I’m moving to Vancouver
My time in Saskatoon has come to an end. My partner and I will be moving to Vancouver on April 1 — no joke! Since arriving from Montreal three and…
March 2012
Atlantic Canada Polling Yay!
The ever-intrepid Corporate Research Associates, those who do basically all the polling for the Atlantic provinces provincially, are out with their newest quarterly numbers for all four provinces. Let’s start…
Roboscam: Harper’s Speaker™ drops the hammer
This is infuriating. The Speaker of the House of Commons is now ruling opposition questions about Roboscam out of order: “Questions have to touch on the administrative responsibilities of government…
GM To Cancel Funding For Heartland Institute?
They are thinking about it, and that’s a start. Another online pressure campaign may have paid off.
Forum Research – 37-28-25
If you need further proof that the robocalls scandal has either not hit its full stride yet, or has failed to capture the imagination of voters as a “true” scandal…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
The Sixth Estate‘s crowd-sourced list of ridings where voters received “hoax” phone calls during last spring’s federal election campaign has now grown to 77. The establishment media reporting may be…
Why RoboCon matters to me, and Conservatives
I keep encountering Canadians who think the illegal robocalls scandal is no big deal. They suggest that many of the ridings that were won by Conservatives, were in bigger margins…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
What’s Wrong with this Picture: Rio Tinto Locks out Workers and Hydro Quebec Must Buy the Electricity That Isn’t Being Used
Aluminum is made from electricity and bauxite. The former ingredient is by far the most important, aud since bauxite is more easily transported than electricity, big aluminum foundries are built…
Robocall affair not going away any time soon
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the robocall affair has been, if not a topic of water cooler conversation, at least of some interest.…
How About One of You Bright Lawyer Types?
Why don’t you sue Harper? In Federal Court? For declaratory and injunctive relief. To force Harper to take the gags off the public service and the armed forces. To allow…
Anthem
From Leonard Cohen’s Anthem, sung here by Newfoundland’s The Once: You can add up the parts but you won’t have the sum You can strike up the march, there is…
Dear Aung San Suu Kyi,
Why have you requested that Canadian monitors pay attention to Burma’s upcoming April elections to ensure the process remains legitimate? Didn’t you know that Canada is no model for clean…
Evil, Stephen Harper, and Catharsis. . . . .
It is getting increasingly redundant to write about the Harpercons, it is like continually writing that evil is bad – yes, it is, but how many times can you say…
Humans Are Nice!
That’s right – people are good! You might think that the world is a dangerous place or what have you, but, when you get down to it people just hate…
Billions And Billions In Corporate Tax Cuts From The Harper Government To Big Business Has Given Us …. Job Losses!?
Stephen Harper’s ideologically driven corporate tax cuts have been a complete failure. After stoking the engines of big business with Billions and Billions of dollars in tax cuts, Canada has…
Suzuki Vs. The Canadian Senate
Amidst all the rhetorical hippy kicking and general wingnuttery in the Senate over Northern Gateway and the tar sands recently (for example Senator Finley and his “It should never be…
Kremlinology 38: what they left out #nlpoli
In a news release from the federal natural resources minister that heralded the future of Newfoundland and Labrador is energy, they didn’t mention the Lower Churchill once. – srbp –