Saskatchewan’s New Democrats Select Interim Leader
November 19, 2011NDP Selects Acting Leader The Saskatchewan NDP has elected John Nilson to serve as Acting Leader of the NDP until such time as a new Leader is chosen…
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Shades of Green: Pleading Guilty – "By their deeds shall ye know them"
Perspective is an illuminating rarity that can take years to occur. Disparate pieces drift in an incoherent jumble until they begin to coalesce into a understandable pattern. Then clarity reveals…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your afternoon reading. – Stephen Maher exhorts the Cons to stop stifling democratic debate, featuring a strong point by NDP MP Jack Harris: When Harris was first…
Free Egypt, Free Syria from Regina
Protesters are clashing with authorities in Egypt’s Tahrir Square again. This video’s screenshot amazed me. Occupy Regina supported the Freedom for Syria rally in Victoria Park today.
Elizabeth Warren and leaderitis
A very intelligent piece in the NY Times on Elizabeth Warren’s run for Senate and in particular the expectations that are being placed on her: “Heaven Is a Place Called…
Fear And Loathing In….Davis?
AllTheAuthoritySongsThatFit UCCampusVille Yesterday, we linked to the inspirational hijinks by the kids at UC Berkeley who responded with levity, quite literally, after they got a dose of authority thrown in…
November mid-month round-up: Occupy dies, the New World Order is born, the revolution begins
The Occupy movement is dead. Seriously. In it’s place however is the new American revolution. They look similar, and the new American revolution is still calling itself Occupy, but they…
Occupy Regina Marches with Free Syria Rally
A Free Syria Rally was in Victoria Park today, so the Occupy Regina protesters participated in denouncing the violence against Syrian civilians who have been disappearing by the thousands when…
Harper EnviroShill Kent Calls Opposition "Treacherous"
According to Harper’s greasy EnviroShill, Peter Kent, two NDP MPs who went to Washington to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline were “treacherous.” “One of the opposition parties has taken the…
Blunt Object’s Projections: Did I Do Well, At All?
This is a quick post, modeled somewhat after how Eric Grenier does it, for each of my projections this past provincial election season. First up, Ontario: OntarioProjection – 58 Lib,…
What @justinsb said re @goldsbie
Bear with me tweeps. My Mac’s in the shop. Doing this all on Blackberry, so I can’t Storify the relevant tweets, but someone should. (No names *cough* mcgrath *cough* )…
Yoga-loving Libertarians?
So Lululemon, that crazy popular (and overpriced) yoga and fitness apparel shop is causing a bit of a tizzy because they put the words “Who is John Galt” on their…
No, Paul Dewar, the NDP Has the Most to Grow in Ontario
Paul Dewar, NDP leadership candidate and MP for Ottawa Centre, has a very silly quote attributed to him: “The orange wave stopped in Manitoba…” No, the orange wave really stopped…
32 Pictures Of Police Brutality From Occupy Wall Street Protests
All you need to know. Copping a feel: just one of the 32 images of police brutality against Occupy
Our Economic Future
Quite middling. Because it was pretty middling when the leading indicators were running alot higher. Manufacturing was particularly crap, which is bad news for Ontario.
A reply to my tar sands entries
In response to some of my recent posts about the tar sands, I got an e-mail the other day in reply that was quite compelling enough that I asked the…
“Police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats”
What has happened to our police forces, north and south of the border? Watch the video below and tell me if you see even an inkling of a threat from…
Galleons o’ Torrents – Your White Wine Guide
Galleons o’ Torrents I noticed I had a category for Wines – Red. I was a bit taken aback, for I mainly consume white—there’s an old oenology fundamental which asseverates…
Galleons o’ Torrents – Your White Wine Guide
Galleons o’ Torrents I noticed I had a category for Wines – Red. I was a bit taken aback, for I mainly consume white—there’s an old oenology fundamental which asseverates…
Banksters fight back?
Are the vast, scum-ridden septic tanks of sleaze, avarice and mendacity that make up the US banking system a little rattled by Occupy Wall Street? Chris Hayes seems to have…