Angus Reid – PCs 36, OLP 32, NDP 26
Not really very different from their last poll, which was 38-31-24. However, even though it doesn't show a drastic change like the other three (not including Abacus), it does show…
The Evil That Ms. Clark Does.
TheBottomOfThisWellIsFilledWithMoreThanPoisonVille Les Leyne, in the VT-C, weighed in today on 'Christy's' atrocious attack ads on the feeble, but poll numbers rising, leader of the BC Conservative party, Mr. John Cummins.…
It’s Time To Play The Music… It’s Time To Light The Lights…
Nation, after what seems like a 16-year long campaign, the time has come to cast your vote for a new leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and, by extension, for…
Digby gets the Solyndra ‘scandal’ hoax. Why can’t the media?
US progressive bloggers have been busy confronting the right-wing machine's manipulation of the media to make the folding of Solyndra into a big deal when in reality it just isn't.…
Tareq Salahi, Michaele Salahi: Party Crashers
They themselves crashed and cracked.Read the story here.
Bob Rae On A 25% Guarantee Of House Seats For Quebec
More bad news.Bob Rae speaks on the issue of guaranteeing Quebec 25% of the seats in the House of Commons during a press conference in August:"As the premier of Ontario,…
Feist’s personal, hand-made assault on the loudness war
NYT has a worthy profile of Leslie Feist and her new album, 'Metals'. The article is especially noteworthy in -that it takes on the 'loudness wars' and how Feist's hand-crafted,…
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
William Jennings Bryan -- maybe we should take that language to heart today
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Gerald Caplan laments the difficulty in trying to comment reasonably on the actions of a government whose attitude toward reason ranges from overt hostility…
Deep integration: the next phase
American cops are to be granted the power to arrest Canadians in Canada. Are you paying attention here, folks? The continentalists are winning. The thickened border is an illusion. Better…
Turning the page on Sarah Grunfeld
One would have thought that the sad Sarah Grunfeld affair is now well past its best-before date, safely relegated to that bulging file we call “Life’s Lessons.” Grunfeld’s failure to…
Digital deluge by Vito Pilieci
TV antenna dealer is swamped by inquiries from consumers anxious to tune in to new digital signals.
We welcome your opinion. Once it’s too late to matter.
There have been concerns expressed in the media recently about the lengths our federal government may be willing to go in appeasing the United States in order to reverse some…
Pirate Monkey
Tiny Pirate, Monkey of The Seven Seas, a photo by Ape Lad on Flickr. Combining two of my favourite things in one cartoon!
Rogers told to stop throttling online games by Sarah Schmidt
The CRTC has told Rogers Communications Inc. to come up with a plan before the end of September to stop slowing down the speed of online games.
Top Down
The central tenet of trickle down economics is that the benefits of strong support for those at the top of the system will eventually drip down to those at the…
Harper’s war against surprises
Stephen Harper is the epitome of the tightass conservative. He abhors change and his world is turned upside down by surprises. That explains Harper's iron fist on the media, his…
"If I couldn’t get no justice, nobody could get justice"…
snipped from the national coalition to abolish the death penalty's website...YOU can help stop the execution of Troy Anthony Davis NEW! Today (9/15/2011), more than 650,000 signatures were delivered to…
Taxpayers Versus Citizens
It probably doesn't take a genius to understand the basic philosophical and fiscal difference between the moderate and the right-wing is that the moderate recognizes the needs of the collective,…
Rick Perry trumped by Donald Trump
Donald Trump says he is very impressed with “Jim” Perry after Trump had dinner with him.