We Need Uninformed Voters As Much As We Need Informed Ones
Just as you need a brain and a heart, a country needs voters who know the issues and voters that don’t. As the election for the American President looms, after…
October 2012
PEI New Democrats Elect Mike Redmond Leader
“The P.E.I. New Democratic Party elected Mike Redmond as the new leader of the provincial party Saturday afternoon in a landslide vote. Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is on P.E.I.…
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Don’t listen to the polling.
A recent poll has the Alberta Liberal Party 40% up on their election numbers. Another poll has the federal Liberals up some 5 points, overshadowing the NDP and on the…
Winter is coming and so is the a by-election in Calgary-Centre.
TweetConservative candidate Joan Crockatt and Green candidate Chris Turner are no longer alone in Calgary-Centre, as the field of candidates is filling out. Time is also running out for Prime…
A little respect for downtown residents – please!
I needed to go to Toronto today, and had to cross King Street in Waterloo at the start of my trip. But there was a run of some sort going…
Radio-Canada’s Quebec-centric focus doesn’t meet licence mandate: study claims by Bruce Cheadle
A long-standing complaint concerning Quebec navel-gazing by the CBC’s French-language news service has been revived as the national broadcast regulator considers Radio-Canada’s licence renewal.
Towards Community Commonsense Or Chaos
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Cowichan Conversations received a lengthy email from Mr. Glen Spicer and a number of supporting artists regarding the “Community Mural.” I appreciate you stopping…
Una Noche a beautiful story of a challenging life
It’s rare to see depictions of Havana that don’t consist of the stereotypes: people playing music, someone sitting on the street smoking a cigar, old American cars, stunning old buildings.…
I’m the head of the “idealistic wing” – I rather like that
Quote: is a quick, but powerful and inciting read. And if you’re on the progressive side, especially if you’re an activist, you should read it and take it to heart–as,…
Your Daily Nazi: Canuck Nazi Threatens To Kill Facebook Founder!!
We all have issues with The Facebook. For Canadian Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau, they appear to centre around the fact that its founder Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, not around the fact…
Dear high school tormentor:
With the news full of Amanda Todd, many of us have gone into some deep reflection of school years where we were harassed and tormented on a daily basis. We…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted material to end your weekend. – Chrystia Freeland comments on the self-destructive nature of elite protectionism: (E)ven as the winner-take-all economy has enriched those at the very top, their…
San Fransiscans Hit the Beach to Dump Citizens United
A picture is worth a thousand words, at least when it’s a photo of an estimated thousand people who gathered on a San Fransisco beach to call for the end…
Suckers!!!
Like the autumn leaves, the myths about the F-35 stealth light bomber are finally falling. Now it’s beginning to emerge that the F-35 may just be the warplane our potential…
They both could have died
What is the matter in Ottawa? No, I don’t mean in that big brown building on the banks of the river.I mean in the city of Ottawa itself, with its…
Anglo-Franco-German ménage à trois: A Federal Europe or a confederation of Nation States?
The European Union A struggle for the future of Europe is being waged right now by the politicians of the EU. Most of the fighting is being done by the…
Shrinking Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic sea ice reached a record low of 3.42 million square kilometres on September 16, 2012, surpassing by 18 percent the record set in 2007 of 4.17 million square kilometres.…
Canada Health Act used in Zombie Defence of For-Profit Health Care
Andrew Duffy, in an article syndicated by Postmedia, made the logical equivalent of mixing metaphors when he used the Canada Health Act (CHA) to legitimize the use of private clinics.…