Happy Byelection Day!
Yes, its Byelection Day in Canada, thanks to our PM Stephen Harper, who apparently wants to try to set new records for low turnout in byelections. Nevertheless, there are fouer…
June 2014
Mark Adler: From Belle of the Ball to Do Not Call
As Conservatives prepared for the 2011 election, they began targeting ridings with large Jewish populations, that they felt they could steal away from the Liberals. Stephen Harper was already portrayed,…
Avoiding Another Imbroglio: A Mound Of Sound Guest Post
This note from the Mound of Sound accompanied the post that follows: Some of the course material I’ve been going through lately got me thinking about the conflicts raging in…
Stephen Harper’s Legacy
http://greeceandworld.blogspot.ca/ Michael Harris has written a devastating indictment of the Harper regime. The piece is a little long. After all, the man has done a lot of damage in
The cabinet making of Premier Wynne.
It is hard to say whether Premier Wynne used delicate chiselling tools or just a Shop Vac to fashion her new cabinet. Either way, it would be wise not to…
Update On Target Canada: No Change
Stuff you saw in flyer wasn’t there. Half the shelves were empty; the half that weren’t were filled with “ordinary stuff”. On the other hand, Sensodyne toothpaste was 50 cents…
Paying everyone but ourselves #nlpoli
Nalcor boss Ed Martin told everyone in the province last week that his pet project has increased in price by almost another billion dollars. It’s now more than $8.0 billion,…
Justice is a terrible thing but injustice is worse
Peter Wimsey
The Giant Rainbow and the Return of Rob Ford
It was a perfect way to end Toronto's World Pride celebrations. With a giant rainbow seeming to rise up out of the lake.And end up in the middle of the…
Ability-to-pay does not apply
A few years ago, Glaxo SmithKline, a multinational drug company, agreed to settle an American tax dispute by paying $3.4 billion and abandoning claims for refunds worth a further $1.8…
CVRD Being Sued by David Leitch for Wrongful Dismissal – Update with Correction
Former CVRD Water Manager David Leitch was fired back when CAO Warren Jones was still in charge and then reinstated when it appeared that they did not have grounds for…
Big by-election in Fort McMurray? Never mind that! As goes Macleod, so goes Alberta…
Fort McMurray, before the Bitumen Boom. Things have changed. Below: Conservative Fort McMurray-Athabasca candidate David Yurdiga, Liberal candidate Kyle Harrietha, NDP candidate Lori McDaniel, former Conservative MP Brian Jean. If…
Beyond the European elections, another left-wing force is growing in Europe | Red Pepper
Beyond the European elections, another left-wing force is growing in Europe | Red Pepper. Pascoe Sabido However you interpret them, the European elections have challenged the mainstream’s business-as-usual way of…
Sec. 13 Dead…. For Now
NOTE: This is a little screen shot heavy. Be forewarned. On June 26, Sec. 13 of the Human Rights Act cease to exist. As our friend BCL noted however there…
So, finally the Liberals take messaging seriously
Somebody’s been reading this blog. For years I’ve been wringing my blogger hands over the paucity of opposition ads while the Cons hit the heart of the country with ad…
Is Harper setting up BC govt to reject Northern Gateway?
Christy Clark photo: Darryl Dyck/CP) By Geoff Salomons To many, the recent decision by the Harper Government to approve the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline – a project it has…
Cat on a ledge
Will I ever draw the same way twice? Filed under: art Tagged: Cat
Just Not Ready to Laugh at Climate Change
We had a great end-of-year send off by a few teachers who took the time and effort to make the final day entertaining. Years ago, we had a team that…
On Joe Cressy, party politics and me
Ordinary people usually say that the candidate or the leader matters more than the party. Young people, in particular say that: they dislike political parties, and partisanship is one of…
A Gift from Chief Justice McLachlin: The Tsilhqot’in Decision on Aboriginal Rights*
On June 26, 2014, in a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin gave the First Nations (and the rest of Canada) a treasure map.…