White Knight #nlpoli
The Alberta Conservatives are looking for a new leader. The old one quit last month amid a caucus revolt and a loss of popularity in polls. Former federal cabinet minister…
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Corporatism, capitalism and real alternatives: On the power to choose our destiny
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
A Call For Mathematicians to Protest the NSA
The NSA is the world’s largest employer of mathematicians and now there is a movement from some mathematicians calling for a protest against the spying agency. We don’t know what…
ConCalls: Who Did The Domestic Calls? #RoboCon #elxnfraud
Some behind the scenes numbers about Elections Canada’s impotent investigation into illegal robocalls… 81. At the national level, the Conservative Party, using data from its Constituent Information Management System (CIMS)…
Environmental Sustainability and Good Governance go Hand in Hand
The Worldwatch Institute has just released their 40th anniversary edition of the State of the World, and this time it’s titled Governing for Sustainability. In it, this year the institute…
National Post: How Keystone XL spoiled Canada-US ‘special relationship’
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press Read this April 24 story from The National Post and Bloomberg News on the effect of US President Barack Obama’s waffling on the proposed Keystone XL…
The Truth Of It All
“When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on…
The Trials of Don Braid
Don Braid is looking for something. Anything. As a political pundit and editorial writer he is knee deep in politics. His proximity to Edmonton’s machinations of party politics and politics…
Pseudo-patriotic madness
This is news, right from the CBC, not April Fool or The Onion: The Massachusetts House of Representatives has finally granted initial approval to a Bill naming the Fluffernutter the…
ConCalls: Canadian Election Attacked From America #RoboCon
If Canada’s “SIGINT” (Signals Intelligence) agency doesn’t have records to share with Elections Canada of malicious #robocalls made outside of Canada aimed at disrupting our federal election, then what good…
First Nations show Nancy Greene, Harper govt positive alternative to open net fish farms
Namgis First Nation-grown closed-containment salmon ready for market (Photo: Kuterra.com) Part 2 of DC Reid’s appeal to Canadian Senator and Olympic hero Nancy Greene Raine, who recently came out in…
PMO: RCMP is Deeply Offended You’re Not Buying Their Crap
“Come on!” – RCMP The Canadian people know when they’re being fed smoke and mirrors, and things taste very smoky and shiny right now. @PierAsselin It almost seems like he…
Brothers in Weyburn
Brothers restaurant owner in #Weyburn says he can't comment on TFW controversy due to employee privacy. #yqr #sask http://t.co/l6GwqSj5G5— Kim Smith (@KimSmithGlobal) April 22, 2014 Then this: #Weyburn restaurant releases…
Does BC’s Neglect of Poverty Constitute a Eugenics Plan?
There has been a great deal of talk in recent decades about the cycle of poverty, how it’s a vicious circle that children have difficulty getting out of. Human chromosomes…
Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
It seems every other election year, there are murmurs of Quebec’s egomaniacal need to separate from the rest of Canada. And this new election is bringing this idea whole heartedly…
Death to slogans
The title of this post is, in fact, a slogan. But I’m thinking slogans are verbal dead weight in the internet era. What harm would it do us to just…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Charles Demers points out the impact Svend Robinson has had on Canadian politics – and suggests that he should be the model…
Nancy Greene Raine: Fish Farms? What About Wild BC Salmon?
Senator Nancy Greene at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics (Photo: Wikipedia) I almost fell off my chair when I read that former Olypmic ski champion and Canadian Senator Nancy Greene Raine…
Let it die, Jim.
Jim Prentice has intimated to multiple individuals that he is considering a run for the leadership of Alberta’s 44-year-old governing party, the Conservatives. If you’ve read this blog you know…
Ontario’s neoliberalism: Coercive, Intense
Do you ever wonder why policing budgets rise in Ontario when the crime rate falls? At Illuminated By Street Lamps, I argue Ontario has been, and remains, among the jurisdictions…