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2012
Last of Three Part Series: What progressive groups must do to defeat, or stymie, the Harper regime
Canada’s progressive community, which includes labour and grassroots groups, needs to make some significant changes if it hopes to slow down the assault being carried out on the country by…
For The Turnstiles…
AllTheConflagurationThatFits OutrageVille So. Suddenly we must deal with Translink fare evasion again. Right now! Either by stringing up every kid without a ticket that hops on the 99 B-Line through…
Santorum’s House of Fear
That dull roar you hear is the sound of All The Internets laughing uproariously at Rick Santorum’s new, desperately dramatic campaign commercial, “Obamaville”, a glimpse at America’s dystopian future under…
On the tarmac…
… In Montreal… on our way to Paris… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Conservative Senators bring the optics on budget eve
Conservative Senators are complaining today about news that they’ll be losing a cafeteria in one of the buildings in which Senators work, the Victoria Building. Former Conservative party president, Don…
Leger and Forum Poll Show Alberta’s Close Race
Leger Marketing and Forum Research have polls out, one which shows a close race and one that shows a blowout for the Wildrosers. Let’s go through them: Forum Research: WRP:…
Climate Change: The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
“The answer,” wrote Bob Dylan in his iconic ’60s anti-war song, “is blowin’ in the wind.” So the vicious winds that ravaged coastal BC on the morning of March 12th…
Cats
It would appear from this graph that as the cat threat makes it into the news more, there are fewer people searching the word “cat” on the Internet. Curious. I’m…
I was wondering when THEY would show up…
Hot on the heels of Trayvon Martin’s murder by an armed white vigilante, we get…this: And this is what THAT was all about: A member of the Ku Klux Klan…
"Does This Blog Suck?" And Other Questions I Might Be Asking Myself About How to Blog
So, you’ve probably been noticing a number of posts recently about content or the use of this blog. As you have likely guessed, I’m still trying to figure out what…
Be next year’s Online Editor at The Argosy!
This following week I’ll be writing my last article as Online Editor of The Argosy, Mount Allison University’s Independent Student Newspaper and publishing the articles from the last issue of…
Cut staff but not services? That’s unpossible
Now when I was a journalist, if someone made an assertion as daft as the one above, I would have left it out of the story just because it made…
Premier Dad Shows His Abusive Side
McGuinty likes to play the compassionate leader role unfortunately for those most in need of compassion ans assistance that’s all it is a role to be played. I’m often taken…
Damn Peasants!
The Globe and Mail sniffs in outraged offense at the peons daring to inconvenience or insult their betters. Consider contacting the Globe and Mail and expressing how you feel about…
4393…Juno Fever In Ottawa
Well, no, not really. WFDS
4392…Cut And Paste From The Legendary Punk
Warren Kinsella. In today’s Sun’s. Mulcair’s the wrong choice – but hat’s off to the NDPMarch 25th, 2012, 12:00 am Here’s the thing about the NDP. They suddenly lost their…
Class-warfare . . . . .
It is one of the great ironies of modern times that the rightwing has managed convince so many people that ‘class-warfare’ is an antiquated notion from a past age, when…
A Coda Worth Quoting….
GettingSubjective ToSeeThingsObjectivelyVille Last weekend Dave sent a whole lot of us off on a chase to find Christy Clark’s FedConOp #1. And it turned out that that person, who was…