Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Yawning cats.
2012
Progressives and abortion
With interest this afternoon I watched an exchange between several progressive bloggers that devolved into a boycott of an aggregator site because a couple of bloggers took issue with two…
Bye Bye Saulie!
Saulie Zajdel, former Harpercon candidate who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount-Royal and up until today, James Moore’s “employee” has left under the same cloak of secrecy he was hired…
Innovate Research’s Now-Late Interesting Poll on the NDP Leadership Race
Just today an in-depth poll from Innovative Research on voting intentions in Canada and opinions of the NDP leadership race, as well as something called the “Tory Universe” and other…
Auditor-General Picks Door No. 2
By which I mean, in reference to my yesterday’s post, that Auditor-General Michael Ferguson pulled every punch he could in coming out with a report basically accusing the military of…
Jobs for Conservatives since 2006: 1056, Other Party Members: 67 Liberal, 4 NDP, 1 Bloc, 1 Green
http://sixthestate.net/?page_id=1381 Is this accurate? It is consistent with a sense that Party affiliation is tremendously important to this government. (And yes other Parties favoured their own but it was Stephen…
Friday, April 13, in Philly: Love and Struggle: A Celebration of Our Movements
DOWNLOAD POSTER (black and white or color) 723 Chestnut Street at the Goldilocks Gallery, Philadelphia PAFriday April 13th at the Goldilock’s Gallery, 723 Chestnut StreetDoors open at 6:30, Program starts…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your day. – Boris sums up the Cons’ budget message to poor Canadians. David Macdonald assesses the Cons’ impact on jobs – with -70,000 not exactly…
Arrogance, thy name is Tom Marshall #nlpoli
Speaking on VOCM’s Open Line on Tuesday, finance minister Tom Marshall explained what will happen in the House of Assembly during the Muskrat Falls debate coming up in June: The…
NDP Tied With Conservatives, And, Mulcair Doing Well
Two poll results from March (early March and then just after Mulcair won the leadership of the NDP), by Environics in early March and by Forum in late March, show…
A Pox on All of Their Houses
I have been feeling this overwhelming sense of despair, frustration, and good old-fashioned anger these past couple of weeks, as I’ve watched the so-called Robo-Call Scandal unfold. My growing sense…
The Handmaid’s Tale: not an instruction manual…
…but tell that to the gender fascists in various US jurisdictions busy jailing women who can’t fight back. Read this article to learn what these male supremacist sado-politicians are up…
The Mount Royal "Shadow Tory MP" departs government service
The right thing appears to have been done in the case of Saulie Zajdel, the ‘Shadow Tory MP’ who ran against Irwin Cotler in Mount Royal but who nevertheless gained…
Minister of Fun #CPCMinisters
The Conservative government in Canada needs to start expanding its swelled Cabinet to include Ministers that Conservatives care about. Perhaps we could get #CPCMinisters meme to trend on Twitter? Here…
Memories of Mulcair
This Canadian Press report from Friday is about the use of the debate time in the House of Commons Friday on the reaction to the budget. The NDP took up…
Conservatives push Rights and Democracy over the side
The Conservatives have decided to scrap Rights and Democracy. That would be the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, though I have no doubt they plan to continue…
Liblogs – Minus One
Hey, did you notice that Liblogs got a cool new make-over recently? Almost a year after he went down in flames (sadly, along with most of the party) and then,…
Big Telecom’s good idea: National standards to protect consumers
You read that title correctly. Here’s the idea: Rogers recently filed an application with the CRTC asking “for stronger protections for customers of wireless services”, not long after Telus made…