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The Cons need to join AAA
Attack Ads Anonymous that is. (or What is up with the Attack Ads?: Inferring the final act of Robcon).So they went back to the only trick the Reform Pony knows.…
Video: Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler would welcome gay teammate
Not only is it awesome that Vancouver Canucks Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler have expressed their support for the recently launched You Can Play campaign, which seeks to ensure equality,…
Video: Woman proposes to girlfriend at NHL game
This is one of those feel great moments (via Jezebel), not only for the lesbian couple in the video, but also for all who believe in equality in professional sports.…
Giving your private info to the US government.
With the revelation that it was the Harper Conservatives and not the Liberals that were using a US company to phone voters during the last election one question remains unanswered.…
Halal meat and the federalists
The PQ feels that halal meat should be labeled for consumers to make an informed decision. Sounds reasonable… no issue here… next! The PQ claims the traditional religious ritual used…
Green Urban Innovation: Solarize Portland and the Power of Communities
I was in New York earlier this month to present at the Association of American Geographers big annual conference. As well as an excellent stroll along the High Line (thanks…
Disturbing name near similarities
I’ve been meaning to mention this for a while but other commitments have stopped me from logging in: The Assad regime massacre of the Baba Amr district of the city…
Why ‘Moderation’ is a big deal…
Why moderation? Why would one want to stay closer to the political center? Is there empirical or even theoretical proof that such a stance would be the ideal? It is…
A current book about how we are doing (not very well)
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse, David W. Orr – January 2012 Singled out as “one of the country”s leading environmental thinkers” by Bill McKibben in the New York…
More Miserable Than Ever Before
It may be that the “Me . . . . . Generation” has become so lost in trivialities that it cannot be conscious of its own peril. If so, the…
Thoughts on Anonymous
“RCMP”, “serious threats”, “anonymous attacks” When those words are reported time and time again with respect to the security of a certain member of parliament, one begins to think the…
Robocalls and Voter identification – Department of the Bleeding Obivous
My Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with variants of this CBC story noting that the people robocalled on election day as part of the effort to misdirect voters to…
Take a moment to feel sorry for Michael Sona
Yes, I remember Michael Sona and his actions from last May. At the time I was thinking about how strong a kool-aid dependency he must have. In my opinion, to…
Progressive Bloggers will be covering the NDP Leadership Convention
Progressive Bloggers has been given official accreditation status to observe/report on the NDP Leadership Convention in Toronto from March 23-24. Your friendly Site Administrator (that’s me) + Jim Calder, one…
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CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO: DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT DRUMMAND’S DREADFUL DIRECTIONS: Always on the lookout to squeeze the poor even further the McGuinty government of Ontario has recently received a commission report…
Will Québec save Canada?
A recent article published in La Presse states that the Harper Government acknowledges the strategy the PQ has been using for the upcoming provincial election. In essence, Pauline Marois has…
Confessions of a RoboCaller
My name is Jennifer Smith, and I’m a robocaller. No, not that robocaller. Compared to Mr. Poutine I’m small potatoes, really. I just called a few hundred of my supporters…
Video: It Kinda Scares Me
Here is a recently released scene from It Kinda Scares Me, a 2001 documentary about a gay drama coach and the troubled boys he teaches. From my favorite documentary filmmaker,…
The Fight to Protect Our Internet Privacy is Not Over!
I penned a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission about Bill C-30 and Bill C-11: When the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple…