Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading. – Keith Doucette reports on Hassan Yussuff’s efforts to highlight the continued importance of the labour movement in ensuring a more fair society…
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Just watch me
This true? If so, watch out. (Seriously: in the US, you could run an entire election campaign on a slip-up like this.)
KCCCC Day 36: Three things
The Hill Times has a nice notice about The Wedding of the Century™ in today’s paper: They contacted us to ask for details. Here’s what they published: A couple things…
A Most Visible Sign Of Contempt
It is well-known among those who follow politics that governments frequently show contempt for the people that they ‘serve.’ However, rarely is that contempt telegraphed in advance of an election.…
Peegate: The Latest and Totally Disgusting Con Scandal
I must admit I'm a bit apprehensive about writing about the Con's latest scandal, because I do try to keep this blog as decent as possible.And this latest scandal is…
Trudeau: The Liberal’s Energizer Bunny.
The Liberal’s Justin Trudeau is turning out to be the potential survivor of this battle for the electoral island. With a third of an overly long campaign now behind us,…
A Most Embarrassing Tweet for PM Harper
Harper’s promises today should read more like a ‘I’m coming for you next’ kind of thing …
Labour Day and the Great Union War on Stephen Harper
Today is Labour Day, and all over the country tens of thousands of Canadians will be marching and celebrating the splendid achievements of the union movement.And this year this day…
Adios to another one #nlpoli
Clyde Jackman is the latest provincial Conservative to quit politics. That’s not surprising. He was supposed to go in 2011 but hung around to make sure the party didn’t have…
Aylan Kurdi’s drowning death exposes Canada’s inaction on the Syrian refugee crisis
A leading Canadian refugee right group says last week’s tragic drowning death of Aylan Kurdi highlights the human costs of the Harper government’s inaction on the Syria’s growing refugee crisis.…
Tom Shandel’s Letter From Shanghai
Our friends Tom and Connie are spending some time in Shangai. Here is a missive from Tom. Enough politics for a bit. Here is his cut on spending some time…
Another Day Spent Off-Message
Conservative candidate Jerry Bance was caught on CBC-TV’s Marketplace in 2012 urinating in a homeowner’s coffee mug and dumping the contents into the sink. I’m betting the guy gets sacked…
A Poll Assesses Harper’s Response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Nelilfu Demir’s photograph of the body of three year old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach has taken its place among other iconic photographs that, in the words…
Nope, That’s Not by Marcus Aurelius
An image appeared on Facebook purporting to be a quotation taken from Marcus Aurelius. Having read his Meditations more than once, I was baffled because it didn’t look at all…