Daffy’s In Charge
http://www.poxteer.com/ Last week was a banner week for the Harper government. It announced the ratification of FIPPA. And it also announced a reduction in EI premiums —
September 2014
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Naomi Klein discusses how entrenched corporate control through trade and investment agreements will prevent us from making any real progress against climate change.…
Oh Hell, There Goes the NATO Neighbourhood
The allegation: our longtime NATO partner, Turkey, has been supporting al-Qaeda in Syria. The accuser, Francis Ricciardone, until late June the American ambassador to Turkey. “Turkey has directly supported al-QAeda’s…
Speeding Up Renewable Energy Access Critical for Climate, Health and Economy: Report
Renewable energies are increasingly seen as the best solution to a growing global population demanding affordable access to electricity while reducing the need for toxic fossil fuels that are creating…
Review: The Winter We Danced
I’m not sure I have a lot to say about this important book beyond giving it an emphatic thumbs-up. It is a collection of dozens of short pieces by dozens…
Free-market era in Sweden swept away as feminists and greens plot new path | World news | The Observer
Free-market era in Sweden swept away as feminists and greens plot new path | World news | The Observer. For a man who is a near-certainty to become Sweden‘s prime…
World Shocked At ISIS Beheadings … while our ally Saudi Arabia continues to whack heads off routinely as part of their justice system!
“In the space of two weeks last month, according to the rights group Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia executed as many as 22 people. At least eight of those executed were…
Pope Warns We May Already Be In "Piecemeal WWIII"
Has the world already stumbled into a third world war? Pope Francis thinks that could well be the case. Denouncing war as “madness”, the Pope made his remarks while visiting…
LPoC on Abortion Rights: Thumbs Up Or Down?
I dunno. But at least I can see the reasoning behind this one (whereas the sense of holding open nominations continues to elude me. Because nobody cares about process issues…
Conservative Oliver uses gifts not incentives.
Say what you like about Federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver but he is certainly proving that he is not the brightest bulb to ever hold that portfolio in Ottawa. In…
Sun Sued Again!
Here is the grovelling apology: “A column published in The Sun on November 14, 2012, and an interview that same day on Sun News expressed opinions of Tarek Fatah about…
On Harper’s True Loyalties
In response to yesterday’s post about Stephen Harper’s boycott of a major climate change summit hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on September 23, Anon wrote…
The Harper Regime and the Buying of the Next Election
We know how many millions the Cons have spent on their ghastly porky propaganda designed to brainwash into believing that Stephen Harper is a great leader.And that they are a…
Essential Reading for Democracy.
There have been a number of articles highlighting former Conservative MP Mr. Rathgeber’s new book Irresponsible Government: The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada in recent days.That he outlines the…
Beat reporters left the building
In 2010, the small city of Bell, CA was front page news nationwide. Over 17 years, the city manager and other municipal officials bilked tax payers out of millions of…
Premier Paul Davis #nlpoli
It took one more ballot than expected but Paul Davis is the new leader of the provincial Conservative Party and the Premier-designate of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Conservatives spent a…
The Scottish Referendum and the Attack of the NO Side Bullies
There couldn't have been an uglier sight. Thousands of members of the anti-Catholic Orange Lodge marching through Edinburgh to show their support for the NO side. Or one more representative…
The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals
Photo by Neil Palmer The climate change march in New York on Sept. 21, expected to draw as many as 200,000 people, is one of the last gasps of conventional…
Omnibus Minipost
TorontoA second poll from a small firm has come out and pegged Doug Ford at 16%. I decided to do some poll averaging, including the two polls, the last Rob…