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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
Of course not. But judging from Brewer's breathless account and headlines from the usual bevy of right-wing blogs, a 'threatening' Obama "intensely" reproached the Governor for comments about the "thin-skinned" president in her book (wh ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: bazie
| Source: Progressive Proselytizing
After a protracted battle over the issue of whether so called 'gay-straight clubs' must be allowed in Catholic schools, many LGBT allies thought a legitimate victory had been attained when Queen's Park ruled that such groups must be tol ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: redtory
| Source: Red Tory v.3.0
As much as I agree with many of Ron Paul’s principled stances on various issues, I just cannot stand the cult of over-zealous fanatics that support him… Despite all evidence, these folks simply refuse to accept the fact that Dr. … Conti ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
Or, almost-seniors. Those approaching the age of 65 must be gasping for breath this morning, learning of Harper's hint at perhaps raising the age for receiving 'old age' benefits to 67. More sinister are his plans for OAS and the Guaran ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Fischer v. IG Investment Management Ltd., 2012 ONCA 47 deals with when a class action will be allowed. A class action will not be allowed if there is a preferable process to vindicate class claims. The Court writes:
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
Margaret Atwood has dubbed it 'Enemygate'. ForestEthics whistleblower Andrew Frank accuses Harper of bullying tactics. John Bennett of the Sierra Club frets that this is “a scary time for Canadian democracy”. With the Prime Minister cal ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
I love when the right and big corporations use the 'free speech' (or in this case, 'freedom of expression') argument from everything to excusing defamation and libel to putting out false claims about products.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
So says Tea Party North “leader” Tim Hudak: “We took our foot off his throat by giving him a bit of a free ride in the summer.” What a bloody fool. Can you imagine the Con braying and screeching if Dalton McGuinty had said he had his “ ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Rachel, Law Clerk
| Source: Wise Law Blog
Here are the leading legal headlines for Friday, January 27, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter :
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: C4SR
| Source: Cowboys for Social Responsibility
Ten days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was eagerly criticizing NDP leadership Thomas Mulcair over his French citizenship. The Prime Minister emphasized his Canada-first and always patriotism.
In my case, as I say, I'm very clear. ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: saskboy
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
I wrote a article the other day for my blood using voice rec mission on my android phone and it is very impressive how so much is it was very accurate although it did make a few mistakes. Today I may not be speaking clearly enough becau ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
In closing the Crown should not seek to sway by emotion but by logic and reason. Obviously in any trial there is some emotional response - that's normal. But Crown closing should be focused on facts and logical conclusions, not drama. ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jeremiah Sabadoz
| Source: Canadian Lemon
The Conservative government has been working very hard to get the stalled Oilsands pipelines back on track, and have resorted to increasingly bizarre tactics and slurs to accomplish that goal. As it turns out, they anticipated the comp ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Nancy Leblanc
| Source: Impolitical
A brief follow-up to yesterday's post on the possibility of a hike in OAS age eligibility here. Here is the first of many analyses likely to come along now that Harper has raised the issue of "major" reforms to Canada's pension system, ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
No surprise here.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
No comment necessary.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Nancy Leblanc
| Source: Impolitical
Just too fun to resist. How the Gingrich moon base plan fared in the Republican debate tonight. Predictable responses from his fellow candidates, largely challenging the expense it would represent. Not so predictable, Newt's invocation ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: tedhsu
| Source: Hopefully worth writing down
I won't be posting to this blog for the foreseeable future. Thanks to those who have read it in the past.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: thescottross.blogspot.com
| Source: The Scott Ross
The Liberal Party lost the last election not because they didn't know what they stood for, but because they stopped looking.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Paul Morrison
| Source: J. Paul Morrison
"[Canadian PM Steven Harper] is encouraging Canadians to continue believing that we are the generous benefactors of the First Nations people, but that is not true. They have been our benefactors since the days of the fur trade and we ha ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Earl J. Woods
| Source: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
It's an unfair, silly question, of course; each television program, like any work of art, should be judged on its own merits. But millions of Lost fans, people like me, would dearly love to once again enjoy the experience Lost gave us f ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: Constant Vigilance
| Source: If necessary blogging but not necessarily blogging
Montreal Simon draws his bead away from Captain Anti-Canada for a post defending the honour of the world's greatest poet from a senseless and uncalled for slight.. He does a great job and the fact that the passion for his homeland mat ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: redtory
| Source: Red Tory v.3.0
Neat little mock ad from the folks at BuzzFeed pivoting off the accusation that Newt Gringrich is “grandiose”… It’s actually not surprising in the least that Newt would so readily embrace the term given his attachment to the notion of … ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: C4SR
| Source: Cowboys for Social Responsibility
Earlier today, federal, provincial and territorial justice and public safety ministers finished their annual meeting in Charlottetown.
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: saskboy
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
I’m a copyright radical, like most younger people. I wasn’t born that way, but Napster, and the war on Napster and filesharing helped shape my vision of what people need to do to remain free. As most TED talks are, this is an amazing vi ...
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: ck
| Source: Sister Sage's Musings
Step right up, boys ‘n’ girls, see what you’re forced to sacrifice for!
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Jan 27, 2012
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
Decima's latest, which gives the following national numbers:
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Volkov
| Source: Blunt Objects
Three polls of the two largest Western provinces have come out this week - one for BC, two for Alberta; two done by Forum, one done by Léger - showing different fates for everyone involved right now.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Nancy Leblanc
| Source: Impolitical
Harper is talking pension reform in Davos and one big change could be coming:
In the wake of Harper's speech, it now appears that the Conservative government could be poised to gradually change the Old Age Security system so that the a ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Placzek v. Green, 2012 ONCA 45 deals with discharging a civil jury.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: The Mound of Sound
| Source: The Disaffected Lib
There I've said it. I'm just too damned dumb to accept atheism. And, the way I see it, so are you even if you won't admit it... yet. It's the whole faith thing that stops me in my tracks. What is faith but a willingness to accept ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: saskboy
| Source: Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy
If Stephen Harper were a character in a Hollywood epic movie about the western Canadian frontier, and went to live with the First Nations people, I can’t help but think his alternate name would be Dances With Oil. He sure doesn’t dance ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: LeDaro
| Source: LeDaro
Harper was high on rhetoric and rituals but lacking on substance. All in all the results of the meeting were disappointing for the natives.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
The North is developing very quickly.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
...to picket Stephane Gendron's office. Gendron is mayor of Huntingdon, Quebec and a small-time radio shock-jock. His most recent comments re Israel's right to exist, when seen in their full context, are not as awful as have been portr ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
No, they’re not. They suck, in fact. In the book-to-come, I discuss how progressives have let conservatives get away with claiming they’re better at managing dollars. Among other things, progressives need to tell that story, over and ov ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Rachel, Law Clerk
| Source: Wise Law Blog
Here are the leading legal headlines for Thursday, January 26, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter:
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: James C Morton
| Source: Morton's Musings
Fish from ice fishing in Qikiqtarjuaq are coming in about three weeks earlier than usual. That's good locally -- more local jobs -- but a sign of the changing climate.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Steve V
| Source: Far and Wide
Corporate tax cut disciples will ridicule the messenger, Canadian Labour Congress just reeks "enemy of the state", but their study on corporate taxes is largely reliant on third party conclusions, ROCK SOLID empirical manifestations, th ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Scott Tribe
| Source: Scott’s DiaTribes
I was reading a column that Martin Reg-Cohn wrote yesterday on the continuing saga in London where as those who’ve followed it know, Caterpillar has locked out it’s workers in a draconian effort to get them to slash their wages by half ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
I oppose violence with every remaining sinew in my body but I’m saying to Harper and Oliver that violence is what their policies will bring. I haven’t had a fight since about Grade VII and I lost that one but I can tell you that I’m pr ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Nancy Leblanc
| Source: Impolitical
I don't know, these things never seem to end well. Always too many hatches and lasers and super villains around.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
Maybe it’s because I’m posting this in the middle of the night, or maybe it’s because I’m denser than usual, but I’m a bit confused. My party is (a) still mired in third place and is (b) still nearly 20 points back of the Cons and is (c ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: redtory
| Source: Red Tory v.3.0
It’s beyond absurd that alleged “small government” Republicans are adamantly opposed to “wasting” taxpayer dollars on doing much of anything that would repair the basic elements of America’s crumbling infrastructure (i.e., boring employ ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Earl J. Woods
| Source: My Name is Earl (J. Woods)
Tonight Sylvia and I went to see German violinist David Garrett and his band play with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Winspear. I suspect Sylvia's initial desire to attend was driven by Garrett's undeniable pulchritude, but his ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: The Native Canadian
| Source: The Native Canadian
Whether we agree with anonymous or not, it can become a powerful tool for freedom. In history we have been tagged with many social systems, democracy, capitalism, communism, fascism, socialism, to keep us divided but one remains the ult ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: C4SR
| Source: Cowboys for Social Responsibility
In 2009, the Harper Tories had a clear plan to replace the long gun registry with something that could work:
We want to return to the better system of having retailers record their sales of non-restricted weapons instead of having to ...
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: thescottross.blogspot.com
| Source: The Scott Ross
People who click "like" on Facebook to show support for a cause are slacktivists, you on the other hand with your "Support Our Troops" bumper sticker, breast cancer ribboned fleece and poppy laden dashboard are not.
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Volkov
| Source: Blunt Objects
Too many polls have come out this week, and I hope this will be the last one (oh, who am I kidding?).
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Jan 26, 2012
| Author: Nancy Leblanc
| Source: Impolitical
A bunch of nice national headlines from the last few days.
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: bazie
| Source: Progressive Proselytizing
When Barack Obama became President, there was an enormous outpouring of emotion at the historic fact of electing the first black President. Had Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary instead, America would most likely have had its ...
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: bigcitylib
| Source: BigCityLib Strikes Back
...conducted barely eight months into a four year mandate. Even (marginally) encouraging ones. And hardly a reason to plump for Bob as LPoC leader this far in advance of the leadership convention, if anyone is thinking that. Wait unti ...
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: Paul Morrison
| Source: J. Paul Morrison
"If you thought robots worked through endless Chinese nights you were wrong. When human labour is as cheap as it is in China, only human labour will do.
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: Warren
| Source: Warren Kinsella
Warren reacts with amusement to the suggestion that capitalism is robust and healthy.
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: Volkov
| Source: Blunt Objects
This is the second poll now to show the federal Conservatives blow 35%, the other being the recent EKOS polling done last month, which had them at 31.4%. In fact, HD almost perfectly mirrors EKOS' 31.4-29.5-24.8 result.
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: redtory
| Source: Red Tory v.3.0
Did you know that according to some folks, if you accept the scientific premise of climate change but happen to disagree with the fatuous and practically ineffective approaches to mitigating its effects by present means of harmful econo ...
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Let Freedom Rain
This is sad news on more levels than one.
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Jan 25, 2012
| Author: Jymn
| Source: Sister Sage's Musings
(Scroll down for scrumptious update.)
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