Beulah, peel me a grape! Alberta Conservative candidate Rick Orman aloft, with grapes on a silver tray and friends. This photo appeared in my in-box, source unknown. Below: Ted Morton.Question:…
A couple of quick notes on the NDP's shadow cabinet announced today...The most intriguing set of announcements comes in the form of several up-and-coming MPs assigned to a counterintuitive set…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/05/26/pol-layton-shadow-cabinet.html
Environment Minister Peter Kent sets the tone of Canada’s carbon policy for the next four years in his first interview after the federal election that resulted in a Conservative majority.…
I’ve taken a bit of a break from posting since the election – haven’t been terribly inspired by anything. But I, as a liberal Liberal, sure haven’t been spending my…
Not that it should take the focus off Harper and McGuinty, who bear just as much culpability as municipal officials for the abuses that took place at last summer's G20,…
TORONTO — Ontario could be the first province in Canada to force MPPs to earn their keep by picking up garbage along highways and cleaning graffiti from city walls if…
Cannes wrapped up last weekend with the Palme d'Or going to Terrence Malick's apparently slightly sprawling epic The Tree of Life. From what I've read, the movie looks to be…
Blog site administrator still seeking: 1. Webmaster 2. Writers. 3. Sources close to Peter Mackay, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Elsie Wayne, or anyone else who thinks the CPC having 1m1v…
The ongoing attacks on net neutrality constitute a new round of enclosures of the modern commons. If the original enclosure movements during 16th and 17th centuries in England signified the…
Here's a big warm cyber welcome to the Huffington Post - Canada edition! Nice to see another progressive voice in Canada. What with Harper's Right wing crap about to hit…
So I click over to the Huffington Post and a big pic of Stephen Harper greets me. “Oh,” I think, “the neighbours noticed we’re around.” They did, by launching a…
A proposal from Mainstream Canada - the local subsidiary of Norwegian aquaculture giant Cermaq - for a new 56-hectare open net pen salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound threatens the UNESCO…
The posting below is reproduced directly from the ITUC website. The Wall government's record on labour and worker rights continues to be a global embarrassment. Restrictions of Labour Rights in…
From the Progressive: Circuit Court Judge Maryann Sumi today ruled that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s controversial anti-union law was illegal. “It is necessary to void the legislative actions flowing from…
So two people have passed me CDs with attack ads. I now have, in my possession, three attack ads blasting the Progressive Conservatives and then the Wildrose-. They’re well written,…
The NDP leader Jack Layton said that Quebec would just need 50% +1 to be it's own country. That is just crazy. You can't just destroy and split up a…
A shrewd little move by the NPD on "decorum" in the House of Commons, which denotes an accurate read of the public mood. The NDP will voluntarily establish a sort…
What a short honeymoon! Having romped home with 59 of Quebec's 75 seats in the House, Jack Layton has fumbled his first attempt to reconcile the soft nationalist / sovereignist…
Oh no. I see the nasty Con gnome Jimbo Flaherty has morphed into his even more evil cousin. After saying his budget would be the same as the last one,…
