NDP fights for secularism
With the recent robocall scandal, upcoming budget, and NDP leadership race, it’s easy to forget some of the other controversies that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have thrown us over the past…
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The Cremation of Canadian Democracy – RoboScam
Reading poetry is apparently cool; At least as cool as the Maple Leafs are. I hope I did a service for my country in reading this. Service was a pun,…
Ontario Chooses to Protect Old-Growth Forest
In northern Ontario there is a region called Temagami and it is absolutely stunning as it holds Ontario’s oldest old-growth forest and is the home to a diverse wildlife. In…
Quick Hit: A Great Rebuttal to More Subway/Rob Ford Nonsense
So, there’s a flyer going around from a crappy group called S.A.F.E telling us the “truth” about Rob Ford’s subway plan. Side note: how self satisfied do you think the…
Who’s winning Google? #ndpldr
Despite the random number of polls and media speculation, there’s really only one way to know who’s doing the best in a race like the NDP leadership race – the…
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CANADIAN POLITICS ONTARIO: DENOUNCE AND DEFEAT DRUMMAND’S DREADFUL DIRECTIONS: Always on the lookout to squeeze the poor even further the McGuinty government of Ontario has recently received a commission report…
Bruce Carson Slipping Away?
Oil Man Bruce Carson is possibly getting a free pass from a government who came to power claiming to be tough on lobbyist stains. After being caught red handed with…
About Those Robocalls…
Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro was himself behind two robocalls on election day, the Calgary Herald revealed today. Del Mastro’s campaign manager, Jeff Westlake, sent recorded messages to constituents reminding…
India to Produce 97% Cheaper Anti-Cancer Drugs
India has announced that they will be using a specialized law to produce generic anti-cancer drugs. This will lower the price of these drugs by 97% and increase the efficiency…
ConCalls: Poutine Delayed is Justice Denied
There’ve been murmurs about renaming the RoboGate/RoboCon/RoboCalls/RoboScam scandal into something else, or dropping a cutesy name altogether. The fact is there were live calls made as well as robodialed calls,…
Wow!
Fifteen or so degrees above the normal max! Incredible. Shorts on Saturday! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
And again with the pre-emptive legislation, Lisa Raitt
I’m beginning to think this might be a pattern. Same company, same rhetoric, same lies. They’re all in favour of letting workers try to defend their livelihoods at the bargaining…
The Robocon Scandal that was and wasn’t…
REPEAT AFTER ME: An issue-based call is not a voter suppression call. An issue-based call, setting out where stood on the issue — of Abortion — is not remotely the…
SaskBot Decodes a Little More RoboScam
If Del Mastro is a robot, expect his head to blow off from a serious logic error , any day now. The Liberals made an improper robocall, in Guelph of…
RoboCon: About Those Phone Lists
Now that Poutine’s identity is out in the open, we need to know how he made those calls. Fortunately I know some good bloggers who can help you understand that…
The Fight to Protect Our Internet Privacy is Not Over!
I penned a blog entry for the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge-Mission about Bill C-30 and Bill C-11: When the Liberal Party of Canada in Pitt Meadows-Maple…
La France Forte, or Why You Desperately Need Sarko Standing On the Beach
The French presidential campaign is kicking into high gear, and Nicolas Sarkozy has one key message for his ungrateful people: vote him back in, and he promises to spend his…
New #ndpldr rankings
After my initial NDP leadership race rankings I was looking for an excuse to move Mulcair up my ballot. While I had some worries about the potential for his leadership,…
Mulcair will lose Quebec #ndpldr
In a race where each candidate sounded very similar and were in “violent agreement” at the beginning, clear differences have definitely emerged to differentiate them. Take Thomas Mulcair versus Nathan…
A win for Reproductive Justice on PEI!
PEI Reproductive Justice Activist wins Active-8 Campaign! Here are some articles that ran recently, about Kandace Hagen’s co-win and about some ugliness that threatened to undermine the spirit of the…