No Mr Harper Free Trade Does Not Improve Human Rights Part 2
In August of last year while on a tour of South America, most notable for his bathroom misadventures, Harper signed a free trade agreement with the leaders of the Honduran…
January 2012
Maggie Thatcher’s private dream to be realized in Canada?
I agree with the thrust of this quite reasonable article. A privatized state funeral would be a superb tribute to the now rapidly rusting Iron Lady and everything She stood…
Opening Panel from the Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons
This weekend I attended Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons community gathering in Vancouver and Burnaby, sponsored by these groups and people. The basic premise is not so…
She [Faytene] is just like Michael Jordan?
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. Robert Grasseschi, no doubt under the mentoring of his evangelist wife Faytene, is picking up how to speak in charismatic churches.…
Gritchik: 2011 in review
It’s only fitting that my first post of the new year, be a look back to the last. Being the nerd I am, I love analytics so here are the…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Brian Jones writes that we’re well on our way to an only slightly-sanitized version of feudalism: According to news reports this week, the…
Peter McKay marries a human rights activist
Storified by Toronto Star 2 days ago · Peter MacKay gets hitched (where’s the helicopter? Twitter lit up with jokes after news broke that Conservative cabinet minister Peter Mackay married…
Stephen Harper Goes To War Again
He’s always been a nerdly chickenhawk. Posing as a Great Warrior Leader, inflating and deflating like a blimp, depending on the prevailing political winds. He’s never seen a war he…
Give it up, Woodworth
When you’ve lost the National Post, it’s Game Over: Anyone paying attention over the past few weeks would have spotted the most unlikely of Canadian events: a debate over abortion.…
100 political artists profiled – New book from Gestalten
Gestalten has published a new book about art and politics — Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism, edited by R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansenby.…
Stephen Woodworth’s Little Toe Debate
There’s been a lot of coverage on the (supposedly) potential re-opening of the abortion debate (yet, again) in the living rooms of the nation (not likely) and in the Parliament…
Swedish Government Recognizes File-Sharing Faith as a Religion Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/gear-up/swedish-government-recogn
From Rollingstone: The Church of Kopimism, a new faith focused on file-sharing, has been officially recognized as a religion by the Swedish government. The church developed from the Young Pirates,…
Endorsing a roadmap from an old Liberal executive before electing a new one
Over the last few days I’ve dissected the 36 proposed amendments to the Liberal constitution that delegates will consider a thebiennial in Ottawa, and I’ve taken a look at 10…
Back
More or less. Everyone who emailed me, thanks. I am quite well, if a little bruised. Therein lies a tale, you say — true enough, but one I’m not quite…
Memory and Memorization
From my post titled ‘Wrong’: I get where Gary Stager is coming from. Learning is not the same as remembering. By the same token, I made myself a set of…
More Jobs for the Boys: Sixth Estate Patronage List Updated
The Harper regime’s announcement that more friends and insiders are on their way to plush jobs in the upper chamber makes this weekend a prime time to announce an update…
Ron Hartling and Mike Crawley – My Choices for LPC President
With the Biennial Convention rapidly approaching, I’ve had to narrow down the field for the Liberal presidents. There are five outstanding candidates – former cabinet member and local gal Sheila…
www.poli-tech.ca
As we discuss the critical policy and process issues facing the Party we have to have a good discussion of technology and its importance to the Party. Technology and web-based…