More gangster politics/backroom dealing from Ford Nation
NOW Magazine // Daily // News // Mammoliti slams door on councillorsGiorgio Mammoliti, acting on behalf of the mayor, barred councillors Kristyn Wong-Tam and Janet Davis from the recent Child…
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Toronto mayor Ford still confused after provincial election. Better chance now for Transit City comeback
NOW Magazine // Daily // News // Transit City’s minority reportExcerpts:The results of the provincial election have encouraged progressives still holding out hope for the resurrection of Transit City. Councillor…
Giving Thanks For Campaigns
It’s a holiday, so I almost forgot to blog anything. But some newsworthy things are underfood, err, underfoot. CNET.com was a trustworthy download site for more than a decade, but…
Montreal’s Bridge to Nowhere
Count on the Cons to build a bridge to nowhere.
The Sunny Way
The Sunny Way? This is, of course, one of Aesop’s fables and a favorite story of Wilfred Laurier. It’s a story about persuasion being superior to force, to working with…
Let’s open all the books
It’s no secret that the Harper Conservatives hate unions. They’ve repeatedly emphasized how the NDP is beholden to Big Labour and tried to force an inquiry into partial union sponsorship…
As Memory Serves, This Happened Before
Imagine my surprise when I read in today’s Globe and Mail that Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he was “relatively confident” that we would see modest economic growth in Canada.…
Harper: The Private Members Bill Puppet Master
Doesn’t it seem too much of a coincidence that upon the resumption of the new session of parliament all these new private members bills are coming from his back benches?…
Letter to federal MP Matthew Kellway (Beaches-East York).
Dear Mr. Kellway,I am writing to you as resident of Beaches-East York to express my concerns regarding the government's Bill C-32, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act. While this…
Alison Redford pulls a Christy Clark
In a huge upset win last night, Alison Redford pulled ahead of favourite Gary Mar to win the Progressive Conservative leadership and became the next premier of Alberta. Mar was…
More Conservatives hate women
This morning’s ruling was so promising, I thought we might sneak into the weekend without the need to get angry. Too late: Two more Tory MPs are taking swipes at…
Can we focus on saving lives now?
InSite works. Despite Conservative tough dumb-on-crime rhetoric, allowing people a clean and safe place to use the drugs they would anyway grants them respect, dignity, and a way out of…
ON Election Fact Check: NDP spending least, PC spending most
In this new article, Tim Hudak claims that the NDP is a "big spending" party. Let's look at the facts. Both the PCs and Liberals have committed to spending almost…
Why evangelicals like Stephen Harper and Rick Perry love Israel
Mother Jones has a must-read post on something that is no mystery but needs to be said. Western evangelicals like Stephen Harper, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann et al have a…
Environment: low on the totem pole for this Conservative government
Just as a brief followup to Impolitical’s posts/observations on the controversy brwewing surrounding cuts to ozone monitoring, I remember a time when opposition leader Stephen Harper was in his “climate…
Oxymoronic ‘Ethical Oil’ Meets Irony
I hate promoting the severely flawed concept of 'ethical oil', so much so that I don't even like using the phrase as it spreads the meme. Still, with the Keystone…
Right-wing takeover at SFU
Staff who operate many of the student services at SFU, including Out on Campus, the Women’s Centre, and the SFSS Print Centre, have been locked out, without a contract for…
Update, finally!
So the Conservatives are finally starting to have fun with their majority. We all knew this day would come -- when we would be forced to helplessly sit at the…
Lorne Gunter spews hot air
It’s continually depressing to see professional denialist Lorne Gunter continue to sap money that could be going to actual journalists and columnists. Yesterday he had this to say: Over the…
Fourteen Defining Characteristics Of Fascism
Rense.com lists 14 points identifying fascism. How many can you identify as those belonging to Harper's Conservatives?Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco…