Vancouver Sun: Let’s Give ‘Em Subban to Talk About…
Vancouver Sun’s Jordan Subban photo caption sparks outrage Newspaper posted photo online calling Vancouver Canuck ‘dark guy in the middle’ CBC News Posted: Sep 24, 2014 7:41 AM PT Last…
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Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Your news links for today: Jesse Kline: Netflix for the win – National Post How Netflix and Canada’s broadcast regulator arrived at a deadlock – Globe and Mail Not Just…
Fighting for the Foothills: Albertans Speak Up to Protect Headwaters of North Saskatchewan
Alan Ernst and his wife Madeline were world travellers for most of their adult lives. So when they decided to settle down, they gravitated back to one of the most…
#NBVotes Post-Mortem for Projections and Pollsters
So there is some chatter going around that New Brunswick was yet another flop for pollsters in Canada, and in particular Forum Research, who released the final poll in the…
The Big Mac VS The Whopper
Clearly, based upon the shameful falsehoods she uttered at yesterday’s U.N. climate summit about Canada being a “global clean energy leader” doing “its part” to cut carbon emissions that warm…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, September 24, 2014: Justice Kagan performs same-sex wedding, following in the footsteps of Ginsburg and O’Connor Now…
ArtsVote Toronto Mayoral Debate Monday 29th
The Toronto municipal election is happening next month and this coming Monday there will be a debate between mayoral candidates regarding support for arts and culture. Hosted by ArtsVote at…
And liberal thinkers need not apply?
This needs to be clarified. Nobody owns your body but you. A true liberal recognizes the right of men and women everywhere to the freedom of control of their bodies.…
A Fossil Fool
http://toronto350.org/ Stephen Harper is at the UN today to attend a meeting of the Security Council. He chose not to attend yesterday’s meeting on climate change. As
The Utter Disgustingness of Ezra Levant
I never thought Ezra Levant could stoop as low as he did when he donned a red wig after Jack Layton died to mock his supporters.But his recent attack on…
Doug Ford flips and flops on Toronto’s Pride Parade while out councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam gets homophobic hate mail from Ford Nation
In Tuesday’s debate among the three major candidates for Toronto mayor, Doug Ford was asked repeatedly by his opponents during one of the defining moments of the night if he…
Justin Vs. Ezra
An interesting bit of tactics. In fact, it would be just swell if Canadians thought of you as the typical, modern conservative, @ezralevant. Anything we can do to help?— Gerald…
Stephen Harper and the Day of Reckoning
Well there he was last night attending a Climate Summit dinner in New York along with his Con cousin David Cameron.After skipping the summit itself. And while Cameron seems very…
Cabinet documents and deliberations #nlpoli
One of the big changes Bill 29 made to the province’s access to information law was to give a list of documents that could not be released under the Access…
The ‘Second Hand Dealers in Ideas’ Who Sold Us Neoliberalism
A fateful meeting between economist Friedrich von Hayek and British aristocrat Antony Fisher had lasting consequences—including for the debate about climate change policy. Picture: Fisher with Margaret Thatcher. Friedrich von…
The Con Speaker and the Death of Parliament
For years Stephen Harper and his Cons have been slowly killing our Parliament.They have have debased it, they have rendered it impotent. They have reduced it to a scripted horror…
ISIS—a force for peace?
A juxtaposition of two articles in the Guardian this week suggested a very odd development indeed in the Middle East—the barbaric hordes of ISIS currently marauding through Syria and northern…