Meet my little friend
Spotted him up at the lake, as I was trimming back my modest patch of grass for the last time this year. Sigh. Just me, the dog and a steak:…
2014
Sept. 20: What a dreary life…
…to read the Irving press every day. Other papers, even the bad ones, at least dream up exciting headlines like “Drug-crazed Stephen Harper dances naked at evangelical conference”. Nor is…
Nomination update: Yellowhead by-election, Bow River Tories vote, and Anybody but Xiao
TweetPremier Jim Prentice announced this week that five-term Conservative Member of Parliament Rob Merrifield would be appointed as Alberta’s representative in Washington D.C. Mr. Merrifield’s resignation from the House of…
#PeoplesClimate: The Biggest Climate March In History
On September 21st, thousands of rallies, marches and protests will take place delivering the biggest ever global demonstration for climate action in history. The post #PeoplesClimate: The Biggest Climate March…
Tara Ehrcke-BC Teachers Strike-Lessons Learned
Victoria Teacher-Activist Tara Ehckre Tara Ehrcke Teacher, Activist, Citizen. Currently on the executive of the Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association – 1400 dedicated and hardworking professionals. Victoria BC staffroomconfidential.blogspot.com Read this…
Keystone XL: The Last Six Years, By The Numbers
On the six-year anniversary of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline proposal, 350.org highlights some of the facts and figures associated with the dangerous tar sands project. The post Keystone…
BC Teacher strike – Lessons learned
On the evening of the vote results, I found myself, with great difficulty, repeating the tried and true advice: "Don't mourn, organize." Because it is correct. There is much to…
BC Teacher strike – Lessons learned
On the evening of the vote results, I found myself, with great difficulty, repeating the tried and true advice: “Don’t mourn, organize.” Because it is correct. There is much to…
BC Teacher strike – Lessons learned
On the evening of the vote results, I found myself, with great difficulty, repeating the tried and true advice: "Don't mourn, organize." Because it is correct. There is much to…
BC Teacher strike – Lessons learned
On the evening of the vote results, I found myself, with great difficulty, repeating the tried and true advice: “Don’t mourn, organize.” Because it is correct. There is much to…
Stephen Harper’s Advice: ‘Don’t Believe What You Sometimes Read’
That little gem was delivered by Dear Leader at a gathering of true believers outside of Hamilton the other day as he offered this confabulation: “There are more people going…
Daisy, 50 years later
Earlier this month was the 50th anniversary of the infamous “Daisy” political ad that won incumbent president LBJ re-election. If you didn’t know, our consulting firm is named for it.…
On Naomi Klein’s Climate Change Battle
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times So far, I’ve just dipped into This Changes Everything, but the introduction alone is a compelling read. I made my way through Shock Doctrine several…
Back Door Justice on a Friday Afternoon….
NDP forces Commons debate on murdered, missing indigenous women Conservative-controlled committee didn’t recommend public inquiry but NDP seized debate opportunity By Kady O’Malley, CBC News Posted: Sep 19, 2014 2:44…
Election Issue-CVRD Senior Staff Out of Touch Pay Formula Stalled For Now
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger CVRD Chair Rob Hutchins is an old pro at dodging bullets. Sending a resolution, calling for changes in the way senior staff compensation is determined, back to…
Saturday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne examines the Cons’ economic record and finds it very much wanting: Inequality has deepened under Mr. Harper’s watch, job quality has…
The Unexamined Life
“The unexamined life,” Socrates declared in his trial, “is not worth living.” His student, Plato, wrote down those words in his account of Socrates’ trial and death, in the book,…
The Misanthropic Bird – new blog affiliate
From Hamilton Ontario, please welcome our new blog affiliate to Progressive Bloggers.
Tainted Pharmaceuticals: Health Canada’s ‘Feeble Response’
The Toronto Star has recently been conducting some fine investigative work on tainted pharmaceuticals and the fact that Health Canada has been shielding the guilty companies from public scrutiny. The…
Better Off?
http://yrfn.ca/ The latest Conservative campaign ad proclaims that we are all “better off under Harper.” But the latest EKOS poll suggests that Canadians don’t feel