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Our Canada is gone. Harper made that perfectly clear this morning in Davos, Switzerland. Sweeping changes to Old Age Pensions. Privatisation of science and innovation. Deregulation. MacKay signed off our military sovereignty quietly yesterday, authorising Homeland Security operations on Canadian soil, in the event of an emergency, or a terrorist attack… Canada and . . . → Read More: “Let Me Be Perfectly Clear…” – Syndicated from http://sistersagesmusings.ca Kim  capitalism, Colin Kenny, Culture wars, facism, Harper, Joe Oliver, malevolance, Peter "pumkin eater"MacKay, the Province  (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
gwpf.jpg This is a guest post by MA Rodger The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) is a UK-based climate-sceptic think-tank founded in November 2009 by Lord Lawson. Within two years of its launch, a survey of scepticism in the global media by Oxford University's RISJ had added a final chapter showing the GWPF had gained success in 'inserting itself into the (UK) national discourse' and that its founder and its director had become 'the two most quoted sceptics by far' within the UK national press. The GWPF believes it has made . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: What Does GWPF Really Stand For? – Syndicated from http://www.desmogblog.com/ Guest Climate Denier, climate science skepticism, Desmogblog, global warming policy foundation, GWPF, Lord Lawson, MA Rodger  (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
. ….The Handsome Furs And if you want to see Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry, who currently call Montreal home, improve world relations while they see/tour/play the world you can watch their entire ‘Indie Asia’ series, archived at their website, here. Finally, yes, South Side Torey’s boys had the Furry Duo, who first met at a call center training cattle call, on their show not long ago also… ______ There are a whole lotta more visually stunning videos out there of this ‘band’, but I like the sound and weird techno small-club crush of this one best, even if it is . . . → Read More: The Gazetteer: Canada’s New Human League Of Nations… – Syndicated from http://pacificgazette.blogspot.com/ Haven’t been listening to anything new this week so we go with a fave from the past year. This is kind of like two songs in one but sewn together so awesomely. New widget from SoundCloud too, fun! – Syndicated from http://impolitical.blogspot.com/ Delerium – Heaven’s Earth (Key South Remix) – Syndicated from http://accidentaldeliberations.blogspot.com/ keystone_xl_jobs.jpg Greenpeace USA President Phil Radford sent a formal complaint this week to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) calling for an investigation into TransCanada’s use of wildly inflated jobs figures in promoting its application to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The letter asks the SEC to review the false and misleading claims made by TransCanada on a number of matters related to the pipeline. Although President Obama rejected the company’s first proposal to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, industry-friendly Republicans continue to push for its construction, often citing vastly inflated jobs figures. The . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog: Greenpeace Calls On SEC To Investigate TransCanada’s Inflated Jobs Claims – Syndicated from http://www.desmogblog.com/ Brendan DeMelle API, Brendan DeMelle, general, gop talking points, Greenpeace, Jack Gerard, keystone xl jobs, Keystone XL Pipeline, KXL, mitt romney, oil pipeline jobs, perryman report, Phil Radford, Securities and Exchange Commission, TransCanada, U.S. Chamber for Commerce (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
HUMOUR: MOTIVATION ?: – Syndicated from http://mollymew.blogspot.com/ Friday, January 27, 2012 The record level of public engagement shown in the recent BC government consultations on cosmetic pesticides (8,700 people) shows that democracy is alive and well in BC. Whether you were one of the thousands of people who made their views known in that consultation or not, why not raise your voice for the environment in one of the other public consultations that the government is carrying out? Right now you can make your views known on the government's proposed, sweeping "Environmental Mitigation Policy" and/or on a program to fund energy efficiency retro-fits through the energy . . . → Read More: Environmental Law Alert Blog: The environment needs your voice for 2 important public consultations – Syndicated from http://wcel.org/resources/environmental-law-alert2 Andrew energy, Environmental Assessment, Environmental Mitigation Policy, forests & land use, green communities, Pay As You Save, PAYS-BC, public consultation (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
“Intergenerational tension has yet to erupt into open warfare in Canada, but politicians are keenly aware of the dangers of segmenting the electorate into warring age cohorts. Mention the name Solange Denis in Ottawa, and finance department officials are likely to wince. She is the feisty senior who ambushed Brian Mulroney on Parliament Hill in 1985 and berated him for trying to cut pension benefits after he had promised not to touch them. Mulroney promptly backed away from the cuts. One result was that in ensuing years seniors suffered fewer cuts to social programs than other groups, particularly children and . . . → Read More: Buckdog: "Good Bye Charlie Brown" – Syndicated from http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/ If discussed Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes with six book clubs now, and one thing that cmes up every time is the astonishment tht marriage between people of African and European descent were forbidden in several US states until the 1960s. The archaic rules have little to do with the novel which occurs during the 18th century, but everything to do with the world in which Hill wrote it. The child of an African American and a woman of Scandanavian ancestry, Hill grew up in a Toronto suburb because his parents didn’t want to raise their children in the . . . → Read More: Recreating Eden: Love Prevails: Photographs of a Heroic Couple Who Fought Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the US – Syndicated from http://marysoderstrom.blogspot.com/ Ahem. Make that two and a HALF million… And now, the story from Aporrea: At 10:06 this morning, and three months shy of his second anniversary on Twitter, President Hugo Chávez made history as the most-followed head of state on the social network, with two and a half million followers. 1394 tweets, following 21 tweeters, and found on 55,400 lists, @chavezcandanga exceeded all expectations. We can emphasize that he has more followers than @Facebook, which was created on December 7, 2009. Here is a list of the most-followed heads of state in Latin America, as of 10:21 am: 1. . . . → Read More: News of the Restless: Festive Left Friday Blogging: Two million and counting! – Syndicated from http://www.sabinabecker.com It’s a low key, acoustic set this evening. The opening clip is from Peter Seeger’s Rainbow Quest — Brownie McGhee performing solo on Don’t Pity Me.
Lyle Lovett takes the lead on My Baby Don’t Tolerate with backup by John Hiatt, Guy Clark and Joe Ely. At the break, Hiatt will demonstrate that as a lead guitarist he makes a great songwriter.
And finally, Darrell Scott with Kenny Malone on percussion will explain that there’s No Use Living for Today. The canned intro stops at around 0:30. Have a good weekend.
– Syndicated from http://www.pogge.ca/ In my first broadcast of 2012 for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that in any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws. – Syndicated from http://www.maharaj.org/ Akaash Maharaj Canada, Civil Disobedience, Civil resistance, liberalism, politics, protest, Regional/Countries/Canada/Government/Politics/Parties/Liberal_Party/, Regional/North_America/Canada/Society_and_Culture/Politics/Parties/Liberal_Party/, Steve Paikin, the agenda, TVO, TVOntario (3 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
A surprisingly creepy little film, if you have twelve minutes and thirty seconds to spare. Filed under: Friday Night Flicks Tagged: short films – Syndicated from http://torontoemerg.wordpress.com Hey, wasn’t it fun learning the other day from a speech Stephen Harper delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that unspecified “major transformations” are coming to our national pension system? Naïve citizens might have thought a significant issue of this nature affecting the retirement incomes of just about everyone would have been discussed extensively here in Canada beforehand – perhaps even debated in our antiquated parliament! But fuck that noise, apparently. Harper just couldn’t wait to debut his super-secret plan to gut pensions (in mysterious, as yet undisclosed ways) while self-righteously scolding spendthrift world leaders at an . . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Harper’s Pension Bomb – Syndicated from http://redtory.wordpress.com redtory CPP, Davos, OAP, STEVEN HARPER Government of Canada, World Economic Forum (2 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
On Friday, talking points coming from the Prime Minister’s Office stated that any proposed cuts were still several years away, and wouldn’t affect any Canadians currently approaching retirement age. I guess the question now is–what’s the cut-off date? How old do you have to be today to not get screwed over? Not that I really have any skin in the game re this issue. I never plan to retire. I’ll keep showing up until they club me to death with a shovel. I get bored easily and can’t imagine being idle for long spaces of – Syndicated from http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/ “Atheist Christopher Hitchens was a nasty man who currently resides in Hell. Pedophile enabler Joe Paterno is now among the angels, and why did everyone pick on him?” If there is a Hell, I hope de Souza is assigned to the warmest corner of it. The look of sheer bewilderment on his face would almost be worth witnessing. [H/t] – Syndicated from http://drdawgsblawg.ca/ In the following report, Rashid details a vicious racist attack on his person by guards at Red Onion State Prison, which occurred on December 12, 2011. Since this report was written, Rashid’s situation has gotten even worse, as earlier this week he was transferred to Wallens Ridge State Prison (Virginia’s other supermax), where he was confined between 2000 and 2003, a period when he was repeatedly singled out for abuse by guards (many of whom are still working there). Already, he has been subjected to death threats from guards, has had his food tampered with (i.e. has found metal . . . → Read More: Sketchy Thoughts: Abuse Reports Culminate In Hair-Raising Assault By Red Onion State Prison Guards – Syndicated from http://sketchythoughts.blogspot.com/ kersplebedeb Kevin Rashid Johnson, prison, Racism, repression (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
to 4 days of Obama .gif at top of her pet human’s blog: – Syndicated from http://unrepentantoldhippie.wordpress.com Well, here’s the quote. I think Bob Rae was thinking more along these lines–you know, an Alpine perch being a high place from which one might look down upon the roiling mob and occasionally swoop low and destroy a few of them. Like this, for example. I don’t think Bob had this in mind at all. source – Syndicated from http://bigcitylib.blogspot.com/ Ed Martin from Nalcor and Chris Huskilson from Emera held a news conference in St. John’s on Friday to announce that they will not have a deal on Muskrat Falls finished by the January 31 deadline. They issued a short, joint statement in addition to holding a news conference. Ed Martin: We have made significant progress on the agreements and we are nearing completion; however, we will not have all the detailed work completed by January 31 as previously stated. We do have the majority of agreements completed. This consists of thousands of pages of contract details. Our next steps . . . → Read More: The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The old nothing could be further from the truth ploy #nlpoli #cdnpoli – Syndicated from http://bondpapers.blogspot.com/ This is not a sincere apology and only slightly, a recognition of responsibility. It smacks of a CYA attempt by RCMP lawyers to head off litigation as damning details keep tumbling out, in spite of officials’ attempts to do damage control. The RCMP issued a public apology Friday to the families of the women murdered by Robert “Willie” Pickton, admitting the “RCMP did not do more” in the investigation before he was charged. The prepared formal apology came after days of testimony at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, in which the way that the RCMP and Vancouver police handled . . . → Read More: DAMMIT JANET!: Too little, too f**king late! – Syndicated from http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/ deBeauxOs Missing Women Commission of Inquiry, RCMP, trivializing violence against women. Fernando Manuel Alves, Willy Pickton (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1) Loading ...
I don’t think one needs to be particularly intelligent or insightful to know that something is desperately wrong with capitalist democracy. The system is ailing, there is no doubt about it. Not only is the international capitalist system suffering from problems but . . . → Read More: kirbycairo: Something is wrong. . . . – Syndicated from http://kirbycairo.blogspot.com/ A Film Unfinished (2010, Germany-Israel) had so much festival hype that when I couldn’t get my hands on a screener, I feverishly pre-ordered the film from Amazon – a practice I seldom initiate. When the handsomely designed DVD package arrived I watched it instantly, and as soon as the film ended, I decided the praise was inflated but not unworthy. An act of cinematic brilliance worthy of Best Picture I did not find, but, I was pleased to discover an engaging, gorgeous, poetic and inventive archival documentary full of mystery and awe. So, since today is the day the UN . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Historical truth is in the outtakes – Friday Film Pick: A Film Unfinished – Syndicated from http://artthreat.net Ezra Winton Film Unfinished, Friday Film Pick, holocaust, nazi, Screen, World War II, Yael Hersonski (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
You may have noticed the widget on the right. I’m asking for money. I HATE asking for money. But this is my kids. I’d crawl across glass for my kids. And I intend to even cross into the United States for them – something I swore I’d never do. Read on: Snap is almost 17. She was diagnosed late and hasn’t received treatment. She’s high-functioning, but needs a little extra help. I’m not asking for this for her though, even though it will benefit her too. We can manage her help on our own. We’re asking for help for our . . . → Read More: Feminist Christian Socialist: Passing the hat – Syndicated from http://feministchristian.blogspot.com/ |
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