The $400M Deficit
The New Brunswick government is looking to cut $400,000,000 to balance the budget. Let’s look at this logically. Cutting Wages Stacy Mowatt In the wage release the other day…so of…
2015
Manitoba Autism Crisis Demonstrates Need For A REAL Canadian National Autism Strategy
Canada, despite a private members motion championed by the late Fredericton MP Andy Scott and Nova Scotia MP Peter Stoffer which called for one, does not have a REAL National…
NDP leadership rules screw local businesses #nlpoli
Any of the small, local printing companies who usually make a fair bit of cash from political campaigns can keep their printing presses chilled during the upcoming NDP leadership campaign.…
Science World Ignores Climate Science
Well, why would you support something called Science World when it participates in a program to brainwash students into supporting the liquid natural gas industry, despite the science indicating how…
Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia, and the Hypocrisy of the Harper Regime
A few days ago I wrote a post pointing out that our ghastly regime had failed to say a word about Saudi Arabia's savage flogging of the blogger Raif Badawi.After…
AI—will they keep us as pets?
It isn’t as if we don’t have enough BIG things to worry about—global warming, resource depletion, nuclear war, for starters—now renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and brilliant entrepreneur and inventor Elon…
Molly’s Kitchen Sink Writing Problem
MOTOR MOUTH OF THE PEN: Well it's back to blogging, and my old problem remains - motor mouth of the pen. I've always had a tendency to 'kitchen sink' anything…
Molly’s Kitchen Sink Writing Problem
MOTOR MOUTH OF THE PEN: Well it’s back to blogging, and my old problem remains – motor mouth of the pen. I’ve always had a tendency to ‘kitchen sink’ anything…
Molly’s Kitchen Sink Writing Problem
MOTOR MOUTH OF THE PEN: Well it's back to blogging, and my old problem remains - motor mouth of the pen. I've always had a tendency to 'kitchen sink' anything…
Molly’s Kitchen Sink Writing Problem
MOTOR MOUTH OF THE PEN: Well it’s back to blogging, and my old problem remains – motor mouth of the pen. I’ve always had a tendency to ‘kitchen sink’ anything…
Alberta can’t afford to ignore the Provincial Sales Tax
“Rat-free, PST-free and Liberal-free” has been a Conservative mantra in Alberta since the reign of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. But is this trifecta now in jeopardy? The decline of government revenues…
Once upon a time Alberta had a Provincial Sales Tax
The Province of Alberta’s Provincial Sales Tax free status is almost mythological in this province. But for a short period of time in Alberta’s history, our province did collect funds…
Inconsistent Verdicts
R. v. Catton, 2015 ONCA 13: Inconsistent verdicts are a subspecies of unreasonable verdicts: R. v. Pittiman, 1 S.C.R. 381 at para. 6. If a trier of fact returns a…
California Was Fun But Nothing Beats The Cowichan Valley
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We recently returned from our winter reprieve with friends in Sunny California. It was a great get away and we were treated to wonderful food, music, the…
Canada’s Fight Against NAFTA Investigation of Oilsands Tailings Get Political, Wins Allies
The U.S. and Mexico appear to have joined Canada in its fight to prevent a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) investigation of the more than 176 square kilometres of…
iPhone in Canada: Bell loses huge class action suit
There’s no end of good news lately when it comes to Big Telecom getting smacked down. Article by Nick Salerni for iPhone in Canada Bell Mobility has lost a class-action…
Harper Casts a Dangerous Net. He’s Fishing For Your Rights, Your Freedoms.
One of the classic goals of terrorists is to force the government side to become regressive, to turn on its own people. Western governments, too stupid to realize this, use…
Sea Levels Rising Faster Than We Had Imagined
If there’s one aspect of climate change that even diehard denialists are having trouble writing off, it’s sea level rise. That’s especially noticeable in states along America’s eastern seaboard and…
Wednesday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jeff Begley criticizes the Cons and the Quebec Libs for their refusal to even recognize inequality as an issue – which of course…
Stevie and Grumpy
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