Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chavecito, fine ‘n’ dandy
And look! He’s entertaining visits from some friends in high places…again: El Ecuadorable was there, along with Fidel and Raúl Castro. And it looks like a good time was had…
Global University Rankings
The European University Association (EUA) recently released a report they’d commissioned entitled Global University Rankings and Their Impact. The report was written by Andrejs Rauhvargers. According to the EAU, one…
Mayor Ford Says: Come To City Hall Thursday, July 28, 9:30AM
Well, well, well, normally an invite from Rob Ford would end up in my garbage quicker than a brochure to take out a subscription to the National Post. But sometimes…
Vancouver East MP Libby Davies joins the fight for an unmetered Internet
In a letter sent today, Vancouver East MP Libby Davies encouraged her constituents to join her in signing the Stop The Meter petition. The Deputy Leader for the NDP writes:…
On the Green Party platform.
Finally -- for now, at least, until the Tories and NDP release the rest of their platforms, and the Libs release anything at all -- I'm going to take a…
Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don't we have AC on Montreal's public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it's too expensive…
Pigheadedness Makes us Uncomfortable
Every summer, the topic comes up: why don't we have AC on Montreal's public transit. The basic answer is that our pigheaded mayor, Gérald Tremblay insists that it's too expensive…
Same old story, slash-and-burn edition
So can Canadian progressives agree that eliminating environmental regulators is generally a short-sighted move which prioritizes a foolish focus on slashing government gratuitously over a society's long-term well-being?Of course, I…
Government Site Black Balls Dion’s Senate Reform Op-ed
A Parliament of Canada web page intended to provide information on the Harper Government's Senate reform legislation has mysteriously omitted Stephane Dion's opinion piece for the Edmonton Journal, "Senate Plan…
Could News Corp. Double Agent Neil Wallis Be Behind Climategate Hacking?
Olbermann-Murdoch.jpg As if this week's Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal wasn't enough, it now appears that the University of East Anglia CRU email hacking scandal (a.k.a. Climategate) might ...
Stephen Harper and North American Union (NAU)
I am not familiar with the NAU concept and recently heard about it. It sure sounds scary. Are Canadians aware of the deals like these by Stephen Harper? It sounds…
God Bless You, Elwy Yost
Sad news. Elwy is gone. Elwy Yost is the reason I love films as much as I do. He is an even bigger reason why I like old films and…
Crime rate falls to lowest level since 1973
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/07/21/crime-rates.html
The Labour Party’s response to Margaret Thatcher
Actual footage (was used in this bit.) Alltop is all actual footage.
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Female Presumptive Rule
I find it astonishing that there is a gender based presumptive rule remaining in Canadian tax law – constitutional or not it is offensive: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/07/20/ottawa-father-benefits.html An Ot...
NDP Needs to Launch a Culture War
Back in April, 2010, EKOS pollster Frank Graves got into a lot of trouble in the neo-con blogosphere for advising the Liberal Party to “invoke a culture war” on the…
The Facts About India’s Infant “Sex Changes”
Canadian and international press outlets reported last month that in India, the preference to have male children is so strong that parents are having their female infants surgically assigned (a.k.a.…
Blue Gaza – Friday Film Pick: Gaza Strip
An award-winning 2002 documentary on Gaza from filmmaker James Longley is now available on line.
The Worst Thing The Campbell-Clark Government Could Ever Do…
....Would be to not reappoint Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond as the province's child representative.And make no mistake, it is this government, a government currently being run by the very person who…