How Can You Celebrate Honour When You Have None?
How can someone so vile pretend to be honourable?
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“RJ Aquino ran for the wrong party”: And so One City launches #vanpoli & will run RJ Aquino
Exciting news that will increase democratization in Vancouver- One City launches- headed by RJ Aquino (and David Chudnovsky, the rumour is). .@OneCityVan launch @ 10am-Vancouver CityHall. New #vanpoli party. @rj_aquino
Italy’s wealth gap grows as real incomes fall for the majority, new research shows
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: The ten richest people in Italy now own as much wealth as almost 500,000 working class families put together. A little less than two thousand…
Beach
Boogie boarded today in the Pacific. The water was very cold but I went in a couple times. Supper last night. Tonight was El Indio, a fish taco.
Libs say budget “platform for next 30 days” after NDP vows to pull the plug
Well that was quick. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath told the media this morning that she cannot support the Wynne budget, or more specifically, the Wynne government. Horwath’s remarks suggested it…
EORLA: Cornwall cuts an improvement? We want to see the evidence
Cornwall residents will not have to travel to Ottawa to have tissue samples taken in the lab. Instead just a tiny part of them will make the trip – their…
In Today’s Mail
A random sampling of junk received in my mail box today.
Slow down in home care increases a surprise in 2014-15 budget
Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews has had a fairly consistent narrative of late – health services should be delivered closer to home, or more specifically, in the home. It’s been…
Will Jim Prentice, latest favourite of Alberta’s chattering classes, turn out to be another big disappointment?
Jim Prentice: the choice of Alberta’s chattering classes. But does anyone else care, or even know who he is? Below: Mr. Prentice in his political youth; New Democrat Bob Hawkesworth,…
Rob Ford Just Won the Fall Toronto Election
I hope I’m wrong, but Ford has pretty much guaranteed that he will win the next election.
Two senior planners resign from the City of Vancouver: Analysis and questions
Originally posted on CityHallWatch: Tools to engage in Vancouver city decisions:Matt Shillito Scot Hein News spread quickly on twitter about the departure of two senior planners from the City…
Stephen Harper is offering us the Blue Pill
Stephen Harper has created a magical world around him, not unlike that of the rabbit hole described in Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix in the Wachowski brothers’ Sci-Fi masterpiece.…
PSW minimum wage hike not the end of the story
Deb Matthews promised and delivered – sort of. The Ontario Health Minister had committed earlier this year to revisit compensation for personal support workers. Minimum wage for PSWs had not…
CAMH asks staff to mail patients’ cigarettes back home
Ah, Rosie. Toronto Star columnist Rosie DiManno recently used her shotgun style prose to take the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) to school. While addiction is part of…
What matters?
I am not impressed by wealth. I am not impressed by material possessions, or by the gathering up and hording of baubles and trinkets and bits of shiny things. I…
Corporatism, capitalism and real alternatives: On the power to choose our destiny
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
Encouraging an inclusive cultural and artistic city
Last night Vision Vancouver sponsored a panel at the Fox Cabaret to discuss how to preserve cultural spaces in a growing city. The panel, hosted by Vision’s Heather Deal and
Opposition to a Pipeline, any Pipeline? Say it Ain’t So…
Pipeline push-back: What’s behind the rising opposition to Canada’s big oil pipelines Climate change debate behind animosity toward Northern Gateway and Keystone XL By Janet Davison, CBC News Posted: Apr…
The Rise of the Far Right as the Euro-Crisis Hits France
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