Alberta Provincial Poll: 30% PC, 30% Wildrose, and all sorts of weird.
Quito Maggi’s Mainstreet Technologies has put out the first poll in Alberta in over a month, also the first following the recent bringing down of Alberta’s deficit budget by the…
Quito Maggi’s Mainstreet Technologies has put out the first poll in Alberta in over a month, also the first following the recent bringing down of Alberta’s deficit budget by the…
Your news links for today: We Can’t Hear You: The Shameful Review of Bill C-51 By the Numbers – Michael Geist Bill C-51 amendments seem unconnected to committee process –…
Those that follow such things will know that proving police brutality is very difficult. Absent video evidence, the police narrative usually is that the one claiming to have been brutalized…
The top brass is getting restive and they’re looking for a bit of mass mayhem. This might be news to you but Russia has an Academy of Geopolitical Problems. The…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Kevin Carson discusses David Graeber’s insight into how privatization and deregulation in their present form represent the ultimate use of state power…
In my last blog post, I described the problems that make working conditions for personal support workers very, very difficult. I described the challenges for clients who need personal support…
Battistoni v. Thomas, S.C.R. 144: On the other hand, if the unauthorized and wrongful act of the servant is not so connected with the authorized act as to be a…
https://addictionandrecoverynews.wordpress.com/ In Canada, Conservatism means Confrontation. It’s not about respect for institutions or the rule of law. It’s not about wise economic management. It’s about focusing on “the other” and…
Canadian media are a lazy bunch. They follow the paths of least resistance and false assumptions. Take this past week when some supposed progressives were gathered at the Broadbent Institute…
From that Ivison column Grits are passing around: The Liberal sense of manifest destiny has taken a hit with a new poll that suggests the party has less than 30%…
Driving in with Son Two, Arcade Fire’s ‘Ready to Start’ comes on. I personally think Arcade Fire are insufferably pretentious/precious, and Win Butler makes Billy Corgan seem shy and retiring.…
The obesity problem in North America keeps growing larger and it’s within all of our interests to ensure that we trim the fat. An online video series directed at kids…
Just as the Cons make use of their leader’s artistic expression to fundraise, so too do the Libs, now. Stick to your day jobs, fellas. If this keeps up, Tom…
It couldn't have been a more deeply disturbing sight. A pumped up Stephen Harper soaking up the applause of his wildly clapping and cheering Cons.With a weird smile on his…
First they claimed the budget consultation would be way later than usual. So your humble e-scribbler worked it out. Turns out it wasn’t later than usual. Then they said the…
The only thing more disturbing than having an incompetent Cold War chickenhawk like Jason Kenney posing as a Defence Minister, and lying like a thief. Over and over again.Is having…
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