..if what Stephen Taylor has heard is true that Pierre Poliviere is going to become a Cabinet Minister. The bad news is that with this promotion, Pierre is basically going to dig Parliament and Question Period down into the muck further, given his propensity for answering with non-answers and cheap
Continue readingwmtc: healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: chicken in wine with sun-dried tomatoes
When it comes to soups and stews, there is a seemingly endless number of variables that can be changed to create new variations of any given dish. If you like chicken stew, for example, you could experiment with different combinations of vegetables, different seasonings, better (or quicker) stocks, fresh herbs
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Racism, California Style
Oakland television station KTVU and the National Transportation Safety Board are apologizing for a racist stunt that got on the air concerning the July 6th Asiana Airlines crash at San Fransisco airport. Someone, either an intern at the station or a staffer at the National Transportation Safety Board, came up
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Renewable Energy Not All It Appears
Patrick Smyth, a regular Cowichan Conversations reader, is not an IPP booster. He has given us permission to carry his recent letter to the editor in Whistler’s Pique News Magazine. I have been watching Quebec-based Innergex’s Upper Lillooet Power Project and was shocked to see it is actually going ahead. I
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 14:This is the making of history….
New Brunswick is, almost certainly, going through the most important political and economic moment it has seen in a hundred and fifty years – and more. The corruption and the moral rot that has characterized its past (and present) is for the first time being openly challenged. And the TandT and the whole Irving
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Robert Reich asks a few impertinent (but important) questions about plutocratic encroachment on the U.S.’ political system. – Catherine McKenna explains why it’s important to try to make a difference in our political system. But Chris Cobb reports on what happens to
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Canada is full?
Recently there has been a claim that Canada is full – the population cannot grow larger. Certainly in parts of the South good farmland has been, and continues to be, paced over for shopping malls and housing. That's a mistake. But anyone who thinks Canada is crowded probably hasn't left
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Sidewalk Bingo ~ by Anonymous
Reblogged from Everysaturdaymorning's Blog: One of our escorts developed this brilliant Bingo to be played while we are at the clinic. You can print out the pictures and play along wherever your clinic is, but with practice you can visualize the Bingo board in your mind and place your mental
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Sunday Sermon
Just got back from my bike ride, so this will have to suffice for the time being: Recommend this Post
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Throw the engineer from the train.
With the blame game in high gear over the disaster at Lac-Mégantic, it seems everyone is sympathetic but the person to blame is the train engineer. The best way to explain this kind of blame is the inverted pyramid method. Everyone climbs into the wide open top of the inverted
Continue readingLeDaro: Zimmerman Walks
An unarmed black teen is dead, and his killer – who is white – walks free? What is wrong with Florida? Meanwhile, in another Florida case, a black woman who fired warning shots to protect against an allegedly abusive husband received 20 years in jail. On the Zimmerman acquittal, one
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Continue readingLeDaro: Stephen Harper’s Victory song
He sings after he won majority in 2011. Enjoy!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Rick Perry:Unfounding America’s Principles
The loons are in overdrive in the United States and as a general rule the farther south one goes the loonier it gets. Rick Perry is prime example of the the cringe inducing, bile forming sectarian yahoo’s that ooze out of the woodwork and somehow gain political power. Darkmatter2525 illustrates
Continue readingwmtc: dear liberal public: there is nothing shocking about the george zimmerman verdict
Dear liberal public, The internet tells me you are shocked – shocked and outraged – about the verdict in the George Zimmerman case. Seriously? You are shocked? You have lived in the United States or Canada all your life, and you are shocked that a white man who killed a
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: They Do It Without Blushing
On May 2nd, the Harper government staged a ceremony to commemorate the Canadarm and Canada’s contribution to space exploration. Curiously, Marc Garneau, Canada’s first astronaut — who was later made president of Canada’s Space Agency, and who was the first person to operate the Canadarm — was not invited to
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Small glitch, please stay tuned
Oops. Seems there’s a coding glitch in the latest WordPress update. Comments are getting attached to a header image rather than to the post they’re supposed to be associated with. And it’s not a new glitch – the WP support … Continue reading →
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