Well, the world is a better place today than it was when I started this blog way back in 2006. Over 1300 posts later, a series of Canadian Blog Awards, and, most important, wise feedback from you, my readers, I end this blog with a feeling of great accomplishment. Thanks
Continue readinggay persons of character: That’s all folks!
Well, the world is a better place today than it was when I started this blog way back in 2006. Over 1300 posts later, a series of Canadian Blog Awards, and, most important, wise feedback from you, my readers, I end this blog with a feeling of great acc…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: An Appealingly Democratic Concept
Although I am a retired teacher aware of the potential drawbacks of this concept, I find it appealingly democratic: H/t GB Recommend this Post
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Stop New Telecom Fees | 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, OpenMedia is encouraging Canadians to speak out on new telecom fees. You can help push Canada’s political party leaders and Industry Minister, Christian Paradis to put an end to Big Telecom price-gouging at openmedia.ca/fees.
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: We need more spies
I never really believed it at the time, but more and more I run across references to poilcymakers in the US administration back in the cold war having turned out to actually be Soviet spies. The architect of the Bretton Woods system seems to be the most notorious example these
Continue readingTwo Years Later
2 years ago, the Liberal Party of Canada | Parti libéral du Canada was reduced to 34 seats. The “experts” were quick to declare the Party dead – that the era of centrist politics in Canada was over. The CPC declared that their strategy or trying to destroy the LPC had been
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Little change in course for health care – more restraint ahead
Like the rest of the budget, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa did little to change the course of last year’s austerity budget with regards to health care. One thing is certain – health care is gradually shrinking as a percentage … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What’s the Chance of a Northern Gateway Supertanker Disaster? Try 93-99%
Simon Fraser University has released a study of the likelihood of an environmental catastrophe from the Harper/Enbridge Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline/supertanker scheme. Not surprisingly, their conclusions aren’t quite as carefree and rosy as those put out by Enbridge. The chance of a bitumen supertanker disaster during the operating lifespan of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Provincial Election 2013 All Candidates Meeting 7PM Tonight, May 2nd – Cobble Hill Hall
South Cowichan Chamber of Commerce BC Provincial Election 2013 All Candidates Meeting 7PM Tonight, May 2nd – Cobble Hill Hall 3550 Watson Avenue-Cobble Hill Village
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Election 2013 – On protecting BC’s Salmon
Thursday, May 2, 2013 Earlier this year, the BC Legislature declared the Pacific Salmon to be BC’s official fish. Which is no doubt nice for the salmon. But even nicer would be real legal protection for the salmon. With the platforms from all four parties now available, what are candidates
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Election 2013 – On protecting BC’s Salmon
Thursday, May 2, 2013 Earlier this year, the BC Legislature declared the Pacific Salmon to be BC’s official fish. Which is no doubt nice for the salmon. But even nicer would be real legal protection for the salmon. With the platforms from all four parties now available, what are candidates
Continue readingBryan Crockett: The Conservatives have given up on Canada’s world standing
Canada’s really big. But it doesn’t have a tremendous number of people, and it doesn’t have the resources to be abel to afford going around acting like the world police. Historically, we’ve never been interested in that anyway. Canada has been involved in peace-keeping efforts, and humanitarian aid, largely acting
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Leaf Nation, Or Just More Tired Rabid Harper Partisanship?
Some may think this clever. I just think it is pathetic (and I’m not even a fan of the Liberals). Recommend this Post
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Audit With a Twist #cdnpoli
$3.1 Billion is missing according to a damning audit of the Harper Government. Let’s see what political pundits recently have said about audit failure: Federal government audit ‘severely critical’ – The Star headline “The independent audit […] speaks for itself, and we accept its conclusions and recommendations,” said Jan O’Driscoll,
Continue readingRecreating Eden: Summer Time and the Living Is Hectic…
Running around all day in the hot sun–I’m not acclimatized yet, so no post today…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Most Interesting Thing About The Latest Harris-Decima Poll
…is how it shows that JT is stealing from the CPoC as well as the NDP. For the conventional wisdom has 30% of the CDN population rock solid in Harper’s corner, yet this poll puts them below that threshold.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: Amanda Telford Is A Good Mother
Families of adult children with disabilities in Ontario, Canada, are in the news today. An Ottawa mother, Amanda Telford, ‘abandoned’ her son Phillip (aged 19) in the offices of Ontario Social Services and the lines in her tearful, exhausted face tell a story of frustration, isolation and lack of support
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dominoes of Democracy – Part 2
What is one of the chief effects of the Harper regime’s preference for an ideologically-based policy model over one premised on logic, facts and empirical evidence, as explored in my earlier post? The decline, perhaps even the demise, of a healthy democracy in which citizens are engaged and informed participants,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Dominoes of Democracy – Part 2
What is one of the chief effects of the Harper regime’s preference for an ideologically-based policy model over one premised on logic, facts and empirical evidence, as explored in my earlier post? The decline, perhaps even the demise, of a healthy democracy in which citizens are engaged and informed participants,
Continue readingcartoon life: Cat on a wire
Filed under: art Tagged: Cat, pen and ink app, spirit, Tenuous, wind, wire
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