Planetize The Movement
Like many of you, my focus these days is on Christmas preparations – cooking, traveling, feasting, and spending time with friends and family. 350orbust will be getting less attention than…
2011
Not the Canada they voted for
Sandy White, a former aide to Christian Paradis, writes in the Globe in opposition to the omnibus crime bill. While he or she (sorry, don’t know Sandy’s gender) still claims…
Legal Same-Sex Marriage Improves Health
As if common sense weren’t enough reason to give full, equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, a study out of Columbia University has provided some extra support. Legal same-sex marriage,…
Unsound financial management – the Dunderdale acknowledgement #nlpoli
It’s not hard to find the toad of truth in the swamp otherwise known as the ruling Conservatives’ record on public spending since they took office in 2003. You can…
Only If Its A Hippy
…and only they are allowed to bludgeon him to death themselves. h/t Bourque, who’s never afraid to ask the questions that matter. Here is the source story. The fact that…
Giving up the levers
The minister of health talking points sent out a letter to the provinces saying that now that they have their funding in place for the next twelve years that it’s…
Rewarding incompetence
William Elliott was the first civilian Commissioner of the RCMP. An abject failure while heading Canada’s once esteemed police agency, Elliott departed recently. Like disgraced predecessor Giuliano Zaccardelli, this man…
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here!
So, a very short post today. I’ve followed through on my idea to create a Canadian Political Philosophy blog. The first post is up and ready, and is admittedly more…
Fox News North and the Phony War on Christmas
Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although…
Women’s rights under threat in Israel
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently criticized the growing exclusion of women from public life in Israel. Her timing couldn’t be better given news reports of segregated public transportation,…
Canadian Museum For Human Rights one long clusterfuck
My God, this thing looks like a diaphanous church, not a friggin’ museum You’d think that a museum named for Human Rights would be a huge plus for both liberals…
Will Stephen Harper’s War on Peace, Order and Good Government continue with an attack on handgun registration?
Claresholm, Alberta, the site of this country’s latest murderous shooting rampage, not likely to be its last. Below: Prime Minister Stephen Harper in all his divisive faux cowboy glory. Do…
Survey: BC Liberals under Christy Clark slipping. NDP holding strong. Cons gaining on Libs.
‘Cannibal’ John Cummins takes the news cycle (Postmedia version) The big news in BC is the current dominance of the NDP in a new poll, which puts the party at…
the hypocrisy of ethical oil’s chiquita banana boycott.
Ethical Oil? If you have been paying any attention to Canadian politics on Twitter or have tuned into any of the Sun Media outlets over the past few days, you…
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2011 Autism Research Game Changer: California Autism Twins Study (CATS) And Gene Environment Interaction
Joachim Hallmayer MD, Stanford University Following is the press release I received setting out what Autism Speaks considers to be the top 10 autism research achievements of 2011. Personally I…
New pipelines hurt Canadian consumers
Cushing Oklahoma is a price settlement point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light crude oil and the town proclaims itself to be the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World,” However, petroleum…
More Biennial talk
For the past 2 days, I have received various robocalls and emails from various candidates. This has been annoying to say the least, I would prefer personal emails or phone…
More Biennial talk
For the past 2 days, I have received various robocalls and emails from various candidates. This has been annoying to say the least, I would prefer personal emails or phone…
Harper Government Chose to "Unilaterally" Move to Reshape Canadian Healthcare
If there is one thing terribly wrong with the Harper government, it is it’s tendency to move on policy and legislation without consulting or asking anyone else what they think…