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Posted by Scott Tribe on August 1, 2011, at 1:02 pm |
To all of you in Canada who get this first Monday off, whether it’s called Civic Holiday or whatever, all the best to you. As for politics on this day, attention has turned to our US neighbour’s attempts to get their debt ceiling agreement in place before they default tomorrow. A tentative deal has been reached, which still has to be voted on and passed, but many progressives and liberals – both in the US and here in Canada - are dismayed at the Democrats and President Obama’s unwillingness to force the Republicans to compromise more in the agreement. They view it as a sellout of Democratic and progressive/liberal [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 28, 2011, at 6:36 pm |
This is a status message seen on Facebook by a family member who normally doesn’t utter political statements:
So let me get this straight…Kelsey Grammer can end a 15yr marriage by phone, Larry King is on divorce #9, Britney Spears had a 55hr marriage, Jesse James and Tiger Woods, while married, were having sex with everyone, 53% of Americans get divorced and 30-60% cheat on their spouses. Yet, same-sex marriage is going to destroy the institution of marriage? Really?
THat would be referring partially to some of the statements coming from New York State opponents of same-sex marriage, which was legalized yesterday.
Just look at Canada. Has the institution [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 12, 2011, at 8:49 am |
I have to disagree with my blogging colleague Jymn over his way about the different ways the Democratic Party and Republican Party handle scandals.
I’d rather a party not lower itself to the level of the other guys and say “well – they did it too!”. It’s not on the same scale of this sex scandal, but the Conservative Party up here has often whined like that about “the Liberals did it too, or were far worse” when pointed out their various indiscretions.. not exactly inspiring stuff for a party that promised to do better and clean things up. It didn’t affect them this election, but it will [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on January 16, 2011, at 1:26 pm |
When even Newt Gingrich – former Republican Speaker of the House back in the 90′s – says this about the US prison system – you can see how out to lunch the Conservative government is on spending billions to build more prisons:
Building more jails is a waste of money. We need a fundamental rethink on how to rehabilitate prisoners — not just punish them. Locking up more and more people doesn’t make the public safer. Typical rhetoric from the liberal “soft on crime” crowd? Think again. Newt Gingrich, one of the foremost paladins of the U.S. conservative movement, lent his name to a column the other day in [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on December 16, 2010, at 7:05 pm |
I didn’t need a study to tell me this, since I can pretty much point these folks out, but at least we have a scientific study proving it:
Watching Fox News leaves viewers less informed and more prone to believing misinformation, according to a study conducted by the WorldPublicOpinion.org at the University of Maryland. While regular consumers of news were found to be more informed on issues surrounding the 2010 Senate elections, daily Fox viewers were significantly more likely to believe incorrect information on the economy, climate change and whether or not U.S. President Barack Obama was born in America…Researchers found that the more you watched Fox News the [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on November 29, 2010, at 8:05 am |
For years, the Harper government has claimed we can’t do anything on lowering Greenhouse Gas Emissions until the Americans do something on it, so we can “harmonize” the plan with theirs. That was seen by many as an excuse of Harper’s to do nothing, because he knew the Bush administration would do nothing, and he calculated Obama’s administration would not be able to pass anything with Republican obstructionism in the Congress. He was correct on the second part, but Obama had a back-up plan, which apparently our Canadian government knew nothing about (when it’s been repeated for a few months that this is what would be done – I’ve [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 29, 2010, at 2:28 pm |
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in so many diplomatic words says Canada is being elitist in who it invited to talks on the Arctic:
Clinton rebukes Canada on Arctic meeting The world’s Arctic allies are kicking off a day-long summit on a sour note, as Canada comes under fire for snubbing key polar nations. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in prepared remarks that the meeting should be inclusive – yet Sweden, Finland, Iceland and indigenous groups were left off Canada’s invite list. “Significant international discussions on Arctic issues should include those who have legitimate interests in the region. And I hope the Arctic will always showcase [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 24, 2010, at 1:48 pm |
Some of my progressive blogging colleagues think so. Part of that is to do with some of the media covering the event reporting they felt it was more to do with poor organization of the event, and that the claim that there were ’2000 protesters there’ being overblown, as well as the so-called security concerns being overblown.
As Dr Dawg noted at his above link, there’s so far not been an official police report of any kind describing reports of any physical violence, or arrests, or reports of weapons. We only have hyper-conservative activist Ezra Levant saying so, and pardon me if I take his word with a big [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 23, 2010, at 9:12 pm |
On a slightly happier note, President Obama officially signs US health reform insurance into law:
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It isn’t perfect as I’ve said before, but it’s a foundation to build on for the future in the US. Congratulations to the Democratic Party (at least, the ones who helped pass this, as they have even less party discipline then the Liberals) and President [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 23, 2010, at 2:19 pm |
Yea, the saying is usually a “red herring”, but I felt it appropriate to change it to blue to coincide with the Conservatives, whose colour is blue of course. Anyhow, regardless of the herring’s colour, that’s what this excuse for voting against a Liberal motion calling on the government to include family planning in any G8 maternal health initiative. Apparently, it’s anti-American:
Conservative MPs will vote against a Liberal motion today to include family planning as part of the G8 maternal and child health initiative..it was clear the government had seized upon the second part of the Liberal motion which attacks the right-wing policies of the former George Bush [...]
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