Stand Up Now! Stand Up Now!!
Here is reminder to those who push back against unreasonable authorities and unjust laws. It has ever been so. A Diggers Song by PETER LINEBAUGH On April Fool’s Day 1649…
April 2015
Transfers, taxes and who pays for austerity
The question of who pays for austerity and how is an enormous one. Promoters of austerity often claim that cuts to universal services are fine if they’re offset by transfers…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, April 2, 2015
Your news links for today: The Harper Government Has Killed Changes to its Anti-Terror Bill; Critics Are Still Alarmed – VICE Canada VIDEO: Conservative MP uses “air quotes” to dismiss…
Getting Buried in the Babble
It’s been a while since I posted on a) the polar ice melting or b) sea level rise or c) a whole lot of other things. It’s not for want…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Margot Sanger-Katz writes about the connection between inequality and poor health. Nicolas Fitz reminds us that even people concerned about inequality may…
Mortgage Enforcement Actions Must Now Be Brought In Region Where Property Charged is Located
On March 31, 2015, rule 13.1.01 of the Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure is amended by adding the following new subrule (3): Mortgage Claims(3) In the case of an originating…
A Very Sobering Message
A friend sent this to me yesterday. I am not using any tags for this post in order to conceal the true subject matter. Please make sure you watch the…
New column day
Here, on how the sudden disappearance of Danielle Smith and her fellow Wildrose Party defectors offers a case in point of the dangers of forgetting that politicians ultimately answer to…
Oliver’s Hocus Pocus
http://www.hilltimes.com/ Joe Oliver emerges from hiding today. The assumption is that he’ll announce a date for the budget. When things get tough, Harperites head for the closet. When the economy…
But, you know, climate change is still a myth
Quote: PHILLIPS, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered mandatory water use reductions for the first time in California’s history, saying the state’s four-year drought had reached near-crisis proportions…
Don’t care about politics? You’re missing the fun.
The talking heads of the news media tell us that Canadians no longer give a damn about politics. They think it is a yawn. That may be. It might also…
Bill C-51 and the Dangerous Apathy of Canadians
As you know I find it hard to understand why so many Canadians are so complacent about what Stephen Harper and his foul Con regime are doing to this country.Violating…
Who is Senator Cold Camembert, representing the riding of Broken Crackers?
Among other things, she has personally done more to hasten the – long overdue, long necessary – euthanization of the so-called Red Chamber than any person in recent memory. Among…
Working on new maps – looking for feedback
I’ve been redesigning the maps I made last year. I made a few important changes, and a few minor changes, and am looking for feedback on other changes. 1 –…
The Return of Joe Oliver and the Latest Con Scam
Well as you may have heard Joe Oliver went missing from the House of Commons for almost a month. And on the few days when he did turn up, he…
BCLSB Exclusive: James Lunney’s Principles Of Evolution
CPC MP James Lunney has quit the party so as to more freely pursue and elaborate his own theory of biological change. He spoke in the HOC yesterday afternoon, but…
The New Chainsaw Earle #nlpoli
Carol Furlong had the good fortune to be the head of the province’s largest public sector union at a time when the provincial government had more cash than it knew…
Alberta Pre-Election 2015: Thursday Candidate Nomination Update
Progressive Conservative activist Jamie Lall was unexpectedly disqualified for unknown reasons before his party’s April 1 nomination meeting in Chestermere-Rockyview, allowing Wildrose PC MLA Bruce McAllister to be acclaimed. After…
Heiltsuk celebrate as herring gillnet boats leave central coast empty
Video by Diana Chan “We did it!” declared Heiltsuk Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett to a jubilant crowd at the fisheries office near Bella Bella this afternoon, as the herring gillnet…