thrilling GOP “debate” taking place tonight in Tampa, Florida. This one is billed as the “Tea Party Republican Debate”… whatever that means. Presumably, the candidates will have…
Jacquie Menezes – Oshawa Candidate
In her Oshawa campaign office: Jacquie Menezes is a lifelong advocate for social justice and economic development. She has a B.Sc. in Agricultural Marketing, Economics and Bioscience from the University…
Memo to Rick Perry: Galileo Was a Liberal
472px-Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg Ever since the Republican presidential debate last week, science watchers have been shaking their heads over Rick Perry’s rid...
Libya, the Lie
When the U.S. invaded Iraq riding a pack of lies and monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including major news services, academics, and politicians from both “sides” of the spectrum,…
The Only Gravy Rob Ford Could Find
...was on those poor kid's Xmas turkey.Although I disagree that the late upsurge in Anti-Ford administration anger is entirely a product of Metro's downtowners. I know a couple of Ford…
I realize this is why I felt torn over what happened in Libya…
...but much better articulated and with more pieces to the puzzle than i obviously have...As Gaddafi falls - Lessons from Libya - imperialism, anti-imperialism & democratic revolutionif what you're reading…
9/11 and the “War on Terror”
Ten years after close to 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, we are witnessing hundreds of sympathetic events, reading millions of words,…