The anti Public Servant mood…
… That the Harperites have created is humming right along… Just read the comments posted by some readers whenever a story about the ongoing and looking cuts to the Public…
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Harper and Kyoto a Bad History.
Harper since 2006 promised us that if he was prime minister he would scrap the Kyoto accord. He first just allowed Kyoto to stay alive, and just completely ignore it…
Heads In the Sand, or Rolling?
I find it to be a very difficult day to be a proud Canadian. If you don’t agree with scientific fact that there is climate change from our pollution, you’ll…
Well it was redneck hot button day today, wasn’t it
First there was this. Combining flag waving patriotism with Islamophobia and use it to take a stab at “the other”. The Globe item has 1779 comments on it. I’m going…
Culture Wars: The Harper Government’s ridiculous ban on the Burqa during the citizenship ceremony
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has just announced plan to ban the use of the burqa or niqab for new Canadians during the Oath of Citizenship. I was very disappointed not…
Ottawa…
… snow free till at least Dec. 17!!!! Woo-hoo! Gotta feeling, though, that we’re gonna get dumped on later this winter… Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
BC NDP Convention #ndpldr Town Hall
As promised, here are some thoughts on the federal leaders from the BC NDP convention. Since every leadership candidate was in town for the town-hall, most were sure to be…
Thoughts on the BC NDP 50th Anniversary Convention #bcndp50
This weekend was the first time I’ve ever attended a political convention, so I was quite happy that I was able to represent my riding as the youth representative (which…
Mike Crawley for President of the Liberal Party of Canada
Like many Liberals, I first encountered Mike Crawley through his bold op-ed in the Toronto Star entitled “Long-term decline of a great party.” His insights into the structural and cultural…
Trashy’s World 2011-12-10 22:21:45
Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Krellant Special on Climate Change
In the latest edition of The Krellant Evening News, Cat Reporter is at the helm while Frank is out in the field interviewing Matthew Paterson, a farmer—err, university professor—about the…
Peter Kent: Let’s do Nothing!
Our Environment minister wants Kyoto to die and wait until 2015 to make a new accord. Why not just start a new accord now why wait three years? Our Environment…
‘Twas Just Before Christmas in the House
Our clever Grinch of a Prime Minister gets a lyrical beating here. (If Harper is the Grinch, who is the little dog?)
Yup…
December 8 and no snow. Love it!!!! Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
A note on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism
GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties…
Fog depositing ice?
Really? Never seen that weather descriptor before. But it was accurate. All of the cars have a light coating of ice this morning. Bet there’s no fog depositing ice in…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-06 23:58:00
PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART FIVE: One thing I am certain of about the Occupy Movement (much more certain than how it will all end up)…
And on December 6th
The Tories take the dismantling of the long gun registry one step closer to reality. One MP with a stunningly insensitive display of glee.
Bowing to Republican Pressure, EPA Eases Boiler Emission Standards, Threatening U.S. Economy and Health
boiler emissions.jpg The U.S. EPA has bowed to pressure from Republican members of Congress and relaxed the proposed rules for boiler emissions. By allowing utility industry companies to make “upgrades”…
Open Government
A government so open, that it lost its marbles. If we had journalists who uniformly understood that letting politicians get away with flaming lies would lead us into a mess,…