February 2012
16 posts
“He’s a fanatic. And the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
–  George Smiley (Gary Oldman) in Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy
Feb 10th
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Romeo Saganash is apparently exiting the NDP leadership race, and I expect he’ll have something to say about it tomorrow, but just today he released this manifesto, which is just chalk full of the good stuff. Romeo is the first indigenous person to run for the leadership of one of the major Canadian political parties, and I hope a lot of his ideas permeate the consciousness of whoever does...
Feb 10th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
50 posts
Jan 31st
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“With a significant cross-section of the world’s financial elite in the audience,...”
–  Harper outlines class war agenda at Davos forum
Jan 31st
Jan 30th
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“This election system was invented before the light bulb, for goodness’ sake. I...”
– Nathan Cullen, NDP leadership candidate, on the first-past-the-post election system, and electoral reform in Canada (via eksmalltalk)
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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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,...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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A charming list of obviously coordinated pages attempting to make a social media statement about how excited Northern BC is for ‘economic development.’  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fort-St-James-Supports-Northern-Gateway-Pipeline/305159529500584 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prince-George-Supports-Northern-Gateway-Pipeline/290844254276716 ...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Feeling lost without Wikipedia today? McSweeney's... →
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn’t have the slightest idea...”
–  The Books of Bokonon
Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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fuckyeahstvincent: St. Vincent performing “Cheerleader” on Conan tonight!  Take that, Elvis Costello? Weird. Wonderfully so.
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“This Monk had first gone wrong when it was simply given too much to believe in...”
–  Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Liberals getting downright progressive with it. A taste of being a fringe third party seems to have the Grits on the verge of making some charming new policy. Ending prohibition, figuring out a new balloting system, opening their doors to so-called ‘supporters’ (well-wishers?)… still stuck on the monarchy thing though.
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Listenheartbreakyellow: Get on your feet.
Jan 13th
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