Picking and choosing who to try and bully
This happened yesterday, but I’ll still comment on it. You might have seen the story where the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court took the unusual step of publicly (albeit…
Canadian Politics
Debt Refinancing, the Federal Government and the Provinces
Ok this post is in the form of a naive question. And it goes like this: If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I…
Another neck and neck poll in Ontario
More unsettling polling news for the Ontario PC’s and their leader Tim Hudak: With less than eight weeks to go before Ontarians head to the polls, the race between the…
A curse for Doug Ford
… with apologies to all of my Christian friends, and Laurence Stern. Yes, I know I recently offered this on Facebook with Stephen Harper’s name inserted, but I’m beginning to…
Ontario Election 2011: This is, and must be, a referendum on green energy
In all of North America, Ontario is unique in its approach and scale of tackling the dual problems of declining cheap fossil fuel availability and global warming. It has implemented…
Dem a take chance
Racialized youth. Austerity gets a reaction. (But, also, sometimes when I miss you it is painful. Today, when I woke up I enjoyed the quiet of my empty bed. When…
Counting your results before the people vote
Very interesting: In a flash sample poll conducted last weekend on 400 decided voters, Ipsos Reid found that the gap between Hudak and McGuinty continues to narrow. Of those polled,…
Political tidbits
This is stupid. If you don’t like the Mayor of Toronto, you vote against him next municipal election (or his councillors that support him). You don’t utter death threats, or…
Um, To Be Brainwashed, I Believe One First Has To Have A BRAIN.
by matttbastard If Toronto City Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti wasn’t real, some enterprising young sketch comedian would have to invent him (and subsequently cash in on the character with a marginally…
Pierre "Bourqueing" Up the Wrong Tree
For the past couple of years and certainly through the recent federal election campaign, Pierre Bourque's Newswatch has been one of the more balanced general news sources out there. His…
A rather meaningless poll
I see Nanos is trumpeting a poll that says the Conservatives have fallen back into minority territory, while the Liberals have made big gains. It’s nice to see Conservative support…
The Debt Deal and Defense Spending
Defense spending factors into the recent deal to avert the entirely political debt "crisis" in a couple of ways. Firstly, amazingly, the deal actually increases defense spending in a certain…
On that whole Nycole Turmel thing …
While we're on the subject of journalistic ethics, let me just cite pogge and thwap. They've already said it better than I can.From pogge:Every year or two I find a…
Shared IT Services across the Canadian Government – three opportunities
Earlier this week the Canadian Federal Government announced it will be creating Shared Services Canada which will absorb the resources and functions associated with the delivery of email, data centres…
Relentlessly Progressive Political Economy 2011-08-04 21:19:02
The left would do well to dwell on the fact we have seen this film before. At some point we need an adult conversation about capitalism and not just when…
The Right Wing Commentariat is getting Desperate
JuysTerence Corcoran Just go read Terence Corcoran’s latest in the National Post. Never mind that the world was plunged into economic crisis by unregulated financial institutions; and near fully captured…
The food insecure amongst us
Every year the UN-OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) says that 3-4 million (always different) subsistence farmers and pastoralists in a variety of different regions in Ethiopia are…
We’ve seen this movie before..
A day or so ago, Harper came out at the Mayor of Toronto’s private picnic calling for a defeat of the Ontario Liberal government, which was published on Youtube. Some…
A non-NDP contrarian POV on how much Turmel’s political affiliations will hurt the NDP
I’ve been on vacation this week and viewing the controversy over Nycole Turmel, the NDP interim leader who has a recent BQ past and still supports Action Solidaire today –…
defend free speech: help the canadian arab federation beat jason kenney in court
From Defend Free Speech:Help CAF beat Jason Kenney in federal court!An urgent appeal for support. Please make a donation today.Over two years ago, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney…