Driving The Porcelain Bus

Political views and news from a Canadian social-democratic perspective.

Friday, 31 July 2009

Toronto Mayor David Miller Did An Excellent Job Handling The Strike

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The Toronto Star , The Globe & Mail and the National Post have gone all out to attack Toronto Mayor David Miller's handling of the...
Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Banked Sick Days Frozen, Toronto To Save $Millions (MSM Misleads Public In Toronto On Issue of Banked Sick Days)

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TheStar.com | GTA | Banked sick days in city offer The title, todays poll on the Star's site, and the article seems to stress the point...
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Sunday, 14 June 2009

Disgraceful Tories Contine To Hold Back The Money

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TheStar.com | Canada | 'Virtually nothing coming' from Tory stimulus fund ... "There's virtually nothing coming," NDP ...
Thursday, 4 June 2009

Mayors say Conservative government is all talk and no money

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TheStar.com | Canada | Mayors decry delay in stimulus cash from Ottawa Money for the stimulus projects was announced in January, but Ottawa ...
Monday, 1 June 2009

Why vote Liberal when it means you actually support the Conservatives?

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Ignatieff failing the middle class: Liberals offer no alternative or opposition to Conservatives | NDP Michael Ignatieff and the Liberals ca...
Tuesday, 5 May 2009

UN demands compensation for war crimes in Gaza

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globeandmail.com: UN demands compensation for Israeli strikes in Gaza This is a good first step. But, unfortunately, with the US supporting ...
Friday, 1 May 2009

NAFTA continues to hurt/kill people

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HealthZone.ca - News & Features - Blame NAFTA for swine flu, experts say , Lax farming rules under free trade deal create breeding groun...
Thursday, 23 April 2009

Stephen Harper offends a principle of fundamental justice

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TheStar.com | SpecialSections | Harper must press U.S. to free Khadr from Gitmo, court rules ... Federal Court Justice James O'Reilly ru...
Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Conservative vacactioned while people lost their jobs.

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Impolitical: Prorogation politics while unemployment and bankruptcies soared What's becoming even more clear in hindsight, the fact that...
Monday, 23 March 2009

Wine Cask Hotel Rooms

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Sleep it Off Inside a Wine Cask | greenUPGRADER
Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Why won't the Canadian government help out government-funded CBC, but will help out private broadcasters - WTF?

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A BCer in Toronto: Will Steve Harper bail-out the National Post?
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Mike Harris is back

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TheStar.com | Ontario | Mike Harris is back as Tory kingmaker This should ensure that Tim Hudak is never elected Premier. Former premier Mik...
Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Why is our Science Minister a Creationist?

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globeandmail.com: Minister won't confirm belief in evolution You would think that he would be the Creationist Minister and that we would...
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Sunday, 15 March 2009

Conservatives aim for more pollution

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globeandmail.com: Layton warns of 'brown and polluted' economic recovery A leaked document that shows Ottawa doesn't want to do ...
Friday, 27 February 2009

Ontario NDP Leadership Race - I'm supporting Michael Prue

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Straight Goods - Why I'm supporting Michael Prue for leader of the ONDP - Although all the candidates are attractive, Prue is the only o...
Monday, 23 February 2009

Conservative cover-up of their fault in the lysteriosis deaths coming back to haunt them

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HealthZone.ca - News & Features - Opposition slams Tories over listeriosis secrecy "What has the prime minister got to hide?"
Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Civilian deaths on the rise in Afghanistan

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globeandmail.com: Afghan civilian deaths up 40 per cent: UN KABUL — The number of Afghan civilians killed in armed conflict rose 40 per cent...
Thursday, 5 February 2009

Conservatives don't care about your health safety

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HealthZone.ca - Diet & Fitness - Vets target meat inspection plan During the Conservatives' last term, they began cutting back on in...

Amnesty International asks Harper to bring Khadr home

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TheStar.com | Canada | Amnesty asks Harper to bring Khadr home < read full story OTTAWA — Amnesty International has written an open lett...
Saturday, 31 January 2009

Israeli soldiers shoot children in the head at point-blank range

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as we were saying: Demographic problem? Shoot children <read full post and follow links Bullets in the brain The Telegraph [UK]: Doctors ...
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NDP is all that's Left

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The Militant Dipper: Falling for Jack. <read full post. Any one who stands opposed to Stephen Harper has only one choice. Smilin Jack ...
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York U - Bargaining in Bad Faith

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Ontario NDP Accuse YorkU of Bargaining in Bad Faith | The Dominion <read full story! Howard Hampton: "This isn't deadlock. This...

Harper & Ignatieff together in a state of denial

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TheStar.com | Insight | Harper and Ignatieff have heads in the sand If the budget demonstrated anything it's this: The government and op...
Friday, 30 January 2009

Majority of Canadians still see through Harper. Budget fails to impress.

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globeandmail.com: Budget fails to quell criticisms of Prime Minister, poll suggests Although this poll shows that a majority of Canadians su...
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Thursday, 29 January 2009

If only the leaders of other countries had the guts that the Turkish leader has to call a lie when he sees one

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TheStar.com | World | Turkish-Israeli clash stuns Davos economic forum DAVOS, Switzerland–Turkey's prime minister stalked off the stage ...
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Conservatives and Liberals vote to turn back the clock on pay equity for women in Canada

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Pay equity: U.S. moves forward, Canada falls behind | NDP “What comes as a shock is that the Liberals, who were so critical of those cuts, w...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

After they see that Iggy is just Dion in wolf's clothing, will the Liberals toss him out and elect Bob Rae?

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CBC.ca News - Political Bytes - Obit: the coalition With Michael Ignatieff and the Liberal party accepting the latest Harper budget, asking ...
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"Ignatieff says he is prepared to swallow"

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globeandmail.com: Tories put on probation; coalition declared dead Is Ignatieff the same or worse than Dion here? Not only is he accepting a...
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Bad news from the Liberals

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globeandmail.com: Ignatieff to call for changes to budget It seems that the Liberals are going to roll over and accept this lame budget: The...
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Sunday, 18 January 2009

More Israeli war crimes

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Israel accused of war crimes over 12-hour assault on Gaza village | World news | The Observer In testimony collected from residents of the v...

Israel continues to murder Palestinians after the ceasefire

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First Palestinian shot dead after Israel's unilateral ceasefire_English_Xinhua A Palestinian farmer was shot dead on Sunday morning by a...
Tuesday, 13 January 2009

White-Phosphorus and its use in Gaza

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Special: White Phosphorus and its use in Gaza - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC < read me. Reports of usage in Gaza: Th...

Death toll continues as Israel continues its assault on Gaza using White-Phosphorus

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18th day under attack: Gaza death toll reaches 940 with 4200 injured - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC < read me. Dr. Has...
Saturday, 10 January 2009

Remember that school that Israel targeted a few days ago ...

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UN: IDF officers admitted there was no gunfire from Gaza school which was shelled - Haaretz - Israel News "In briefings senior [Israel ...
Friday, 9 January 2009

Israel continues to target civilians in Gaza as the UN demands a halt to the aggression.

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In spite of UN Resolution (1860); army continues offensive killing 29 Palestinians on Friday - International Middle East Media Center - IMEM...

Descendents of the Holocaust now committing the same crime.

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Bil'in demonstrators remind the world of the Holocaust - International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC This angry message was to remind...
Thursday, 8 January 2009

Interviews with US congressmen regarding Gaza

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kucinich.us - Al Jazeera interviews Congressman Kucinich on Gaza Point - US arms are supplied to Israel for defence purposes only - not for ...
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Harper about faces again on Senate reform

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globeandmail.com: Harper pushes to gain control of Senate Seeing that his is up against a stronger opposition this time, Harper has decided ...
Wednesday, 7 January 2009

But bombing innocent trapped civilians is okay...

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TheStar.com | Ontario | Jewish leaders blast CUPE Please tell me how the current siege and invasion of Gaza is okay and not an abuse of civi...
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Oh, poor Israel

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TheStar.com | Columnist | Israel must fight its battles alone Oh, they are not allowed to join in fights and kill other people in other coun...
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And then they will bomb them again

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TheStar.com | World | Israel to halt Gaza operations for 3 hours And then they will seal off Gaza again and bomb the people, again, who have...
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Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Israel: "the region's bully"

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Al Jazeera English - Focus - Israel's failure to learn < read me Already we see tensions increasing in the region. Damascus has pull...
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Friday, 19 December 2008

We could have a $20 billion surplus

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TheStar.com | Canada | Harper says deficit could hit $30 billion Hey Stephen. How about you roll back the $50 billion in tax cuts to corpora...
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Monday, 15 December 2008

Bill Blaikie - running for a seat in the Manitoba legislature

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Winnipeg Free Press Welcome back Bill! Veteran New Democrat Bill Blaikie will run for a seat in the Manitoba legislature in a byelection exp...
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Friday, 12 December 2008

"I can't believe that the Prime Minister is just literally giving Canadians the finger."

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TheStar.com | Canada | Harper's Senate plan blasted For someone who was all about making the Senate more fair, representative and electe...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008

James Laxer ponders what will Ignatieff do

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No time for Ignatieff to play Mackenzie King | rabble.ca If Ignatieff's idea of leadership is to provide confidence for the Harper gover...
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Monday, 8 December 2008

What Harper would do if he had a majority

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If Harper survives | rabble.ca Both know only too well just who Stephen Harper is and what he would do to the country should he ever achieve...
Sunday, 7 December 2008

Conservatives wasting your money

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TheStar.com | Canada | Luxury travel contradicts Tories' frugal image This article from the Toronto Star exposes that the federal Conser...
Friday, 5 December 2008

An excellent resource on the record of the Harper Conservatives

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start [DokuWiki] Canada may be the first industrialized country to fall into political crisis as a result of the global economic recession. ...
Thursday, 4 December 2008

How does Stephen Harper respond to this global economic challenge? He locks the doors of Parliament so he can desperately cling to power.

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"Today’s families have spoken loud and clear – we need action on the economy right now. Action to create jobs, to protect your pension ...
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