Chicago Kills Coal
Great news out of Chicago yesterday. After a two-and-a-half year campaign, a well networked citizens campaign has managed to secure the closure of two outdated and heavily polluting coal-fired power…
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Voter Suppression
Posted by David Nash Voter suppression is not just done with telephone calls. Another major factor in it is negative advertising. Nobody denies the CPC used negative advertising. And anyone…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Fixed Elections, F**ked Democracy
Ensuring dictatorships, as in Russia, one step at a time. Of course, political scientists have already dilated at endless length on this subject, so far be it from me to…
Dreams and Questions (ongoing)
Why do actors in Canadian tv commercials seem to turn up and be in every second ad for a while, and then disappear? I mean, yes, there are some who…
Robo-calls Scandal: Council of Canadians Contemplating Legal Action
The Council of Canadians announced today that it is canvassing its members and other Canadians to determine the extent to which the “robo-calls” and other dirty tricks during the May…
The big robo-calling question: will anyone go to jail?
Two important questions arise concerning the robo-calling scandal: Good investigative journalism could break this affair wide open, but will the owners of the Harper-friendly corporate media allow their journalists to…
The Last Stand – Bill C-10 Live Blog
UPDATE: the full transcript of last night’s debate can now be read here … scroll down to Orders of the Day / Safe Streets and Communities Bill. ****** As warranted…
Support The Zzzzzz
What would we do without Rob Anders? Or, as he is referred to in this article, “Old Snoozy”. I wonder if on top of being tired, he was emotional too?
Video: Saint Petersburg passes homophobic law to cleanse society of gay people
Lawmakers in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday passed a controversial law banning “homosexual propaganda” in the city of nearly five million inhabitants. The city’s governor, Georgy Poltavchenko, has vowed to…
The Memory Hole
Lest we get swept up in the Conservative narrative that this is a fiction, cooked up in the last week by the opposition. I take you back to election day,…
In Fairness, This Is Nonsense
I have to say that I find the following paragraph highly offensive: Also in fairness, the reluctance of the Tories to endorse a wide-ranging inquiry might simply be evidence of…
Occupy Ottawa Review: February 2012
March 1, 2012 – Beginning with this post, Occupy-Ottawa.org will publish a synopsis of what’s taken place over the course of each month, as well as some of the trending…
My country’s political system has fallen down and it can’t get up.
“When a government starts trying to cancel dissent or avoid dissent is frankly when it’s rapidly losing its moral authority to govern.” Stephen Harper while Leader of the Opposition as…
Ok Let’s Think Like A Robot
“The Conservative Party had nothing to do with these inappropriate phone calls,” Mr. Harper said. Note, he did not say that it wasn’t a subcontractor.
Conservatives Robocalls Scandal: What Canadians Are Saying
Thanks to the still-imploding Conservatives robocalls scandal, the end of the age of innocence in Canadian politics has begun. The scandal is being described in the kind of terms common…
Bill C-10 Update
The Senate’s Legal Affairs Committee yesterday adopted the ‘Cotler’ amendments to Bill C-10. In addition, its report made a number of useful observations, but it remained obstinately silent about mandatory…
Catholic Priests, not Obama Administration, assaulting Catholics
As American Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, continues to decry the Obama administration for its so-called assault on the Catholic Church, the fact of the matter is that Catholic priests,…
Tough Shit
A new justification for possible electoral fraud, from one of the usual suspects.
Quebeckers charged in child-porn case
Glancing through The Globe and Mail, this headline caught my attention: “Five Quebeckers charged in international child-porn case”. It felt odd. I wondered what information was being conveyed by using…