Want to Defeat Harper, Not Sure How to Vote?
I had an interesting discussion this weekend with someone close and we agreed to disagree on strategic voting. She wanted to vote for something. I admire this attitude, but I…
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Holidays and holy days – and the dross and drivel which confuses and clouds over them
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…Yom Kippur, Hunakkah, Passover… Ramadan: these symbolic expressions of union, communion, gratitude, faith and love – what do they matter? Except that they do. As a naturally reclusive…
Lying and Hiding PM Hides Again
Note: we've interviewed @ThomasMulcair @JustinTrudeau and @ElizabethMay this campaign. @pmharper was to join us this week but cancelled 1/2 — The West Block (@TheWestBlock) October 11, 2015 His team told…
Joyce Murray on physician assisted dying
Just over a week ago, I commented on a post on Joyce Murray’s page (the Liberal MP and candidate in Vancouver Quadra) asking her position on physician assisted dying. She…
Will the real Marc Boyer please stand up?
My Storify of figuring out who’s actually running for the Marijuana Party in Vancouver Quadra. ” on Storify]
Stuff Happens, week 39: Big (yawn) trade deal; Harper plays niqab card; Notley bombs
The big story this week was a trade deal. Wait, wait! Please don’t stop reading. Canada has joined 11 other countries in something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a collection of…
Stuff Happens, week 39: Big (yawn) trade deal; Harper plays niqab card; Notley bombs
The big story this week was a trade deal. Wait, wait! Please don’t stop reading. Canada has joined 11 other countries in something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a collection of…
Contemplating the Jays and Democracy
Right now we’re determining who the best baseball team is in the AL East, over 5 games played over more than 5 days. The winner will go on to play…
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Advance polls are open. Be sure to get out and vote.
From here, you can smell the fear.
There was a candidates meeting the other evening for the federal election candidates in the local electoral district. It was this national election in microcosm. The event in a church…
What’s in Store for Canada
In 2011 Harper ‘won’ a majority government on the heels of lying to Parliament about the true cost of the #F35 boondoggle (which we still don’t have a plane from),…
Just Try and Vote, I Dare Ya..!
Just got back from voting ..had to wait an hour. The advance polls here in Victoria (on the People’s Republic of Vancouver Island) are showing us, first hand, how Harper…
Just Try and Vote, I Dare Ya..!
Just got back from voting ..had to wait an hour. The advance polls here in Victoria (on the People’s Republic of Vancouver Island) are showing us, first hand, how Harper…
Is NATO Chastising Russia Because They’re Beating ISIS?
Do we really understand who the ‘good guys’ and ‘bad guys’ are in the Middle East? Maybe we need to pull back for a few moments to reevaluate what we’re…
Agony Amidst the Ecstasy
I think of my greatest heroes, the people I admire and respect the most – Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, Thoreau, Emerson, Walt Whitman, Blake,…
A sinking world, and sane responses to it
My country is sinking like a rock (for reasons of corporate oligarchy, neoliberalism, corporate rights agreements, and an addiction to oil revenues and the politics of a resource extraction-based economy,…
Say’s Law – Supply Creates Demand
“A well-known dictum of macroeconomics is Say’s Law: that supply creates demand.” I independently discovered this, I didn’t know it was called Say’s Law. Before I created the Pet Foil…
This Guy Came Asking For A Job Renewal Today …
Let’s take Stephen Harper’s attack ad on Justin Trudeau and treat this election like a job interview …
Election Numbers … Yes, We’re That Close
Swing ridings hold the key to the October 19 election. PLEASE discover all you can about the leading progressive candidate in your riding and consider helping Leadnow within the next…
Composure Under Pressure…..
I am trying with great difficulty to ignore the current campaign for a new Parliament and, if there is any justice, a new PM. I have been also trying, somewhat…