Category: politics
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Now, if we can just get Tony Clement to admit he’s copied tapes before.
Canada’s industry minister, Tony Clement, has finally come clean on what everyone and their dog already knows. His iPod, which he’s had since 2006, is chock full of music he legally wouldn’t be allowed under current copyright legislation to put there, regardless to the fact he owns those same songs … Read the rest
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An open letter to James Moore.
It’s come to my attention, minister Moore, you aren’t seeing any negative reaction to your and other MPS’ decision to not open the books for a public audit. It has also come to my attention that you believe the media’s continuing to throw it out there despite an apparent lack … Read the rest
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Yes, please do shut the fuck up on third world abortion.
There’s a huge blow-up in Ottawa over one senator deciding to say exactly what, on this ages old debate, a lot of Canadians–at least the ones I talk to, anyway–are thinking. We can’t even seem to make up our own minds on how we plan to deal with abortions within … Read the rest
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Why I’d vote for this James Moore guy if I could.
james Moore, a junior minister in Canada’s federal cabinet, has a real talent for stirring up the politically paranoid. Granted these days it doesn’t take much, but the bar’s officially been set about 5 miles lower as of this week. When asked escentially which team he’d be rooting for in … Read the rest
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Behold, Canada’s new pirate party.
Canada now has its own pirate party registered to run in federal elections, at least as of Tuesday. The tradition started in Europe, where the party got its first European Union seats. As the article explains, the party actually stands for something I can get behind–the legal copying of … Read the rest
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Ontario’s generous provincial government strikes again.
The budget for 2010 came out on thursday. And, expecting to see a slight improvement in areas that actually matter, I read things over as they came in–because, you know, I’m like that. Sure enough, slight was probably the best way to describe the improvements. Very slight, in some cases. … Read the rest
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Got some spare change? There’s a tax for that!
This is clearly the year of the overtaxed Canadian, nevermind what the Chinese say it is. And as always, it starts from the top down. first off, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) wants to tax any and all new MP3 player purchases. Or purchases of iPods, possibly external hard … Read the rest
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Latest casualty of political correctness: our national anthem?
Admittedly, my ability to be politically correct is practically nonexistent. No, I don’t go around dropping n-bombs every 20 seconds, but I haven’t rewritten a large part of my vocabulary to take into account some tiny fraction of the town I live in–who’s population isn’t all that large anyway–might be … Read the rest
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Febuary’s word of the month: prorogue.
1. to discontinue a session of (the British Parliament or a similar body). Also known as the double standard affect, if you happen to be a resident of Canada. How so? Explanation is below. Stephen Harper shut down Canada’s parliament at the end of December–a parliament that would have both … Read the rest
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New Canadian federal party: the Onion party?
I promised myself I wouldn’t do much in the way of political blogging on this site, mostly because it probably ends up being popular with all of maybe 2 people who read. But this one I just couldn’t resist. Stephen Harper is now second in popularity to an onion ring… Read the rest