Is Harper stubborn enough to create a martyr?
Chief Teresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nations is into her third week of her hunger strike. Her chief demand has NOT been for a personal meeting with Harper, as…
Scott Tribe
Merry Christmas to all..
A Very Merry Christmas from me to all of you, my readers. May it bring happiness to you, or make things a little less sad. And.. if you’re down from…
Blogging conference call with Kathleen Wynne – Ontario Liberal Leadership hopeful.
In the last week, Kathleen Wynne’s campaign team sent out inquiries to several Liberal bloggers (up to 15 I believe) asking us if we’d like to participate in a Liberal…
A comparison of car regulations vs gun regulations
I saw this on Facebook from a friend: It was made by the “Occupy” movement in the US, and obviously is most relevant to them, but with what has been…
Newtown
There are 300 million guns in the US, by some estimates. As one person said online, if a proliferation of guns means society is safer, as those in the NRA…
Weekend thoughts on the F35, Chinese/Malaysian takeover of tarsand companies
Suddenly and simultaneously, some controversial things have popped up on the Conservative government’s watch. The F35 Debacle. Well, that’s been a debacle for awhile, but it’s now too much of…
Charles Sousa’s replies to my 5 questions
Well, a bit of a mini-flood, as on the heels of Eric Hoskins replies to me yesterday, Charles Sousa and his team have sent in their responses to my 5…
Eric Hoskins – next to respond to my 5 questions for the OLP leadership candidates
I received these answers from Eric and his campaign staff this afternoon to the questions I submittted to him and the other candidates (you can see Kathleen Wynne’s and Sandra…
Shameful: Conservatives defeat Bill C-398
Bill C-398 was designed to help improve a law passed in 2004 that was to ensure the poor in the Third-World, primarily Africa, would have better access to anti-AIDS/HIV drugs…
Ontario Liberal Party Convention: blogging opportunities?
BigCityLib asked about this last month. I’ve put forth an inquiry to someone I know up in Toronto Liberal HQ about whether the access that the NDP provided us bloggers…
In Calgary-Centre, Unite the Left may not have worked.
There will be some who feel that if the anti-CPC vote had coalesced around 1 candidate last night, Joan Crockett might not be going to Ottawa, which she narrowly did…
I don’t like this particular bunch in government either, Justin
Sun News has decided it needs to help Joan Crockett, the CPC candidate in Calgary Centre’s by-election, from suffering an embarrassing loss for the Conservatives, so it dredged up a…
Kathleen Wynne’s responses to my questions
Kathleen Wynne and her team have sent in their responses to my questions for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership, and again, I will re-post them verbatim (and just a note:…
Sandra Pupatello replies first to my set of questions
The first of the Ontario Liberal candidates to respond to the questions I sent off to them/their campaigns has responded; that honour goes to Sandra Pupatello. I was actually sent…
Scorecard Update on Ontario Liberal Party candidates answering questions.
So I’ve had four people from four different campaigns ask me to send out the little questionnaire I’ve prepared to their candidate who is running in the Ontario Liberal Party…
Random mid-week thoughts
- You may have seen that Quebecor has decided to cut 500 jobs at SunMedia, as well as a plan of instituting paywalls at their papers. So, with that, all…
There are now 2000 candidates for the Ontario Liberal Party leadership.. what are their policies?
Ok.. so I’m exaggerating.. but it sure seems that way. It also seems like the entire provincial cabinet has resigned so they can enter the race. Two more have entered…
President Obama re-elected, and the geeks with their models got it right.
President Obama won a tough battle last night over Mitt Romney and has been re-elected to President of the United States. In the electoral count, it will end up (after…
One more day..
..until we all stop talking about (or at least see it greatly reduced in convos) American politics for at least two years (the Congressional midterms come up then). An interesting…
New polls show Obama has the momentum
IF you’re a supporter of President Obama and want him re-elected, these new polling numbers will make you smile. Markos over at Daily Kos is clearly pleased, and he should…