LPoC Presidential Potentials
So, I attended my first event as an official LPoC member last night–the Party President candidates’ meet & greet. A very content-ful evening, as well as a chance to say…
November 2011
Rush job #nlpoli
There’s something about the memorandum of understanding released on Monday in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador that looks rushed. Maybe it’s the fact that the copy that the Nova…
Sixth Estate On Fraser Insitute
They propose a study; your industry association ponies up the funds. This seems a fairly common practice among think tank “researchers. American Enterprise Institute fellow Roger Bate comes to mind.…
Harperized
Canadian Press follows up on its ongoing reporting of the use of the “Harper Government” moniker in government communications. The government is shown to have lied about its denials that…
Offshore board slags CBC #nlpoli
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board is taking CBC Newfoundland and Labrador to task for its coverage of an incident last week in which a supply ship struck a…
Top rejected final messages from David Bowman (spoilers)
1968- "2001" – astronaut David Bowman, a photo by x-ray delta one on Flickr. As you probably know, in the book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowman’s final…
Some real electoral inequities
While the seat distribution bill hurtles its way through the House of Commons, here’s some discussion on the urban-rural riding divide in this country, where rural ridings are weighted more…
International Open Data Hackathon, Dec 3rd. It’s coming together.
So a number of things have started to really come together for this Saturday Dec 3rd. I’ve noticed a number of new cities being tweeted about (hello Kuala Lumpur &…
More theatre of the absurd
Langley Mayor Peter Fassbender says negotiations are complete, an agreement for continuing the RCMP role in British Columbia is done. Attorney General Shirley Bond – the person who promised to…
November Bits and Bites: Left Overs
On the eve of our fourth birthday, we thought we would post a few items that we never got the chance to use, but which we still think our readers…
Everybody loves a SIRCus
> In response to media reports that CSIS had been complicit in the detention of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik in Sudan, outgoing CSIS director Jim Judd requested that CSIS watchdog…
Redford government’s legislative record: a broken promise a day?
Alison Redford promises there will be a health care inquiry during the Alberta Conservative leadership campaign. Or somebody promises something during some Conservative leadership campaign, anyway. Politicians pictured may not…
Daily Reading for Tuesday
Pushed Left has been doing the research I said the media wouldn’t do by looking into the election hoax phone calls which occurred in several ridings. She suggests that an…
It’s Your Turn PMO
It seems that the NDP has given the Conservative government a well deserved slap in the face. After weeks of hounding CBC to produce documents about their internal operations, likely…
Toronto G20 Protests – Police Officers Were Given Orders to Make Illegal Arrests
Toronto News: Man settles G20 lawsuit, claims police brass ordered false arrests – thestar.com Officers detaining Wall on June 27, 2010, told OPIRD investigators they were instructed to arrest people…
Late night astroturfing
This Topp team member should probably have been identified as such on Sun News’ report from this evening. At the end of a report which featured David Akin interviewing Brian…
Greening Economy Isn’t Just For Us, It’s For All
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in a statement made by Director-General Kandeh K. Yumkella today at the agencies biennial conference in Vienna, said something that I’m sure most right…
The Tobacco Subsidy Scandal and the Harper Government’s Lobbyist Ties
As you may have heard by now, the Auditor-General is not happy about the fact that the Harper Regime gave over $280 million in subsidies to the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco…
Also worth reading
Long time crime victims’ advocate Steve Sullivan writes about the long gun registry. I believe the DNA Databank has saved lives and prevented abuses. I believe the long gun registry…