Sometime last week…
… I went over 100,000 page views! Yeah, I know that’s small change for some big-traffic sites, but still… pretty cool. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
April 2012
How Concerned Is The Harper Regime About Your Safety?
If you are one of those people who regularly eats, apparently not too much. Recommend this Post
MacKay: We’re just as dodgy with our accounting as Sponsorship-era Liberals
Duhhhhr! Ooonnggg… errrrggg…. Out of the mouths of babes. It’s been an awkward delight watching Conservative spinmeisters trot out Plan A through Plan W in their Catalogue of Flimsy Excuses…
PQ Still Riding High-ish…
Léger Marketing’s monthly Quebec poll is out, and it shows… well, more of the same, really. It seems that the month-or-so between any major polling (excepting Forum) has not given…
Dueling Ledes (Compare & Contrast), Redux
AP video, Feb 15, 2011: A recent government report states the terrorist threat from Canada is greater than from Mexico, and that only 50 kilometres of the border is adequately…
My Country?
Inspired by images of Tahltan women blockading Shell in defense of the Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia, Rachelle Van Zanten wrote ‘My Country’. She was invited to perform it…
Cut Money To Health for Aboriginals (Apprently their Healthy enough)
Aboriginal communities require an enormous amount of aid. We known for many many years that aboriginal communities have one of the highest rates of poverty and have very high rates…
Financial Planning for Kids
GC and Rosie and I were out walking on Saturday afternoon, when we encountered the following scene. Two boys, perhaps eleven or twelve years old, had climbed up on top…
Tori Stafford murder trial: Tori’s blood found in Rafferty’s gym bag, trial told
This really is critical evidence; independent corroboration of what Terri-Lynne McClintic has been saying: http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1159650 LONDON, ONT.— Science took centre stage at theTori Stafford murder trial Wednesday as the…
Torquing public safety #nlpoli
Search and rescue on the east coast of Canada is one of those cases where you can complain that all three political parties – provincial and federal – are guilty…
Cash for kids
Former Judge on Trial in ‘Cash for Kids’ Scheme, JON HURDLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE, New York Times, February 8, 2011 “SCRANTON, Pa. — A former Pennsylvania judge went on trial…
Scrub, scrub, scrub
TRIUMF, located at the University of BC, is a laboratory for nuclear and particle physics research and related sciences. It is funded in part by the Government of British Columbia.…
Alberta Leaders’ Debate Drinking Game
Every time there is a political Leaders’ Debate, the minuscule minority that is the “politically engaged all-the-time” populace jokes that there should be a drinking game associated with the debate.…
Go figure! Elections Alberta demands group with no ads on website register for ads on website
A group of typical Albertan soccer moms thinks about whom to vote for. Their rifles are, of course, unregistered. But what about the opinions on their web page? Alberta Chief…
Campaign launched urging activist groups to build ‘One Big Campaign’
A new campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters is being born! The Campaign…
Pentagon ups #F35 costs again
From one of the leading aviation publications in the U.S., Aviation Week, the latest on the F-35’s increasing costs sees Canada in its headline: “Canada Concerned As F-35 Cost Estimate…
New Progressive Bloggers affiliates
Please welcome Paulitical Satire and On Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind’s Eye to Progressive Bloggers.
Coming to Canada: Prison industrial complex, punishment and profits
Last summer Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives demonstrated their tough stance on foreigners suspected of war crimes abroad. The suspects were rounded up, detained and deported. The sweep…