NDP Leadership Power Rankings
Last month I looked at how NDP leadership candidates stacked up on various metrics, in a mostly futile attempt to handicap the race. With the Dippers’ vote a week away,…
2012
The Cost of Austerity
Austerity, while popular with rightwing pols, can wreak havoc on a society. Greece today is austerity’s punching bag. Austerity inevitably translates into cutbacks in services, even essential services. In Greece…
U.S. Chamber Front Group Holds “Whine And Blame” Facebook Party – Nobody Shows Up
American_Free_Enterprise_logo1.jpg American Free Enterprise, a front group of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, held a complaint session on Facebook on Tuesday afternoon to let Americans vent about “who is to…
Alternative Federal Budget 2012
The following is a ten-point summary of the CCPA Alternative Federal Budget released today: The federal government is planning an unprecedented fiscal austerity budget, claiming that massive cuts to public…
Dépanneur owner whose store was vandalized should learn to speak French
The owner of a Verdun depanneur had his store vanadalized after a series of events resulting from his inability or unwillingness to speak French. CTV is reporting (HERE) that Anthony…
QP: Turmel’s interim leader swan song
The NDP benches applauded extra vigorously today for what looks like Nycole Turmel’s last QP as interim leader, and she stood up to ask about the planned cuts to services,…
March Madness – Paulitical Styles
So, I recently became interested in fantasy sports. I know, I know…typical guy stuff (or, insert gender normative comment here). But I’m not writing today to tell you about how…
Too Crooked to Fail
Matt Taibbi on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan show the other day talking about the systemic culture of corruption in the financial sector and how it’s rewarded and effectively encouraged by the…
Headline of the day: "Sex-deprived fruit flies turn to alcohol, bump into walls and pass out"
Two of the lucky, sober ones Kind of like people. Er, exactly like people. But fruit flies are smarter than people. Some sex-starved humans turn to religion, gluttony or conservatism.…
The Ides of March, 2012 #nlpoli
Twitter is a wonderful thing except that sometimes you can’t use the whole of a great quote. The following is a larger bit of one quote that turned up in…
F-35 insanity: The movie reel
Is this a “tactical retreat” as the Globe very generously frames the Fantino backtrack on F-35s this week? Is Harper admitting he was wrong? It’s hard to believe anything this…
March Madness: South Mississippi band chants "Where’s your green card?" to Hispanic opponent
Wow. The racism from the right, especially from those in the south, is accelerating exponentially as the November elections come closer.
Is Liuna Local 183 Trying To Stifle Dissent?
As I have indicated in past posts, Liuna local 183 seems to be the poster boy for bad union behaviour. Not only has it made some very questionable decisions that…
The Cry Hollywood–live!
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Faytene Grasseschi’s The Cry Hollywood will be webcast online live starting at 2 PM Pacific, 5 Pm Eastern (about an hour…
How to support a new Public Interest lawyer
Thursday, March 15, 2012 No, that title is not an invitation to donate to West Coast Environmental Law. Law students who want to work as public interest lawyers face massive…
Broadbent Comments About Mulcair Betray NDP Principles
Given that Thomas Mulcair the perceived front-runner in the NDP leadership race, it’s not surprising that rival campaigns would attack him. It is perhaps a bit more surprising when a…
Obama addresses Rex Murphy, Ezra Levant, Stephen Harper
Rex and Ezra look for Stephen. “I know he’s around here somewhere.” Not by name of course; Obama has no idea who the first two are and merely a begrudging…
Forum, Nanos Polling in Ontario Battle it Out
Two polls provincially in Ontario talk about, the first one being Nanos’ Research poll (they did one in November as well that didn’t make the radar), and the next being…
Christy Clark To People….
. “Budget? Me Don’t Need No Stinkin’ (Office) Budget!” I’m beginning to wonder…. Did the VSun’s J. Fowlie get a Holmanesque brain transplant recently? Why? Because he (i.e. Fowlie) sure…
Uhm, No. Not Us.
We've been receiving a few media requests regarding the proposed anti-racism rally being organized in Edmonton. And we've been forwarding those requests to people who ARE organizing the rally. We…