Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom puts the Cons’ anti-environmental hysteria in perspective by noting how our cabinet ministers are going out of their way to sound…
2012
Radicals And Learned Responses
Even if the Conservative argument is true, that we’ve reached a point where environmental review processes are bogging down economic development, it’s an after the fact assertion, rather than a…
Would a Romney Victory Mean the End of the Conservative Movement?
Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary with 40% of the vote and appears to be heading toward winning the Republican nomination. Unlike most of his opponents, he has not…
Free Speech Throwdown: Warman Vs. Des Rosiers
I attended the Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech in Canada debate held by CIJA last night, pitting Richard Warman against Nathalie Des Rosiers of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.…
Liberal Delegates Might Want to Read This
From: Maria Minna Sent: January-09-12 3:17 PM To: undisclosed recipients: Subject: Constitutional Amendments. January 9, 2012 Dear Liberal Colleagues: I want to share with you my concerns with the major…
Preston Manning: Because one day you’ll be out of office too
I don't agree with the entire piece — especially the digs at the Liberal Party — but he does make a good point about the danger of complacency. In part,…
Locke and Muskrat Falls: some quick points #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Memorial University economist Wade Locke delivered a presentation on Tuesday night about Muskrat Falls, a project he had already endorsed publicly. The Harris Centre at Memorial University, the Atlantic Provinces…
The real story of the Ottawa office #nlpoli
Nobody’s been in the job since since January 2010. There’s no evidence that the two people who held the job actually did anything substantive during the time from 2004 to…
Let’s not elect the GG
Amidst the nonsense that the Young Liberals were proposing with severing our ties to the “British Monarchy” as part of their convention resolutions (despite the fact that we have no…
Judging the judge, again
Also read: J. Leask: Questions of perspicacity and impartiality B.C. Appeal Court overturns cocaine conspiracy acquittal…, Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, Jan. 10, 2012 “VANCOUVER — A three-judge panel of the…
Senator Discloses New Information on How Conservative Patronage Works
The South Asian Focus has printed an in-depth interview with Conservative candidate-turned Senator Salma Attaullahjan, and I have to say, she sounds like a complete dunce: Most of the time…
Joe Oliver and the Leaking Pipeline
Oh. My. Oily. Oliver. What bad timing. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge reported a leak from one of its pipelines on the day public hearings began into the company’s planned Northern…
About that northern pipeline…
Poetic Justice! Enbridge reports leak from U.S. pipeline as Northern Gateway hearings begin. This is nothing new for Enbridge, the leak, that is. They happen all the time. From 1999…
"Mistruths and half-truths" from our government
Stephen Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline parody, National Affairs Columnist Thomas Walkom, The Star “The federal government’s claim that big-money foreign interests are trying to hijack hearings into a proposed west…
Ethical Oil and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Process
This piece is cross-posted from the Toronto Star’s Op-Ed Page. This week the “ethical oil” argument adopted by the federal government took an interesting twist. While billions from China pour…
Molly’sBlog 2012-01-11 01:42:00
CANADIAN POLITICS QUÉBEC: POLITICIANS LEAD CHARGE AGAINST PENSIONS IN QUÉBEC: It seems that in almost all countries there is a concerted effort to deny workers the pension benefits that they…
New Hampshire’s Magic Eight Ball….
….Is A Little Cloudy. After all. It did manage to pick Johnny McCain in 2008 and The Shrub in ’04. But. In 2000 chose the even then old and crotchety…
The Photographs of Your Junk (will be publicized!)
A commentary on social media, and the shallowness of our society. And quite awesome. And don’t take pics of your junk.