As Canadian TV viewership and newspaper circulation continues to fall off a cliff, there is one site that just keeps growing.
Small Dead Animals is one of Canada’s great blogs, and has the numbers to prove it… I am not sure if some of our Canadian news sites actually hit a million viewers a day, let alone by 8AM.
The pride of Delisle, Saskatchewan has reached a milestone of Canadian influence, proving substance beats out style.
It would be interesting to see the stats on the Liblogs’ blog aggregator… to see how the left fares online. I wouldn’t think the left blogs hit a million visitors a day combined.
Who could forget the stellar campaign that Stephane Dion ran last election. The Green Shift – No, Not the Green Shift – Yes, Let’s Paint Canada Green!
Unfortunately, Ignatieff may have been in the US, and missed out how warmly it was received. Or, the Liberals are just fresh out of ideas.
Globe and Pail: Undaunted by defeat of Dion and his carbon tax in last election, Ignatieff outlines clean energy as next campaign theme
“At the heart of our next platform will be the most significant national investment in clean-energy jobs this country has ever seen,” leader Michael Ignatieff declared yesterday, a year less a day after his predecessor, Stéphane Dion, was whupped in a federal election, in part because of his proposed “green shift” carbon tax.
Undaunted, Mr. Ignatieff, in a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, laid out a three-pronged approach to making Canada a global leader in clean energy by investing in new technologies and new industries; by upgrading the energy infrastructure through a so-called “smart” energy grid, and by making the federal government – the nation’s largest employer and customer – a model of environmentally responsible behaviour.
“The jobs of tomorrow are being created elsewhere as we speak,” Mr. Ignatieff warned. “Either we act now, or we spend the next decade wishing we had.”
Actually he really means that if we don’t create new taxes on working Canadians now, we’ll miss the opportunity. In BC, the introduction of the carbon tax has been forgotten, making us poorer, under the guise of Green.
Now, after a great election deception, they are on to a new form of looting – it’s called the Harmonized Sales Tax. This should eventually do in the Liberals in BC… unfortunately they are banking on people forgetting the devious way they foisted it upon us.
We won’t forget – just as Canadians won’t forget you can’t trust the politicians when it comes to Green.
The Liberals caught at it again, this time in Ontario:
TORONTO — Details of multimillion-dollar untendered consulting contracts are just some of the revelations expected Wednesday from a special investigation into how Ontario spent $1 billion over 10 years to create electronic health records and produced little of lasting value.
Auditor General Jim McCarter will release a 50-page special report, which was commissioned last June as the Liberal government tried to defend itself against growing reports about sole-sourced contracts and expense claims by high paid consultants at eHealth Ontario.
So far, the media have reported on $16 million worth of untendered eHealth contracts that were given to consultants, some of whom had close ties to top executives at the provincial agency, and were even paid for consulting each other, driving up their fees.
Even now, months after the scandal first broke and forced the government to replace both eHealth CEO Sarah Kramer and chair Alan Hudson, there are still almost 300 consultants under contract at the agency – down from 385 in April.
Details of some controversial eHealth contracts have been spilling out since last May, including one $30-million, sole-sourced deal for IBM that was approved by a powerful committee of the Liberal cabinet and could prove very troubling for the government.
Health Minister David Caplan is set to resign from his post as minister Wednesday, the same day Auditor General Jim McCarter will release the scathing report into the eHealth Ontario spending scandal that is expected to show $1 billion in wasted funds.
“His resignation is not official until tomorrow,” said Greg Dennis, communications director for Caplan.
“I loved my own country, but I believed in America in a way that Canada never allowed”
Michael Ignatieff
(“What we think of America.” Granta. March 28, 2002)
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
Michael Ignatieff
(New York Times Magazine, May 2004.)
It’s good to know that we have a Liberal leader that is willing to take the side of us right-wing extremists.
Here’s a look inside the Liberal party’s great website that was created to keep track of the Conservatives while they were on Iggy’s imposed probation …
Working with you to keep the government on track
We deserve transparency and accountability from our government so that we can address this economic crisis responsibly and plan for our recovery. Canadians want the facts. That’s why we’ve built this site. You can help us keep the government on track.
In this time of crisis, Canadians need transparency and accountability from their government. But with record high unemployment and job losses, they refuse to cooperate. That’s why we’ve built this site.
You can help us. Share your story. Write to the PM. Contribute. Connect. We need to make sure they’re listening.
In twitter terms this rates as absolutely dismal. Of note is that the CBC is one of their early followers. Iggy’s twitter is doing better, but with only 8,177 followers he’s an amateur. It’s almost as exciting as Politwitter…
The site probably took $10-$20,000 to build (or $60-$100,000 to a Liberal party friend), doesn’t get the basics of SEO, and if it were mine, I’d fire whoever is behind the marketing of it.
Last week Statistics Canada reported another 61,000 net job losses in March, pushing the national unemployment rate to 8 per cent, the highest we’ve seen in seven years. Since peaking in October 2008, employment has fallen each month, putting 357,000 Canadians out of work. We’ve launched this interactive map to help illustrate this, and to help track job losses across the country since the election. You can help.
No update on the copy since March…and exactly how can I help?
you actually can’t ask a question and they have populated the page with questions any smart Liberal should be asking… and you vote for the top ones. Oh, you get to vote three times. Combined votes approx 4,000.
3 votes left! What happens if I run out? (the link doesn’t work – found hidden in the code: You can change your votes by clicking on them)
Send us your data, graphs or articles and after we fact-check all the materials, we’ll see how we can integrate your ideas. One thing we do ask is that you include sources for all your data.
If you prefer to reach us by email, you can find us at info@onprobation.ca. This is also a good idea if you’d like to submit several different types of files. While we may not be able to respond to every message we receive, we do promise to read each and every one.
Unfortunately, all of the ideas submitted so far haven’t been deemed good enough to get shown.
This initiative was Iggy’s way of showing his leadership potential as the leader of the opposition. If this is any gauge of the Liberal Party’s ‘net savvy… nothing to worry about here.
They are close to taxing the air we breathe (out).
Once carbon dioxide (that stuff your breathe out) is legislated as a poison – which is close to becoming reality – every aspect of our lives will be fair game for government control: the homes we build, the cars we drive, the light bulbs we use, the jobs we are allowed to work at.
Even the number of children we have—because any reduction in CO2 that we achieve will be more than offset by the households our kids will create when they grow up.
BC-STV soundly defeated in electoral reform referendum
Me… I think most thought they were voting for STD. And with David Suzuki on the yes side, color me suspicious. He was deciding factor in my no vote.
This hasn’t managed to pass anywhere in Canada, so if Vancouver can’t get it done, it’s time to banish this idea from future elections.
I really believe that people are really afraid that that STV would allow the third parties (NDP in most cases), and everything below them, onto government benches.
I’m still not sure if this was a good thing or bad… the people have spoken.
1) Continuing on with the legacy of Stephan “head shot” Dion, the Liberals at the Vancouver convention decided they too will tax the hell out of Canadians that drive, heat their homes, have lights and buy food:
The climate change resolution adapted by the party at its biennial convention includes “establishing a carbon tax, a cap and trade system, or a combination of both.” The resolution also includes “hard limits” on green house gas emissions.
The resolution also commits Canada to a 25% to 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and an 80% reduction by 2050.
During the Fall, 2008 federal election, then-Liberal leader Dion proposed as his key platform plank a policy that would “shift” taxes to carbon emissions while reducing them elsewhere. The Liberals’ “green shift” was rejected by voters, however, as the party slid from 103 to 77 seats in the House of Commons.
Speakers at the convention did not seem concerned about reintroducing carbon pricing. Dion himself repeated his view in a speech Friday night that a Liberal government must put a price on carbon.
A second resolution also suggested taxation could be used as an incentive to persuade people to pollute less.
2) Expand the reach of the “Human Rights Commission” – the most embarrassing thing Canada has ever created:
“We strongly encourage the Liberals to vote in favour of this resolution, which will give legislative strength to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is in the great Liberal tradition,” said the delegate introducing the motion.
But there was considerable debate over the implications the resolution might have.
“There is an aspect of this resolution that absolutely terrifies me,” said an Ontario delegate.
“We have had over the last few months a demonstration of an abuse of power by the human rights commission. This resolution would actually add to the probability that the human rights commission would continue to abuse its power,” he said.
The vote for the resolution passed 223 in favour to 185 against.
The Human Rights Commission actually takes away human rights, and should be abolished. Let’s hope Canadians learn more about the abuses this group of fascists has foisted on Canadians, and recognize it as “the great Liberal tradition”.
The also passed the same feel good resolutions that they, and the NDP, pass every time:
Support for reducing child poverty, implementing a national child care plan and declaring water a human right.
Great stuff from a party that hopes to lead Canada one day.
The only thing compelling me to vote in the BC Election next month is a referendum on changing the voting system to the “BC Single Transferable Vote“… and because of the reasons they are using to promote this new system, I am just a little suspicious.
For example:
The Green Party of BC is backing the chance to change the way the province elects its MLAs, from the current ‘first past the post’ system – in which voters have just one vote to elect one MLA and may see a party taking a majority of seats without a majority of the vote – to the BC Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV) system, in which voters can rank their support for candidates in order of preference to make sure their ballot always counts.
In other countries, STV has enabled more women and minority candidates to be elected to government because it more accurately translates votes into seats.
Ok, so more women and minorities will get in.. noble.
