New Energy? Same Old Stuff #nlpoli
After more than a year in office and the better part of six months after the last election, the Dunderdale Tories delivered their second throne speech opening a new session…
March 2012
Checking the spending records
Today in Robocon – because it’s still rolling along – we learn that the Conservatives may not have complied with Elections Canada’s directives that lists of Election Day polls be…
Feeding time ending
Alex Tsakumis has the slow cooker warmed. The hogs might soon be shredded pork. Pigs at the trough will start to squeal. Don’t miss the story of how British Columbia’s…
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe
Read this article by Ibbitson, who tries to make the case that the Conservative’s latest defender has a good point. Go to the Globe. Now read my article about catching…
How the GOP should criticize Obama on Iran
Leaders of Brazil, Turkey & Iran As the Republicans continue to escalate their misguided criticism of Obama and his handling of the issue of a nuclear Iran, they desperately need…
How The World Is Supposed To Work
OurFriendForever BCMaryVille Norm Farrell captured an important tribute to BC Mary today: Today in British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, Leonard Krog, Opposition Critic For The Attorney General, said this: “I rise…
Travel and karate: the perfect ways to put Alberta politics in perspective
Karate: You need to learn it from someone who knows how … Sensei Kiyohide Shinjo instructs a young student in his Okinawa dojo. And you start by learning how to…
NDP vs The RoboCall Scandal
The corporate mainstream media has been doing a pretty lousy job of giving fair coverage to the official opposition party, the NDP. Someone who didn’t know better might think the…
RoboCon: National Post Catches Up to Saskboy RE: CIMS
Five days later. It’s good that the professional journalists have got around to asking the question I did days ago: Why doesn’t Elections Canada just check the Conservative’s voter information…
Rae on robocalls, the budget
From Monday’s scrum…on wanting to make amendments to the Elections Act to require greater accountability, the need to retain documentation such as scripts, etc., in light of the ongoing scandal.…
The BC Teachers’ Regressive Labour Strike
In 2010 the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation declared its opposition to the HST because it was a regressive tax, affecting the poor and families more than the wealthy and corporations.…
cindy ady not seeking re-election, hector goudreau demoted, and raj sherman tweets about university intimidation.
Alberta's politicians are preparing for the next election. Less than 48 hours after the Progressive Conservatives filled their slate of 87 candidates, three-term Calgary-Shaw MLA Cindy Ady announced on her…
Do As We Say…But We’re Not Following Suit
Source: CTV News: Conservatives Refuse to Release Phone Records There’s a few things we’re going to talk about, but I’m only providing a source for one of them. Firstly, we’re…
4218…Nixon Didn’t Go To Jail
But if Stephen Harper and the Gang ram thru their anti crime leg methinks that they could. They are shaping up to be pretty bad dudes and other bad dudes…
Dumb and Dumber
Who is a clumsier liar and stupider spin merchant – Dean Del Mastro or Maurice Vellacot? In this corner….IT WAS THE LIBERALS! Conservative demand Liberals release phone records, but won’t…
New Book, Old Philosophy!
Hello to everyone! Again, I have not submitted a post in quite some time, mainly due to the fact that I have given into my procrastination. Nevertheless, I do have…
4217…The Canadian Nixon
A headline to warm the heart in today’s The Guardian On Facebook. The Guardian is a serious left leaning rag and it starts the article by Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet…
Christian Minister Turned Conservative MP Says Lying is Okay
That, at least, seems tobe the only possible logical conclusion of this story, in which Maurice Vellacott extends the new Conservative excuse that I’ve identified recently: that Elections Canada is…
Late night
If you’re a Conservative, there’s not much to be laughing about tonight. (h/t)
Occupy Museums challenges Armory Show – Artists invited to join free art exchange at Piers 92 / 94 in NYC
New York’s prestigious Armory Show opens on March 8th at Piers 92 & 94 in New York. The Armory Show was created in 1913 amid the challenges and excitement of…