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By Stratty, on January 17, 2013, at 2:59 pm
Only 8 – EIGHT! – days until the 2013 Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention in Toronto, & I’m in organized chaos mode trying to figure out payments, fundraising, travel, & so forth. Because I’ve focused more on LGBT blogging & Twitter lately, here are a few random thoughts before I get too busy to think:
Fundraising: I realized the other day that 2013 is a Liberal anniversary for me: the first campaign for which I volunteered was the 1993 federal election. (For the record, I made calls on behalf of Jim Peterson in Willowdale. Hands up if you remember the
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By trashee, on January 4, 2013, at 12:05 pm If this is accurate and the Ontario Libs are going to make it prohibitively difficult for bloggers to attend their leadership convention, then they are dumber than I thought. Really? C’mon. You’d be alienating a significant segment of your supporters. Do you REALLY want to drive some of your membership into the arms of the [...]
By Garry J. Wise, Wise Law Office, Toronto, on January 2, 2013, at 12:08 am Perhaps I should feel honoured that I continue to make a cameo appearance in prolific scribe Mitch Kowalski’s Twitter profile photo. (And I sort of do). Still, I have to admit that every time I see Mr. Kowalski’s tweets, a far different image keeps coming to mind: “Hello Dum Dum” Just sayin…
Mr. Kowalski’s current profile photo (now archived forever for posterity) was taken at the first LSUC Articling Debate in October, 2012. Oh, and happy new year.
- Garry J. Wise, Toronto
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By Greg Fingas, on July 2, 2012, at 12:57 pm Fern Hill is frustrated at how political reporters have tried to make a non-story out of the #denounceharper hashtag which trended globally yesterday as Twitter users took the opportunity to discuss what Canadians actually want for Canada Day. And I can certainly understand the concern at normally well-connected reporters choosing to dismiss widespread public activism, particularly in contrast to such compelling issues of public importance as “what do you call the July 1st holiday?”
But I’d think there’s a more positive side to the story: based on Kev’s numbers, it’s possible to reach upwards of 14 million people
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By Greg Fingas, on April 21, 2012, at 4:47 pm Miscellaneous material for your Saturday reading.
- As much sympathy as I normally have for Linda McQuaig, I’ll argue that her premise in discussing Andrea Horwath’s call for the wealthy to pay a fair share of taxes is entirely off base. Even if it is easier to discuss such ideas when there’s a Warren Buffett willing to take the side of the general public, the more important conclusion is that we should be able to determine as a citizenry how our tax system should be structured – and not give the wealthiest a veto over the outcome.
- Which is
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By Skinny Dipper, on April 9, 2012, at 9:16 am I do enjoy reading the differerent blog posts on the Progessive Bloggers aggregate. There are a diversity of opinions expressed by bloggers who post under the progressive label. Bloggers include Liberals, NDPers, non-aligned social democrats, perhaps a socio-path or two, former Progressive Conservatives, current Greens, and the occasional Marxist-Leninist. I do not expect everyone to agree on everything. If we did, then the Progressive Bloggers site would be truly boring.
The people who post on PB hold a range of opinions on issues such as abortion rights, the Alberta Tar/Oil Sands, the environment, unite-the-progressives, proportional representation, (Read more…)
By Greg Fingas, on March 12, 2012, at 9:02 am Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.
- Alison draws the links between Robocon and an American firm proud of its efforts in some of the Republicans’ most odious causes, while Sixth Estate provides a timeline of shady election dealings by the Harper Cons. Dr. Dawg asks the media to stay focused on the “fraud” part of the Cons’ Robocon scam; Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher seem set to oblige by hinting that the infamous Pierre Poutine may soon be coming forward, while John Geddes speculates about just how far up the rot within the Cons actually goes. Allan Woods notes
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By Greg Fingas, on December 9, 2011, at 1:35 pm Assorted content to end your week.
- Jeffrey Simpson compliments the NDP’s leadership contenders for dealing with the issue of inequality, but rightly notes there’s a long way left to go: Good for the NDP leadership candidates for talking about income inequality in Canada.
At their first leadership debate last weekend, and on their websites, some of the candidates have made proposals about reducing it. The ideas are broad brush, of course, although Brian Topp has a detailed list of big tax increases proposed for the wealthiest people and corporations. But at least the candidates are willing to underscore what
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By Greg Fingas, on November 22, 2011, at 1:50 pm Leftdog and David Hutton have already posted about the passing of blogger and activist Joe Kuchta. But I’ll take a moment to pay my respects as well: nobody offered more thorough surveys of provincial and local issues than Joe, and his contribution to Saskatchewan’s political debate will be dearly and sorely missed.
By Greg Fingas, on November 20, 2011, at 1:42 pm 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 attention to the issue: For workers over 50, the pension reforms introduced by Canada’s Conservative government on Thursday mean virtually nothing.
Such workers have relatively little time to save before they retire even if, as Ottawa’s proposed legislation contemplates, their voluntary savings are pooled into group RRSPs.
Similarly, the counterproposal suggested by the New Democratic Party opposition — an expansion of the existing, public Canada Pension Plan — would offer
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By Greg Fingas, on November 19, 2011, at 6:10 pm 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 elected to Parliament in 1987, he said, and Brian Mulroney had a majority, the government regularly adopted opposition amendments.
“We don’t expect you to adopt every one of our amendments,” he said. “We’d like you to, but we don’t expect you to. We expect you to listen to them with respect. We expect you to consider them seriously and we would hope that you would adopt some of them that
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By Greg Fingas, on October 11, 2011, at 7:30 pm For those who can’t get enough coverage of Saskatchewan’s provincial election, here’s a quick set of links to keep an eye on (to be filled out and updated as the campaign progresses).CBC has set up a dedicated election page, while Leftdog has joined Jo… . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Saskatchewan Election Links
By Emma Pullman, on August 29, 2011, at 11:17 pm r-KEYSTONE1-mediumvariable.jpg TransCanada claims their pipelines are the safest in the continent. And the State Department seems inclined to agree having released their Final Environmental Impac… . . . → Read More: DeSmogBlog – Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: New Infographic Shows how Keystone Pipelines are ‘Built to Spill’
By Greg Fingas, on August 29, 2011, at 10:46 am Miscellaneous content to start your week. – Ian Welsh reminds us of the golden rule that should govern politics and everyday interactions alike: To paraphrase many of the greatest religious and moral leaders, there is only one law: imagine you are in … . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
By Greg Fingas, on August 23, 2011, at 2:37 pm This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Stevens notes that much of the Cons’ justification for utterly senseless choices is to point to an imaginary majority: We don’t have a “silent majority” in Canada. It appears we have instead an … . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
By Greg Fingas, on July 10, 2011, at 11:53 am Assorted material for your weekend reading.- He’s a bit too shy in pointing out exactly how thoroughly the Cons’ position on the Canadian Wheat Board has been rebuked in CWB elections for ages. But Bruce Johnstone nicely describes the PR blitz designed… . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
By Greg Fingas, on June 27, 2011, at 11:20 am Impolitical rightly points out that the Harper Cons are well on their way to implementing every single odious policy that was rightly labeled as unacceptable overreach when included in Deficit Jim Flaherty’s 2008 fiscal update. Now if only somebody had… . . . → Read More: Accidental Deliberations: Kept on track
By Dylan, on February 12, 2011, at 8:16 pm For all intents and purposes, my Saturday was supposed to be about relaxation. And it started out that way. I went out for breakfast, read the paper, got a haircut, came home around noon only to have it all go to hell. What happened? I logged onto Far and Wide.
Steve’s analysis of the latest EKOS poll had me flabbergasted. Disillusioned. I wouldn’t say heartbroken, but my balloon was seriously deflated. Things were going so well for the Liberals since the new year began. Now, it wasn’t like they were at 40% and Harper’s kingdom was on the verge of (Read more…)
By Deb Prothero, on November 11, 2008, at 5:04 pm Sarah Palin, in her softball interview with Fox’s Greta VanSusteren, calls bloggers ‘kids in pajamas sitting in the basement of their parents’ home”. As Pierre Eliot Trudeau once said, “I’ve been called worse things by better people.” I’m sitting comfortably in my own home with my laptop, reading the news online and processing how I think and feel about a particular item then finding facts to
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