Category: Politics

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November 20, 2008

GM: The Ultimate Robin Hood? Or Scammer?

Some people are questioning the decisions of GM executives to fly in their Jetstreams to Washington to whine about how broke the North American company is, but are few people even aware that GM is planning on spending more than $1 billion in Brazil on a manufacturing plant? They just earned a resounding NO from me.  Let’s try to aggregate that though and send a […]

Politics
November 19, 2008

Most uneducated quote of the day

I live in London, Ontario and the local council just made an extremely embarassing decision to NOT proceed with the collection or compostable waste .  The City of London will be one of the last cities in Ontario to have a green-bin recycling program, and this is already on top of our embarassing record with respect to regular trash pickup (every 6 business days, not […]

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November 16, 2008

Con Convention

Conservatives are meeting in Winnipeg to develop a platform. Gee … it would have been nice to see that BEFORE the Canadian election. Here are some leaked details (warning:  PDF)

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November 16, 2008

The Pirates of Parliament

First, they squandered our budget surpluses and gave them away to corporations, most of which aren’t even Canadian-owned any more. Then, they said that they would never run a deficit before the election and announced that deficits would become all the rage after the election.  I’m looking for a ‘before/after video clip to post here – if you have one, please let me know. Now, […]