Welcome to Harperland
How we embraced hate. I was watching the CBC News this morning, Suhana Meharchand was the host. Talking about Attawapiskat, she interviewed NDP/MP Charlie Angus. Hostilely, she asked him, “What…
2011
There’s open government & then there’s not so open government
So Tony Clement was on the Twitter this late afternoon, having his picture taken while at the keyboard, tweeting on the #opengovchat stream during a Treasury Board Secretariat sponsored chat…
RIM delays launch of new superphones
This is gRIM news — seriously, by the time the superphones come out will there be anyone still buying Blackberrys? http://bit.ly/vZaOn4 "Mike Lazaridis also confirmed market fears that RIM's new…
QP: Last Shout (for 2011 anyway)
As it happened, Wednesday wasn’t the last day of the sitting as had been predicted. Today was, and it had been agreed that QP would be the second-last item on…
So that’s the trick
Apparently it took a community housing crisis for the Cons to finally commit to…building a school which Attawapiskat has desperately needed for years. Which means that the housing problem too…
Tarzan and Arab: twin Gaza filmmakers without a cinema
What do you do if you live in Gaza, have a passion for cinema, but all the theatres have been bombed out? Not only is making movies virtually impossible, the…
Not Brain Candy: A Review of The Information Diet by Clay Johnson
My body no longer kills me when I come back from the gym. However, I had a moment of total humiliation today: theoretically my ideal body weight is 172 pounds…
Signs of Action On Climategate Hacker Investigation: DOJ and UK Police Probe Denier Bloggers
shutterstock_89773753.jpg Fantastic news for a change – the Guardian reports that the UK police are finally making some concerted attempts to identify the hacker behind the criminal invasion of the…
Sustainable Power for Facebook
Greenpeace has worked with Facebook to convert Facebook’s coal-powered datacentres to environmentally friends power sources. In April 2011, a Greenpeace report, How Dirty is your Data?, calculated that 53.2% of…
Peter MacKay’s critics say $1450 excessive for hookers
OTTAWA – Critics of Peter MacKay charged that the Defence Minister’s expenses at an overseas security conference in 2010 were out of line. Canadian Taxpayers’ Association spokesman Barney McMillan of…
Facts are stupid things
But you’ll be pleased to know that the Harper Government™ continues to try and protect you from them even when it’s a matter of public health. And they’d be succeeding,…
The "one percent" win another one as health care CEOs clean up
As the Occupy Wall Street Movement campaigns against the unfair distribution of wealth in the United States, the “one percent” they hold accountable just keep on raking it in. According…
Why we fight: Weekly Updates from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your weekly update: It’s week two of our December Fundraising Drive, and your support woud really make a difference in 2012! Please visit http://openmedia.ca/allies to chip…
The "impartial" new Speaker
…caught with his pants around his ankles. Cotler says the calls were traced to Campaign Research, a firm with links to the Conservative Party. Records submitted to Elections Canada by…
Partisan dreck: Seat Redistribution Edition
The new seat redistribution bill recently passed the House of Commons, awarding new seats to Ontario, Quebec, BC and Alberta. Rarely have I seen commentary about legislation so thoroughly skewed…
Philip Toone recaps his fall session
Finishing off my roundup of queer MPs, I caught up with NDP MP Philip Toone after QP on Tuesday. Q: What was your high point of the fall? A: Working…
The Most Disappointing Opposition Since Michael Ignatieff’s
That’s about how I would describe the NDP – or the Official Opposition, as they’re officially styled – and its career in the first session of the 41st Parliament. The…
My Letter to David Caton and His Florida Family Association
I just tried to send the following letter to the Florida Family Association’s David Caton. After hitting the submit button, the message was that my message could not be sent,…
Peter MacKay: the very definition of ‘elite’
Proposed new entry in Canadian dictionary: e·lite <a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/E01/E0110200″ target=”_blank”&
Ball takes over as Liberal leader #nlpoli
The first sign of substantive and positive change in quite a while: Dwight Ball takes the job of leading the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. The fact he is…