Nobody Sings it Like The Raging Grannies
Check out this video posted back in January of the Raging Grannies, doing what they do best; singing for social and environmental justice. With the release of the Conservative Government’s…
March 2012
Visualizing Alberta – Pt 2
Teddy here. A quick projection using the old riding map.
Spending Like Drunken Cons, Part 2: Conservatives Miss Their Debt Projections Yet Again
I have only two posts planned on the 2012 budget. Unlike the professional media, I am not a trained poodle, and I will not degrade myself through weeks of high-pitched…
Budget 2012
The strategy was simple: prepare us for an attack by chainsaw-wielding maniacs—then just slap us around a little and break a few fingers. Folks will still sigh in relief, or…
Thomas Mulcair? We can’t spare that man. He fights!
Ulysses S. Grant, exactly as he appeared. Below: Thomas Mulcair (from a Toronto Star photo), for comparative purposes; President Lincoln. I like Thomas Mulcair for the same reason Abraham Lincoln…
Pacific Free Press: First Nations Constitutional Challenge Industrial Cumulative Effects & Tar Sands on Treaty Rights
Special thanks to Oemissions for updating me on this case. The following is an article from the Pacific Free Press, the only news outlet that seemed at all interested in…
The Cons and the Big Oil Budget
Hoily oily. I can’t even do my own taxes eh? But it only took me about five minutes to figure out Jim “Jimbo” Flaherty’s ghastly budget. And all I can…
#Budget2012 Analysis – Part 2 – The Penny
Dropping the penny may be the most important yet most under-reported aspects of the budget. It represents a major admittance by the government wrapped in a pretty boe. Here’s one…
A nickle for your thoughts? No more pennies allowed
Finally!!! No more useless pennies. No doubt there will be much hand wringing and finger pointing about today’s federal budget. There always is, especially during times of constraint. Everyone’s laundry…
Kevin Falcon’s BC Liberal Commitment In Doubt
During the BC Liberal leadership race Kevin Falcon doubted Christy Clark would stay with the party if she lost, today BC Liberals found out it was Kevin Falcon who they…
The Star’s Tim Harper: Harper bets on big resources and kicks environment to the curb
OTTAWA Stephen Harper, finally freed of the constraints that of the minority years, had no need to deliver anything in his 2012 budget to placate his political opponents. So, unfettered,…
Great line of the day
John Cole writes about Rick Santorum’s plan to give a foreign policy speech at a jelly bean company as a tribute to Ronald Reagan: Those weren’t firecrackers you heard…it was…
Stupid Sex Tricks: How NOT to hug a tree
Environmentalism: Ur doin it rong. Also, stay the fuck off of drugs. And bros on drugs.
Federal Budget 2012 Cuts: Statement from Katimavik
It is with extreme disappointment that we learned today that the Government has decided to end its funding commitment to Katimavik. Today’s announcement comes as a surprise, since we are…
The Six Million Dollar BC Rail Deal….My Question For Geoff Plant
HereABlogThereABlog EverywhereABlogVille Former BC Liberal government Attorney General Geoff Plant, who is now a civilian, has a blog. And yesterday he had a question for John van Dongen about the…
Conservatives’ small-minded budget kills jobs and fails Canadians
Here’s the budget analysis I prepared for CUPE’s website. Despite its size and the hundreds of measures it details, Harper’s 2012 budget demonstrates just how small-minded their vision is. Canada…
Send message to protect environmental reviews
Today’s budget announcements make it clear that long-standing legal protections for the environment, including environmental reviews of major industrial projects like mines and oil pipelines will soon be rolled back…
The Case Against Canada’s Armed Forces
The audible “umph” heard across Canada last night was the sound of the Federal budget dropping. With all the subtlety of a Bison taking a dumb in your morning cereal,…
Review: Bodies and Pleasures
Those of us on the left are often not very good at talking about the living of life at the individual level. There are a number of different ways that…