With my blood The Army stepped in, sending five helicopters with the Egyptian flag dangling below them, to fly over the packed Tahrir square in Cairo, and helicopters – sans flags – to fly over a pro-Morsi gathering. Earlier, the Army had leaked its own plan for the next few
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For more news about the 2013 prisoner strikes, see: Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition California Prison Focus The Rock Newsletter Some background documents: The New Boss Looks A Lot Like The Old Boss (by Ed Mead, March 2012) The 2011 Hunger Strikes Remembered: Resistance Against Neocolonial Imprisonment and Torture (Kersplebedeb,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Why Is A Free Press Important?
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Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6204…Cote Ste. Luc Loves Marois
Wait, no, that is not it. This Canada Day pic is copied from Facebook and was taken in Cote Ste. Luc, a neighbourhood on the north west side of MTL. By the way the note to Premier Pauline Marois is illegal. WFDS
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Academic matters not to be determined by Courts
Walia v. University of Manitoba et al., 2013 MBCA 61: [9] Clearly and unquestionably, in my view, the pith and substance of the appellant’s action against the respondents is an academic matter. As stated by this court, as well as other courts across the country, such matters are to
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Digital policy expert Michael Geist reviews positive developments in the Canadian digital policy landscape – including the defeat of the government’s 2012 spying bill, protections for user-generated online content, and the recent CRTC shift toward putting citizens first. These positive developments are thanks to your support! Let’s keep fighting to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe Mair on Mainstream Media a Decade after Leaving CKNW
It was ten years ago that I was unceremoniously dumped by CKNW, where I had been for 19 years. What does that have to do with an environmental web page? Modesty is not my long suit and I believe that had I stayed, the general public would have been infinitely
Continue readingROAR!: ‘City looks to protect home of former premier’ – Charlottetown, PEI
That was the article title in The Guardian today, in a piece written about a rezoning on my street. Only thing is …. this is the first mention I’ve heard about the City being hell bent on protecting a former premiers home. I’ve submitted a shorter version of the article
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My take on why Teenage Head were godlike geniuses, as done for CBC
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Continue readingthe woodshed: Adios Ernesto
RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel acceptance speech And this: What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? By Hunter S. ThompsonNational Observer, May 25, 1964 KETCHUM, IDAHO“That poor old man. He used to walk out there on the road
Continue readingthe woodshed: Adios Ernesto
RIP Ernest Hemingway July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961 Your reading assignments for today are: Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel acceptance speech And this: What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? By Hunter S. ThompsonNational Observer, May 25, 1964 KETCHUM, IDAHO“That poor old man. He used to walk out there on the road
Continue readingthe woodshed: Adios Ernesto
RIP Ernest HemingwayJuly 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961Your reading assignments for today are:Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel acceptance speechAnd this:What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? By Hunter S. ThompsonNational Observer, May 25, 1964 KETCHUM, IDAHO”…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Canada Day +1, Our Quiet Genocide
A banner drop during last night’s Canada Day celebration in Toronto’s Mel Lastman Square. (Photo: IdleNoMore.ca) Canadians are so nice. We have such a happy, positive self-concept. This makes it quite hard to address the quiet genocide of first peoples that our nation has conducted for centuries. What is genocide?
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Astronaut Chris Hadfield to write “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life”
by: Obert Madondo | @Obiemad: Astronaut Chris Hadfield. (Photo: Canadian Space Agency) On October 29, expect an awesome book penned by recently-retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. The book will be titled “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth”. Strange title, isn’t it? Gives the impression that the book is targeted at the astronauts
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6203…Glastonbury Update: Mick And Keith
From The Daily Mail via WRAT FM, New Jersey and Dean Rivando on Facebook comes these two scary monsters. They are still upright and working though which is more than I can say for many of us old timers. WFDS
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: U.S. Congressman Grayson has something to say about the secretive TPP texts
Last week, we told you that U.S. Congressional Representatives have finally been given limited access to the drafts of the secretive and extreme Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. U.S. Congressman Grayson has had a look at the documents – and he doesn’t like what he sees. Canadian Members of Parliament are still
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6202…Poor Senator What’s Her Name
That would be “Government Senate Leader Marjory LeBreton…[who tells The Hill Times that]…the Senate expenses scandal-which has rocked the government and the Prime Minister’s Office for months, has seen the resignations of three Conservative Senators and one Liberal from their parties’ caucuses, along with the resignation of Prime Minister Stephen
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Scarborough/Rouge: Surprising merger talk despite evidence pointing to higher costs
When the Central East Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) asked the Scarborough and Rouge Valley hospitals to work together to plan hospital services in the eastern most part of Toronto, few would have thought the CEOs would come back talking … Continue reading →
Continue readingPostArctica: Christy Lee Rogers – Into The PostArctic
From her website “Christy Lee Rogers is a fine art photographer from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. Boisterous in color and complexity, Rogers applies her cunning
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