Guest blog from Leanne Bourassa; new LPC Nat’l Membership Secretary
Cue the music: Carry On by FUN The week before convention was a tough one for my team – tempers were running high, work and school obligations were pressing, we…
March 2014
Will the Voter Suppression Act Help Bring Down Stephen Harper?
If Stephen Harper thought he could get away with his foul assault on democracy, by ramming his so-called Fair Elections Act through Parliament, after this weekend he must be having…
Nalcor following wrong energy path #nlpoli
Think back to last December. A couple of Nalcor guys bragged about the company’s strategy of importing electricity when they needed during the months when prices were low and then…
Fixing Gender Inequality: Thursday Night in Kamloops
Click through for the details! If you think it’s just sweet and fine for women to earn on average about 30% less than men, then you can leave this website…
The CVRD Board Fired CAO Warren Jones-No Reasons Given!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have criticized the CVRD politicians over their handling of the Eco Depot, contaminated sites, lack of out front debate and I stand by my posts in…
The Big Ice Hole and the Con Climate Change Deniers
In the 1970's a Nimbus satellite first revealed a giant hole in the sea ice around Antarctica, which appeared every winter for three years.Only to disappear and not be seen…
Dicking around with war
Once again, we’re seeing terrifying world events reduced by the US media to a dick-swinging contest.CNN and the New York Times seem to think the Russian invasion of the Crimea…
Liberals triple support in Lethbridge: Liberals at 24%, NDP at 14%, Conservatives at 38%
Something is happening in Lethbridge. According to a group out of Lethbridge College the Liberals under Trudeau have jumped from 8.38% (2011) to 24% for the area of Lethbridge. Provincially,…
Great Hacks from the Open Data in Vancouver
Last weekend I helped host an Open Data Day in Vancouver. With the generous support of Domain7, who gave us a place to host talks and hack, over 30 Vancouverites…
Alternate Universe: 2012 effort to merge Alberta NDP and Liberals may have come closer than we thought
A poster we won’t be seeing any time soon! Below: Liberals Kent Hehr and Corey Hogan. An effort to meld the Alberta New Democrats and the province’s Liberals into a…
The BC NDP Leadership Race Is Rigged To Protect Status Quo
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I just Facebook liked Lana Popham for BC NDP Leader. Now before you assess my support for her, it is beyond that. The BC NDP needs a…
400 peaceful Keystone XL pipeline protesters arrested at White House
by: Obert Madondo Nearly 400 youth were arrested on March 2 outside the White House during the XL Dissent, a non-violent, student-led action to stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. The…
Mardi Gras: Beads, Bands…And BP Oil
More than one million tourists have flocked to the South for Mardi Gras, and hundreds of thousands of those revelers have settled in for a few days along the Gulf…
Another PC MLA abandons Redford for the Harper Tories
TweetAnother Progressive Conservative MLA is about to jump into the federal arena. Edmonton-McClung PC MLA David Xiao will announce this week that he will seek the Conservative Party nomination in…
It Is Time To Risk Democracy
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor “Politics is the pursuit of power; a politician who says he won’t consider seizing it in the circumstances available is either lying (to you or himself)…
Necessity
R. v. Mazerolle, 2013 NBPC 21: 3. This defence must be restricted to the rare cases where the action was “involuntary”. It must be “strictly controlled and scrupulously limited”, as…
More than 2,000 people make a point about the Redford Government in deeply chilled downtown Edmonton
Some of the more than 2,000 people who protested the policies of the Redford Conservative Government in Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square today. When I was a cub reporter at…