Party Policy more important than ever in Canada – M312
I would very much like to stop posting about M312, it has been a horrible and fantastic alarm. But I’m awake now. We’re all awake now. Here is what I…
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Obama Campaign Day 7: Do You Want Obama Swag?
There is a steady stream of Obama supporters who drop into the office to ask for a lawn sign or a bumper sticker. If I had a dollar for every…
Canada…The Bank Country?
I happen to just get the blogger app for my android, when I noticed that the first thing you get when you search Canada in the app store is a…
CENSORED NEWS: TransCanada encouraged torture of peaceful protestors Day 3 Texas
CENSORED NEWS: TransCanada encouraged torture of peaceful protestors Day 3 Texas if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you,…
Petition against the occupation of Gaza…
International petition against the Gaza siege While the Swedish ship Estelle makes her slow way to Gaza, visiting numerous ports on the way and being warmly welcomed, hundreds of parlamentarians,…
Anonymous Video of brutal police raid on Zuccotti Park Occupy protesters…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
FINALLY! THE NEXT TRUDEAU!
Long awaited. Much anticipated. I will be supporting him…as all of you already knew.
Obama Campaign Day 6 : fits and starts
Quick observations. There is no pho in Detroit suburban area. They don’t even know what pho is. I am trying not to cry. Heard during the phone-bank I coordinated today:…
The man who made M312 about him – Abortion in Canada
My hat is off, to the man who managed to make M312 about him! My MP, Sean Casey. When a Conservative MP in Ontario put forward his ‘personhood bill’ last…
Obama Campaign Day 5
This college kid comes in every other day to help out in the office. Data-entry, mostly. He is bright, talkative and surprisingly insightful. Let’s call him Thomas. Thomas is an…
La francophonie affaiblie au fédéral
MISE A JOUR: Le HuffingtonPost Québec publiera ce texte dans les jours qui viennent. En ce Jour de la Francophonie en Ontario, l’heure et au bilan du fait français dans…
Documentary about the ignored genocide of the Heroro of Namibia…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find…
Motion 312 – The Handmaid’s Tale
A pregnant women has always been considered legally one person. Bill C-484, introduced in Parliament on December 13th, 2007, attempted to change that by seeking TWO murder charges against a…
M312 – this far, no further! | Abortion in Canada
Conservative MP for Kitchner, Ontario, Stephen Woodworth brought forward a Republican-style motion last Spring, to discuss the definition of a human being – #M312. This motion has opened my eyes…
Obama Campaign Day 4
Promptly at quarter to six, an army of volunteers storms the Obama campaign office. The energy and buzz created by the storm of supporters could light up the Empire State…
Muscat eyeing Gozo
Muscat eyeing Gozo as PN positions Simon Busuttil to take on PL leader – maltatoday.com.mt. It’s a strange concept indeed for those of us used to the (near) sanctity of…
Shared Embassies – Imperial Federation League Redux
Many people have already vociferously attacked the recent, and highly publicized, announcement by John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Canada and the United Kingdom have brokered a deal to…
These Targeted Conservative Propaganda Letters are getting to be a little much
Friends Last Friday night after a couple tall boys at Barbarella’s Diamond’s Cabaret my colleague , Tony Clement spoke in great detail about all that really complicated sciencey stuff and…
Knockin’ on doors with Peter Lougheed
Elaine McCoy, the last Progressive Conservative in the Senate, remembers the former Alberta premier As published on MacLeans.ca on September 18, 2012, By Dale Smith Progressive Conservative senator Elaine McCoy…
You need to stop telling people what to do
Telling people what to do versus creating an environment that’s easy for them to figure out what they should do is probably the greatest leadership struggle I’ve encountered. I myself…