Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Susan Delacourt wonders whether the Cons plan to launch an attack on the environmental movement to match the schism which helped the Libs…
January 2012
Can the BC NDP Actually Win Chilliwack-Hope?
According, at least, to the Globe and Mail, they’ve got the momentum: For the first time in memory, political observers believe the NDP may have a chance of winning in…
Remember The Flap Over BC Liberal Insiders Working The HST Propaganda Catapault?
TheBestPlaceOnEarthToShredYourMoneyAndBuyYourVotes Campbell/ClarkGov’tVille Well, well, well…. It looks like the propagandists, and those who hired them, past and present, have even more ‘xplainin’ to do. Jonathan Fowlie, in the VSun, has…
That wee glimmer in the east…
… at 6:25 am lightens my heart just a tad… the mornings are coming earlier!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Minister of Threatening Canadians
Modified form letter I sent started with: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Threatening charities as ‘adversaries’ of your government, is wrong. The form response I got back started with: Dear :…
Cost over-runs: Manitoba #nlpoli
Want to know how far off cost estimates can be for a project like Muskrat Falls? Look no further than Manitoba where the same people who reviewing Muskrat falls for…
Are we there yet?
Mature capitalist political economies all feature elaborate electoral institutions. This is useful to capitalism as it suggests that capitalism and democracy—a value that everyone purports to cherish—are compatible. More, if…
Harper needs to come clean on his Old Age Security ‘reforms’
Parliament resumes very shortly as of this writing. It is to be hoped that Stephen Harper will deem Parliament important enough to reveal the details on his very public musings…
Told ya so
I’ve been considering what to say about Harper’s throne speech in Switzerland and the words “told ya so” kept coming to mind — this type of incompetent, half-baked, mean-spirited governing…
Flogging A Product On-Line?
Can’t find buyers? You can buy hijacked traffic from other websites from the Russian underworld! Rates vary! 1,000 Aussies only $7.50! Dutchmen come a premium, however:$18 U.S. per 1,000!
Parents Flip Out Over Teachers’ Safe Space Card
Two fifth grade teachers at West Park School in Altona, Manitoba are being demanded by parents to remove cards from their classrooms indicating that they have completed training on how…
Muskrat Surprise! #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Paying attention pays its rewards. On Saturday, The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky showed the benefit of paying attention to the fine print if you want to understand how far off Nalcor…
The winter sitting of our discontent
The House is back after a six week break, and we true to form, every media outlet is warning about how raucous it’s going to be – never mind that…
Âlâ magazine: is ‘Islamic fashion’ un-Islamic?
There is a degree of hypocrisy when it comes to Islam and its relationship with fashion. There has been an explosion of websites, magazines, fashion houses and events that showcase…
Globe & Mail Says Canada Needs More Indebted Seniors
There comes a point when you’ve moved past trying to stay optimistic in the face of bad news into the realm of the simply deluded — or, no better, into…
Time for BC’s media to admit its conflicts
When the media notes conflicts of interest in the business of politicians and community leaders, the reporting is immediate and relentless. Ask Glen Clark or Bill Vander Zalm. However, when…
Are there really 287,000 law-abiding farmers, trappers, hunters and fishers in Toronto?
A strong market in central Canada for raccoon coats like the one worn by this man accounts for the large number of urban trappers who live in Metropolitan Toronto, law-abiding…
Amazing online cinema archive for educators – 2500 films & study guides in NFB’s “Campus” project
"Oxford Tire Pile #8" by Edward Burtynsky The National Film Board of Canada — producer of such great films as Manufacturing Consent, Ryan, Jesus of Montreal, The Decline of the…