Expostulations of orange juice

GPOYM

Love it.

With a significant cross-section of the world’s financial elite in the audience, Harper touted Canada as a haven for investors, where businesses already enjoy the lowest taxes on new investment of any G-7 country. But, he vowed, “We will do more, much more.

Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum

theslyestfox:

CANADA! CLICK HERE to find your local MP and send a letter expressing your thoughts on the Copyright Modernization Act! Let’s stop this!

(via Canadian Coalition for Electronic Rights)

(via tysonelder)

This election system was invented before the light bulb, for goodness’ sake. I think we can modernize.

Nathan Cullen, NDP leadership candidate, on the first-past-the-post election system, and electoral reform in Canada (via eksmalltalk)

achleedawn:

Mark Bradford

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Light up My Room

Barenaked Ladies,

Stunt [UK Bonus CD] Disc 1

Tonight’s late-night lonely times audio post is courtesy of the often soulless, gimmicky and insufferably punny Barenaked Ladies, who once upon a time wrote a few beautiful songs, like this one - Light Up My Room.

waffles, tasty waffles.

ms paint

Manatee!

manatee

Another chapter in the on-going donnybrook between “Ethical Oil” (The Conservative government, friends of the Conservative government who stand to benefit from building pipelines to export bitumen to China and the US, Multinational Oil companies and the like) and so-called “Radicals” (Environmental groups, indigenous people living on the northwest coast, opposition MPs, protectionists, concerned citizens living in to-be-affected communities)…

Prime Minister’s Office Tries to Silence Pipeline Critics; Labels Environmental Group“Enemy of the Government of Canada” and “Enemy of the people of Canada.”

As I have detailed in a sworn affidavit, no less than three senior managers with TidesCanada and ForestEthics (a charitable project of Tides Canada), have informed me, as theSenior Communications Manager for ForestEthics, that Tides Canada CEO, Ross McMillan,was informed by the Prime Minister’s Office, that ForestEthics is considered an “Enemy of the Government of Canada,” and an “Enemy of the people of Canada.”

This language was apparently part of a threat by the Prime Minister’s Office to challengethe charitable status of Tides Canada if it did not agree to stop funding ForestEthics,specifically its work opposing oilsands expansion and construction of oilsandstanker/pipeline routes in Canada.

This is especially concerning because ForestEthics is a legally registered intervenor in theNational Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel process, currently examining the Enbridge oiltanker/pipeline proposal. By attempting to silence a registered participant in the review, Ifear the Harper government may have permanently damaged the integrity of this process.

Now, that’s just the word of one hopeful, bright-eyed whistleblower, and it would come as a surprise to absolutely no one if it were dismissed/buried out of hand, but this certainly seems very serious.

Let’s go to Nathan Cullen for a reaction shot…

Yeah, that’s how I feel too.