Candid Camera – ‘PM Harper May 2011 Election Night Behind The Scenes’ .. YouTube
Stephen Harper imitating Joe Clark – John Diefenbaker – Brian Mulroney. This appeared on YouTube on the evening of June 11, 2013. No idea who posted it.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Wraparound cats.
Mallory read to her parents tonight
Warning: braggy parent post trigger warning. At least I can promise I will keep it short. I wanted to mark the occasion. Mallory read ten pages of Charlotte’s Web to…
Harper must act on tax havens and transparency at G8 summit: Oxfam
By: Oxfam Canada | Press Release Oxfam Canada urges Prime Minister Stephen Harper to help end global hunger by supporting strong steps at the G8 summit to close tax havens…
Facts about trans youth
(Previously published in March 2012, and archived here for when it might be needed as reference) Several in the Canadian media and the general public have become interested in trans…
6132…Latest Nanos Poll Explained
Numbers, polls, stats. Who doesn’t love them? Heck I love stats so much I took first year stats three years in a row. Voices for Democracy interprets the latest numbers…
Fort McMurray, Home to 176 Square km of Tar Sands Tailings Ponds, Overwhelmed by Floods
On Friday the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB), the Alberta government’s industry regulator, released a report stating that tar sands companies have failed to comply with pre-existing agreements to limit…
Holding CSEC to account isn’t enough to protect our rights
Open Media, with support from Leadnow, has begun a campaign to demand answers from the Harper government about exactly what kind of information our national signals intelligence agency is gathering…
The Banada Republic
So it appears Ottawa has a “solution” to the temporary foreign workers problem (you know, the problem they created by hastily passing policies to allow companies to exploit foreign workers).…
“Bebolucija!”: The #JMBG Movement in Bosnia-Herzegovina
It may the most important event post-war Bosnian history, to date—and it has a hashtag. Some ten thousand individuals from all over Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) today gathered in the streets of…
“Leadership” “Stealing”
Conservatives have created a new idea. It’s Leadership Stealing. You can Steal, like a Leader. “How can the Liberals actually, with a straight face, pretend to stand up for the…
First Nations Slam Harper Government’s Legal Argument for Canada-China Trade Deal
Last week the Federal Court of Canada heard oral arguments from the Hupacasath First Nation and the Harper Government on Hupacasath’s legal action regarding the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and…
Cut back and hope no one gets hurt?
In May, responding to the recent problems with chemotherapy mixtures, the Ontario Hospital Association distanced the contracting out of chemo mixtures from the cost cutting that is so widespread in…
6131…Rob Ford Coverboy
He should frame this puppy. It would look great on the wall at the old folks’ home. WFDS
Journalist Glenn Greenwald interviews NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden [VIDEO]
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘” don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things” Video available on YouTube We recommend: The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic…
The Ranked Ballot Initiative passes its 1st hurdle in Toronto!!!
The first significant electoral reform in Canada since.. probably 1867 has passed its first (and major) hurdle in Toronto’s City Hall voting tonight. Via Dave Meslin’s Twitter feed and others,…
6130…Quebec Soccer Wars
La Belle is once again proving that if the ROC goes right, they go left.This time it is their stupid ban on turbans. Coz they are dangerous. Which is absurd.CBC…
Keep True, NDP
Howard Pawley was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 and served as a cabinet minister in the first NDP government of Manitoba. For most of the 1980s, he governed…