Reviewing the tapes
Today’s Robocon update is that the Conservatives will be reviewing the tapes out of the Responsive Marketing Group (RMG) call centre during the election before they turn them over to…
March 2012
Did We Just Find the Smoking Gun?
From HuffPo: A Mission, B.C., woman says she was given misleading information by the Conservative Party a few days before the May 2011 federal election.Astrid Dimond said she had been…
An open response to "A False Majority by Fraudulent Means?"
You can find the Green party’s press release here. Canada needs electoral reform – no doubt about it. No matter what happens with this robocall scam one thing is evidently…
CRTC Finds More Noncompliance on Rogers
The CRTC has found more noncompliance of net neutrality policy on Rogers but is failing to act. Instead it’s providing Rogers with a case by case basis to ensure it…
Swan Attack
This is what happens when you don’t have any seeds for the swan Related posts (randomly generated) Monsanto files patent for new invention: the pig Democracy fails if genetically engineered…
Stupid Sex (Hater) Tricks: Amend THIS, motherfuckers!
Actually, I think female orgasms should be written into EVERY constitution. (You’ll note as well that the would-be legislators totally forgot the clitoris, which is made for nothing BUT pleasure,…
Anonymous Fail?
A week ago someone supposedly representing the activist group Anonymous began posting youtube vids promising to out Vic Toews for unspecified perfidy today (Friday). This is the latest posted on…
Late night
Who knew a video of an Arctic research station, the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in Eureka, Nunavut, could be so oddly compelling. Maybe it’s the music. Maybe it’s…
Robo-calls Scandal: Council of Canadians Contemplating Legal Action
The Council of Canadians announced today that it is canvassing its members and other Canadians to determine the extent to which the “robo-calls” and other dirty tricks during the May…
A Quick Mention; Followed By Some More Cognitive Dissonance
In a last minute attempt to lob the ball into the other court, Stephen Harper stood up in the House of Commons to suggest that the Liberals were responsible for…
Robo-Recall….Did Elections Canada Ignore Patient Zero?
Don’tStarveACold FeedAllTheFeversVille Lawerence Martin, writing in The Globe today, brings up a story that we in Lotusland who have been paying attention have been well aware of for some time…
2012 Essay Contest
The information for this year’s student essay contest is now available. Please note the submission deadline of May 7.
4297…Useless But Fun Info Pour Vous
Davy Jones, who just passed, was a member of The Monkees. For those of you not up on music trivia, The Monkees were a fabricated group that, kind of, imitated…
The Day Stephen Harper Called Canada a Benign Dictatoship
“Canada’s system of one-party-plus rule has stunted democracy.” – Stephen Harper (and Tom Flanagan) Not long ago, Stephen Harper suggested that “although we like to think of ourselves as living…
The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Two important questions arise concerning the robo-calling scandal: Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to…
A public inquiry is needed to get to the bottom of the robocall scandal …
“We believe the issue of an inquiry needs to be addressed because of the seriousness and the scope of what we’re looking at. We think Judge Gomery did an excellent…
The Pantsafire Chronicles: Dean Del Mastro
Because those collecting the whole set would have been disappointed if I’d missed this. Kick back, enjoy the show, and crack a cold one every time DDM uses the word…
Lament For Ontario’s Capital
Oh, how the mighty have fallen … Recommend this Post