Don’t Rush On Our Account
The federal information commissioner has finally, at long last, been pushed to investigate the Harper government’s policies and practices for muzzing Canadian government scientists. The office of Suzanne Legault is…
April 2013
HST and Pipelines: The Elephant in the Cabinet Room
There is an elephant in the cabinet room and it can only be dealt with if the occupiers of that room don’t oppose any of the proposed pipelines to run…
Who Is Earning Too Much?
Last week’s publication of the so-called “sunshine” list of 88,412 Ontario public sector workers earning more than $100,000 per year elicited lots of howls of outrage in terms of on…
5807…More Bad News For Tim Hudak
His Buffalo Bills have just signed Kevin Kolb, who sucks, to a two year deal to QB Tim Hudak’s team. Heck I am sure we both got the story from…
A Look at Kent
While everyones in a tizzy over the upcoming Labrador by-election, few outside of New Brunswick have paid attention to another important by-election in Atlantic Canada – that being of the…
2013 Essay Contest
2013 may be your lucky year! The details of this year’s PEF student essay contest are now online. Please note the May 3 deadline and put up this poster to…
Best political spot ever
Adrian Dix’s B.C. NDP release an attack ad on themselves. Absolute genius.
In Detroit, Pro-Democracy Movement Rises Against ‘Disaster Capitalism’
As new ‘emergency manager’ Kevin Orr takes over in ‘bloodless coup,’ community plans revolt By: Jon Queally | Common Dreams: Community and pro-democracy activists in Detroit have no intention of…
The Pill Too Bitter to Swallow
Oddly enough, they tend to be Republicans or at least they were in years past. Most of them were prominent insiders in Republican administrations up to but rarely past the…
Hill Times: True-dough
Here: “Liberal front-runner Justin Trudeau has raised more than $1-million as a candidate for leadership of the third party in the House of Commons which “says a lot,” say a…
Former diplomat who hung out with the Klan and neo-Nazis hates me
I can live with that.
A Few Days To Spill, Part II
More on that Canadian oil wrecking what looks to be a pretty little residential street in the Arkansas Town of Mayflower. Don’t worry, American friends, there’s plenty more where that…
April Fool’s, etc. etc.
Suckered, apparently, were Lono, Calda (briefly), Bruce A., Friesen, and Patrick. Gotcha! (And, yes, the timestamp is off. And, no, I don’t know how to fix it.)
Canada’s Information Commissioner to probe Harper’s muzzling of scientists
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault has acceded to a request by the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria and Democracy…
On Boredom
I’m not talking about the “nausea of ennui” discussed from Seneca (“many who judge life to be not bitter, but superfluous”) to Sartre, that total lack of interest in anything…
India’s Supreme Court Paves the Way for Cheaper Pharmaceuticals
India continues to pave the way for providing cheaper generic drugs for its citizens compared to other nations which have a heavy patent system. Previously India has produced drugs for…
Kevin Page Reflects upon the Past 5 years.
A must read published in the Star. “ I took the job when it was agreed that a few amazing and fearless public servants would join — namely, Mostafa Askari…
5806…April First First Day Of An Exciting Month
This is the month that the next Prime Minister of Canada will be chosen by Liberals all across Our Home And Native Land. Plus baseball starts, The Big Dance, The…
April 1:April Fool………..
well, I have to assume the TandT staff did go to church for Easter Sunday – and stayed there all day. There is certainly no evidence they worked on today’s…
Some Misplaced Right-Wing Anger
The ‘lady’ in this video, so agitated by the number of Americans on food stamps, is right to be angry, but for the wrong reasons: H/t Eric Dolan Recommend this…