Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, May 11, 2015
Your news links for today: The high price of speaking out in Ottawa: Editorial – Toronto Star Supporters publicly abandoning Liberal Party over Trudeau’s support for Bill C-51 – ThinkPol…
May 2015
History’s Biggest White Elephant
The United States and her allies are poised to commit one of the biggest and potentially most consequential military blunders of all time. That blunder is also known as the…
Why, I Could Be Every Bit as Big A War Criminal as My Brother, George.
And they say Jeb’s the bright one. The presumed Republican presidential nomination candidate, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, said if he’d been in George w’s boots, he’d have also ordered…
The Thought Police: Alive and Well and Ruling in Canada
Ottawa considering hate charges against those who boycott Israel Blaney’s office cites ‘comprehensive’ hate laws for new zero tolerance plans By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: May 11, 2015 5:00…
140Law – Legal Headlines for the Week of May 4, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Legal Aid seeks standing at penalty hearing for disgraced refugee lawyer | The Toronto Star Omar #law #legal (via…
Is CBC Hate Speech Story Bullshit?
WK thinks its bullshit, and he’s mostly right. It would be really, really difficult to use CDN hate-speech laws to go after the BDS movement, for reasons he cites. And…
Saturday Photo, a Little Late: Green Rain
I think I’ve posted this photo before, but it is very appropriate right now. The maples are in flower–yes, they flower–and the ground is covered with the blossoms. Extremely pretty,…
Small Algae Canopy Produces as Much Oxygen as a Forest
Algae is amazing and as we find more ways to use the powerful, small, creatures we’ll improve our carbon footprints. Already algae is used to clean sewage, clean landfills, and…
The oppressive market
Shorter Cons: Talking about not buying goods is officially a punishable offence.
From The Bottom Up
http://thehealthcareblog.com/ It’s no secret that Stephen Harper hates government. For almost a decade, he has worked maniacally to reduce the size and the scope of the federal government. At the…
The high hopes of the Hair.
The Hair is on a mission. The Prime Minister thinks he can pull off a miracle in October and win a second straight parliamentary majority. While his strategy makes sense,…
Continuing With A Theme
Well, as a new week dawns I find that I am not quite ready to turn to new topics, as Omar Khadr is still very much in the news. For…
Stephen Harper and the Great War on Dissent
Well his Great War on Terror may have suffered a serious setback, after him and Jason Kenney were caught helping the terrorists.By painting targets on our troops for the sake…
This CBC story is recklessly false
I like the writer, but this story is a pile of anti-Israel horseshit. In particular: Contrary to what this polemic suggests, ethnic origin was long part of the Criminal Code.…
Gallant Government Builds Centre for Youth With Complex Needs In Campbellton Far From Most NB Families
I understand the outrage of former Youth Advocate Bernard Richard’s outrage over the Gallant government’s announcement that it will build a new centre for youth with complex needs in Campbellton.…
Pride, vanity, and puerile BS
Anyone wanna guess how much noise would be made by the Whinging Right if the Libs or NDP ever did something like this? Are the Conservatives trying to remind the…
Elizabeth May and Stephen Harper’s Big Omar Problem
I'm very sorry to see that Elizabeth May is very sorry about livening up the deadly dull Press Gallery Dinner, with a choice comment about Stephen Harper and his cabinet.…
Ethnic identity economics #nlpoli
Wade Locke and Don Mills are two of the faces most associated with the current Conservative administration in Newfoundland and Labrador, aside from the politicians, that is. Mills played a…
In this week’s Hill Times: the federal implications of Alberta-stan
First things first: we now have conclusive proof Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi is not infallible. Nenshi, much-adored by progressives everywhere, predicted Alberta’s PCs would win another majority government. “I suspect…