Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Munir Sheikh writes (PDF) about good data and intelligent government. I'll add the subtitle, "and other perceived threats to the Harper Conservatives".- Aside from…
BREAKING. Fox News North quotes Margaret Atwood: “Libaries (sic) cause cancer”
Well, not the real Sun News Network. But 22 Minutes’ Geri Hall does a bang-on impression of a Krista Erickson Fox News North type host ‘quizzing’ Margaret Atwood. It goes…
Why those drat blamed cowboy poets make me so darned ornery
Your blogger, centre, at the June 1994 gathering of cowboy poets in Pincher Creek, wondering why they reckoned him for a city slicker. Online Alberta political commentators may not have…
Most likely he’s Black or of colour and they’re so scared the city’s gonna burn…
It's not like the old days when they could kill and get away with it. A new precedent has been set. Now they have to step lightly and make sure…
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
Rense.com lists 14 points identifying fascism. How many can you identify as those belonging to Harper's Conservatives?Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco…
Bold Is Beautiful
Part of the new Liberal equation, is coming to terms with the true realities that face us. From my perspective, elements of denial and "fresh coat of paint" mentalities still…
Look Out! Tim Hudak is Running With Scissors
If there are three words that will warm the blood of the New Right and their corporate pals, they are "cutting red tape".The picture to the left was published on…
I received a notice for jury duty! Now what?
One of the most significant civic duties of Canadians is jury duty. As a juror you will be, quite literally, serving as a judge of the Superior Court and deciding…
Tory Turmoil Up Kanata Way
It didn’t take long for community members to come out swinging at a Carleton-Mississippi Mills all-candidate’s debate on Sept. 19 held by the Kanata Chamber of Commerce and Metroland Media…
Pennsylvania school district replaces 1953 musical "Kismet" (9/11!) with "Oklamhoma!"
9/11!JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania school district has decided not to stage a Tony Award-winning musical about a Muslim street poet after members of the community complained about the…
Sun Smears Suzuki
When you read this story about the "controversy" David Suzuki and his foundation have found themselves in for endorsing Dalton McGuinty's Green Energy initiatives, you have to read between the…
Lobbyist Says GLBT People Don’t Exist
Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist and lobbyist on behalf of Mission America, has announced that “there is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian, or bisexual or…
Advertising group has Tory, Nalcor ties #nlpoli
MQO, the market research company that released an opinion poll on the second day of the provincial general election, is part of a group of marketing and advertising companies with…
Next we sell off naming rights for schools
Private business promoters aim to eliminate public enterprises through privatization, contracting out and outsourcing. They promote the myth that delivery of services by private, often multinational, companies gains cost and…
Scary and useless crime bills
The government unveiled their big omnibus crime bill yesterday, minus the parts about lawful access or the anti-terror provisions that they had previously indicated would be in them. (Predictably, NDP…
CRTC rewrites rules for mobile broadcasting by Susan Krashinsky
The CRTC has introduced a new set of controls on how television content can be sold, in a move that will curb BCE Inc.’s plans to use programming to boost…
CRTC sets rules on exclusive mobile video deals
The CRTC has ruled that companies such as Bell can't offer streamed hockey games or TV shows exclusively to their own mobile and internet customers — such content must also…
CRTC Rules Against Exclusive TV Rights Deals by Etan Vlessing
The CRTC is forcing vertically integrated media groups to make all TV shows, including premium sporting events, available to competitors under fair and reasonable terms.