Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, December 19, 2013
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December 2013
Reconciliation fail
Shorter Joe Oliver: We Conservatives are so committed to building trust and relationships with First Nations, we feel we can safely ignore a report saying we’re failing miserably on all…
Were This The Best Of All Possible Worlds…
Were I of Dr. Pangloss’ rosy outlook and believed that this is the best of all possible worlds, I might have some sympathy for people like Industry Minister James Moore…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, December 19, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, December 19, 2013: Delaware work-at-home lawyer suspended partly for lack of a ‘bona fide office’ Former White…
Why would Wynne want by-elections?
Obviously Premier Kathleen Wynne was not listening to the results of the last provincial by-elections in Ontario. She wants to stick her neck in a noose in two more. The…
Still not listening to cities.
The Redford Conservatives may have changed Municipal Affairs ministers but they have not changed the way they’re engaging with cities. One of the key complaints of Nenshi and urban dwellers…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Broadbent comments on Parliament’s review of inequality in Canada: In a more encouraging vein, the majority report cautiously endorses some positive…
Andrew Coyne: The Case For Heartlessness
After coming to the aid of James Moore after the Industry Minister’s display of rabid child eating hate, Andrew is working up a new column in defense of Canada Post’s…
PS Score
Gave the PS4 to Son Two at his birthday get-together last night. Also in attendance: Sons One and Three, Daughter, Son Two’s BFF. It was a big, big hit. Many…
Eminent Victorians
It was a remarkable gaffe — as defined by Michael Kinsley. Last Friday, James Moore gave us a brief statement of what he really believes, unvarnished by spin. When asked…
Exxon Pressures Government To Lift Oil Export Restrictions
It wasn’t long ago that the dirty energy industry and their friends in Congress and the media were screaming that we needed to open up every corner of America to…
New column day
Here, on how James Moore’s disinclination to care about his neighbours is par for the course from the Harper Cons – and how we should learn the lesson about caring…
Province abandons fisheries policy…quietly #nlpoli
Two years. That’s all it took to destroy the provincial government’s historic fisheries policy that had been built on the highly successful state-controlled model pioneered by such economic powerhouses as…
Stephen Harper’s Ghastly Personality Cult
It's a personality cult worthy of a place like North Korea. With a monomaniacal Great Leader who seeks total power.Who would muzzle his opponents, declare the truth to be what…
Moving on from the St. Albert Public Library Board: an occasion for bittersweet reflection
Your blogger with some of his fellow library trustees at last night’s farewell performance as chair of the St. Albert Public Library Board. Hasta la vista! Below: St. Albert Place.…
Alberta politics 2013: Redford abandons her progressive coalition
Tweet“Not your father’s PC Party” was a key message the Progressive Conservatives directed at urban liberal and progressive voters in the 2012 election. The message was received and helped drive…
Oh, so its for my own good, is it? How thoughtful of you!
Canada Post CEO Chopra thinks I’ll be a happier, better person if I have to pick up my own mail. “The seniors are telling me, ‘I want to be healthy.…
The decline of journalism…
“…It’s a fundamental existential problem for every society on earth today.” That’s in the opening comments of Dr. Robert McChesney when he was interviewed by Ian Jessop of CFAX 1070…
RT interview with president Grimsson of Iceland – the little nation that stood for democracy and rights over banks
Came across this RT interview recently. It was recorded earlier this year and features host Oksana Boyko with President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. Grimsson served as a representative the…