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…
July 2015
Sometimes We Have to Take Matters Into Our Own Hands and Out of the Hands of Failed Leaders
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 –…
SeaWorld Infiltrates PETA
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…
July 16:bad news
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 Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, July 16, 2015
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…
New column day
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…
Harper government a textbook Karl Rove approach
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…
In Harperland, Saying "Drought" Ist Verboten!!!
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…
Typical Jamie Heath
A windy, wordy exposition. Proposes marriage with Liberals, then attacks them on the steps of the church, here. Typical.
On acceptable surprises
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…
Stephen Harper and the Day of Reckoning
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…
Berlin’s New Rent Laws Helping People Faster than Predicted
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…
Our World – The Illustrated Version
Sometimes, words only muddy the message, so I’ll let the following speak for themselves: H/t Felipe TeTz Recommend this Post
We Deserve An Explanation
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:
Rob Nicholson: Conservative curmudgeon.
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…
Does Stephen Harper Have a Plan To Ruin Our Summer?
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…
Arse Foremost #nlpoli
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…
MP Wai Young’s lines were flubbed, but nevertheless they sound like a cynical Harper Government talking point
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…
The Donald Trump Song
I’m pretty sure they wrote this song for Donald Trump and all the lesser Donald Trumps of the world.