Kevin Falcon’s BC Liberal Commitment In Doubt
During the BC Liberal leadership race Kevin Falcon doubted Christy Clark would stay with the party if she lost, today BC Liberals found out it was Kevin Falcon who they…
2012
The Star’s Tim Harper: Harper bets on big resources and kicks environment to the curb
OTTAWA Stephen Harper, finally freed of the constraints that of the minority years, had no need to deliver anything in his 2012 budget to placate his political opponents. So, unfettered,…
Great line of the day
John Cole writes about Rick Santorum’s plan to give a foreign policy speech at a jelly bean company as a tribute to Ronald Reagan: Those weren’t firecrackers you heard…it was…
Stupid Sex Tricks: How NOT to hug a tree
Environmentalism: Ur doin it rong. Also, stay the fuck off of drugs. And bros on drugs.
Federal Budget 2012 Cuts: Statement from Katimavik
It is with extreme disappointment that we learned today that the Government has decided to end its funding commitment to Katimavik. Today’s announcement comes as a surprise, since we are…
The Six Million Dollar BC Rail Deal….My Question For Geoff Plant
HereABlogThereABlog EverywhereABlogVille Former BC Liberal government Attorney General Geoff Plant, who is now a civilian, has a blog. And yesterday he had a question for John van Dongen about the…
Conservatives’ small-minded budget kills jobs and fails Canadians
Here’s the budget analysis I prepared for CUPE’s website. Despite its size and the hundreds of measures it details, Harper’s 2012 budget demonstrates just how small-minded their vision is. Canada…
Send message to protect environmental reviews
Today’s budget announcements make it clear that long-standing legal protections for the environment, including environmental reviews of major industrial projects like mines and oil pipelines will soon be rolled back…
The Case Against Canada’s Armed Forces
The audible “umph” heard across Canada last night was the sound of the Federal budget dropping. With all the subtlety of a Bison taking a dumb in your morning cereal,…
Review: Bodies and Pleasures
Those of us on the left are often not very good at talking about the living of life at the individual level. There are a number of different ways that…
Harper Conservatives Target Registered Charities
So far, the Conservative government’s fear-mongering has targeted anti-capitalism movements, environmentalists, Aboriginal groups, activists, foreign special interest groups, so-called “issue-based terrorists” and other imaginary “enemies of the state”. Now add…
Ain’t No Fog On This Mountain Breakin’ Down…
TheKingAndHisCourt FiveStringVille The banjo king, Earl Scruggs, is dead. His music will live on forever. Interestingly, Mr. Scruggs wife Louise was his, and his partner guitarist Lester Flatt’s, business manager…
What coverage of wanton killings says about our biases
Smiling Mass Murderer Robert Bales It is hard to get people to care about Afghanistan and, despite fighting a massive war there, hard to get it in the news. Most…
4402…Funny Story In The Toronto Sun Tonight
The Leafs, as in the Toronto Maple Leafs, suck. We all know that. Like really suck. Here was the funny story in The Toronto Sun. The story was that a…
Banning floor-crossing is silly.
Last November, Mathieu Ravignat (NDP-Pontiac) and Peter Stoffer (NDP-Sackville-Eastern Shore) introduced a Private Member’s Bill that would prevent MPs from switching parties (crossing the floor as it is called in…
Setting the agenda
Quick, spot what’s different in the NDP’s response to the federal budget compared to any other official opposition ever: NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair today slammed Stephen Harper’s Conservatives for introducing…
4401…More Juno Madness
From my friends at KOWPR comes this: This Saturday!! An Exclusive Autograph Signing Session With The Best Canadian Artists! The JUNO Fan Fare will be rocking out at St. Laurent…
A pole-dancer, you say? Blimey!
Most middle-aged Brits keep fit by doing pint curls in the local pub. But this one‘s found another, and arguably healthier, exercise…which, coincidentally, is also done in a lot of…
Massacres and PTSD
Western media has focused attention on Sgt. Robert Bales’s background. He allegedly murdered 16 Afghan civilians, 9 of them children, near Kandahar. After the bloodbath, Bales returned to his base…
Guest Post: On governing authorities
Dan Tan offers another guest post – this one responding to a bit of misplaced advice from Embassy with a helpful reminder as to how policy is formulated within the…