Leadership 2012 Roundup
A few leadership notes covering the gap between Sunday’s informal debate and tonight’s version in Saskatoon… – Niki Ashton unveiled her justice platform, proposing a “judicare” program to ensure greater…
February 2012
Harper, Enbridge Jet to China on Heels of Massive Prince Rupert Protest
Enbridge and the two governments are convinced that these First Nations can and will be bought off. And this point must be considered. Damien Gillis and I were at the…
Shooting themselves in the foot
There’s nothing like the comfort of a majority government to let even the most secretive governments let slip a couple guffahs but rarely do we get multiple instances in a…
U.S. Court of Appeals says Proposition 8 unconstitutional
From the American Foundation for Equal Rights this afternoon, a big court victory for same sex marriage in the U.S. When equality and love prevail, it is always worth celebrating:…
Question: What Do Sun TV and The Komen Foundation Have In Common?
Quick!HideAllTheAgendas! BehindTheBathtubVille Answer: Ari Fleischer. As is made clear in a fantastic post from Alison over at Creekside: Seems former White House Bush spokesy, sometime Steve fluffer, and anti-Planned Parenthood…
Psst…Torture’s OK. Pass It On.
Vic Toews, Minister of Torture and Morality We’ve always known that the Tories mission is to makeover Canada into a far-right Republican spa resort by stealth, since most Canadians hold…
Goodbye and good riddance
Two obnoxious, hateful, right-wing “family” things went bye-bye today: Karen Fucking Handel from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the last faint flicker of hope for Prop Hate in California.…
QP: Actual finger wagging
After a morning of gun-registry debate that devolved into Hitler references – seriously – it was time to take a break for the scintillating debate that is Question Period. And…
Post Mortem – Madonna’s Half Time SuperBowl Show
If you watched the Super Bowl, not that there’s really something wrong with you if you didn’t, you might have enjoyed the half time show. Madonna staged an elaborate presentation…
Bell O’ Doom Tolls Louder For Cdn Print Media
As Mark Bourrie notes on his Facebook site, if you scroll down to the bottom of this piece you notice: (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore and Allison Martell in…
Cullen is still wrong #ndpldr
Leadnow.ca recently polled its email contacts to declare whether they agree/disagree with the statement “The NDP, Liberals and Greens should work together to defeat Conservative incumbents. After the election, they…
Today in Gutter Politics: Special Godwin Edition
This is from earlier today in the House of Commons.
Robert Reich on America’s New "Downward Mobility"
What goes up must come down. Who knew that might be the epitaph of America’s once mighty Middle Class? Robert Reich sees through the latest unemployment numbers. They may look…
Global Weirding, European Style
One feature of climate change is the erratic arrival of weather extremes. Australia, for example, is enduring its second year of massive flooding following many years of extreme drought. Meanwhile,…
Vic Toews A-OK with torture interrogation
The government has directed Canada’s spy agency to use information that may have been extracted through torture. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has told CSIS the government now expects the…
Shorter David Akin On The ‘Faked’ Oath Producer…
BusUnder ThrowingVille ….”We’ve outed her….She was ours…But now she works for them…..And she seems to have scrubbed her computer before she left us and went over to the other side…So?”…
Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional By Appeals Court
Great news for all our friends in the States! The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling today declaring that California’s Proposition 8 (which banned same-sex marriage…
It’s 3 am in Beijing…
…Mr. Harper. Do you know what your MP’s are saying? Man, barely outta town and all discipline is lost! Is this guy for real? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YmLKKho2P4 Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Alberta and Saskatchewan vie for pollution title
Alberta is generally considered to be Canada’s pollution champion. And it deserves the honour. With 11 per cent of the country’s population it contributes 34 per cent of the country’s…
California Gays Headed to the Supremes
It’ll be up to the US Supreme Court to decide the validity of California’s ban on gay marriage. A US Federal appeals court has ruled the ban violates the US…