Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, May 21, 2015
Your news links for today: Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware – CBC News NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones – The…
May 2015
Visualizing where things stand
With all the news about the Federal “3-way tie” I decided to put in a poll average; weighted towards more recent polls. The results were near what other political predictors…
Boycott Bottled Water for a Better World
Bottle water is a sham and you all know this. The problem is that a lot of people don’t and that our society permits these individuals to continue their unwarranted…
It’s not in the cards for Tom Mulcair.
Whether you prefer to use a crystal ball, tarot cards, automated telephone calls or the entrails of a sheep, forecasting the results of the fall federal election in Canada at…
King Stephen’s Fondest Dream
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Always Rigging The Game
http://www.opednews.com/ From the beginning, everything Stephen Harper has done has had one objective: to rig the game in his favour. His latest foray is his attempt to legislatively re-write history.…
REMINDER: Autism Society New Brunswick Meeting This Saturday 1:00 Room 303 Tilley Hall UNB Fredericton
REMINDER of ASNB meeting THIS Saturday At 1 PM. ASNB family ADVOCACY is responsible for the early intervention program recognized as an evidence based North American model. Our efforts also…
Will the Con’s Porky Behaviour Cost Them the Next Election?
As you probably know Stephen Harper's Cons have been in a feverish, grunting frenzy recently.Running wildly all over the country, spewing our tax dollars out of every orifice, in a…
Either Side of the Fence
This brief video compilation shows Harper’s views when he was Leader of the Opposition only just over a decade ago, and at a recent press conference. Opposition Leader Stephen Harper…
TBT: a cabinet divided #nlpoli
The latest case of the Premier and one of his ministers saying different things can’t be put down to brain farts. You also cannot dismiss this because fisheries minister Vaughan…
Oil Royalty and Oil Price Forecasts (2015) #nlpoli
Don Mills says people in Newfoundland and Labrador have a false impression of the state of the provincial economy. Wade Locke says Mills is full of it. To bolster his…
Jason Kenney, Stephen Harper, and the Absurd Chicken Hawk Cons
In retrospect it could only be called a triumph of bad timing. For there was Jason Kenney at the Canadian Club in Toronto, puffing out his chest like a chicken…
Rachel Notley sets transition schedule for NDP government, gives impression grownups are in charge in Alberta again
Premier Designate Rachel Notley addresses reporters in the Alberta Legislature Building’s media room yesterday. (CBC photo.) Below: MLA Deborah Drever, new Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. If Alberta’s Conservatives weren’t worried…
List: What’s happened since Alberta’s historic election
It has been an incredible 15 days since Alberta’s historic 2015 election. Here is a quick look back at what has happened in the past two weeks and what will…
On Progress
If you’re walking towards a meeting point far away, every step is progress. But if you happened to take a wrong turn, and now you’re getting further from your meeting…
My ride to see Mad Max
…which, by the by, is indeed a subversive, seductive, smart feminist action film. And all the better because of it. I love this little car. It wouldn’t last long on…
Harper must clarify ‘zero tolerance’ for Israel boycotters: Church
The United Church of Canada wants “clear reassurance” that Prime minister Stephen Harper does not intend to criminalize Canadians critical of Israel. The post Harper must clarify ‘zero tolerance’ for…
Rachel Notley Does A Smart Thing
No real budget until fall. Until after the federal election, Alberta treads water. And the federal NDP takes no heat for any unpopular measures said budget might contain. The politics…
I Hate to Break it to You, B.C., But You’re Not a Climate Leader
This is a guest post by Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner with the Sierra Club B.C. If you live in British Columbia you might think that our province is…