Guest Post: New Progressive Narrative
Today, I’m please to allow fellow progressive Jared Milne write a guest post about how the progressive movement should change the course of the debate between progressives and the right…
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ConCalls – Globe & Mail Should Blush
There are days I worry that the Globe and Mail is unfit for birds to poop on it. If their endorsement of the Harper Conservatives prior to last year’s electoral…
A moral argument against the war on drugs
Brazilian police patrol a favela in Rio De Janiero. EPA/Marcelo Sayao Former Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, has argued that the war on drugs has failed and cannabis should be…
This Does ^NOT Pertain to #RoboCon
Because hyperlinks are still legal in Canada, I can provide you with the following hyperlinks, and I’ll let your fertile minds go to work on what will remain unsaid. It’s…
Canada Lacks Political Immune System – #RoboCon
If you think of Canada’s democracy as a living organism, right now we’re suffering from cancer. RoboCon is a growing problem, and the electoral fraud will multiply further as punishments…
ConCalls: Don’t Call it a Scandal
There are many people who are insisting that RoboCon does not deserve to be called a “scandal”. Conservative Party hack Levant, insists it’s a “scandalette”. Justin Trudeau (and researcher extraordinaire…
US Blocking UK Travel to Canada
This is completely outrageous. Better hope no one with your name ends up on the US No Fly list. This move makes the financial blockade against WikiLeaks, look like a…
RoboCoke: Fun Contest to Celebrate Dying Democracy
I dislike both Coke and iTunes, thinking the world would be a better place without either of them. I hate RoboCon a lot more though, because our country would be…
One Piece At a Time
… and it didn’t cost me a dime. – Johnny Cash I went to the latest Design Regina public forum Tuesday night, at Artesian on 13th Ave. That building is…
ConCalls: Tough on Crime
Information is the lifeblood of democracy. Stephen Harper knows that, he said it. Ask yourself why the Chief Electoral Officer’s report on electoral fraud this week, is being given to…
ConCalls: Write CBC and other Media
Dear CBC: As a Canadian citizen, it is with great alarm that I’ve watched the RoboCon scandal unfold. The report to Parliament by Marc Mayrand, Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer scheduled…
Ontario Court of Appeal says prostitution laws unconstitutional: Thumbs up (kind of)
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision and ruled that several laws that make it all but impossible for “street workers” to ply their trade, is…
ConCalls: Not Serious? Get Serious!
It should be obvious to most people that the Liberal Party of Canada isn’t behind the vast majority of illegal phone calls made to voters during the May 2, 2011…
ConCalls: Poutine’s Email Address
I’ve emailed Postmedia for clarification, were there 2 or 3 emails? The account was registered to someone using the email address pierres1630@gmail.com. The order required PayPal to turn over account…
ConCalls: More Details about Poutine
The Globe and Mail has some interesting bites about Poutine’s interaction with RackNine. Apparently another message impersonating the Liberals was recorded, but not used. Other calls across the country where…
Don’t Tweet Me Bro
Vic Toews is one very creepy human being. Given his comments characterizing characterizing defense lawyers as getting rich off of guilty criminals , he really is a disgrace as a…
ConCalls: More Evidence From Last Year
Another important piece of historical evidence in the scandal that will be rocking Canadians’ political beliefs for years to come: Conservatives admitted in December 2011 to a local Ontario paper…
Jack Layton: Canada’s Defrauded Prime Minister
Hindsight. It’s a bitch. It’s also bitter and hypothetical at times, so take these particular musings in that context. It’s a “what could’a been”. Jack Layton would have possibly been…
Election Stockholm Syndrome
Conservative Canadians are sympathizing with their captors. Just happy to have finally kicked the pesky 2 year election cycle with a Conservative “stable” majority government, the fact that it was…
ConCalls: Standing On Guard
It’s apparent to many (bloggers) that the systems Canadians entrusted to keep our election free of crime to a point where we could trust the result as legitimate, have let…