Archive for the 'politics' Category
The Fundie’s Handbook
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That’s the way I see it, and with the steamroller momentum of birtherism, teabagging, speechies, marriage protection and the like, one can’t help but just want to take the easier road of rolling with it. Even my home Province of Alberta, Canada is swinging to the right like never before, cutting GRS funding, [...]
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Before being deposed by the current minority Conservative government, the federal Liberals began work on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to be built in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As the building is underway and the Advisory Committee is being developed to oversee what is to be included, an organization called REAL Women of Canada has [...]
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(I have to apologize for mostly having to cover everything in a recap, rather than being able to cover everything as it happened. It’s possible that as a consequence some of the links may have become invalid as media phases out old news pages or moves them to members-only sections.)
10,000 people turned out for [...]
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Canada’s Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism, Diane Ablonczy, recently saw the Marquee Tourism Events Program (an economic stimulus package designed to encourage major tourism events such as the Calgary Stampede and the Montreal International Jazz Festival) taken from her portfolio and turned over to Industry Minister, Tony Clement.
The spin from the reigning [...]
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On the heels of delisting Health Care funding for Gender Reassignment Surgery without consultation with the medical community, the Government has taken further ridiculous steps to alienate the closeted moderates in the Province. A small concession is being made in Human Rights legislation to finally include Sexual Orientation in the list of protected classes (which [...]
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A Shoe Too Far
Former U.S. President George W. Bush has decided to join the public speaking circuit, because he’s oh so good at that. His first venture brought him to Alberta.
“This is my maiden voyage. I can’t think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.”
Maybe it’s telling that my stomping grounds, Canada’s “Little Texas” were [...]
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Periodically, I’ve seen the argument come up in the discussion of the fight for same-sex marriage rights in the U.S. It usually goes like this: “if we allow gay people to marry and erode the definition of marriage, the next thing we know, we’ll have to recognize polygamy.” Some of this is becoming more poignant [...]
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