Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carol Goar rightly criticizes Stephen Harper’s plan to deal with an apparent recession by making Canada’s economy even worse off through yet…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Carol Goar rightly criticizes Stephen Harper’s plan to deal with an apparent recession by making Canada’s economy even worse off through yet…
Given that all of Canada’s mainstream parties embrace the petro-state, it’s pretty obvious that change is going to have to be driven from without, not within. All this bullshit –…
The animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a long-running battle with SeaWorld, the place that takes beautiful orca and confines them in the orca…
This day, I am at the shore, and so will have only a short blog. It’s also grim. It’s about what recent events in Greece mean for us. The source,…
Your news links for today: Internet of things: the greatest mass surveillance infrastructure ever? – The Guardian No U-turn: David Cameron still wants to break encryption – WIRED Researcher Receives…
Here, expanding on this post as to the Harper Cons’ choice between short-term tactics and long-term viability. For further reading, Jamey Heath argues that the Libs are serving only split…
That the Harper government is anywhere near the top of the polls is a testament to their discipline and adherence to the political strategies of Karl Rove. The Conservative Party…
By Harperland I mean Alberta and Ottawa, two places where it is undesired that anyone should utter the word “drought.” This CBC News report is humorous on one level and…
A windy, wordy exposition. Proposes marriage with Liberals, then attacks them on the steps of the church, here. Typical.
When Alice Funke first identified the effect of an extended writ period under the Cons’ well-hidden revisions to the Canada Elections Act, I mused the effect was less problematic than…
For years Stephen Harper was able to fool or brainwash many Canadians into believing that he was a Great Economist Leader.Even as he put all our eggs into one oily…
In cities all over the world housing people is an issue and some cities have it worse than others. In Berlin, where things weren’t awful they decided they waned to…
Sometimes, words only muddy the message, so I’ll let the following speak for themselves: H/t Felipe TeTz Recommend this Post
http://www.ctvnews.ca/ Justin Trudeau’s support for Bill C-51 is one of the reasons his support is slipping. That support was not unqualified. He and his party, he said, would:
Would the Harper Conservatives prefer a nuclear war? It really makes you wonder when you hear the undiplomatic comments of Canada’s foreign minister. Canadians had reason to be embarrassed on…
I've been trying to soak up every precious minute of summer I can. Trying to escape the city by heading out on the lake, to feel the wind in my…
Politicians help out with each other’s election campaigns all the time. There’s nothing unusual for a municipal politician to work on a provincial or federal campaign or for a federal…
PHOTOS: The Cone of Silence – it just doesn’t work for anyone any more. Below: Conservative MP Wai Young, Conservative PM Stephen Harper and Jesus, whose position on Canadian politics…
I’m pretty sure they wrote this song for Donald Trump and all the lesser Donald Trumps of the world.