Twisted Priorities
The Harper government is a nasty piece of work. Its twisted priorities now permeate the Canadian economy. Those priorities are best illustrated by the temporary foreign workers program. Originally established…
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Wynne pulls back into a “tie” with the PC’s.
A new poll out this morning that should cheer the Ontario Liberal Party and the Premier, Kathleen Wynne: The Liberals and Conservatives are each at 36 per cent while the…
Annual GDP Change #nlpoli
A release on Friday from Statistics Canada showed that the provincial economy shrank by almost 5% in 2012. They even supplied a lovely chart to illustrate the GDP changes in…
Bait and Switch: Red Chris Mine, ‘Green’ Funding and the Northwest Transmission Line
The Northwest Transmission line is a 344 km, $600 million taxpayer-subsidized hydroelectric corridor. Despite receiving $130 million in federal “green infrastructure” funding and over $300 million from BC Hydro so…
Vic Toews and the Con Police State
He is, after his depraved leader, the most brutish Con of them all.A religious bigot, a ghastly hypocrite, a political thug who has spent a lifetime attacking judges, and jailing…
Extraordinary Political Interference: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview
We recommend:Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay Said Canada Should Bring Omar Khadr HomeHarper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”Statistics Canada: Crime rate reached its lowest level in 40 years in 2011Confirmed again: “Canada…
The Great Academic Rejection of 2008-20??
…….. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20….. Do you know what this is? It is a count of the amount of days since my last job interview. A count that is used to monitor a…
Thomas Mulcair: Conspiracy Theorist
Back in 2011 when he was deputy-leader of the NDP, Thomas Mulcair questioned whether or not the United States government had photographs of Osama bin Laden’s body after the famous…
5926…Don Cherry Says Something Un Intelligent
Again.The National Post quotes the man as telling his cohort Ron McLean and the world these pearls of wisdom during the first intermission of CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada: “I…
Rasputin: Two Perspectives
Perhaps no character stands out in pre-Revolution Russia as much as that of Grigory Rasputin. He was influential, enigmatic, charismatic, secretive, held no office, yet had enormous influence on the…
Brad Love, Michelle Erstikaitis, and Luka Magnotta
This is going to be a little bit rambling and surreal. Please bare with us. Most of our readers are aware of who Brad Love is. For those who don't…
5925…Conservative Senator Says Something Intelligent
I know. Stop the presses. Call the CFRA tip line. This is massive. Hugh Segal, the Tory Senator for what-does-it-matter, was written up in The Toronto Star a few days…
The Face of Terrorism
I’ve been to Washington DC many times, but this trip was different. In addition to the usual buzz created by lobbyists, bureaucrats, politicians and businessmen who had places to go…
More On The Online Community Experience
Earlier in the month, I wrote a post in which I reflected upon the affinity and sense of community I feel in the ‘progressive blogosphere.’ Prompted by the Internet connectivity…
Distinction without a difference
Erin is right to question Doug Elliott’s attempt to split hairs between a “slowdown” and a “deceleration”. But Elliott’s parsing ranks a distant second behind Russ Marchuk in the field…
Dean Skoreyko Is A Kook
Here’s his political resume. Note that it ends in 2010. That’s because the B.C. Tories ditched him for being a kook, a line of thinking they might have applied fruitfully…
Dalmeny – 101km
Perfect day for a bike ride. Sunny, cloudless, a wind that seemed mostly to chase me everywhere I went. This is not a bad route. I had planned to come…