Parliament In Review: October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 27 saw the House of Commons discuss the gun registry – and if the Cons’ choices to not just dismantle the federal long gun registry but also shred…
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Parliament In Review: October 26, 2011
Wednesday, October 26 saw a rare opportunity for the opposition parties to set the agenda. And as a result, the big issue was one which the Cons prefer to discuss…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Marc Lee presents an alternative economic vision to the capital-first-and-only approach that currently serves as conventional wisdom. – Meanwhile, Andrew Jackson suggests five…
saturday, november 19: evict ford: occupy toronto
EVICT FORD. OCCUPY TORONTO! Rally and marchSaturday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m.Assemble at St. James Park, King Street east between Church and Jarvis In just a few weeks, the Occupy…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Walkom suggests that the systematic eviction of Occupy camps from Canadian cities may only help the movement to evolve from its…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Friday reading.- Alice posts the full party spending numbers from May's election. And the story in fact looks to have been near-maximum spending by each of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Dr. Dawg follows up on Stephen Harper's apology to residential school survivors, and rightly questions how sincere it can be when it's been…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rick Salutin nicely describes what's behind the "charity" model of top-end wish fulfillment that the Cons are pitching in place of actual social programs:The…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- If there's any good news in the Cons' constant attacks on labour, it's the growing recognition that workers need to fight back with no…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your afternoon reading.- Jim Stanford highlights the Cons' thoroughly imbalanced view of labour disputes by pointing out that their concern for the economy has been limited to…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- I'd think it's long past the time where any informed observer could cling to hope that the Harper Cons see good government as a…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your weekend.- Of course the ongoing leadership race will do plenty to determine the NDP's future direction. But for those thinking all will be quiet in…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Abacus' Canadian polling on the Occupy protests suggests that there's loads of public sympathy for the view that there's a need for change in…
Parliament In Review: October 18, 2011
There hasn't been as much reporting on the Cons' re-introduction of copyright legislation as there was at some other points when previous incarnations were up for discussion. But Tuesday, October…
Economic Development Partners with ACFA to Recruit
Did you know that Grande Prairie has the 3rd largest French Association in all of Alberta? Not bad for being the 7th largest city in the province right? The size…
Economic Development Partners with ACFA to Recruit
Did you know that Grande Prairie has the 3rd largest French Association in all of Alberta? Not bad for being the 7th largest city in the province right? The size…
Economic Development Partners with ACFA to Recruit
Did you know that Grande Prairie has the 3rd largest French Association in all of Alberta? Not bad for being the 7th largest city in the province right? The size…
Economic Development Partners with ACFA to Recruit
Did you know that Grande Prairie has the 3rd largest French Association in all of Alberta? Not bad for being the 7th largest city in the province right? The size…
Parliament In Review: October 17, 2011
Monday, October 17 saw the Cons cut off debate on second reading of their budget bill. Not surprisingly, the day thus focused in large part on the economy - including…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Doug Cuthand makes the case for First Nations resource ownership as a matter of historical right:When the numbered treaties were negotiated in Saskatchewan in…