Libby Davies mulling the leadership
Libby Davies says she’s open to a leadership bid. If she was successful – and there are the hurdles of French and some of her previous positions on Israel’s borders…
How Global Investors Make Money Out of Hunger
Speculating with Lives, by Horand Knaup, Michaela Schiessl and Anne Seith, Spiegel Online "In recent years, the financial markets have discovered the huge opportunities presented by agricultural commodities. The consequences…
Video: Rally Against Tar Sands Tankers in Vancouver
Several hundred concerned citizens, First Nations and conservationists gathered recently in Burnaby to speak out against KinderMorgan's plans to pipe 700,000 barrels a day of Tar Sands bitumen to supertankers…
Conservative leadership candidates have high-speed rail line brainwave: All aboard for environmental and financial disaster!
Stand back! A high-sped rail car gets ready for the rocket-ride to Calgary. Below, alternatives models, and leadership candidates Doug Horner and Alison Redford. RED DEER Uh oh! The idea…
Harvey Oberfeld Says Ms. Clark Should Not Be Called ‘Premier’
CallingCodswallopExactlyWhatItIsRealOutrageVille Retired award-winning proMedia TeeVee reporter and avid blogger Harvey Oberfeld has called Christy Clark out on her latest act of duplicity: "BC is in deep trouble: we now have…
New website
The new website for the Socialist Party of Ontario has been launched. Please check us out at socialistpartyofontario.ca
How refreshing!
Stephen Harper's new spokesperson Angelo Persichilli has vowed to treat Quebeckers with "utmost respect". Well, that will be a nice change from his former approach, and I'm sure Quebecers will…
Message from Alexandra Morton
"Hello, the media is not reporting on this so please forward this email to your contacts. "Testimony at the Cohen Inquiry Aquaculture Hearings hit a new low yesterday. The lengths…
Cops Behaving Badly: To Serv(ic)e and…
Oh lord. I hope this officer did protect while he was, um, serving: According to The Smoking Gun, this unprofessional-but-oh-so-romantic moment took place in New Mexico, in an oft-vandalized location.…
The PCs may not be a fully Tea Partyesque group, but there are some similarities
John Ivison from the National Post recently wrote a column calling out Liberal interim leader Bob Rae on his comparison of the Harper Progressive Conservatives to American Tea Partiers. Bob…
Conrad Black so heinous, he scares the shit out of even hardened prison guards. Booted from prison.
And he's proud of it.NEW YORK — Conrad Black is not returning to a Florida prison because two female prison guards are too afraid of him, the former media baron…
Late night
This video is really making the rounds this week and deservedly so! I'm reposting it here for those who still might not have seen it. It's just a great video,…
Bad timing for a sick child
So the fam was meant to be going to my dad's place tomorrow to hook up with my sister and her son who are over from England for a week…
The NDP hasn’t risen in the polls only because of Jack Layton’s passing
Contrary to what our media has been telling us, the NDP's rise in the polls doesn't have so much to do with 'sympathy' for Jack Layton as it has to…
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The author of this well-known statement is unknown. Regardless, the statement is quite true -- there are almost not secret conspiracies affecting the world. Error is far more likely than…
Stupid Sex Tricks: How NOT to Succeed in Journalism Without Really Trying
In a nutshell, always believe what dickish men in suits tell you: Kang was indicted earlier this year on charges of making sexually abusive remarks during a dinner with dozens…
I’m so sick of hearing about this so-called NDP-Liberal merger
It's not gonna happen. Liberals and NDP snipe at each other when they should be attacking Conservatives. Even bloggers go at each other. Neither party has any worthwhile PR infrastructure…
A Song from a Tropical Fight for Freedom: Pete Seeger Sings José Martí’s Guantanamero
And further to tropical wars, here's the wonderful Pete Seeger singing the Cuban song Guantanamera. Originally it was about a woman from Guantánamo, but Cuban patriot José Martí used it…
Montreal Zero One
While in Montreal on our honeymoon, we stayed in an independent hotel. As with some parts of Montreal, the neighbourhood wasn’t high class, but the staff and accommodations certainly were.…
What Re-Releases of Star Wars can Teach Us About Art and Product Management
The other day I noticed this tweet fly by in the twittersphere Was this a complaint? In light of the fact the internet was rife with complaints…