Lots of Pictures
This week’s summit between First Nations chiefs and the Prime Minister played out according to Stephen Harper tightly scripted wishes. It was all pictures, good wishes and no substance. Harper…
2012
Resolution #58 Ghiz, Casey and MacAulay – Day 9
Silence!Day 9 Since PEI NDP called on Premier Ghiz and Liberal MP’s Sean Casey and Lawrence MacAulay to tell Islanders how they voted, if they voted and what they thought…
New column day
Following up on this morning’s roundup, I comment here on how the NDP’s group of leadership candidates includes loads of possibilities to take up Jack Layton’s mantle of negotiation and…
Regg Cohn’s Thoughts on Catterpillar Inc.
I don’t have too much time this morning, but I highly recommend Martin Regg Cohn’s piece, which offers, amongst other things, a contrast between how long-serving Conservative Ontario Premier Bill…
Small story from Pang
Fish from ice fishing in Qikiqtarjuaq are coming in about three weeks earlier than usual. That's good locally — more local jobs — but a sign of the changing climate.
Leadership 2012 Roundup
Yes, Alice comes as close as one can to distilling the entire NDP leadership race into a single post. But there’s still plenty going on as the field becomes official…
The Failure Of Corporate Tax Cuts
Corporate tax cut disciples will ridicule the messenger, Canadian Labour Congress just reeks “enemy of the state”, but their study on corporate taxes is largely reliant on third party conclusions,…
It’s time to step on a Caterpillar, Premier Mcguinty
I was reading a column that Martin Reg-Cohn wrote yesterday on the continuing saga in London where as those who’ve followed it know, Caterpillar has locked out it’s workers in…
Chain, Chain, Chain….
AllTheWordsmithingThatFits BloggodomeTelephoneVille It started with a comment from our good friend Santa Rosa Jon over at Beer’s place: “In one year when I was at US Steel I think six…
He’s got altitude
Guess who flew??? Yup. All the way from me to his house, which was about five feet. It was a wobbly and fluttery flight, but a glorious one. I’m SO…
Rafe Mair On The Northern Gateway Pipeline
I oppose violence with every remaining sinew in my body but I’m saying to Harper and Oliver that violence is what their policies will bring. I haven’t had a fight…
So Newt wants to build a moon base
I don’t know, these things never seem to end well. Always too many hatches and lasers and super villains around. Where to start with Newt’s big announcement yesterday? It is…
Tories hide spending documents from Auditor General #nlpoli
The culture of secrecy that is Danny Williams’ legacy in provincial politics is firmly institutionalised. The provincial Conservative’s war against oversight and adequate oversight of their management of the province’s…
Open to giving committees more ‘influence’
As we count down the days before the House comes back, we turn our attention once again to the gross lack of attention that MPs pay to the government spending…
To the Moon, Alice!
It’s beyond absurd that alleged “small government” Republicans are adamantly opposed to “wasting” taxpayer dollars on doing much of anything that would repair the basic elements of America’s crumbling infrastructure…
ALEC Model Bill Behind Push To Require Climate Denial Instruction In Schools
alec-exposed-600x400_0.jpg On January 16, the Los Angeles Times revealed that anti-science bills have been popping up over the past several years in statehouses across the U.S., mandating the teaching of…
alberta tories holding a packed nomination week.
I have updated the list of nominated Alberta election candidates to include the following three Progressive Conservative nominees: Edmonton-Centre: Young lawyer Akash Khokhar defeated Nicole Martel to win the PC…
Oh, How We’ve Missed You Tom!
A relatively new poster on Stormfront going by the handle, "National Socialist Skin" caught our attention a while back. Oh, not because he seemed significant in and of himself, but…
Should the Alberta Party Participate in the Leaders’ Debate?
With an election being held at some point this spring the perennial election question of which parties should participate in televised leaders’ debates is rearing its head. In the last…
Paulbots.
They are extremely obsessive, and mostly uneducated about their choice of saviour. Today at work, Mr I read the Drudge report, and know very little about much of anything as…