wmtc 2012-12-31 23:59:00
Happy New Year! Here’s to a happy, healthy, revolutionary 2013. Love to all.
December 2012
"Improved" PST will look much like HST
With less than 20 weeks before the BC election, our Liberal government continues spending tax dollars to promote themselves. It’s not the first time they aimed to influence the vote…
Harperland and the Horror of 2012
Golly. It's hard to believe that the horrible year of 2012 in Harperland is finally almost over.And that I'm still standing. For if on this day in 2010 I wrote…
The 2003 Bush Tax Cuts–Is this Any Place to Draw A Sacred Line in the Sand?
2013 will mark a decade since the Bush administration enacted the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Given the growth of the economy between 2001 and 2005,…
Is Chief Theresa Spence your 2012 newsmaker of the year? POLL
Is hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence, who entered Day 20 of her peaceful protest today, your 2012 newsmaker of the year? Is it the Idle No More movement? The Quebec…
Deal Made On Fiscal Cliff, Maybe!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger After months of entrenched Republican intransigence and unwillingness to actually, ahem tax the rich, a deal is in the works that could avert millions being denied unemployment…
Crystal Ball Gazing, 2013 Edition, Part 3: Greater Sudbury, Toronto and Ontario
In Part 1 of this blogpost, I spent some time writing about neo-liberalism, and how it will continue to effect global trends in 2013. I took a closer look at…
Chief Spence says Harper government has encouraged “segregation”
For immediate release: December 31, 2012, Victoria Island, traditional territory of the Algonquian Peoples: Today is the thirty first day of Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike and the last day…
The New Year
For the second year in a row, we’re bringing in the New Year in my hometown of Vancouver. It’s been quite a year. Here’s hoping for a quieter 2013. I’m…
This post has no title
This post has no title because I can not think of a title that does justice to the laughable “fiscal cliff” events of the day. Beginning hours after I awoke…
South Africa’s ANC makes support for BDS part of official policy: ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’ released
At its 53rd National Conference, South Africa’s ruling ANC affirmed support for the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel. It is now part of official ANC…
Harper’s Government – The Worst We Have Ever Had
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Years ago I read a saying that pretty well sums up the current situation with Steve Harper and his snarly band of rabid right wingers. “There…
Let the Gentlemen do their thing
It’s New Year’s Eve — time once again for the traditional laying on of the Monster Gentlemen. Be of good cheer.
5475…57 Channels And Nothing On
Actually it is closer to 1,000 than it is to 57, at least with Rogers, and there is nothing on. It cannot be that hard, cannit? WFDS
Three New Year’s Resolutions for Canada
I have never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. The practice always struck me as little more than an excuse to put off self-improvement until next year. But now,…
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year. 2012 is almost over. 2013 looms a few hours away. I wish you all the best of times in the upcoming year. What a year it’s been.…
2013 resolutions open thread!
Mine: 1. I will learn to cook. 2. I will start writing another book. 3. I will be less of a schnook. They rhyme! Anyway, what’s yours? Post ‘em in…
Resolutions for 2013…
… Before I have a second glass of Pinot Noir… – not be as critical of our Dear Leader and encourage all my friends to cut he and his Cabinet…
2012 Clawbies Announced (#Clawbies2012)
The 2012 Clawbie Awards have been announced. This is the seventh year of the Canadian Law Blog Awards. Congratulations to all winners, finalists and nominees. I was glad to see…