One person Robo Con: not likely
The Harper Conservative government has likely the most serious threat to their government since elected in 2006. Not the prorogued house in 2008, not the guilty pleas to election fraud,…
February 2012
Peter Has Some ‘Splainin’ To Do
Peter “The Prevaricator’ MacKay apparently has some ‘splainin’ to do to Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk regarding his misuse of military resources for political purposes. However, don’t expect…
Cell phone plan calculator: an innovative, digital service government would have offered
Had it not been killed by Tony Clement Treasury Board President, mister innovation and open government. Most likely at the behest of the companies whose labyrinthine, usurious and deliberately devious…
Push for Access and Equality going strong – PEI
Another Saturday, another look back at news articles, this time a certain PEI ‘Right to Life’ (otherwise known as Anti-choice) spokesperson (whose name I refuse to type) has (and I’m…
What Does Romney Believe?
Things have not been going well for Mitt Romney. His speech in Detroit fell flat. And, this week, he made yet another gaffe. On the subject of the economy, he…
One Young Staffer is Not Enough
Conservative operative Michael Sona, is taking the fall for the voter suppression scandal and has resigned as a staffer. What the conservatives would like us to believe is that he…
Outrageous
While we focus on robocalls, there is another story on the political radar, one that is simply an outrageous ABUSE of power, that puts the impartiality of the military into…
Saturday At The Movies
I’m hanging out at the Food Matters Manitoba: Growing Local Conference today. Please find me if you’re there – I’ll be sporting a large “350.org” button. And if you’re not,…
A Crippled General Laid Bare
That is the phrase Star columnist Royson James uses to describe Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Even if you live nowhere near the city, his analysis of power misused and abused…
An energy strategy or tunnel vision #nlpoli
For those who may have seen natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy’s handful of tweets selectively paraphrasing bits of the American president’s speech, here’s the whole thing, via whitehouse.gov. Take a…
A pause on the internet surveillance bill?
So reports the Globe late last night: “Ottawa hits pause on Web surveillance act.” The Harper government is temporarily parking controversial legislation that would grant new powers to authorities to…
More than just robo-calls
The investigation into the robo-calling has expanded into other harassing phone calls that happened during the election, which targeted at least 14 different Liberal ridings. (The Toronto Star, mind you,…
Robo or Real Call…..Systematic is NOT Sonamatic
ItTakesAnArmyOfSegrettis ToWhackEveryoneVille Recapping…. Sun News pre-empts all the other media one day, and at the same time identifies/elevates the profile a staffer who’s name is served up by a Conservative…
17th Century France in 3D
Hundreds of years before the advent of satellite photography and Google Earth, French monarchs used detailed scale models to micromanage their realm… Not only is it fascinating these intricate models…
Horrifying: ‘Alta. doctors bill province for treating homosexuality’
Alberta, why must you always disappoint us?…
Contempt
As we learn more about the robocall scandal, the magnitude gets bigger and bigger, and the contempt of the Harper Conservatives for the Canadian people becomes more and more obvious.…
Robocall Roundup
Robocalls A pre-recorded message with a female voice, in both French and English, claimed to be calling on behalf of Elections Canada. This message directed voters in ridings across the…
The Cons found a scapegoat
It seemed pretty obvious when Harper claimed no knowledge of the Robocon scandal that someone in the Conservative party would quickly have to take the fall. Guelph staffer Michael Sona…
Permaculture Presentation at Cathedral Community Centre
Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture. Quit his old job when he was preparing to take down trees to put in natural gas pipeline. Got a video on YouTube called Greening…