Unpacking my Canada Crime Bill C10 hunger strike
Today, May 21st is the day 69 of my indefinite hunger strike protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cruel new crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly…
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In Grade 10 I read The Chrysalids, a John Wyndham science fiction that starts out describing an agrarian culture where they talk of God-like old people who could move the…
ConCalls: Two Month Link Backlog
There’ve been so many robocall stories in a wide range of newspapers, blogs, and online magazines. It’s really hard to keep track, and I’d not so humbly claim I’m in…
ConCalls: #RoboCon RoboContinues
Thx! RT @kady: Meanwhile, if you've lost the thread of the #robocalls plot, the intrepid @laura_payton has you covered: is.gd/Xzrnby— Laura Payton (@laura_payton) May 16, 2012 There’ve been a few…
You Scratch My Back
There’s an interesting glimpse into how the Conservatives get around that pesky no-corporate donations rule. While it could be a co-incidence that people swept up in an investigation into crooked…
Plenty of Jobs in Alberta (Alberta!!!) says Emperor Steve’s Puppet, Flaherty
Here’s good ol’ boy Flaherty warning Canadians that EI will be changed to reflect Alberta and Saskatchewan’s need for labour…as if the government was financing EI in the first place..…
ConCalls: Fraud Not all Robocalls in #RoboCon
Take a look at what also happened to swing the election in key ridings for the Conservatives. Harassing phone calls pretending to be from Liberals, and plenty of voters voting…
What if Thomas Mulcair was Jewish?
#cpc #ndp #tm4pm #cdnpoli Now that I have your attention.. The last two leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada were eviscerated by the Conservative Party attack machine as a…
F-35: Don’t Need No Stinking Accountability
I am genuinely concerned that there is no viable alternative party for conservatives in Canada who have, to this point, put all of their eggs into the Harper basket(case) Conservative…
Haste Makes Waste
“Opposition parties accuse the Harper government of stooping to a petty, new low in the muzzling of dissent.” Note that says a “new low”, an acknowledgement that accountability is already…
Conservative Support Among Older Canadians Plummets. NDP Leads Now By A Wide Margin
CARP, (Canadian Association of Retired Persons), has released their latest poll regarding federal politics. For the first time in years, a party other than the Conservatives leads. The NDP now…
ConCalls: True Believers Ignore Evidence #RoboCon
@saskboy Will you ever learn that PMSH simply doesnt plan and execute Robocall-kindacrap? #notthatkindaPM @leaderpost— Carol Husband (@CarolHusband) May 11, 2012 “The Conservative Party can say absolutely definitively it has…
The saddest days of Peter Van Loan
As a skateboard trick, it’s pretty rudimentary. As a perspective on democracy, though, Peter Van Loan’s 180 is downright sad. It was seven years ago that the Liberals shut down…
ConCalls: A Quick Bow
Here’s where Zorpheus and I take a quick bow to imaginary applause. Postmedia is confirming our suspicion that Poutine could be royally screwed if he logged in at a place…
This is What Authoritarianism Sounds Like
IF anyone else wants to hear what open, transparent parliamentary democracy sounds like, the MP4 file is here: is.gd/35VNrS #hw— kady o'malley (@kady) May 10, 2012 If you download the…
Extending Habitability
What does “extending habitability” mean? It explains “sustainability”. I prefer to sometimes call it “survivability”, because without the delicate balance our ecosystem and societies are teetering on, there’s no possible…
Dirty Laundry
Is this what Peter Kent P.O.S. M.P. was talking about when he said there was laundering of funds that the Senate was investigating? Somehow, I think it wasn’t.
ConCalls: Now it Gets Interesting #RoboCon
I’m kidding. RoboCon has been the biggest collective Canadian (Christian-) Conservative cock-up in the history of bonehead crooked cover-up conspiracy scandals. It’s always been interesting, we just didn’t collectively realize…
Timeraiser for Fundraiser
Here’s a clever idea to promote volunteerism. == Here’s a little summary of RoboCon, by the links. == Wow. I hadn’t heard about the transfer to MacKay, which is of…
Who Needs Honour When You Have Fear?
I’m starting to think that The Conservative Party of Canada is trying to exhaust our outrage meters so we’ll stop complaining about real issues and just let them do whatever…