Give everyone money
Following a successful petition initiative, Switzerland is set to be the first Western nation to vote on whether to implement a basic income program. The idea has various names: Basic…
October 2013
The Gnarley Saga #nlpoli
In case you missed it, flip over to Des Sullivan’s blog Uncle Gnarley and look at the tale Des has put together about why Jerome Kennedy quit politics so abruptly…
Stephen Harper and the Great Throne Speech Scam
Well as you know Stephen Harper deposited his Throne Speech yesterday with much fanfare and farting, and then ran off to Belgium. So he wouldn't have to answer any questions.…
FYI
The tobacco industry is being sued by Canadian provinces that aim to recover more than $100 billion in healthcare costs associated with tobacco related illness. British Columbia is one of…
More Congress Fun
I decided to dig a bit deeper into the support level of the various “caucuses” within the US Congress. I found this website: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/index.asp detailing rollcoll votes. I noted a…
Blog Updates
As you can maybe tell (if you aren’t reading this from RSS), I updated the theme a few weeks ago when I started blogging more consistently again. I tried to…
Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part One
Source: National Post: Throne Speech 2013: The Full Text Well, that was an ordeal.In one of the longer Throne Speeches in recent memory, Governor General David Johnston laid out the…
Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part One
Source: National Post: Throne Speech 2013: The Full Text Well, that was an ordeal.In one of the longer Throne Speeches in recent memory, Governor General David Johnston laid out the…
Thoughts on the Throne Speech: Part One
Source: National Post: Throne Speech 2013: The Full Text Well, that was an ordeal.In one of the longer Throne Speeches in recent memory, Governor General David Johnston laid out the…
This is very bad and its going to get worse
photo The Mi’kmaw protest against hydro-fracking in New Brunswick has been going on for months. So why was it this morning that RCMP moved in?Rabble says: It is more than…
No matter how cynical I get, I just can’t keep up
So Emily Yoffe wrote an article warning young women that if they get falling-down drunk at a party they are risking being raped. In one awful high-profile case after another—the…
Fisher Road Recycling Reject Restrictive CVRD Amendments-Lawyers Ask Courts To Decide
Dara Quast-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The CVRD is facing yet another court challenge regarding its conduct and decision making practices. A business in Cobble Hill, Fisher Road Recycling, is asking the…
Is Paulie Even Bothering Anymore?
Occasionally, we like to check in on the Goudreau. The Goudreau is the one on the right…. we think. Our readers are all quite aware of the Goudreau from his…
Our Government’s Directing The RCMP To Clear Path For Fracking
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The battle lines have been drawn in New Brunswick as the Mi’Kmaq First Nations stand to defend their unseeded territory from fracking and threatening their way of…
Let me hate my body if I want to
“Or maybe me loving my body is about you. And how you feel about how I feel about my body. If I tell you that “I love my body. I…
Full Text Of Throne Speech, Delivered By Gov. General David Johnston
Here is the full text of the throne speech, delivered by Governor General David Johnston in Parliament on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. The post Full Text Of Throne Speech, Delivered…