Pupatello on TV: she’s a winner
Watch this. Take a couple minutes, and watch it. If this woman doesn’t make you smile, at least once, you’ve got a stone for a heart. When I finally got…
January 2013
Anything To Win
Under Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister’s Office was given a new prime directive: character assassination. So, the office produced animations of puffins pooping on Stephane Dions’s shoulder; it trumpeted the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Erika Shaker rightly tears into the special brand of FAIPOF demanding that First Nations protesters focus solely on their own community leaders rather…
"Canada Considering Nuclear Reactors in Alberta Tar Sands Fields"??
by John Kay “Like them or hate them, Alberta, Canada’s tar sands deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, are the world’s largest. The province’s resources include the Athabasca,…
Dick Armey’s Tobacco Ties: The Early Years
This is the first of a thre-part series on Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R) and his relationship to Big Tobacco throughout his career. Dick Armey, who recently resigned…
Citizen’s arrest very circumscribed
R. v. Boyd, 2013 BCCA 19 has an interesting aside about citizen’s arrests: The law has always sought to circumscribe within very narrow limits the powers of a citizen to…
Cartt.ca IN-DEPTH: Tweets of change; Kirstine Stewart leads English CBC through its "new normal" by Greg O’Brien
An edited transcript of Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien’s interview with CBC Vice President of English Services, Kirstine Stewart.
Justin Trudeau Is NOT Opposed To Pipelines
Just this pipeline…and this one…and this one over here. Clever strategy, actually. Don’t attack the tar sands in the abstract, just any concrete manifestation of the tar sands.
Its Purpose Served, And Etc.
A new site, respectdemocracy.ca has also launched as the full-out offensive begins by Team Ford to keep their man and their mantra going forward at City Hall. The site was…
The Annual Mixed-Message Season #nlpoli
Right after Ross Reid’s new job, Jerome Kennedy’s trip back to the finance ministry was the second most overblown story of the past week or so. Most seem to think…
How did you get involved with the Liberal party? What suggestions do you have for youth looking to get just as involved as you?
Thanks for the question! I got involved in the Liberal Party of Canada on May 3, 2011. During the election, I saw a party I agreed with. The more I…
trophies
One assumes that Stephen Maher is out shopping for a frame for this press release from the PMO. I’m sure, in time, it will look lovely hanging on the wall…
Israel’s Election Results and the Prospects for Peace
Yair Lapid Well, that wasn’t quite as bad as I thought. Sadly, Benjamin Netanyahu will almost certainly remain prime minister of Israel after his Likud party and its electoral partner…
Why is Alberta studying seniors’ care at the same time as it’s privatizing it?
Coming soon to seniors’ centres in Alberta, a new model of elder care? Below: Health Minister Fred Horne. On Monday, Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne announced a year-long project to…
‘Dirty Wars’: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s new film exposes the underside of covert American war
Beneath: Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill is the national security correspondent for The Nation magazine. His book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (2007) chillingly details the…
5550…It Is A Party In Gatineau
Except the partiers did not know they were going to be partying.CBC News in Ottawa yesterday reported that “A woman in Gatineau, Que., has been charged following complaints by two…
Whine and jeez
I used to like Phil Mickelson until he started whining about how awful it is that he is going to have to pay more taxes on an income of merely…