Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Erin nicely challenges Brad Wall’s efforts to tilt the playing field against poorer provinces when it comes to Employment Insurance and equalization. –…
2012
New Item on Menu – The McFox Sandwich
My neighbour told us of an experience he had with the local McDonalds. He was sitting in one having breakfast and found himself offended by a debate playing out on…
Right Wing American Jewish Magazine Calls For Assassination Of Obama If He Doesn’t Attack Iran ….
The on-going mental illness, inherent in 21st Century Right Wing thinking, is going to take the whole world down ….. “Musing openly about murdering President Barack Obama is certain to…
Seen in Nunavut?
Perhaps not…
The Pickton Inquiry – why was there so little done? You decide
VANCOUVER • It was April 2000, the height of Robert “Willie” Pickton’s killing spree. Dozens of women were already missing, and 23 more would vanish. The Port Coquitlam pig farmer…
‘Canada is becoming a jingoistic petro-state’
Who made that declaration a couple of days ago in the US? The Nation? Daily Kos? Some other left-wing publication? Nope. Slate did – and Slate isn’t exactly known for…
The high cost of loving an animal
Oboe at the Vet's I know there are people out there wondering why anyone would spend twelve hundred bucks to save the life of a bird that could be replaced…
All the action is in Quebec
If you’re like me these days, when you see a story involving the Bloc, you might yawn a little bit and gloss over it. Is it more infighting in the…
School Trustees Censured For Online Video Controvery
Ken Denike and Sophia Woo, two trustees at the Vancouver School Board, were publicly reprimanded last week after misrepresenting the school board’s anti-homophobia policy. The trustees were already the focus…
Wading through Locke on Muskrat (Part 1) #nlpoli #cdnpoli
An hour-long presentation, 48 slides and an interview with David Cochrane. For all that, some apparent confusion lingers about what Memorial University economist Wade Locke included in his presentation and…
Garrison promises marriage fix
NDP queer issues critic Randall Garrison writes in the Times Colonist that his party will be introducing a bill to fix what they perceive to be the gaps in marriage…
Liberal History
Laurier, McKenzie King, Pearson, Trudeau, Chretien all mean nothing to the Liberal Party, to Canada if we as members and as Canadians do nothing. Though each man was great in…
Is It Just Me Or Are There a Lot of Federal Liberals in the CAQ?
I don’t think its just me. To date we’ve heard rumours of Marlene Jennings possibly running for Legault’s party in the next provincial election, and someone named Dominique Anglade –…
alberta election candidate update – january 2012.
As an election approaches, Alberta’s political parties are busy nominating candidates across the province. Listed below are some of the most recent updates made the list of nominated candidates, including…
恭喜發財
Or 新年快樂. I found a couple of different translations. Gong Xi Fa Ca! Gong Hei Fat Choy! Anyhow, Happy Lunar New Year to all my colleagues in the Middle Kingdom!…
Bob Mackin poses a good question
B.C. Place’s field of fire, 2010 Gold Rush, NEWS AND VIEWS ON VANCOUVER 2010 (AND BEYOND) FROM BOB MACKIN. “What is the final cost of the stadium for taxpayers? How…
An Examination of Marc Lemire IX: Are We Done With This Finally?
We had decided to continue our examination of Marc Lemire's links to the Heritage Front not long after we viewed his August interview on Ezra Levant's "Sun News" program (we…
Lessons from Full Tilt Poker and MegaUpload
Many of us – and that number was shown to be in the tens of millions – who believe that the Internet ought to be a fundamentally free and private…
No foreign interests allowed
H/T Creekside Enbridge’s pipeline of distortions, by Harsha Walia, a Vancouver-based activist and writer trained in law, Vancouver Sun, January 2012. “…Delightful commentaries over the past few days have taken…