These people don’t believe in ‘ethical oil’
CKNW’s morning show featured Fraser Institute alum Kathryn Mitrow Marshall, who is now labouring for Ethical Oil, an ironically named lobby group with close ties to the Conservative Party of…
2012
A year in review: waking the sleeping giant
Photograph by Richard Hurd via Flickr How apropo. At noon today, halfway through the first working day of the year, Canada’s top CEO’s had already earned an average worker’s…
Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Glen Pearson follows up on the importance of organized labour – particularly as a desperately-needed counterweight to the pressures faced by public…
"Now that we’ve got the recipe…"
Rowan Atkinson channels the Harper Cabinet.
Undercover cops
Literally. The one stipulation, according to the officer from the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secret unit formed to prevent violent disorder on the streets of London, was that falling…
Monarchy – Such a great idea, none of the kids are doing it
So, it would seem that the Liberal equivalent of the NDP’s name-change resolution and Conservative party’s abortion/gay rights/pick-your-social-conservative-issue resolution at this year’s party convention will be a youth wing resolution…
Office of Religious Freedom: Persecuting Tolerance
Canada does not have an Office of Free Speech, it does not have a Bureau of Foreign Public Safety, it does not even have a Multi-Purpose Room of Peace Protection,…
Santorum nephew rips Uncle Rick a new one
Hate to link to the usually slimy Daily Caller but in light of Santorum’s unbridled bigotry coming to light, this nugget warrants attention. I especially like this part (emphasis mine):…
Alberta 2011 in Review
One of my favourite sayings is “If you don’t like the weather in Alberta, wait 30 minutes. If you don’t like the politicians, wait 30 years.” However, the sleepy world…
More political staff is not the answer
Two NDP MPs from Windsor have told their local paper that while they’re not getting any new MPs in the region from the seat redistribution, what they really need is…
Well, sorry, readers
The highly entertaining and as-yet-unfinished saga of Patrick Ross has been disappeared. The reason? CC disapproved of my site policy that includes a generally open door to commenters. He insisted…
Saudi Arabia gets 84 fighter planes
The Kindom of Saudi Arabia was in the news twice during the month of December, 2011. On December 12, a woman in her sixties named Amina bint Abdul Halim bin…
Media Advisory: Cable companies mismanage millions in public funds
openmedia_logo.jpg CACTUS report shows cable companies are misusing independent media fund WHAT: After reviewing the Big 4 Cable Companies’ management of local media, CACTUS (the Canadian Association of Campus and…
Want Good Grades? Go Run Around!
There is strong evidence that physical activity and good grades at school are directly connected. It’s a good idea to let kids go outside and just run around! “The findings…
Join Alexandra Mendes on Facebook tonight!
http://www.facebook.com/events/308882749144744/ Come join over 100 of your fellow Liberals in a Facebook chat with Alexandra Mendes, candidate for Liberal Party President! All you have to do is like Alexandra’s Facebook…
Civil Libertarian MP Peter Goldring
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but he was elected as a Conservative, not a Civil Libertarian, right? While I know its essentially just another label for an “independent MP,”…
ENHANCING DEMOCRACY
This excellent document comes from Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP and her team of 2011 Women Candidates. I endorse it fully! Speaking to the core values of what we believe…
Staggered Primaries(?): Unprecedented And Undemocratic
The Liberal Party’s proposal for using staggered primaries to select its next leader is unprecedented in the history of Western democratic political parties. And there’s a good reason for that:…
Toronto City Budget – The Problem Is Ford
Numbers Game | Toronto Media Co-op The City budget is not and has never been in a financial crisis according to figures released by the Wellesley Institute, an urban health…
God’s 2012 Predictions
Relax. You can now safely ignore all of the kooky predictions and hapless guesswork of zany media pundits about how events will play out in 2012 because The Lord God…