Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Dan Garnder rightly points out how too much concentrated power and a refusal to take advice can lead to bad decisions. And sadly,…
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Coalition to Harper: Let farmers decide fate of Canadian Wheat Board
An open letter to Canada’s Prime Minister, Members of Parliament, and Senators, from a broad and diverse coalition of 46 organizations representing millions of Canadians – Support Canadian Food, Canadian…
Solving The Big Environmental Calamities Requires Measuring, Research, Monitoring
Today’s guest blogger is Graham Saunders. Graham’s weather and climate background includes work with the Australian Weather Bureau, the Atmospheric Environment Service of Canada and forest fire weather prediction for…
Some Misgivings on the Part of Some Harpercon Backbenchers on the Asbestos Issue?
I was surprised when I read this piece from Jennifer Ditchburn and Andy Blatchford last night. It appears that some Harpercon backbench MPs are getting a tad uppity and starting…
alberta’s second fall sitting starts today with redford’s tories on a high.
Premier Alison Redford Part two of the Fall sitting of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly begins today for a short two-weeks of business. Aside from the two-day speech driven sitting held last…
On rare independence
Yes, there’s some good news in the revelation that some Con MPs are asking questions about their party’s insistence on supporting and subsidizing asbestos exports. But let’s not minimize the…
Stephen Harper Inches Canada Even Closer Toward a Dictatorship
Within weeks of being elected in 2006, Stephen Harper limited access to his government, by both the media and the public. He closed down a searchable database that provided easier…
Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom rightly points out that the voters most affected by the Cons’ push for privatized pensions are the ones paying the least…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your afternoon reading. – Stephen Maher exhorts the Cons to stop stifling democratic debate, featuring a strong point by NDP MP Jack Harris: When Harris was first…
Stephen Harper’s New Air-Bus made to his order
Suggested Air-Bus. “The Prime Minister’s grey aircraft, an Airbus A-310, which is designated as a CC-150 Polaris, has been slotted for a fresh paint job in August 2013 and sketches…
If we’d heeded Tom Kent in 1981, our democracy would be healthier today
Tom Kent, chair of the Royal Commission on Newspapers, 1981. (Canadian Press photo). Below: The cover of the 1981 Royal Commission report; Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Today we mark…
The Harper Cons and the Great Darkness
We knew that if he ever got his precious majority the lights would be going out all over Canada. But who could have known that the Great Darkness would arrive…
Looks Like The Harpercon Saulie Zajdel Camp May Be Pushing Irwin Cotler Out The Door Prematurely
Well boys ‘n’ girls, the latest political happenings in Mount-Royal could definitely go in the Harpercons flare for the unprecedented files. It appears that the good constituents in the riding…
Lock up Stephen Harper
Stephen Harper’s Conservatives like to present themselves as tough on crime, committed to accountable government and respectful of the rule of law. Given their record, we have to ask ourselves,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell laments Stephen Harper’s determination to replace democracy with court rule: Pierre Trudeau started it. Stephen Harper is finishing it off. The…
Will farmers get it and stop voting Conservative when TPP talks leave the family farm on the ropes?
Would you buy a used dairy farm from this man? Stephen Harper shows his support for Canadian dairy, egg and poultry farmers. Canadian Conservative prime ministers may not be exactly…
DriveTo45.com: Can Winnipeg Beat Out Edmonton for Murder Capital of Canada?
I haven’t bought the domain name, or created the website, or figured out how to do it without looking like a complete douche, but I’ve been thinking about a new…