April 2011
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The Ekos Poll speaks boldly about their current round of polls - “Looking at these seat projections, the NDP and the Liberal Party combined would have a majority and 31 more seats than the Conservatives (as well as nearly 20 more points in popular vote). Indeed, It is hard to imagine how these totals would not produce the once unimaginable outcome of a Jack Layton led coalition government...
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“Notably, while the NDP has grown, they have actually held on to a major advantage on second choice and they now lead all parties by a large margin in terms of their theoretical ceiling (around 50 points). Their rising fortunes have been largely at the expense of the Bloc in Quebec and a flagging Green Party in English Canada. The reality is that these numbers were unimaginable at the outset...
As I Cross the Heliopause at Midnight, I Think of My Mission Drunker than Voyager 1 but not as Voyager 2 I rode by blue bike back through the darkness to my lonely geode cave of light awaiting nothing under the punctured dome. I had achieved escape velocity drinking clear liquid starlight at the Thunderbird with a fingerless Russian hedge fund inspector and one who called himself The Champ. All...
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Lemon Hound : Colin Fulton →
septembrist:
As a nod to National Poetry Month, contributing writers to Canadian poetry blog Lemon Hound is featuring upcoming poets of interest throughout April.
Nardone features three pieces taken from a larger manuscript by Colin Fulton (my partner in crime), and poses several questions which arise in the reading of Fulton’s work :
What are the phonemes within phenomena? What is their...
Maybe more than a ‘Canadian’ Juno (although ‘Juno’ has a bit of a Canadian ethos to it, and ‘The Junos’ are always Canadian, and as point of actual fact, the female lead in this Canadian production is American, and vice-versa in the earlier film)… whatever, I quite liked this. The Globe and Mail review labels it a ‘sex comedy’ and then calls...
Harper, in turn, tried to appeal to voters in Quebec who choose the Bloc because they don’t like the Liberals. He said the Bloc wants to choose who will get to govern in a minority Parliament.
“Mr. Duceppe has clearly chosen the Liberal Party and that’s his choice. A vote for the Bloc is a vote for Mr. Ignatieff as prime minister,” Harper said.
— French Language...
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shit harper did →
“Gagarin looked more pale than usual. He was unsociable and quiet, which was not like him at all. He would answer by nodding or a short ‘yes’ to all questions. Sometimes he would start humming some tunes. This was a different Gagarin. We geared him up, and hugged. And I said, “Yury, everything will be fine.” And he nodded back”. Hell of a thing to do, to leave the...
“His remark was not intended to be a factual statement.”
- The official response by Sen. Jon Kyl’s office when questioned on the accuracy of his senate floor rhetoric opposing planned parenthood, wherein he claimed providing abortions was ‘more than 90%’ of what the organization does, when the figure is actually closer to 3%.
As far as accidental revelations of...
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The Conservatives’ report, presented as a dissenting opinion to the Commons the morning Parliament was dissolved last month, quotes Sheila Fraser giving high marks to the Harper government for prudent spending on the summits.
The report quoted the auditor general as saying: “We found that the processes and controls around that were very good, and that the monies were spent as they were...
A trinity of goods O hush: o how? I hear of peace but hearing flees, I rush to be infinities at once. To run and word and fuck, to hold, to rain: ‘splain, Lucy, Ricky said: I can’t. I’m not self-contained but self-maimed, self- stuck. To change, I womb pebbles under tongue, not the stuttering many but imaginary ones. Of quiet, of ease, in the theory pretend becomes mend, the...
Awesome new follower/follow of the day - Flarf Liberation Organization (http://flarfliborg.tumblr.com/)
“Harper, who has long opposed the $2-per-vote subsidy, said political parties enjoy “enormous tax advantages” even without the additional subsidy and taxpayers should not financially support political parties that they don’t support with their votes.” (CBC)
Can anyone out there in Internet land make any sense of this statement? Unless I’m missing something,...
