The Liberal Identity
The Liberal Party lost the last election not because they didn’t know what they stood for, but because they stopped looking. After the last election many party officials, pundits and…
January 2012
And while I’m ranting
Do you ever notice how the people who will complain about unionized workers making a little (or a lot it doesn’t seem to matter) more than non-unionized workers always argue…
Steady on, Montreal Simon
Montreal Simon draws his bead away from Captain Anti-Canada for a post defending the honour of the world’s greatest poet from a senseless and uncalled for slight.. He does a…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Andrew Jackson notes that the IMF is telling countries in Canada’s position to hold off on gratuitous austerity. And Trish Hennessy wonders…
fightback works: peel parents win, for now
Community meetings, rallies, emergency mobilizations, and a five-hour Council meeting ended with the Peel Regional Council voting not to close 12 publicly-funded daycare centres – yet. The Council voted unanimously…
Parsing the Crown-First Nations Gathering Speech
From the Canadian Government's Stephen Harper blog: "Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you on the traditional territory of the Algonquin, to this historic Crown-First…
Parsing the Crown-First Nations Gathering Speech
From the Canadian Government’s Stephen Harper blog: “Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you on the traditional territory of the Algonquin, to this historic Crown-First…
Parsing the Crown-First Nations Gathering Speech
From the Canadian Government's Stephen Harper blog: "Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you on the traditional territory of the Algonquin, to this historic Crown-First…
Parsing the Crown-First Nations Gathering Speech
From the Canadian Government’s Stephen Harper blog: “Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is indeed a pleasure to welcome you on the traditional territory of the Algonquin, to this historic Crown-First…
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-26 20:49:00
CANADIAN LABOUR QUÉBEC: RIO TINTO LOCKOUT SOON TO ENTER SECOND MONTH: In the town of Alma Québec the lockout of employees of Alcan will soon be into its second month.…
Proud to be Grandiose
Neat little mock ad from the folks at BuzzFeed pivoting off the accusation that Newt Gringrich is “grandiose”… It’s actually not surprising in the least that Newt would so readily…
A moral imperative
Last March the Harper government characterized Canada’s participation in hostilities in Libya as a moral imperative. Hopefully they’ll look upon today’s request by Amnesty International in the same way. The…
The sum of some
Earlier today, federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers finished their annual meeting in Charlottetown. Among the items under discussion, was Quebec’s request that the Harper Tory government…
Copyright Radical
I’m a copyright radical, like most younger people. I wasn’t born that way, but Napster, and the war on Napster and filesharing helped shape my vision of what people need…
See How Austerity Will Really Pay Off Canadians in the Long Run
Step right up, boys ‘n’ girls, see what you’re forced to sacrifice for! Tell me again how these mega-low corporate tax cuts and austerity for the rest of us is…
Economic development whatever the cost!
Whatever is good or bad in Stephen Harper’s speech is degraded for me by his choice of location for delivering it. The Prime Minister of Canada flew to Switzerland to…
Northern Gateway Rising: A Slightly More Interesting Bullshit Poll
Decima’s latest, which gives the following national numbers: …the Conservatives at 32 per cent support, followed by the NDP at 29 per cent. The Liberal Party, which held its 2012…
No One Is Illegal Vancouver Statement: Blood & Honour Assaults
We were asked if we would be interested in posting the article below by No One Is Illegal. We are and here it is. 🙂 No One Is Illegal on…
NL AG: Dunderdale unprecedented doc block “not a good thing“ #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From Canadian Press: The veteran auditor, in an interview Thursday, said the government’s sweeping denial of documents on the basis of cabinet confidentiality has left him no way to trace…
Stephen Harper’s Horrible Day at Davos
It was without a doubt the most grotesque spectacle the Davos Cozy Capitalist Club had ever seen. As they sat there in their silk leather pajamas watching Stephen Harper pose…