No race in Avalon, except for the truth #nlpoli
Tom Mulcair will not be coming back to Newfoundland and Labrador again during the current federal election. He certainly won;t be coming back to visit Avalon and he will only…
September 2015
New York Times: France Rejects Google’s Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling
France rules that the right to global censorship doesn’t just apply to EU domains, but Google must remove content globally. Article by Mark Scott for The New York Times France’s…
Don’t Buy a VW
This is awful. Holy crap. VW had software in cars to detect official emissions tests & cheat them. Real world emissions 40x higher http://t.co/j8u9Uw7Pcr — Real Gaz of Trumpton (@gazza_d)…
On ill-advised pledges
Shorter David Beers: We should start demanding that candidates drop out if a single poll shows them running behind because there’s absolutely no history of voters’ minds changing in the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Roheena Saxena points out that personal privilege tends to correlate to selfishness in distributing scarce resources. And that in turn may explain in…
The Pirate Party’s Live Blog of the Debate
Not having received an invitation to participate in the Globe Economy Debate (assumably lost in the postal system) thePirate Party of Canada decided to live blog their own answers to…
Liberal or NDP? (Lesser of Two Evils?)
Today in the Toronto Sun (of all places) there is an article by Tom Parkin suggesting that those who want to defeat Stephen Harper (and let’s face it, that is…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 21, 2015
Your news links for today: If Canada’s Internet Is So Great, Why Are So Many People Still Without It? – VICE Motherboard TELUS ‘Your Choice’ Data Plans Change – iPhone…
Behold the 4 stages of a successful voter suppression plan!
Elections Canada cites 4 stages of a successful voter suppression plan: — Identify non-supporters; — Gather information on them; — Prevent them from going to the polls through scare tactics,…
More People Eating Less Meat
With every passing year more and more research points out that eating a diet with less meat (than the average amount consumed per person) is good for your health and…
Lest We Forget
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My weekend at Riot Fest, summed up in one tweet
Dude at @RiotFest: the "SMOKE METH & HAIL SATAN" shirt would be way cooler if you weren't wearing bright orange ear protection things. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 20, 2015
A Supreme Narcissist
https://darkpsychology.co/narcissism/ In last week’s debate, when Stephen Harper talked about “old stock” Canadians, he wasn’t talking about the oldest stock Canadians — Canada’s native peoples. Consider his record of that…
Closer to home: Barrie-Innisfil.
In checking out the two gerrymandered federal electoral districts in Barrie, we find that one riding is about as badly off as the other. Each riding is about two-thirds urban…
KCCCC Day 50: four weeks to get engaged! Or, not.
It’s Day 50 – and there’s only four weeks to go! Listening to CBC Radio this morning on the way to work, a few of the hosts were saying that…
140 Law – Legal Headlines For The Week of September 21, 2015
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: B.C. Supreme Court rules 8 is too young to be left home alone – British Columbia – CBC News…
The Real Threat Stephen Harper Doesn’t Want to Talk About
Well there was Stephen Harper yesterday, standing in front of a wall of PROTECT signs, defending his miserly response to the refugee crisis.And playing the politics of fear.Conservative Leader Stephen…
Cannibalized From Within: The Fate Of Postmedia?
From The Toronto Sun Family blog: If you want to glimpse the future, consider LaPresse, which will no longer be publishing weekdays. One paper a week on Saturdays – otherwise,…
Les vrais newfies #nlpoli
Sometime late in the last century, Bloc NDP leader Tom Mulcair said something in the Quebec National Assembly about Newfies. Mulcair apologised for the remark during his campaign stop in…