The Romney Plan
One of the strongest political maneuvers is to draw a picture to the electorate that one candidate is going to be the inevitable winner. In the U.S this practice is…
January 2012
Harper: Let’s Give It To The Provinces
A new report shows exactly want Harper is intending to do with the Health care plan he has for Canada. This report came from a watch dog group that showed…
A snowy…
…January Friday morning in O Town… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Gary Clement On Same Sex Marriage
FWIW, I suspect this is a cock-up on the lawyering front rather than a sneaky way to change the law. If it was deliberate, you would think, the gov. would…
Beleaguered utility blows raspberry at regulator #nlpoli
Nalcor should be able to supply information to any regulatory or review process for the Muskrat Falls project because the company should have already reviewed exactly the sorts of information…
The road to meaningful engagement with parties
The other day, I interviewed Liberal Party president hopeful Ron Hartling, who is currently the riding president in Kingston and the Isles. While we were talking about engaging the queer…
Ground Zero of the Cold War is right in Stephen Harper’s ’hood
Your blogger gets ready to go through the door at Ground Zero of the Cold War. Since Igor Gouzenko is no longer in residence, he thought he might look for…
Our Mandate
“Well you know the Conservatives say, and we know the mantra those of us who have to sit through this every day in the House of commons, that Canadians gave…
Shamed before the world
Show of hands, please. How many people expect that the Harper Conservatives will actually do anything to reverse the ridiculous legal opinion from their Justice department about the validity of…
With St-Denis, NDP Can’t Move On, Only Down
NDP MP Lise St-Denis turned Liberal, and just as her former party capitalized on Jack Layton, so is her new party. The recently elected Quebec MP Lise St-Denis left the…
ethical oil spokesperson refuses to answer the basic question about whether enbridge gives them cash.
Interviewed on CBC’s Power and Politics, Ethical Oil spokesperson Kathryn Marshall refused to answer the basic question about whether Enbridge is providing financial support to her group. Ms. Marshall has…
Canadian University Press Archipelago (74th Annual National Conference)
I got in yesterday to the Canadian University Press’ 74th Annual National Conference known as Archipelago (as each member paper is like an island in an archipelago). Anyway it was…
Are Rodents Of Unusual Size Copulating Or Inoculating…
…Or Both? Ratf*cking (definition): In politics, the use of “dirty tricks” to discredit one’s opponent(s). This often takes the form of false or semi-false accusations spread through underhanded means. The…
Is It Just Me, or Do These Pork Barrels Reek of Bitumen?
Once in a while, something crosses my desk that makes me cross my eyes and pound my head against the desk in frustration. This is not one of those things.…
When it doesn’t get better
Via The New Civil Rights Movement, I found out a sad thing today. The young man who made this “It Gets Better” video… …has taken his own life. Eric James…
Dystopia is our neighbour
The US schools with their own police, Chris McGreal, The Guardian, Jan. 9, 2012 “…Like hundreds of schools in the state , and across large parts of the rest of…
With Thanks to Jamie Calder…
A new site popped up recently that I must pass on. It’s aptly named Sorry World and expressed the following sentiments held by many of us on the left/cener-left Sorry…
Heroin, Foreign Groups And Large Pipes: The Kathryn Marshall Story
Pictured: Kathryn Marshall who, upon seeing this photo, will be embarrassed only by the CBC logo above. I can’t help it. When I think of laying pipe, I think of…
Oboe update
He’s still in the hospital. He’s not out of the woods yet. The vet wants him to get a little better on his own before she treats him, because she…