…and I haven’t regretted my decision, not once. I worked with brilliant, wonderful people. They were good to me. But I could see the writing on the wall. When I told them their biggest client was going to drop them, few at the firm believed me. But drop them it
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: My policy for the OYL South Central Regional Policy Parliament – Encouraging Youth Democratic Participation and Improving Civic Education
I wrote about the merits of lowering the age of voter registration to 16 back in April, and I’ve turned it into a policy for the OYL South Central Regional Policy Parliament tomorrow. Take a look! Encouraging Youth Democratic Participation and Improving Civic Education WHEREAS – The lowest voter registration rates
Continue readingPostArctica: North Pole Web Camera 2 Adrift in Large, Expanding Melt Pool
Reblogged from robertscribbler: (Image source: APL) Last week, a melt puddle began to form near APL’s Camera 2. The pool extended in the near camera field from left to right just beyond the black and white markers. It covered just more than half the field of view and was represented
Continue readingPostArctica: Hundreds of centuries-old trees chopped down to make room for the Pope’s visit in Brazil ~ Daily Mail
Reblogged from Stop Making Sense: The Daily Mail Authorities in Brazil have denounced church leaders as criminals for chopping down more than 300 centuries-old trees in a national park – so pilgrims can celebrate mass during the Pope’s visit to Rio de Janeiro. Pope Francis will make his first international
Continue readingPostArctica: PDBF Teams Up With Greenpeace to Clean Up the Philippine Seas
Reblogged from charly's blogsite: Kudos to the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation for supporting a noble cause!! The PDBF recently joined hands with Greenpeace in a charity program aptly called “Paddles Up” at the Manila Bay. The twin objectives of the activity were: to promote awareness for the need to clean
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Continue readingwmtc: a people’s history of british columbia, and a chance to preserve it for the future
Here’s a chance to preserve Canadian history – the real history, not the government-approved kind – and to preserve art and creativity and alternative media, all at the same time. Please consider giving $7.00 – or any amount – and sharing this excellent campaign with your friends and on social
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario By-Elections: Scott’s Gut
The esteemed Scott Tribe says: The OLP seems to be holding on a slight lead to the Toronto ridings (Scarborough and Etobicoke). They are probably ahead in Mcguinty’s old riding in Ottawa.Windsor will go NDP unless every NDP voter down there decides not to bother showing up to the polls
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Coffee Workers Unionizing
Many of us are abundantly aware, as both parents and citizens, of how hard it is for young people to establish meaningful career paths these days. Part-time and contract work abounds, as do minimum wage jobs, despite the fact that we have a very educated population. Corporations continue to sit
Continue readingwmtc: interspecies love, pup and guinea pig edition
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Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Impressions of the Ontario By-elections.
My sense of how things are going, based on the brief polls I’ve seen, talking to people and just anecdotal “gut” feeling: The OLP seems to be holding on a slight lead to the Toronto ridings (Scarborough and Etobicoke). They are probably ahead in Mcguinty’s old riding in Ottawa. Windsor
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6263…Tim Horton’s Ix Nay The Gays
Well at least the gay papers that one could cruise online whilst having a double double. Read about it in the Sun yesterday. It is said that DailyXtra.com, an online news service targeting homosexuals, has been blocked. No comment from Timmy’s. Great comment from Starbucks who said that you can
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6262…Dean Del Mastro Is A Bad Boy
Allegedly. I missed this; happened last month. CBC ran with the story that “Frank Hall, whom Del Mastro contracted to do voter outreach and identification during the 2008 federal election campaign, said Del Mastro used his parliamentary privilege in the House of Commons last week to attack Hall’s credibility.”The member
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Why does the Ottawa Sun get away with this double standard?
The Diva is perplexed. Behold, today’s Ottawa Citizen cover. It is a heart-wrenching account of an adult who died of a drug overdose. His family is going through the grieving process, as the headline indicates. Earlier this year, the Ottawa Sun had another cover story about a young life ended
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: Why does the Ottawa Sun get away with this double standard?
The Diva is perplexed. Behold, today’s Ottawa Citizen cover. It is a heart-wrenching account of an adult who died of a drug overdose. His family is going through the grieving process, as the headline indicates. Earlier this year, the Ottawa Sun had another cover story about a young life ended
Continue readingMorton's Musings: True? NO! In the old days men would stand outside the courtrooms with straw in their shoes. That would indicate their willingness to be a false witness and lie in front of the judge. So a straw man became someone who lied deliberately?
Its nonsense. Though repeated in websites and books – I saw it recently in a book about London in the early 1700s – not a single legitimate source attests to the concept. And frankly you might wonder just how credible men standing around advertising they would give false witness might
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Peasants’ Magna Carta
A working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council met in Geneva last week to begin formulating a draft U.N. Declaration on the rights of peasants and other rural workers. The era of permanent food shortages, foreign land grabs and multinational industrial agriculture has seen the peasantry beset by
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