January 2012
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Emma Pullman | Cozy Ties: Astroturf 'Ethical Oil'... →
From one of the most essential cut-through-the-bullshit sites in Canada.  H/t James McKee / @TallPolitical
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Democratic governance and that troublesome...
Earlier this week, my good friend @cityslikr shlepped out to Scarborough to take in a public meeting about the city budget. He wrote it up for Torontoist; you can read about it here.  In brief, his account suggests that Scarborough residents are feeling screwed. Again. They voted for Rob Ford because they thought, finally, that they’d get a mayor who would stop coddling the downtown...
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Sorry, World. We fucked up. →
Isn’t it great? We’re in Bush league territory now.
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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“For 2012, could we kiss off the term “boondoggle?” Permanently?”
– Stupid fucking word.
Jan 11th
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In defence of the public sphere | #TOpoli...
There’s been some kerfuffle in the cybersphere about “radical conservatives” over the past couple of days, specifically in the context of Toronto politics, the city budget discussions, and the overall philosophy apparently motivating Team Ford. (Caveat: that’s assuming that you can call whatever’s behind their approach a “philosophy” at all. I’m...
Jan 11th
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Monday morning Sheppard subway guffaw from...
Selley: Nothing will force the mayor into a retreat on the Sheppard subway. He will insist on its viability and impending ground breaking until the day he leaves office, and thereafter he will claim that it exists even though it does not. He will fill his leisure hours driving up and down Sheppard Avenue, making train noises to himself. via news.nationalpost.com Question for the panelists:...
Jan 9th
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Unethical oil and its Canadian friends | The...
Partnerships with Myanmar and Sudan… links to Burmese heroin traffickers… With this cast of characters partnering in the development of the Northern Gateway, you’d think Ethical Oil would be at the front of the line condemning the pipeline. That is if you think Ethical Oil’s real purpose is to oppose unethical oil. If, on the other hand, its real purpose is to front for Enbridge with ...
Jan 9th
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“What’s the deal with all these GIFs on Tumblr?”
– Sunday morning crankypants
Jan 8th
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Colton Orr talks about reinventing his game | #nhl...
Colton Orr says he has two main goals in mind as he exchanges his Toronto Maple Leafs jersey for a Toronto Marlies one. The first is to get himself in game shape after spending much of the season in the pressbox as a healthy scratch. The second is to change his game, mainly because it apparently is no longer in vogue in the National Hockey League. “The game’s evolving and changing, so you...
Jan 8th
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Austerity’s Targets « Framed In Canada | #cdnpoli...
As the post-recession politics of austerity tattoo a bull’s eye onto the backs of workers in Canada and elsewhere, Iceland stands out as a refreshing alternative. Iceland was the first country to feel the effects of the Great Recession of 2008. Its banks owed nearly six times Iceland’s GDP in the Fall of 2008, threatening to bring the entire Icelandic economy down with it. The people of...
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Robert Reich: The Decline of the Public Good →
robertreich: Meryl Streep’s eery reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” brings to mind Thatcher’s most famous quip, “there is no such thing as ‘society.’” None of the dwindling herd of Republican candidates has quoted her yet but they might as well considering their unremitting bashing of…
Jan 6th
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One of those ignore-the-idiot-or-engage dilemmas |... →
Apparently the little putz wants everyone to know about his boorish behaviour. This is Sun Media’s idea of contributing to the national conversation. This is how desperate and pathetic he and they are. Hence the dilemma. Isn’t more attention just validating him? Wouldn’t leaving him in obscurity be better? (Where’s George Soros when you need him?) Related posts: Ignore...
Jan 5th
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Rick Santorum: 'I don’t want to make black... →
motherjones: Said to a mostly white Iowa audience. Interestingly, white welfare recipients outnumber black recipients slightly nationwide…and nine-to-one in Iowa. Which makes you wonder: Why’s Rick bothering to single out African Americans on the dole? Hm. To this I can only add this.
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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The Donald On The Texas Ballot? | NBC 5... →
Supporters of Donald Trump have reportedly filed the necessary paperwork that would land the New York real estate tycoon on the Texas primary ballot this spring … … thus obliterating any lingering differences between the U.S. electoral process and really bad reality TV.
Jan 3rd
Jan 2nd
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