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Posted by Scott Tribe on September 1, 2010, at 4:29 pm |
Not to steal Galloping Beaver’s thunder, but I think this bears repeating:
Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montreal man who was stranded in Sudan for six years, has been given the green light to sue the federal government and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. In a written ruling released on Monday, the Federal Court gave Abdelrazik [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 23, 2010, at 10:36 am |
Just an aside on the Australian general election that took place over the last few days. Australia’s electoral setup is a modified Westminster-parliamentary system similar to Canada’s (the main difference being they use preferred ballot or Instant Runoff voting to elect their lower house, and Single-Transferable Vote to elect their Senate). The election has [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on July 12, 2010, at 12:49 pm |
A few things today:
The Sun Media chain, apparently not content with its one loathsome editorial on the G-G, decided to engage in an almost similar loathsome one on Omar Khadr today (I’d rather link to my progressive colleague Pogge then directly to it). Kory Teneycke has been rather bored, it appears, and decided [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on July 6, 2010, at 11:41 am |
So the PRIDE Toronto parade is over for another year. The topic of controversy again this year was whether or not QuAIA (Queers Against Israeli Apartheid) should be allowed to march into the parade or not. First, they were disbarred; then after considerable pressure, they were reinstated, much to the dismay of some folks [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 23, 2010, at 10:05 am |
No doubt many of you have seen this today, where in an exclusive TV interview with CBC, the director of CSIS levels serious accusations that a couple of cabinet ministers in provincial governments and perhaps in BC’s municipal governments are suspected being in the control of “foreign governments”.
I find the public timing of [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 17, 2010, at 12:47 pm |
On this particular day, it’s the Economist’s editors who decide to ask the question about what Harper was thinking about when he put together the Billion Dollar Boondoggle known as the G8/G20 Meetings. Rather stern stuff here:
A loonie boondoggle: Ostentation in a time of austerity
…The prime minister has become the butt of [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 16, 2010, at 1:43 pm |
Random thought #1: Maybe it’s just me, but it looks to me to be a tad paranoid to be ripping out trees, saplings, bushes or any other random plant because the security units for the G8/G20 summit are afraid branches will be used as weapons by protesters. All of this tree cutting is presumably [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on June 3, 2010, at 1:18 pm |
No surprise that Harper would do so; he’s done it before where he talks about some aspect of domestic politics while he’s abroad. I guess he feels that everyone is watching his trip, so they’ll be paying more attention. Today, in the UK, the talk arose of coalition government there, and the parallels between [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on May 31, 2010, at 9:05 am |
- PM Harper sure seems to get tripped up by his foreign policy stances he takes, sometimes by bad timing, sometimes by bad design. We’ll have to see which of those it is today (or if it’s a bit of both) when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu this AM following an Israeli navy [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on May 28, 2010, at 1:13 pm |
I’m kind of ripping this off of Twitter, but since I again am not feeling well and feeling unmotivated to do my own blogpost (being up half the night and then being on Predozone/Benadryl tends to lose one’s motivation quickly), I’m gonna direct you elsewhere to other folks.
First, an excellent electoral reform column [...]
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