Harper’s Contempt For Thinking Canadians Is Egregious
That is the only conclusion I can draw, based on the unseemly hurry the regime is in to pass its ‘anti-terror’ bill: The Conservatives are pushing to devote just three…
2015
The Keystone veto: You want jobs? Try this
* In the most contentious veto of his tenure, President Obama has rejected legislation that would have cleared the way for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. For now,…
Kathleen Wynne smacks down PC MPP, hard
…and he doesn’t get up off the mat, afterwards. Story here. Her words here: Don’t mess with this woman, little Con boys in short pants. She’ll make you regret it.
Obama Vetoes Congressional Go Ahead on Keystone XL
It’s said to be Barack Obama’s first veto of any significant legislation since he took office. It comes as no surprise. He said he would do it. It doesn’t decide…
Guardian: the battle for net neutrality reaches its 11th hour
Thanks to your hard work, we’re winning international media coverage for our efforts to stop the Internet Slow Lane. There’s still time to get your message on our giant Jumbotron…
Feb. 24: Gee! Would the Irving press miss a big story about climate change?
It was a story I first saw in Google News. So I immediately checked the sources it gave – the New York Times and The Guardian. They confirmed it. Funny…
Are We Supposed to Defend Democracy or Just Mourn Its Passing?
There is certainly no shortage of opinion pieces these days bemoaning the steady decline in Western or “liberal” democracy. I’ve penned a few myself. People I speak or correspond with…
Left Over 2015-02-24 12:32:11
Privatized playground at North Vancouver’s Cousteau International French School angers parent Cousteau International French School has leased the grounds of former Fromme elementary school CBC News Posted: Feb 24, 2015…
Bouquets of Gray 2015-02-24 11:45:00
A friend of a friend forwarded me a copy of the ruling in Dr. Dawg’s defamation case against Roger Smith and Freedominion. For those who need a reminder, Dawg had…
Guardian exposes domestic ‘black site’ in U.S.
It really says something about the ‘normalization’ of extrajudicial methods to “get the bad guy” when a major newspaper can run a story about domestic anti-terror ‘black sites’ being used…
Bell’s dragging a university student, single mother, and seniors’ org to court to make the Internet more like cable TV. Yuck.
Bell Mobility is taking Canadians to court so they can continue inflating the cost of competing apps like Netflix by up to 800%. If they win, they’ve asked that a…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Your news links for today: Controversial anti-terror bill “passes” (second reading in the House) – Toronto Sun Do Canadians realize that if Bill C-51 passes… it won’t just be the…
Setting priorities
I’ve written about politics influenced by a captured and compliant press. This is from a helpful Canadian Press article published by Macleans Magazine weeks before the last BC election: …A…
Syriza buys four months of breathing room
Belatedly, here is an article I wrote on Greece’s agreement with the Eurozone for Ricochet. It focuses on the next four months with their opportunities and pitfalls. Given that the…
ISIL: the cancer on contemporary Islam.
They call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. What they are is vultures tearing at the heart of modern Islam. They are brigands and murderers, thieves and…
More Warnings About Bill C-51
H/t The Globe and Mail Increasingly disenchanted Globe readers weigh in with their thoughts: Re Kenney Spurns Calls To Increase Security Oversight (Feb. 23): The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC)…
Marx, Darwin and Machiavelli
What do these three men – three of the world’s greatest thinkers – have in common? Science? Economics? Politics? Their impact on culture and society? Their foresight or insight? Their…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto rightly challenges the instinct to respond to tragedy with blame in the name of “responsibility”, rather than compassion in the…
Look Somewhere Else
http://www.cepec-tortues.fr/ Stephen Harper talks tough. But when things get tough, Harper hides. Andrew Mitrovica writes: The prime minister, simply put, is a nasty piece of work. His every act and…
Highly-scientific poll on C-51: vote now! Vote often!
Here is Bill C-51. Here is a bunch of commentary about it. And here is your chance to pick the party with the position you like the best! poll by…