Time to Drop Left, Right and Centre
Words have power. Canadian politics is undergoing a realignment and the old words we use to describe the ‘political spectrum’ are becoming more a hinderance than a help in trying…
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Liberals Growing Irrelevance In West.
The Liberal party has a major problem. We seem for the most part since May 2nd 2012 to be up from our election results. All major projections have us gaining…
ConCalls: IP Match Confirmed: Poutine Used Prescott’s Computer in #RoboCon
Read lots more by Brandon Laraby who has a roundup of links, Curiosity Cat, and Sixth Estate. When the latest documents from court appear online, I’ll post them with the…
New coins costing Canadians a lot of cash…
Last month, the Royal Canadian Mint put into circulation a new generation of loonies and toonies. The Royal Canadian Mint, however, did not give Canadian cities official notice of when…
Huh?
IF this is the full story, then that school in Nova Scotia should give its politically-correct head a shake! Now y’all KNOW that I’m a grumpy ol’ atheist. Always have…
The Liberal Party Launches New “Supporters” System (Along With a New Round of Leadership Speculation)
On Wednesday the Liberal Party of Canada launched its new “supporter” class. I was proud to support the constitution amendment that lead to this at the biennial convention at the…
Rainbow Pipeline Leak — 1 Year Later…
Did you know that Plains Midstream Canada continues to clean up the Rainbow Pipeline Leak that occurred on April 29, 2011? The largest Alberta pipeline discharge in 36 years has…
Friday miscellany…
… shooters and omnibus bill edition… =================================================================================== You might remember a post I scribbled a little while back about a “new” shooter that is perfect for O-Town right now, given…
la CLASSE It’s Not About The Money!! (Part1)
Broad coalition of the Association for a student union solidarity (CLASS) has offered a few ideas to eliminate tuition in Quebec by 2016. They say they have a plan to…
Peter Lougheed Wins Again
A 1975 editorial cartoon showing the early foundations of the Alberta PC Party’s formula for success Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed has been named the best “Provincial Premier” of the…
Re: Huffington Post & the Quebec Spring (Again!)
I had previously been under the impression that the Huffington Post was a generally a left-liberal sort of enterprise. However, it appears that one does not win a Pulitzer these…
It must be said, the Tories’ budget bill is a draconian heap of nasty
It’s amazing that they’ve found the hubris to throw several hundred pages of non-budget, non-monetary legislation into the budget bill. It’s all about gutting environmental protection regulation – nothing to…
ConCalls: Evidence And Obstruction
Postmedia has reported that the Conservatives’ voter information database (CIMS), was being investigated along with other party’s databases, to determine who gave Pierre Poutine the thousands of phone numbers used…
Elegant Mockery
I'm not sure I can properly mock this, vancouversun.com/business/Harpe…— CC (@canadiancynic) May 03, 2012 “Harper’s climate policy approved as ‘elegant’ approach by oil lobbyists“ Read more at Postmedia Although the…
F-35: Thirty Five ways to Fail
MacKay has implicated the whole CPC cabinet as being complicit in an attempt to deceive voters prior to last year’s election as to the true cost of new fighter jets.…
Crowdfunding and Politics – Innovation Delayed is Innovation Denied
The super cool, and crowdfuned, Pebble watch! So, I’ve started spending a fair amount of my spare time reading, learning and investigating a variety of different areas of social innovation…
Parks Canada: firing staff, shortening seasons privatizing hot springs. What’s next? Branded elk?
This week’s announcement of federal government layoffs featured a lot from Parks Canada. And then, a day later, the agency announces they’re going to sell off three of its most…
No Party Closer To Hitler Than Conservatives
It’s odd that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed last week that the NDP were soft on Naziism in 1939, not only because it was erroneous, but because of all…
No Reply from SaskPower
SaskPower’s VP May failed to respond to my followup points, so I’ve included her entire initial reply at my earlier post. I wrote a letter months ago to ask why…
Are Canadian Women Also Radical Enemies of the State?
In an orgy of axe swinging and program bludgeoning last week, the federal government set their sights on taking a clean shot at the health and well-being of Canadian women.…