Charitable activities?
Why hasn’t the Manning Centre’s charitable status gotten more attention? CRA’s own guidelines on political activities raise some interesting questions. For e.g., Under the Income Tax Act and in common…
March 2012
Lay-offs, Noseworthy and other things the Premier talked about #nlpoli
Listen closely and you can hear the beep-beep-beep of the garbage truck of government comms as it backs up on the idea of laying off public sectors workers as a…
The dumbing down of Order Paper Questions
On an Order Paper question about the new Office of Religious Freedoms, the Conservatives replied to very specific questions with…some press release bumf. Seriously? Seriously? This is not good for…
Kremlinology 39: What Burke didn’t say #nlpoli
In defending the $140,000 –a-year patronage job she gave to former Tory candidate John Noseworthy, advanced skills minister Joan Burke told the House of Assembly: Mr. Speaker, no one can…
Blogging in the Darkness of Harperland
On a grey, wet, day in Harperland it wasn’t too hard to imagine myself in the last scene of The Planet of the Apes. Or imagine myself giving up blogging.…
Three things I wish heterodox economists would quit talking about
Number 1. Mainstream economics and heterodox economics To be consistent it should be homodox economics and heterodox economics. Those with routine knowledge of Latin would find nothing nefarious in such…
Opposing Labour & Other Bad Driving Habits
Nowadays people oppose strikes like they drive a car. It’s not about the all the people going forward anymore, it’s only about one person getting where they want to go.…
Gay bashing in Uganda: Silence is not an option
BERNIE FARBER Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/gay-bashing-in-uganda-silence-is-not-an-option/article2367155/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Opinions&utm_content=2367155 As Canadians, we must be careful not to be lulled into complacency. After all, we live in a country that celebrates diversity, pluralism and…
Talk About the Company He Keeps: Paul Fromm and Thomas Robb
We were sent the following by a friend: Thomas Robb became leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (this version being founded by David Duke) soon after Duke's…
The Unmasking Of Pierre Poutine…
What’sTheFrequencyKenneth JustGuelph?Ville …A Real Breakthrough, Or The Next Limited Hangout? A woman who identified herself on the phone as Michael Sona’s mother implied that she thinks it just might be…
4337…Greatest Political Movie Ever
“Leave the gun, take the canolli.” The greatest political film of all time, The Godfather, opened this week in 1972. WFDS
Three things I wish heterodox economists would quit talking about
Number 1. Mainstream economics and heterodox economics To be consistent it should be homodox economics and heterodox economics. Those with routine knowledge of Latin would find nothing nefarious in such…
Cheney chickens out of visit to Toronto
Must be all those mandatory minimum sentences that spooked the skittish Mr. Cheney. Do the crime, do the time must be scary words to a man wanted in much of…
4336…St. Paddy’s Day Fiasco
I am as Irish as Paddy’s Pig. My friend and neighbour Jenn Farr says I could be a leprecaun. I am also proudish of being Irish Catholic. One of the…
Girls, Please Get More Involved in Politics!
I am shouting out this entry for all of you males and more importantly females out there because enough is enough. You know why enough is enough? Its enough because…
28 Stories on Breezehill? Have your say
So Claridge is proposing a 28 story condo building at 1050 Somerset, on the corner of Breezehill and Somerset, right beside Devonshire School. This is the location of the former…
Robocon update
A couple of different things today: – Here’s a study showing that despite claims to the contrary: alleged voter suppression tactics using robocalls (ie telling them their polling station had…
And again with the pre-emptive legislation, Lisa Raitt
I’m beginning to think this might be a pattern. Same company, same rhetoric, same lies. They’re all in favour of letting workers try to defend their livelihoods at the bargaining…
Radio Topics, March 13
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got an exciting show lined up, with a couple of fun surprises for the second hour. Tune in on CKCU at 7am! Clayton Ruby wants Rob Ford…
dickhead’s Scared of Canadians . . . .
Score one for Our Side! From today’s Seattle Times: Cheney deems Canada too dangerous for visit Toronto – Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney canceled a Canadian speaking appearance because…