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…
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Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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 –…
Another Route To Justice
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 Generals are Talking – That’s Rarely a Good Thing.
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…
Tuesday Morning Links
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…
What’s New for Those Give and Receive Personal Support Care at Home
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…
A frolic of his own
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…
Don’t Call It The Conservative Party
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…
Who leads Canada’s progressives?
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…
Liberals, leaders, lackluster-ness
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%…
The emperor wears no clothes, but the kids bow to him anyway
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.…
A Video Series That’s Fighting Obesity
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…
Stick to your day job, big guy
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…
Stephen Harper’s Monstrous and Obscene Day of War
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…
The sky is falling. Or not. #nlpoli
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…
Why are the Generals Covering Up For Jason Kenney?
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…
What is Behind the Collapse of the Centre Left Parties in Europe?
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The Rise of Podemos (3/3)
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The Rise of Podemos (2/3)
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