Place Olympe de Gouges, Paris, artist unknown At a small 5 cornered cross-roads on the eastern fringe of the Marais in Paris (3e), Place Olympe de Gouges attracts little attention. Five tiny streets converge around a small brick circle with a solitary tree and a small plaque. Olympe de Gouges
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: CUPE: B.C. school support staff layoffs “devastating”
By: CUPE | Press Release NEW WESTMINSTER, BC – Education workers and students are paying the price for ballooning deficits in Coquitlam and New Westminster. The districts have announced layoffs of CUPE support staff that the union says will severely affect the quality and even safety of education and services. A $12.6-million
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: Just winning next election not enough for Liberals or NDP
With the next federal election a little more than two years away, it is time we started asking the Liberals and New Democrats what kind of government they will deliver if either one could bounce the Conservatives from power. It would be unwise to underestimate the Conservatives’ devious political smarts,
Continue readingTrue Leadership
This is what true leadership looks like, instead of meaningless populist motions that have no chance of passing. If you want to lead, go first. Liberal MPs and Senators will publish their expenses online starting this fall. http://ow.ly/lK0t6 If you want to address an accountability scandal, you take steps to improve
Continue readingbgrice blog: True Leadership
This is what true leadership looks like, instead of meaningless populist motions that have no chance of passing. If you want to lead, go first. Liberal MPs and Senators will publish their expenses online starting this fall. http://ow.ly/lK0t6 If you want to address an accountability scandal, you take steps to improve
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Young Person Responds To Kevin O’Leary
It is young people like Rachel Parent who give me some reason to hope for the future: Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6103…Mulroney’s Advice To Duffy
One Irishman to another. LOL. WFDS
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Celebrations for our Cellphone Market | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Arielle with your update: Watch Arielle’s video update to hear this week’s news. This week the CRTC released the new Code of Conduct for cellphone providers, and Industry Minister Paradis said he would block Telus from taking over Mobilicity. There is still more work to be done, add
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Warning: Polls May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Pollsters have been insisting that even though fewer people can be reached by telephone today, polling still is a valid way of predicting electoral outcomes. They’ve turned to elelctronic polling and elaborate models that are supposed to message data so that the population reached by polling reflects the electorate as
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Stars
See that picture up top? That’s our waterfront, at least after they mandated the boat clubs to get rid of their shacks and put up those little lockers. It used to be quite the place down there. We’d get totally drunk and stoned just a little ways past the old
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Property Assessments On Wind Turbines To Rise
Reading between the lines, its been clear that the various players in the green energy energy business haven’t been too happy with the Wynne government’s wind-down of the feed-in tariff (FIT) for large-scale projects. This article makes their discomfort a little more obvious. One bit from it mentions something I
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Finnegan’s Wake, Page 29
Reblogged this from a soon to be dead blog because A) Everyone should read at least one page of Finnegans Wake if only once in their life, and B) I find this totally fascinating as it builds up to the last word, which was the name of the soon to
Continue readingLisaKirbie.com: Front line heroes
It was a tremendously sad day last Friday when the world learned that four crew members – two pilots and two paramedics – lost their lives while en route to a patient. Our hearts and prayers go out to the surviving families of these fallen heroes. I worked at Ornge
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Superheroes
Reblogged from Edenborough: Artist Dulce Pinzon has created a series, The Real Story Of The Superheroes, that looks at how, “after September 11, the notion of the “hero” began to rear its head in the public consciousness more and more frequently. The notion served a necessity in a time of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: VIDEO: OpenMedia.ca’s Steve Anderson speaks about the new CRTC Code of Conduct
Steve Anderson, OpenMedia.ca’s Executive Director, has had a busy week! Here he is on CBC to briefly talk about the CRTC’s new Code of Conduct and its implications for Canadian consumers moving forward. OpenMedia.ca welcomes the new Code as a step in the right direction, although several important issues remain
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada’s Complicity In Torture
Thanks to alternative media, Canada’s recent denigration of all things U.N. begins to make sense. Just another instance of how we have become a renegade nation under the Harper cabal. Recommend this Post
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Aborted Sudbury plan expected ALC patients to pick up tab for convalescent care
The Ontario government has always maintained that getting alternative level of care patients out of hospital is so much more cost-effective than having costly beds tied up with patients who have essentially finished their acute care treatment but are otherwise … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6102…Wonder Why The Guy Next To You Is Fat?
From The New York Times comes this. Crazy, eh? WFDS
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Prescience
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