It's come down to this. And in a matter of months, it'll be up to voters to choose, once and for all. Red checks. Blue plaid. Tablecloths, curtains, throw pillows or your Prime Minister. It'll be in your hands. More here.
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Fabric of a Nation
It's come down to this. And in a matter of months, it'll be up to voters to choose, once and for all. Red checks. Blue plaid. Tablecloths, curtains, throw pillows or your Prime Minister. It'll be in your hands. More here.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Irony
Dueling headlines, courtesy of VOCM and The Telegram this afternoon
Current NDP Leader: "Minimum wage hike not enough"
Former NDP Leader: "Minimum wage hike too much"
Current NDP Leader: "Minimum wage hike not enough"
Former NDP Leader: "Minimum wage hike too much"
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Simple questions
In response to the provincial government's apparent ambivalence toward the current crisis in the fishing industry, today's Telegram editorial asks a simple question:
When, for four straight weeks, Danny Williams bounded up on stage at every campaign stop across the province singing "stop your 'more for me please' rants", to whom did you think he was referring?
"...why is it that when 130 paper mill workers get laid off at Corner Brook Pulp and Paper on June 24, they get immediate reaction from the government, but when thousands of fisheries workers watch their fishing futures evaporate, there isn't the same reaction?"Which, in turn, begs another simple question, this one to the editorial writers themselves, and more particularly, those Danny-smitten Newfoundland reporters who covered the last provincial election campaign:
When, for four straight weeks, Danny Williams bounded up on stage at every campaign stop across the province singing "stop your 'more for me please' rants", to whom did you think he was referring?
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
On being extremely tacky
Is it really necessary, in a press release commemorating the ultimate sacrifice made by hundreds of WWI soldiers, to boast about the price tag of the bronze plaques?
The Provincial Government invested $400,000 to fully fund the replication of the bronze plaques...Honestly.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
The ongoing threats to Dan-ocracy
On Newsworld's "Our World", the CBC's Adrienne Arsenault reported tonight that the latest tactic of the Iranian regime is to track cell phone calls emanating from protesters to foreign journalists. Almost immediately thereafter, they receive automated threatening messages from the state. (More at this ABCNews blog.)
As Geoff Meeker noted earlier today in the Telegram, things could be worse. At least in Iran the threatening calls from the regime are automated...
As Geoff Meeker noted earlier today in the Telegram, things could be worse. At least in Iran the threatening calls from the regime are automated...
More on the despots in Iran, here. And on the despot in our own backyard, here and here.
Despotism sucks. Anywhere.
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