Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Fred Wilson weighs in on Thomas Mulcair’s mandate as the NDP’s new leader: (M)any progressives with no interest whatsoever in a “Blairist” agenda…
2012
My Morning Ride.
AndTheCircleGoesRound AndRoundVille Came out of the woods by the daycares this morning. As I waited to cross the street while the German SUV’s dropped off the highschool kids who live…
On standards of disproof
In keeping with my own admonition, I won’t spend too much time amplifying the messages the Cons want to send in attacking NDP leader Thomas Mulcair. But I do think…
Back to Short Stories: The Dubliners Is the Best
Now that the NDP convention is over and the manuscript for River Music has been delivered, I’m back working on the collection of short stories I got a grant to…
March 28: less and less about less and less….
In recent weeks, The Moncton Times and Transcript has become noticeably worse, even by Irving press standards. It is coming close to having no news whatever. The reasons are surely…
The Current Account Deficit
The National Bank have published a very useful and interesting report on the current account deficit, which is now running at about 3% of GDP. They argue that the deficit…
Brad Wall’s Closed Mind Closes Door On Sask Film Industry And Drives Hundreds Of Jobs Out Of The Province
“The puzzling thing about Brad Wall’s decision to cut the film tax credit (albeit, after a three month extension to July 1) is the unusual stridency we’re hearing from the…
Ocean view #7
Filed under: art, digital, painting Tagged: art, ocean, painting, seascape, water
Alberta Votes Day 3: Time to bring back Ed?
In retrospect, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea for Alison Redford to call the election after a month of wall-to-wall scandal and controversy. Two more polls have been released…
alberta election 2012: an early wildrose wave.
Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and her candidates across Alberta will be cheering this morning when they see the results of a Forum Research poll showing their party with 41%…
Austerity: The High Cost of Tax Cuts
Austerity is a most vile concept, particularly when you think of just how rich Canada is.
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 28, 2012: Unlawful arrest for video recording of Boston police nets attorney $170,000 settlement Toronto doctor…
Bus 52: Travelling Good News
Bus 52 is a bout telling people the good news that’s out there across the USA. They are trying to give hope to the youth of today by celebrating how…
Harper to scientist: “Shut your mouth up”
It is a very sad state of affairs. Only one who needs to be muzzled is moron Harper. He is doing too much damage to Canada and our reputation internationally.…
The Wizard Of Austerity
Like Dorothy and her companions, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals are skipping down that yellow brick road, hoping that the Wizard of Austerity will take them back to…
You Want The Real Dope On Van Dongen’s Bounce Off The Ropes?
AllTheRealAnalysisThatFits SlivervilleTimesVille …Go Read Mr. Beer N’ Hockey. Honestly. His screed starts like this: I live way the f*ck out here with John Van Dongen. He could be my MLA…
Obert Madondo’s Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Open Letter to Parliament of Canada
I delivered the letter yesterday afternoon. They wouldn’t let me hand in the letter in person. Said to sent it by mail. My MP, Paul Dewar (NDP, Ottawa Centre), saved…
Gettin’ outta Dodge…
… while the gettin’ is good… Trashy’s World will be going back to travel mode for the next week as I’m off to Paris later today. I’ll post pics and…
New Liblogs
The new Liblogs site is up and running. I’ve been brought on board as an admin, along with Nancy Leblanc. David Graham remains as an admin, and Adam Miron( former…