Parsing Redford’s Little Black Lies, Part 1
Within weeks of becoming Alberta’s first female premier in October 2011, Alison Redford realized that the tired old propaganda about jobs and Canada’s reputation as a safe and friendly supplier…
March 2013
With a majority of 4, will the BC Liberal budget pass?
The BC legislature is debating the pre-election budget proposed by the governing BC Liberal party today, and will vote on it at around 11.45am Vancouver time. The Liberals have a…
Kingston P3: John Gerretsen should know better
As a Minister of the Crown, Kingston MPP John Gerretsen should know better. At yesterday’s anti-privatization rally in front of his Kingston constituency office, Gerretsen was steadfast in his assertion…
5 things you need to know about the State Department’s Keystone XL environmental impact assessment
By: Hannah McKinnon | Published by Environmental Defence on March 2, 2013: When the State Department in the U.S. released a draft environmental impact assessment of the Keystone XL tar…
Power and Electoral Systems
We live in a representative democracy. That is to say the government of the society is entrusted to elected representatives. Most of us assume, because it usually occurs, that these…
Over $400 a day to Travel
Wrote this a couple weeks ago, and forgot to publish it. Here it is, in some hindsight. *** The math outlines the extreme expense incurred by Conservative Senator Pamela Wallin…
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If only Christy Clark had left sooner …
Today’s call by Gordon Campbell’s former Chief of Staff Martyn Brown for Christy Clark to resign in order for the Liberals to rebuild raises an interesting question: how much difference…
Christy Clark’s Stealth Government Exposed
And I was hoping she’d survive long enough to run the B.C. Libs on the rocks in the May elections. Having thrown most of her closest advisers under a good…
Fair Vote Canada on the Murray-Trudeau exchange #lpcldr
Fair Vote Canada clarifies one of the assertions made during Sunday’s debate on proportional representation. “In a remarkable exchange during the Liberal leadership debate in Halifax on Sunday, March 3…”…
Will The BC Liberal Government Survive Today’s Budget Vote?
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Good Morning, The question swirling around Victoria this morning is whether or not Premier Christy Clark will be able to weather the storm ahead and whether…
‘Master of the Universe’ Tim Speaks Again
And, as usual, has nothing to say to anyone with the capacity to think. H/t Kev Recommend this Post
Elementary, Doctor Watson
Gwynne Dyer explains the Chinese government’s announcement of plans to introduce carbon taxes. The motivation is the most powerful of all, fear. Under the direction of the World Bank’s top…
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
By: Birgitta Jónsdóttir | Mar 1, 2013: February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish…
Remix our ‘Things Big Telecom Says’ Video!
Here is our infamous #ThingsBigTelecomSays video without sound for those who wish to remix it. Please share it with contact@openmedia.ca if you do a remix version! read more
Check out my interview on last week’s Green Majority show on CIUT!
Last week I was interviewed by Daryn Caister of The Green Majority, which is a weekly environmental news program produced live at CIUT in Toronto and broadcast on campus and…
While we mine for gold, others strive for justice.
Canadians vie for it, want it, and when they play hockey, they demand it. Gold. For most Canadians it’s a medal they would like to see hanging around Sidney Crosby’s…
The Empress Has No Clothes…..
B.C. Liberals face budget vote amid ‘ethnic-vote’ scandal Premier Christy Clark doesn’t rule out possibility of scandal forcing her out CBC News Posted: Mar 5, 2013 7:04 AM PT Clark,…
Wringing More Life Out of Canada’s CF-18s
The Harper government has decided to upgrade Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18s to buy a little time while it tries to sort out its blunder over the F-35. Sources said…
Farewell Flanagan! uh huh.
Probably not, he will just hide under a rock until his "advice" is needed. It always is. He just went too far this time, and needs to disappear for a…