I'm sure this is just correlation without causation, right? Vicente Fox has a good point to make. The US War on Drugs is really a war on mexicans. He wants all drugs legalized.
Did you know the Fair Elections Act will give incumbent MP's the power to appoint key election workers? What a terrible idea. On a similar note, Preston Manning has even suggested that taking away Elections Canada's "get out the vote" abilities is dumb. And another voice suggesting that bad things will happen if Elections Canada can't investigate.
Brad Butt, the MP who said he saw voter fraud taking place in the form of campaign employees pulling voter ID cards from the trash and then using them to fraudulently vote, now says that he saw no such thing. Is this not troubling? Is this a statement you can just back away from by saying you "misspoke". Were new laws not drafted to prevent this from happening?
Oh. This is fresh. It's not enough to claim that it's American money funding the anti-pipeline coalition in BC. It used to be the evil American hippies with no skin in the game that want to see the pipeline fail. But now...now somehow it's worse. It's American big oil tricking Canadians into scrapping their own pipeline because they want the oil for themselves. The same American companies that control the majority of the Oils Sands, right? So...they don't want this pipeline so they can sell the oil in the US rather than they sell the oil in China? Interesting. Note that the author of this article is pretty much a BC Liberal Government shill who seems to be the driving force behind the astro-turf "British Columbians for Prosperity". Where do you get your money, assholes? Looks like somebody has followed their money...straight to the long term Oil Industry folks who started this organization.
Similarly, a nice little Tyee story that highlights some of the ties between big oil, US right-wing think tanks, "grassroots" oil supporters and Canadian politicians. Weird, scary stuff. It also asks the question - why is the 100% political "charity" The Fraser Institute not held to the same standard as other charitable organizations participating in political work? And points out that all these outside organizations currently "own" 70% of Canada's oil and gas production and siphon off the majority of the profits.
I love behind the scenes views of talking points for Conservative politicians. Here we have a look at what they were all told to say with respect to Justin Trudeau and the Senate.
Not only Rex Murphy, but Peter Mansbridge has been caught taking money from the Oil Sands.
The IMF, that crazy bunch of liberals, has a report showing that increased taxes on the rich has no impact on economic growth.
I know that nobody ever said anything positive about child sex offenders and made it out alive. But, especially since we seem more than eager to make kids that forward pictures of classmates "child sex offenders", I worry what this legislation might mean. I just don't think that making it impossible for a certain breed of criminal to re-integrate into society might not be to the benefit of anybody.
Garth Turner shows why Justin Trudeau is correct - The StatsCan report on middle class wealth increasing is solely based on real estate values. Yes, some people are sitting on fat (on paper) Real Estate values. This hardly defines the return of the middle class.
The Conservatives shutting the opposition out of the trip to the Ukraine is just one of many ways the Conservatives are using foreign policy to take advantage of their position. Poor Irwin.
Is Jim Prentice making a move to be the next Conservative PM? He's coming out in favour of more environmental protection.
If you complain about everything, people will stop listening. This story points out that taxpayers have paid for $130,000 in meals for Conservative staffers since 2010. Who cares? What kind of deadbeat employer doesn't pick up the tab for employee meals at specific work events? $7000 for pizza for 330 people during a professional development event? So...$21 per person? Who cares. This is not the sort of thing we should be worried about. More Conservative lunch expenses, this set directly linked to the Prime Minister.
Their analysis makes almost no sense...and they were kind of dicks when I asked for clarification...But Ross Kay Consultants lays out how the MLS double counts home sales and how badly it distorts sales numbers. Over 10% of "sales" disappear.
There seems to be some agreement between the Feds and the Provinces about the Canada Job Grant plan. Nobody seems too sure what it is though.
I've been thinking a similar train of thought to this story over the last few days. It comes from the question "Will NHL owners allow NHL players to compete in the next Olympics?" It just seems absurd. I understand that NHL owners are paying NHL players obscene amounts of money to play hockey for their team. But the statement seems to imply some kind of ownership over the very being of the person/athlete. It's strange to me. Further to that, this Grantland article points out the near impossibility of athletes to protest much of anything due to their meager earnings and subservience to corporate sponsors.
An interesting Snowden/Greenwald article outlines how western intelligence agencies (the British GCHQ in this case) use dirty tricks to discredit political activists and protesters. As somebody says somewhere, it's pretty scary that the full might of the government can arbitrarily decide that you're a bad apple and your life should be ruined. Okay. That's my paraphrase.
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