Stephen Harper and the Great Squirrel Tour
OMG. When my special satellite feed of Stephen Harper's Great Escape Tour came in tonight I must admit I was shocked. For there was Great True North Warrior Big Oil…
August 2013
The Real Crime of Bradley Manning
I suppose it could have been worse. He could have got sixty years, he got thirty-five. Thirty-five years for telling the truth, blowing the whistle on war crimes. Among the…
Queue-jumping inquiry report surely wounds Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman
Wildrose Opposition Leader Danielle Smith, looking for all the world like a future premier, lands a few easy punches on the government after the release yesterday of the health care…
Queue-jumping report quashes another Tory scandal
TweetOver the past eight months, Premier Alison Redford‘s Tories have been quickly dispatching the handful of scandals and allegations that dogged them and robbed them of their political agenda throughout…
Leveraging synergies while optimizing dynamic convergences
Want to get your money for nothing and your clicks for free? Here’s the plan: 1. Find venture capitalist with deep pockets2. Write proposal for internet-based business using this3. ‘Orchestrate…
Leveraging synergies while optimizing dynamic convergences
Want to get your money for nothing and your clicks for free? Here's the plan:1. Find venture capitalist with deep pockets2. Write proposal for internet-based business using this3. 'Orchestrate dynamic…
Leveraging synergies while optimizing dynamic convergences
Want to get your money for nothing and your clicks for free? Here’s the plan: 1. Find venture capitalist with deep pockets2. Write proposal for internet-based business using this3. ‘Orchestrate…
ISS Flying South West of Regina
From Victoria Park almost a week ago. From tonight:
The covert, corporate attacks against Canada’s healthcare system
Opponents of equitable, universal healthcare are using a corporate “communications” strategy known as Fear Uncertainty Doubt (FUD) to smear Canada’s “signature” social program, Medicare. The post The covert, corporate attacks…
BC Liberals Give Green Light To Dump Contaminants in Shawnigan Watershed.
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The BC Liberal Government announced today that the South Island Aggregates (SIA) have been granted a permit to dump 5 million tonnes of contaminated and…
Transnational racketeers at work
Barrett Brown, Glenn Greenwald, and the Mafia State, DS Wright, Firedoglake.com “…you should know what Western states like the United States and the United Kingdom have become in the world…
Rally round the Ex!
I feel terrible about the illness at the Ex yesterday. As it happened, I myself was at the Ex yesterday. I had fantastic food there: roasted corn on the cob,…
Voter suppression: don’t be daft
I could make my life easy here and just tell you to check out Adam Goldenberg’s feed re: this non-issue of the Liberals (gasp!) offering MPs (gasp!) a “voter suppression”…
bradley manning in his own words
In case you haven’t seen it, this link at Democracy Now! has the transcript of Bradley Manning’s statement, read by his lawyer David Coombs, after Manning was sentenced to 35…
Progressives must consider benefits of ranked ballot
In an ideal universe, Canada would have PR like 85% of developed countries. But we ended up in a whacky one: we dole out absolute corrupt power to an arbitrary…
Ron Paul, a Neo-Fascist, and The Birchers Are Coming to Canada
A while back we began wondering where Andrew Benson ended up. Our readers remember who Andrew Benson is, right? Whenever one of the folks we've paid attention to in the…
Liberals and NDP Use Cynical Fear Tactics About Vote Suppression in Latest Example of Partisan Gameplaying
It looks like the Liberals and New Democrats are back at their usual and constant partisan political game-playing. Today, it was reported that Liberal MP Ralph Goodale went to the…
At this point why would anyone believe western governments about anything?
Bradley Manning has been sentenced for showing you all the truth, and “Osama Bin Laden” – the fictional CIA created boogey man – is under the sea. Arming “Al-Qaeda” is…
The witless wisdom of Shai Agassi
Dunning-Kruger effect graphed by AddAttack on DeviantArt. LinkedIn has an “opinion leader” piece from Shai Agassi, founder of bankrupt car-battery-switcher Better Place, telling carmakers how they need to respond to…