#skndpldr – First Ballot Analysis
The Saskatchewan NDP leadership’s first-ballot results and ensuing developments are in. And while the balloting may be somewhat shorter than it could have been due to Trent Wotherspoon’s withdrawal, there’s…
March 2013
PCR-RCP Responds to RCMP Raids and Repression
The following is a translation of a statement issued by the Parti Communiste Revolutionnaire / Revolutionary Communist Party in response to a series of police raids and searches carried out…
Stephen Harper may step down this summer!!
…and he is leaving by a jet plane!! Wow!! Click here to read the story.
At least none of OUR MPs has been found with an orange in his mouth. Not yet.
Former MP? Nobody skewers their own kith and kin with devastating play of the knife as the British do. My latest chuckle arose reading John O’Sullivan’s article in today’s Globe…
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report Predicts
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report Predicts Deeply, dangerously indebted “consumers” (aka Canadian citizens) at a 156% debt to income ratio aggressively imposed upon us by…
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report Predicts
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report PredictsDeeply, dangerously indebted “consumers” (aka Canadian citizens) at a 156% debt to income ratio aggressively imposed upon us by banksters…
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report Predicts
Economic Forecast: Canada To See Years Of Stagnation, BMO Report Predicts Deeply, dangerously indebted “consumers” (aka Canadian citizens) at a 156% debt to income ratio aggressively imposed upon us by…
Shawnigan Watershed Threatened While Director Fraser Fiddles
The CVRD has the authority over land use. They failed to enforce their bylaw or draw up another to protect the Shawnigan Watershed. Word has it that the Ministry of…
Herring Here, Herring There, Herring Everywhere
A harbinger of Spring where I live is the annual herring run through the Salish Sea. The herring in their countless millions migrate south as they spawn, the females attaching…
It’s Time Science Deniers Were Driven Out of Office
The Harper government is full of them and, judging by their policies, the other parties have their share too. They’re science deniers, those who find it politically expedient to either…
What I would do with a 3-D printer
Every time I see a piece of furniture or plant or piece of art or food that I like, I would take a 3-D photo of it and then reproduce…
Arms Race Update – China’s Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests to Continue
China may soon become the only nation with the hardware to take down high geo-stationary orbiting satellite systems such as GPS. The U.S. is warning that China is preparing for…
But They’re Not Alone. U.S. Politicians Overestimate Their Constituents Conservatism
Republicans and even Democrats have been found to think their constituents much more conservative than they are in fact. It’s no surprise, therefore, that they govern according to false perception…
The Strange Economics of Stephan Harper
Even though he only has a Master’s degree in economics, our Prime Minister likes to present himself as an economist. And, like the myriad other untruths propagated by his regime,…
Walkom Almost Gets it Right
Tom Walkom writes that Alberta made a sucker’s bet on bitumen and so, thanks to Ottawa, did the rest of Canada. The Toronto Star columnist adds that, thanks to both…
March 9: Money does not die…….
….or disappear. The money that existed in our prosperous days still exists. What has happened is that it has for some years now been shuffled around so that a very…
5710…Teacher’s Gotta Gun
In South Dakota at least. Jezebel.com reports that “South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard just signed a bill allowing teachers to be armed. What could go wrong?“ Firefights in Kindergarten for…
5709…We Are Not Number One. Or Two. Or…
Twenty two.That would be the universities in your capital, Ottawa.Chris Holski of 580CFRA reports that “Ottawa U and Carleton were kept out of the Top 100 in an annual list…
children’s books # 6: the return of interspecies love
It’s been a while since I’ve written about children’s books, and an even longer while since I’ve done an interspecies love post, so why not combine the two? There’s a…
Global set to launch 24-hour news channel by Bruce Constantineau
BBM Canada figures show more Vancouver and Victoria area adults watch television news, on a per-capita basis, than any other English market in Canada.