10 years later #nlpoli
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the first Sir Robert Bond Papers post. In July 2004, I wrote and released a paper that tried to “examine offshore oil revenues and…
2015
When the call screener makes life difficult
January 2, an unidentified caller chatted with CKNW Legislative reporter and talkshow host Sean Leslie, a man who happens to be spouse of a BC Liberal Government Communications Director, appointed…
The Con Stooge John Baird Goes After the Palestinians. Again.
He has always been his master's voice, Stephen Harper's most faithful stooge.A yapping Con pitbull, the absurd Minister of Religious Freedom, a gay Thatcherite in a government full of filthy…
A Whale Kisses the Bottom of YOUR Boat!
I haven’t been able to get this image out of my head for days. It keeps coming back. It keeps asking me why we all feel so disconnected from nature…
Canadians still demand female representation on banknotes
The call for more female representation in Canada remains loud and clear as an online petition demanding that the Bank of Canada include women on Canadian banknotes opens 2015 with…
Musical interlude
Adam Szabo & Willem De Roo – Medusa
Cushion or cat?
Filed under: art
Brigette DePape, Michael Harris, and the Stop Harper Movement
When I think about how we might create a mighty movement to help the progressive parties bring down the Con regime.And I am assailed by the usual doubts about whether…
Pope Francis Is On The Right Track, But Not With The Right Wing
You know that when Fox News starts howling, someone is doing something right. The reactionary network is issuing dire warnings: Fox News reported on Pope Francis’ upcoming action on climate…
New Solar in Ontario
Ontario isn’t as GD senseless as Saskatchewan’s government. They actually have somewhat of a Feed In Tariff program underway. The Ontario Power Authority has just extended its solar feed-in tariff…
An Inse Suggestion
In my morning post, I reprinted the following letter from The toronto Star: With Stephen Harper’s Conservatives intent to push science back to medieval times, it may be time for…
Plumbing the rural press for hints of how the Mudville Nine were induced to join the Prentice PCs
Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Rod Fox sure didn’t sound very enthused about his recent switch from the Wildrose Party to the Progressive Conservative Party in the apologetic open letter he wrote to…
My favourite 2014 films…
Actor Ellar Coltrane as seen in “Boyhood” from age 6 to 18 My Top Ten Films of 2014: 1) Boyhood (One of my favourite directors, Richard Linklater, finally looks poised…
Politics and its Discontents 2015-01-02 11:29:00
Yesterday, The Mound of Sound had a post on the role that Pope Francis is playing in the climate change debate. Given his growing moral authority and extensive popularity throughout…
Facebook, Likes and Big Data
I suppose you could call it ironic. There was a story from a ‘friend’ on my Facebook news feed today called “Quitting the Like” all about escaping Facebook’s data collection…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading. – Mariana Mazzucato discusses how inequality and financialization have teamed up to create an economy with little upside and serious risks for most people:…
In Whose Pocket?
https://www.colourbox.com/ We on the Left like to think that the Harper government is in the pocket of Big Business. But, Jim Stanford writes, recent decisions have caused business to re-evaluate…
“We Are All Seeds”
“As 2015 has been declared the Year of Soil, let us recognize that in the seed and the soil we can find answers to every one of the crisis we…
New column day
Here, on how we’ll soon be seeing both federal and provincial governments alike try to block out their real history with glossy ad campaigns – and why we shouldn’t let…
7 unbelievable things people do to ruin your mobile web browsing experience! Complete with click-bait headline!
1) Pages that don’t zoom. I want the text a bit bigger so I can read it. You want to show me ads. You disable zoom for your page. I’m…