Dear Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army,
I learned about you from this video on the Internet, and I am wondering what happened to you to make you want to commit atrocities against your fellow human beings…
2012
Aung San Suu Kyi to John Baird: When it comes to voting, today’s Myanmar a lot like Harper’s Canada
She didn’t say that in those words of course but her sly mention of voter irregularities could not have been better timed and said to a better person. “We have…
My Girls on IWD
There are a lot of posts today about important things: women’s safety, rights, equality or lack thereof all around the world. But this morning, I was talking with my 13…
They who lived by the bullshit… #nlpoli
Regular readers of these e-scribbles will know that the quarterly Corporate Research Associates poll is cause for nothing if not a fair bit of derision. They aren’t polls anyone should…
Roboscam: who should investigate?
If Elections Canada had the will, the resources and the powers, clearly Canada would be in the midst of a major, comprehensive probe of electoral dirty doings last year. At…
CBC pulls controversial soft-porn web show
Radio-Canada has pulled the web-TV series, Hard, from its Tou.tv website.
Key Report Highlights Strategies to Fix “Broken Cell Phone Market”
openmedia_logo.jpg Groups OpenMedia.ca, CIPPIC, and PIAC release comprehensive report, as Industry Canada prepares rules for wireless infrastructure auction March 8, 2012 – Adding to the pressure of a 63,000+ signature…
140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 8, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 8th, 2012: Why lawyers will love the third generation iPad Age Discrimination at New York Law…
Stephen Harper Government is built on a lie
Can you trust the Conservatives? As we learn more about Robocalls, election fraud, the guilty plea in the IN and Out Scandal, and now the Fantino by-election fiasco and 2700…
Phollow the phones?
The person who purchased the scammer phone used in Guelph used the puerile pseudonym “Pierre Poutine”. It is likely that if other phones were used, similarly insulting aliases were used.…
Shall I compare thee, in chart form, to a summer’s day
Yes, yes I shall you diminutive, lovely, and crazy person. Alltop loves a good stifle.
A Tale of Two Newspapers
The Globe and Mail and its sundry propagandists (excepting the principled Lawrence Martin, of course) continue their Sisyphean task of defending the indefensible by issuing almost daily dismissals both of…
Hepburn On Harper
Yesterday, Bob Hepburn publicly apologized to Brian Mulroney. He explained that Mulroney used to have no equal: Several years ago, I wrote that Mulroney, more than any politician in modern…
New column day
Here, on how Robocon may damage the Harper Cons’ reputation for years to come – so long as the opposition parties seek out better ways to reach voters in the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Amy Minsky uncovers some suspicious-looking spending patterns underlying Robocon, while Postmedia also points out that election results in at least a couple…
One does not equal the other
Certain columnists in certain media are trying to downplay the Robocalls/Robocon controversy by claiming that certain ridings where robo-calls were alleged to have been showed increased voter turnout; ergo, voter…
Moderation and "Supersize Me"
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Mike McCracken: Winner of the 2012 Galbraith Prize in Economics
The Progressive Economics Forum (PEF) is proud to announce that Mike McCracken, Chair and CEO of Informetrica Ltd. in Ottawa, has won the 3rd biennial Galbraith Prize for a lifetime…
Real Women Should Not Be Choosing Diamond Jubilee Medal Winners
From Xtra: A Canadian group whose homepage currently states that one of the biggest threats to families is the “homosexual lobby” and “the media” has been appointed to help government…