Here’s a shot of PV’s Sam Fryer and me at Grove Fest yesterday. Interesting shirt he’s wearing, there.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – What Scares the Religious.
Ah yes, knowledge and the pursuit of education. Thank you for being so brave Malala. Filed under: Atheism, Religion Tagged: Religion
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Sunday morning: While You Wait For The Rain
She’s an interesting songwriter. Good morning.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Me (and a ton of Canadian Maccabi kids) heading to LA
…which is kind of cool, because my Brother of Another Mother Bernie Farber and I raised some money for Maccabi a few weeks ago in Ottawa, to help with travel to Israel. Kind of wish I was going on to Israel with them. They all look so happy and excited.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: by-elections don’t matter, except when they do
“Hell,” W.C. Fields once said, “I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.” Fields, the legendary comedian and misanthropist, wasn’t talking about Canadian byelections, but he may as well have been. His line neatly summarizes how most folks approach byelections in Canada — or “special elections,” as they call
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Harper Regime and the Signs of the Apocalypse
I don't know how I made it to this long weekend in Ontario. But now that I've arrived I've got to say this is the weirdest summer ever. After the searing heat now it feels like fall. And after all the other extreme weather events all over the world, I'm
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6305…Time Begins Today
NFL is back. Hall of Fame game. Boys versus The Fish. WFDS
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Police Brutality in Canada! Is This Democracy?
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Make no mistake folks the genie is out of the bottle and fascism is staring us right in the face. Many people do not want to hear that or deal with that unwelcome reality but it is undeniably the reality of Canada today. This video is
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM says Antstone will spur jobs despite ObamAnt claims
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/02/pol-pm-stephen-harper-quebec-city-press-conference.html
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Saturday Night Special
While I plan to do more with this topic tomorrow, the following video, via The Raw Story, offers some interesting insights on the minimum wage in the United States. All of the points made, moreover, are equally applicable to Canada. Recommend this Post
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: The Thousand and One Nights
I had no idea it was this sexy. The Thousand Nights and One Nights, aka The Arabian Nights, aka The Thousand and One Nights – it’s really wonderful, steamy stuff. Every tale is a cliffhanger and you keep wanting to read just one more to see how it turns out.
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Saturday Photo: A Community Garden in a Changing Part of Town
Urban farming is alive and well in Montreal. This community garden was once space the city didn’t need any more for its yards, and so was saved from sale and development by being transformed in productive green space. The neighborhood once was industrial, but is being steadily gentrified. That’s an
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Palma Violets play epic version of the Hot Nasties’ ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’ in Toronto!
…accompanied by some old punk from Calgary!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Me and Palma Violets after a rousing rendition of ‘Invasion of the Tribbles’!
Pix by @lisakirbie! Vid proof to follow!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Toronto City Council Vote To Replace LRT With Subway Was Meaningless
City Council’s recent vote to replace the Scarborough RT with a subway has not affected the [Scarborough LRT] project as yet, says IO spokesperson Paulette den Elzen. She said IO is progressing with building light rail to Scarborough unless they hear otherwise from Metrolinx, “who will meet with the province to
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6304…More Bad News For Tim Hudak
Kevin Kolb slipped on a rubber mat yesterday. Who’s dat, you say? Mr. Kolb is a new quarterback for Tim Hudak’s fave football team, his hometown Buffalo Bills. He has a bobo that will keep him out of practice for a while. BTW both the Bills, who haven’t made the
Continue readingCathie from Canada: MTL buses – bureaucracy gone mad
Here’s a horrible story about a mother fined $219 by Montreal Transit for not having the exact change for a bus fare — at ten o’clock at night, with her toddler in tow, after spending five hours in the emergency room, kicked off the bus for trying to give a bus
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Victim Of Police Violence?
Although not nearly as public an event as the killing of Sammy Yatim, largely because no video exists to indict police behaviour, the shooting death of Steve Mesic at the hands of Hamilton police on June 7 is no less tragic and unfathomable. Mesic, released from observation for an anxiety
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Geriatric Pipelines?
An analysis of the pipeline failure that spilled 200,000 gallons of Athabasca dilbit in Mayflower, Arizona concluded there was a manufacturing fault in the pipe. Here’s the thing. The pipe that failed was 70-years old. Who knows, maybe your great-grandfather had a hand in its construction? But this geriatric pipeline
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