Monday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your day. – Toby Sanger posts about the OECD’s findings on inequality in Canada, with this particularly jumping out as to how much less progressive our…
December 2011
Lies Don’t Matter
There may be no way to get fired from a cabinet job in the Harper Government. Well, unless Peter MacKay takes off his shoes and throws them at a helicopter…
Belgium’s new leader, Elio Di Rupo, is gay
Congratulations to Belgium, which after 541 days without a government, will have a new leader on Tuesday. Elio Di Rupo will be sworn in by King Albert II and will…
Je suis de tout coeur avec vous
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the École Polytechnique Massacre. I remember it vividly. On December 6, 1989 Marc Lépine entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, armed with a…
QP: Imagining a country
Another Monday back in the House, with a few notable absences – Harper, Baird and Kent among them. Nycole Turmel used her round of questions to ask about the government’s…
How Hate and Law Collide
2nd When Law and Hate Collide Pan-European Hate Crime Symposium
Ontario’s Auditor General slams McGuinty for ‘hasty’ green energy investments
Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter. Ontario’s Auditor General, Jim McCarter, released his Annual Report to the legislature earlier this morning, and the 460-page document has some troubling findings about the…
Gamers See No CRTC Enforcement After One Month
The CRTC has still yet to put forth any indication of what enforcement measures it will apply against Rogers, after the CRTC found Rogers to be in violation of net…
Measuring the success of social movements: Occupy, Arab Awakening, the Tea Party, and Keystone XL
How do we measure the success or effectiveness of a social movement? Ultimately we probably wish to change our society in some way, or perhaps to resist the changes that…
The nuttiness of the…
… new IKEA… Just saw this Tweet: RT @OTWNews: High traffic volumes expected for IKEA opening http://bit.ly/vueh9N #Ottawa #Ottcity PEOPLE! Are you off your rockers?? It’s just a freaking STORE…
Speed Dating with the Dippers
Sunday’s NDP debate was a chance to get a first look at the field of candidates, for the 99.9% of Canadians who don’t have the complete collection of Paul Dewar…
Peter Goldring Resigns
Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring charged with impaired driving: sources EDMONTON – According to sources within the federal government, Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring has voluntarily resigned from caucus after…
Exposed
Not that we need any more evidence the Conservatives have NO intention of doing ANYTHING on the climate change file, but today’s development really does highlight these frauds that run…
Networked Shock Art: Voina in the News – Analysis of political interventions of Russian art collective
For the last year Vorotnikov and Nikolaev have been waging a legal battle with Russian authorities for their freedom. While these challenges facing Voina have been well documented on Art…
Emera buys NL line service company #nlpoli
Via CNW: “HALIFAX, Dec. 5, 2011 /CNW/ – Emera Utility Services Inc. (EUS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Emera Inc. (TSX: EMA.TO -News), today announced the acquisition of the utility line…
Stop your “more for me please” rants, Dundernomics edition #nlpoli
Politics in Newfoundland and Labrador is nothing if it is not funny. Last week, Premier Kathy Dunderdale warned the crowd running the province’s fish processing industry – and everyone else…