The Day Stephen Harper Declared War on Obama
OMG. Sound the humiliation alert siren. I just KNEW that Stephen Harper's deranged Crusade to try to get Obama to aprove the Keystone Pipeline was going to end badly.I knew…
2013
Merkel’s Victory, Everyone’s Loss: The Burden Of German Mercantilism On Europe
Merkel’s Victory, Everyone’s Loss: The Burden Of German Mercantilism On Europe. John Weeks The electoral victory of Angela Merkel brings bad news to the rest of Europe. Without doubt it…
S.M.R.T
At the beginning of the school year, The Captain came home after classes one day and announced at the dinner table that one of the things they’ll be doing this…
6345…Senator/Chief Vern White Won’t Like This
With all due respect to Senator Vern White he is wrong about safe injection sites. He had a letter to the editor published in the two big Ottawa dailies Thursday…
6345…Senator/Chief Vern White Won’t Like This
With all due respect to Senator Vern White he is wrong about safe injection sites. He had a letter to the editor published in the two big Ottawa dailies Thursday…
6345…Senator/Chief Vern White Won’t Like This
With all due respect to Senator Vern White he is wrong about safe injection sites. He had a letter to the editor published in the two big Ottawa dailies Thursday…
Trudeau Can’t Hold Up to a Debate, eh?
This video is absolutely brilliant. Yeah, I know she isn’t exactly the seasoned debater like Harper or Mulcair, but I definitely liked how he laid things out and took control…
Condolences to the Filmon family
Very, very sad.
Dean Del Gonza
Liberals from coast to coast are revelling in a pot of schadenfreude tonight: Fifth Tory leaves Harper’s caucus in scandal OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper lost his fifth caucus…
Attacks on climate change science hinder solutions
photo: Dan Crosbie Starting in late September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Fifth Assessment Report in three chapters and a summary. Not to be outdone, contrarians…
Best. Comment. Ever.
Blog reader “Sarah” REALLY gave me a big old can of whoop-ass when she wrote something on my blog post “The Value of Nurses” She really schooled me! So take…
PC Party tries to use mayor candidates as headliners for fundraiser
TweetIn a strange departure from the non-partisan politics of civic elections, it appeared for a moment today that three main candidates in Edmonton’s mayoral election were headlining a fundraiser for…
Democratic constitutions a ‘barrier’ to neo-liberal ‘reforms’
Check out @EurozoneCrisis’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/EurozoneCrisis/status/383338023402090496 Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Austerity, Democracy, Eurozone Crisis, neoliberalism
What now for the German SPD?
Check out @SocialEurope’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/SocialEurope/status/383374841187139584 Filed under: Uncategorized
Was Pamela Wallin’s Appearance On ‘Corner Gas’ Prophetic?
… I’ll leave that for you to determine.
International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit Declares Climate Emergency
The first International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit was held in Suffern, NY from September 20- 23. Over 100 invitation-only participants came from 35 countries equally divided between the Northern…
Brush up on my youth democratic participation and civic education policy in time for provincial council!
With provincial council coming up this weekend, here’s a brush up on my policy that got prioritized by the Ontario Young Liberals at Summer Fling back in August. Here is…
Our Prime Minister Steve Has Pretty Shaky, and Dubious Friends and Colleagues, but then…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The days of easy-going top down manipulation and disregard for almost everyone could be drawing to an end for PM Steve Harper. In todays National…
My thoughts on "death with dignity"
The recent passing of Dr. Donald Low, who guided Toronto through the SARS crisis in 2003, unexpectedly sparked a revival of the difficult issue of assisted suicide when his widow,…
In Florida, Zimmerman Walks While Black Woman Who Fires Harmless Warning Shot Gets 20-Years.
Marissa Alexander has been reprieved from having to serve a 20-year stretch in a Florida penitentiary for having fired a warning shot during an argument with her abusive husband. Under…