#Budget2012 Analysis – Part 3 – Economic Developments and Prospects
We will now take a look at the second chapter of the budget. The highlights listed are as follows: The global economic recovery remains fragile. The European sovereign debt and…
March 2012
The Six Million Dollar BC Rail Deal….Mr. Plant Answers My Question.
Blogs,BlogsEverywhere ButNoTimeToEatLunchVille It’s noon on Friday, and the former BC Liberal Party government Attorney General, Mr. Geoff Plant, has been gracious enough to answer my question regarding his interpretation of…
The Idleness Of The Madness Of The (not) Premier’s March…
AllTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodBadDaysThatFit Connin’WithChristyVille. Bob Mackin has the story. And the day-by-day blow-by-blow of Ms. Clark’s horrible month of March. My favourite is the coda to March 26th, the day Mr. John…
A Trashy in Paris, deuxieme partie…
Dreams that Stephen Harper has… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The Bee’s Needs
When the final tally is done on humanity’s many post-Industrial Revolution screw ups, it is likely that the top of the list will be: They let the bees die. Consider…
The NDP Leadership vote: The Puzzle of just how many people voted
Trying topiece the numbers together to get a handle on the impact of voter suppressionduring the NDP leadership election is difficult because of the conflictingreports about just how many people…
NDP Leadership election: What happened to 8,000 live votes?
According toone report, there were about 11,000 live voters at the NDP convention: The attack over the weekend slowed down the voting processby several hours over two ballots, forcing the…
Federal Budget – Civil Service Cuts
Harper cutting the civil service? This is nonsense. I have long experience both provincially and federally with civil service and elected officials. What politicians do is get rid of civil…
Sixth Communications’ Puppet, Angie Perischilli Quits Harper in Less Than a Year! But is he Being Hypocritical?
It is time to start calling the job of Communications director to ol’ Stevie “The wives of Henry the 8th”. Number 6 has just decided to get outta dodge, boys…
Danielle Smith: Wrong for Alberta
What happens if a rigid, far right ideologue who’s only experience in a public service role is a tale of obstruction, fundamental lack of understanding of the facts, radical disdain…
My 5 cents on the federal budget
For years the Liberals warned you of Stephen Harper’s hidden agenda. Just wait until he gets a majority, and you won’t recognize Canada. For years, Conservatives quietly whispered to their…
The Assumption In Justine Hunter’s Suggestion To The (not) Premier.
PattyCakePattyCake SaveHerAgainVille Justine Harper, in The Globe & (no longer Empire) Mail has a suggestion for Christy Clark today that she reckons might just make it possible for the (not)Premier…
More bad news for RIM, but what does it really mean?
Last night’s earnings report from RIM brought more bad news, even prompting BGR into a sensationalist headline of Research In Motion is dead. The comments in response to the BGR…
Oil Industry Lobbyist / Mushroom Farmer Claims Family Farms Need Fracking
Fracking_Graphic_t670.jpg Because apparently the only way for small American farmers to sustain themselves is not with crops they produce, but by letting the good 'ole gas man tap the reserves…
Energy Efficiency Hour
Earth Hour has been implemented incorrectly the last few years. It’s time to change that, and use the time to make a concrete contribution to energy efficiency that lasts .…
Pro-bullying Xians (and a Sikh) invade Queen’s Park
Hatemongers defending the bullying of GLBT high school students assembled at Queen’s Park yesterday to tell the Ontario government and the world how creeped out they are by faggots. They…
Disappointing Reaction to OAS Changes
Yesterday, I was deeply disappointed while watching televised ‘person-in-the-street’ reactions to the changes in Old Age Security ensconced in the federal budget. One young person expressed his approval of the…
Organizing the Personal to the Structural
My personal motivations for participating in movement-building stem from a steady process of feeling empowered through collective action with climate justice organizers. I wish to share my experience to help…
George Galloway: stunning landslide victory in Bradford West
George Galloway, the British MP banned in 2009 from entry into Canada has achieved a stunning electoral victory in the UK. Standing for the Respect Party, Galloway pulled off an…
Now what? Industry reacts to Ottawa slashing the CBC’s annual subsidy by Etan Vlessing
FRIENDS says the Harper government has singled out the CBC for punitive cuts and has broken its election pledge to maintain or increase CBC funding in the process.