Commissar Harper must be stopped from appointing CBC Leadership
Harper gives the impression that he owns all Canadians therefore he must control every aspect of our lives. His ability to appoint the leaders of the CBC is totally unacceptable.…
2012
Obert Madondo’s Canada Crime Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 44 Update
This journal entry covers days 41, 42, 43 and 44 (April 23, 24, 25 and 26) of my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian…
What Will You Give Up to Save the World?
This has been coming for years. Science is speaking out. It’s time to redistribute the wealth, globally. The world’s most renowned population analyst has called for a massive reduction in…
Tom Mulcair And NDP In The Lead, Confidence In Harper Plummets
Two polls were released today: Forum (April 25 – sample of 1744), and Nanos (April 18 – sample of 1200). The Forum poll, having a much larger sample, is the…
F-35 Tale of the Tape
How does the F-35 stack up against the competition today? That depends on who you ask and how badly they want to buy/sell it. First off, let’s leave the stealth…
Friday Morning Links
This and that to end your week. – Paul Wells comments on the NDP’s new style of opposition: When I used to ask the Liberals, when they were the Official…
What the Ontario PCs have been up to at those Ornge hearings
I have a conflict, so I haven’t said much on this file, other than to occasionally point out the rank, stinking hypocrisy of the Cons and the Dippers. Or to…
Let’s “Just Do It”
There has been a call from several mayors of municipalities here in British Columbia, Canada to legalize marijuana…the arguments for it are essentially that they are tired of fighting against…
The Hon. Minister of Friggin’ Scary
There is no news-related reason to post this photo. I found it today on the Globe’s web site, and it renews my hope that Jim Flaherty succeeds in driving out…
Canadians Are Waking Up To The Fact That Stephen Harper Does Not Have The Best Interests Of Canada At Heart – He’s An Extreme Right Winger Whose Nose Is Up Big Business’s Butt
Stephen Harper is not going to be Prime Minister for ever. The sooner Canadians see him out of office, the better the whole nation will be. This country is starting…
Parents take note – Bill 36 is an attack on you
Having successfully removed teachers as an “obstacle” to the BC Education Plan, yesterday George Abbott introduced enabling legislation to change the school year, day, and total instructional time provided to…
Friday morning Robocon blogging
I don’t often write about polls but I’ll make time for this one. In support of their lawsuit contesting the results of last May’s federal election in seven ridings, the…
What Do We Buy After the F-35?
I’m convinced that, badly as the air force boys want the F-35, even if they got it they would soon be back, begging bowl in hand. Everyone, especially those air…
Parliament in Review: March 27, 2012
Tuesday, March 27 saw a day dominated by the type of serious discussion about the role of the financial sector that we should expect in the years to come –…
Two Attacks on Austerity: Krugman and Page on the Death of the Confidence Fairy
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate for economics, has been trying to convince policy makers everywhere that austerity is bad for economies. In his column in The New York Times today he…
Gruending On The One Year Anniversary Of The Harper Majority
Its all good, but I’ll just highlight a bit that seems especially pertinent: It is worth noting, however, that Conservative backbenchers continued to bring forward private member’s bills that could…
Really Seeing
Anyone who follows this blog knows how much I love photography: Holding a camera makes me pay closer attention to what’s around me. I look at the ordinary—for instance a…
Steve Nash in Toronto?
My God, that would be so awesome. Will it happen? Of course not. Why would the incompetents at Maple Leaf Sports actually stop offering up stinkers, year after year, when…
the winners: great alberta election prediction pool.
The Party leaders. On Monday, Albertans went to the polls in what was expected to be a historic turning point in our province’s electoral history. It turns out that history…
Who saw it coming?
The answer to that question is “not very many of us”. More than 190 people entered the joint daveberta.ca and CalgaryGrit Great Alberta Election Pool, but like nearly all the…