4331…Step Up To The Plate Pierre Poutine
Poutine, for those of you out of the know, is not only a tasty Quebecois dish, hailing from the home town of Johnny C, Shawinigan, it is also the Quebecois…
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Blackburn Hamlet: 44.85km, 1 hour 40 minutes
And so it begins. Rideau Lakes seems a long way away and Kingston a very daunting destination. But it was a lovely day today. Lots of riders out. But uh……
Quote: Revolutionary Listening
Now there’s the real question: Can we all get along long enough to make a revolution? Perhaps, but history tells us that it will mean taking leadership from some very…
Mulcair the best choice for NDP leader
Seeing the extreme positions taken by Republican candidates in the U.S. gives us a clue as to the typical dynamic of leadership races –- first, having to win over a…
Polls, spin, and the Canadian body politic
A new poll informs us, according to some pundits, that Harper has retained his base after Roboscam hit the news, so nothing has changed, move along, nothing to see here,…
Dr. Robert Schuller Sr and wife Arvella resign from international Crystal Cathedral board
Los Angeles Times: Schuller resignation from Crystal Cathedral board is end of an era Robert H. Schuller and his wife cited the “negative” environment at the church he founded when…
How do teachers defeat Bill 22?
In one week, BC teachers will be meeting at our Annual General Meeting to discuss next steps to defeat Bill 22. It is imperative that we look at both what…
North Korea is no Iran
Iran has an elected President. Iran allows for protests against the government. Iran does not have nuclear weapons and is years away from having the capability to build them.Iran has…
On shifting alliances
Having pointed out the effect of Peggy Nash’s willingness to consider cross-party cooperation in my rankings post, I’ll double back to one of the other noteworthy developments today – as…
Vancouver NDP leadership debate candidate rankings
The NDP’s final leadership debate wrapped up today in Vancouver in advance of the March 24th leadership convention. It has been a long road since the first debate back in…
Mulcair’s latest video #ndpldr
As the ballots start to get marked, each candidate for the leadership of the federal NDP is making their closing arguments. With that, Thomas Mulcair has released a new YouTube…
The final debate: lecturing one another
The final NDP leadership debate took place this afternoon from Vancouver, under the theme of “Opportunities for Young and New Canadians.” I’m not sure if it was just the lighting,…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – March 11, 2012
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen what look to be a couple of noteworthy efforts among the NDP’s leadership candidates to reach out to other campaigns’ supporters in…
Support from Israel Lobby for Mulcair NDP leadership bid raises serious concerns
With voting underway to elect the new leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party and just two weeks until the leadership convention, Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has discovered information indicating…
Why the ‘Two Punch’ plan of Nathan Cullen will unseat the Harper Tory government in 2015
Just been watching the last NDP leadership debate on CBC, and it is blindingly apparent that there is only one person on that stage who really understands the reality of…
Coren: Nothing here to see. And it’s the leftists fault. ADSCAM! also.
As usual, the usual suspects want YOU to go back to sleep. Catering to the uneducated, the ideologues and the tin foil hatters. Because in Coren-land, all is a Librul…
RoboCon – The Waiting Game Is Rigged To Lose
The full exchange is on my Black Knight post. D.I.D. writes: If we revert to mob mentality and, like the French Jacobins, call for the King’s head, then we are…
Happy birthday, Douglas Adams
Today is Douglas Adams’ 60th birthday. Or it would be if he hadn’t been thoughtless enough to die in May of 2001, thereby depriving us of yet more of his…
Times are good for Sovereigntists – Part 2
Léger Marketing published the results of yet another survey concluding that the PQ is in majority territory . Overall, the CAQ is at 24%, the PLQ at 28% and the…
Times are good for Sovereigntists – Part 2
Léger Marketing published the results of yet another survey concluding that the PQ is in majority territory . Overall, the CAQ is at 24%, the PLQ at 28% and the…