Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The New Democrat comments on the need to develop the NDP as a movement as well as a party. And a national movement…
February 2012
A banner day in Ottawa
Yes, it was a banner day in Ottawa yesterday, replete with Hitler references from a Conservative MP and a Canadian minister of the crown telling Canadians that Canada will now…
Science: An Operator’s Manual For Planet Earth
The Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, Richard Alley is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was recently named a 2011 recipient of a…
I’m surprised that this…
…hasn’t happened before. Sightline-wise, it’s a helluva bad spot for buses coming on to the westbound Transitway. They do have to nose out to see if the way is clear…
Spout Demonstrable Falsehoods….And You Too Can…
. …Win Big! “…I don’t believe breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization that does abortions where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortions…” Rick Santorum Falsely linking…
Every Man Woman And Child In B.C. Will Receive A Gold Plated Cowboy Hat
At a January meeting with her Alta. counterparts, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said what’s obvious: … bluntly told Ms. Redford that public opinion is against the pipeline in British Columbia…
Conservatives create problems, not solutions
#cpc #gop #lpc #ndp #cdnpoli #politics In the news; the appeals court in California overturned a ban on same sex marriage. This ban was a citizen inspired law triggered by…
Yoplait says it’s not actually their insect
The other morning I went to grab a yogurt out of the fridge. I buy the 16-packs of Yoplait Source. Eight containers on top of eight other containers, all wrapped…
Perspective, and the lack thereof #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Take an elementary level classroom in small town school on the northern coast of Newfoundland. Add a bunch of 10 year olds. Toss in some smoked capelin one of them…
The foreign investment debate
The New Democrats are planning to spend their opposition day on Thursday debating a motion on changing the foreign investment act, in light of the Electro-Motive Diesel shutdown in London,…
Willful Ignorance
As the HarperCon delegation of Ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed…
Islamophobia in Canada: A Primer
by Fathima Cader and Sumayya Kassamali Ten years after September 11, 2001, the term “Islamophobia,” once largely obscure, has become all but inevitable when discussing contemporary politics. As Al-Qaeda and…
Alberta’s Electrolux Throne Speech: breathtaking in its vacuity, but quite possibly effective
Your blogger with Tory campaign mastermind Stephen Carter. Below, Charles Dickens, who also wrote a good story; Finance Minister Ron Liepert. It was either the best of Throne Speeches or…
alison redford to appoint a new candidate in calgary-west, say tory sources.
Premier Alison Redford Following claims of voting irregularities at the recently held Calgary-West Progressive Conservative nomination meeting, Tory sources are saying that Premier Alison Redford may find a new candidate…
Labour Ruling A Blow To Premier Brad Wall’s image
REGINA — Critical in the subtle battle for the hearts and minds of those in the so-called “new Saskatchewan” has been the portrayal of the self-entitled left of the “old…
Prop 8 and the Dark Wall of Discrimination
First they were allowed to get married, and then they were told they couldn’t. One day they had human rights, the next day they were stolen. But today in California…
China Looks To Stephen Harper For Lessons In Dirty Energy Exploitation
oilyleaf.jpg Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in China this week to meet with Chinese leaders about how both countries can profit big by exploiting China’s shale gas reserves, as…
Relax, We’re Just Disregaring Human Rights…
Source: CTV News: Canada ‘does not condone torture,’ Toews SaysSource: CBC News: CSIS May Use Intelligence Derived from Torture, Toews SaysSource: CBC News: Cash Compensation will be Sought, SFL says…
Prominent Quebec Attorney, A Right Wingnut And Bigot?
After last night’s episode of “Canada Reads”, prominent Quebec attorney, Anne-France Goldwater decided to be really nasty by calling one of the featured authors “a terrorist” and implied that another…