JP Morgan, America’s Welfare Service Provider
This is hard to swallow but JP Morgan is making a fortune administering food stamp programmes for 26-states. The proverty business, it seems, is enormously lucrative.There are just some things…
2012
How Darin Could Have Succeeded on the Debate #nlpoli
Darin King failed miserably in his first encounter with the opposition parties. He didn’t have to. With the House due to open for its unavoidable fall sitting and with a…
Politicians Please Ponder Pot Policies Promptly!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger For decades our politicians have pouted over the question of legalization often throwing their hands in the air pointing to the US War on Drugs as…
Online Sex Ed Course Decreases STI Risk in Teens
A lack of education around sex can lead to a lot of unwanted things like sexually transmitted infections and diseases to pregnancies. For many people sex is a taboo subject…
PNP Program in PEI – ‘Free Money’
The list of names who participated in the PEI PNP program is long. The list of questions about who made the most money, longer. As a small business owner, we…
The Petals Have Fallen Off the TurdBlossom
Mojo No MoGeorge w. Bush gave Karl Rove the nickname "turdblossom." It's a west Texas term for a desert wildflower that can sometimes grow out of cow dung.The Republican strategist/organizer…
Your Stories in Action | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Americans vote for same sex marriage in 4 states & re-elect a pro-equal marriage President!
Let me just quickly celebrate the great re-election of Barack Obama on Tuesday night. He's the first President of the United States to publicly support same sex marriage. I do…
Youth Demographic Vital for 2015
118,296,5 502 votes. The 1/5 of the total vote for Obama coming from the youth demographic (18-29) - even if it might have been generated more by antipathy towards Romney…
America Died. . . .
One time Saturday Night Live cast-member, and well-known half-wit, Victoria Jackson took her desperation out on her twitter followers as she watched the Romney presidential bid slowly go up in…
Going To The Same Place
Lawrence Martin writes this morning that, on Tuesday, the Neanderthals in the Republican Party were given their walking papers. And he suggests that Republicans should look to Canadian Conservatives as…
Nov. 8: well, lively…….
But let's warm up with the small stuff....On page A1 we find a story by Alan Cochrane that seniors are furious at companies which impose extra charges on people who…
Sandra…for a change
For the Ontario Liberal leadership, I’m supporting Sandra Pupatello. She announced her candidacy just minutes ago here in Toronto, and she’s heading next to her home in Windsor to declare…
New column day
Here, on how the Republicans' electoral strategy once again included a failed attempt to prioritize fossil fuels over mere people - and how the Harper Cons look to be on…
Is Chair of SIRC an honorary position too?
Chuck Strahl's name finally popped up! Five months ago he was named as the new head of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, the agency that's supposed to hold CSIS to…
How Israel Misread America
In today's Haaretz, Rabbi Eric Yoffie considers how Israel got everything so wrong and what its leaders must do to make peace with the White House.Americans are resolutely centrist. Israel’s…
Getting Things to Work: It’s up to the Republicans
First question of the day: how will Obama convince the Republican majority House to sign on to his plans? Probably the only way that will happen is if the Republicans…
We get the message just fine, Jerome #nlpoli
“No, I don’t think that we have done a great job of communicating this,” natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy told the Telegram editorial board last week.“I can give you a…
Councillor blindsided by inability to use very, very important Points of Privilege…
Did you watch Monday night’s presentation of the Why Can’t We Be Friends Of Central Park (updated story here)? Did you wonder why councillors were hopping up and down in…