so its a pr war now is it what that really means is the conservatives are stoking and exploiting voter ignorance. have you seen this yet im sure its old but since i avoid wingnuttery i saw it for the first time on the national last night. its a conservative party website feeding their people talking points and directing them to local talkradi...... [Show More]
divide the right Post Source: terahertzatheist.ca Posted: Dec 02 2008 06:56:08
a small footnote in the big news today.
some of harpers cronies didnt stand for his first speech of the day.
this includes stockwell day rob nicholson and michael chong all cabinet ministers. cbc reports eight backbenchers also didnt stand.
on the opposition side the ndp reportedly stood for a dion speech. are the ndp and liberals really more supportive of one an...... [Show More]
this letter was sent last weekend from the war resisters support campaign to the honourable jack layton leader of the new democrat party . dear jack its time to dump the harper government and replace it with one that represents the majority of canadians. i understand negotiations are going on about the agenda of such a coalition government. please remember the war resister...... [Show More]
happy happy day how exciting to be greeted by this headline in this mornings globe and mail liberals ndp firm up deal to topple tories . a cabinet with six ndp seats a progressive government o canada i left work early last night and was lying in bed watching family guy and american dad before drifting off to sleep. the repetitive ads for global nationa...... [Show More]
let the madness stop. the privilege to govern must be earned not taken. no truer words can be said. the conservatives are in damage control mode and have sent out an appeal for donations today. this after leaking a secret deal between the ndp and the bloc .
after stopping to listen to the con servatives eavesdropp ing clips of jack layton at an...... [Show More]
wow is this really happening did i actually see the words negotiations for a coalition government in a news story i have to laugh at how out of the news loop ive been. we were very busy with family and friends and only seeing stories the new york times considers frontpage. you can be sure harpers tottering government wasnt one of them we had internet acce...... [Show More]
its not a holiday up here so with the american msm stuffed with turkey what better time to foment a small coup
an economic crisis is a fine time to suppress the opposition. this just in from cbc world report last story on the 8am ast package later fitzmorris story squeezed out of the final version of the package
dwight smith 1050 cbc news h...... [Show More]
i dont think it comes with too much shock to know that jack layton has chosen edmontons trathcona 8217s ambitious linda duncan for the position of environment critic in the ndp shadow cabinet .
with her vast experience at environmental law and advocacy as well as the proximity to many of the worst polluters in the country its like shes been training for this position si...... [Show More]
photo from the ndps flickr photostream .
if ever there was a fixture in the toronto political scene jack layton is it. a city councillor for the better part of two decades and a former head of the federation of canadian municipalities he is an expert on housing and homelessness and among the most influential leftofcentre figures to come out of ontario in the past quartercentury. h...... [Show More]
photo from the ndps flickr photostream .
if ever there was a fixture in the toronto political scene jack layton is it. a city councillor for the better part of two decades and a former head of the federation of canadian municipalities he is an expert on housing and homelessness and among the most influential leftofcentre figures to come out of ontario in the past quartercen tury...... . [Show More]
shes at it again. no too long ago krista covered raheel razas critique of a supposed islamist threat in canada. well razas published another piece but this time in the rightwing american thinker . and this time her claims have become even more questionable and to be honest a little ludicrous.
now it seems raza through her piece in the american thinker is trying t...... [Show More]
originally posted on torontoist november 7 2008.
supporters wait for barack obama to speak at a rally in cleveland ohio on november 2 2008. photo by flickr user jauretsi.
although that pesky thing known as the law kept noncitizens from voting in tuesdays u.s. presidential election it turns out that there was nothing to stop enthusiastic foreigners from sh...... [Show More]
will marketing my marijuana grow charges make me money
matt mernagh
everyone loves good courtroom drama.
combining this with my marijuana growop bust which also brings big media headlines an opportunity to market my upcoming summer 2009 blockbuster medical marijuana constitutional challenge appears to be
ganja golden.
charismatic medcannabis infused altweekly journ...... [Show More]
a tripartite lng coalition can succeed even without the bloc qubois according to this political observer
by john ryan
winnipeg manitoba canadas last two elections are proof positive that we have a flawed electoral system. does it make any sense that its impossible to get a government that reflects the views of the majority of our population how is it that a little mo...... [Show More]
photo credit colin purrington
the difficulty with projects like personal blogs is that you tend to start doing them when you have a lot of time and attention. then unless you are a much more diligent person than i am you let them lapse when other exciting paying projects come up and fill your time.
when i started posting regularly on quiet babylon i had just left my position...... [Show More]
a constant theme of progressive thought is that wealthy people of the capitalist persuasion are able to use their money unduly to influence public opinion whatever that is these daysand elections in particular.
i really do wonder how those progressive types will assess the democratic presidential candidates buying a huge amount of air time with private money whilst the re...... [Show More]
a
conservative party of canada
facebook a 17832 supporters no wall no discussion board
twitter a 1123 following 1066 followers 71 updates since the start of the election
mycampaign a a virtual campaign office for conservative supporters.a its an online action centre helping spread the conservative message raise money and recruit volunteers
interesting...... [Show More]
by some metrics jack layton and the new democratic party had one of their best electoral showings in history. they came out of the election with 37 seats seven more than in the previous parliament. the ndp kept the montraal riding of outremont held more or less reliably by liberals since 1935 which thomas mulcair had captured for them in a 2007 byelection. this is the first quabec riding to ...... [Show More]
not those companies jack layton loves to bash. yet another reason why reasonable oil prices are a good thing
axis of diesel forced to change its ways by plummeting oil price
together they form an axis of diesel. buoyed by petrodollars russia iran and venezuela hectored the west as they extended their reach abroad backing separatists in georgia islamists in the middl...... [Show More]
today is blog action day as i mentioned last week. its also the day after a federal election that led to a stronger conservative minority and a dramatic drop in liberal support. the feeling i get from friends of mine looks like its one of frustration but not surprise.
the theme of blog action day this year is poverty and the prevailing theme in this election was the ec...... [Show More]
speaking of canada turns out they too are holding a seemingly crucial election. in fact by the time youre likely reading this it will be over and done with and according to early reports prime minister stephen harper and the conservative party are celebrating reelection.
im not at all sure what that means because i dont know anything about canadian politics. if it8...... [Show More]
the ndp has taken my riding marking the first time since 1968 that this seat has not been held by the liberals.
interesting times now back to the seemingly inexhaustible pile of reformation essays. why do i always believe its better to have no quizzes or midterms and assign essays sure theres pedagogy and all but marking essays takes a lot more time than marking quiz...... [Show More]
its federal election day in canada and for all my negativity about politicians politics economicsand especially how that all can mix itself up into hockey ick 821 2i m certainly not cynical about our right to vote.
so in a nonpartisan attempt to encourage todays voting i reached out to the leaders of the five major federal parties the bloc queb...... [Show More]
today canadians go to the polls to elect a new prime minister. or more to the point they go to the polls to elect the same prime minister they had before but hopefully not to give him more power than he had before.
in 2006 the conservatives under the leadership of stephen harper gained power in a minority government. two years later and contrary to fixed election date legislation that th...... [Show More]
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