This is the first in a series of reviews of youth (formerly called YA, or young-adult) novels, which I will be reading in no particular order and with no particular method. I love youth literature, and it’s simply a pleasure to read what I want once again, with no schoolwork
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: I Hear that BCR Train a-Coming, It’s Coming Down the Track!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger One of the longest, if not the longest controversy ever to hit BC, the BC Rail Scandal, will be examined following the election of Adrian Dix and the BC NDP. It is too bad that a proper invesigation was blocked by the BC Liberals, but then why
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5918…Ottawa Mayor Gets/Pays Parking Ticket.
CFRA reports that our boy mayor, Jimmy Watson, got his Toyota Camry tagged with a fifty dollar ticket last night at City Hall. CFRA also reports that our boy mayor paid said ticket toute and suite. In other news, there is an opening at the parking enforcement office. WFDS
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5917…Ottawa Citizen Takes Shot At Justin Trudeau
I dunno why nor do I understand the concept. What I do understand is the Stephen Harpers have taken debt in Canada to a whole new level so perhaps Cam should be taking shots at them, no? Just sayin’. WFDS
Continue readingPaul S. Graham: Walking for Mother Earth
Winnipeg, April 21, 2013: Some of the participants in the 10th annual Seventh Generation Walk for Mother Earth, at the Oodena Circle at The Forks. Photo: Paul S. Graham Despite the inclement weather, this year’s Seventh Generation Walk for Mother Earth was a lively celebration that began at Central Park
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 5916…Speaking Of No Shows
Dean. Del Mastro. Where for art thou? WFDS
Continue readingOPSEU Diablogue: Denise Wagler-Allan winner of this year’s HCDC pop quiz
Congratulations to Denise Wagler-Allan – winner of this year’s Health Care Divisional Council annual pop quiz. A $100 gift certificate goes to the delegate/alternate whose entry was first to be drawn and has the answers to the quiz correct. At this year’s … Continue reading →
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: Rape victim’s father takes on Christie Blatchford’s rapist apology column
Christie Blatchford is the ideal Canadian Conservative journalist. She rarely shows compassion. Her game is to game the system to act as stenographer for authoritarians like Stephen Harper and Rob Ford. Most of all, she is not above blaming the victim, One victim’s father has had enough of Blatchford’s poison
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Judge us by our enemies, not our friends, CRTC gods
As you may be aware, I am the House Communist© at Sun News. I write a couple columns for them a week, and I go on their TV network a couple times a week. It’s unlikely you’ve ever seen me on the network, given that it is nestled up near
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Judge us by our enemies, not our friends, CRTC gods
As you may be aware, I am the House Communist© at Sun News. I write a couple columns for them a week, and I go on their TV network a couple times a week. It’s unlikely you’ve ever seen me on the network, given that it is nestled up near
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper Says New Anti-Trudeau Flier Is Part Of “Democratic Debate”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Stephen Harper wants us all to believe that the Conservatives’ new anti-Trudeau household flier is part of “democratic debate.” The Harper Conservatives greeted Justin Trudeau‘s election as Liberal leader with a below-the-belt TV ad rejected by Canadians. This week, the Conservatives launched a tax-payer-funded flyer campaign attacking
Continue readingLeDaro: May there be peace in the world
World needs peace and not wars. When wars and conflicts totally cease, In our world, there shall be peace. People must learn to get along, Not blame others, for being wrong. They fight for control, fight for land, Some just need a helping hand. We must rid ourselves of vanity,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Dix Fails to Call Clark on ‘Debt Free BC’ Whopper
On the side of the Christy Clark bus are the words “Debt Free BC”. This statement stands as the all-time whopper in BC history. What is important to know about the debt is that in 2001, when the Liberals took over, each man, woman and child owed a shade over
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Dix Fails to Call Clark on ‘Debt Free BC’ Whopper
On the side of the Christy Clark bus are the words “Debt Free BC”. This statement stands as the all-time whopper in BC history. What is important to know about the debt is that in 2001, when the Liberals took over, every man, woman and child owed a shade over
Continue readingArt Threat: Fatal fish farms
Salmon Confidential is a new film by Twyla Roscovich on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. It is absolutely shocking to see the lengths the provincial and federal governments are going to in order to not allow the dissemination of information about the role of
Continue readingBryan Crockett: Canadians Deserve Better
Canadians deserve better than the constant attack ads and character assassinations that the Conservatives have perpetrated over the years. Canadians deserve better than the deficits and deregulation of the Conservatives.Canadians deserve a government with a vision, and a priority on national unity. Canadians deserve a new government. A lot of
Continue readingcmkl: Merit Canada wants to keep unions out of politics even as they play politics themselves
The nerve. Chapter one: Terrance Oakey, the spokesmuppet for Merit Contractors Association, a lobby group that wants, among other things, laws passed to require unions to cough up private information on any expense over $5000 to Revenue Canada, legal restrictions on what sorts of issues unions can comment or act
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Indigenous rights are the best defence against Canada’s resource rush
First Nations people – and the decision of Canadians to stand alongside them – will determine the fate of the planet By: Martin Lukacs | The Guardian (UK), Published on Fri Apr 26, 2013: In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one
Continue readingTerahertz: Terahertz Atheist Video Blog
I always have a number of long-term projects in my head. Reaching out via different mediums is one of them, and practice speaking and editing is always important for me. To accomplish this I’ve started an intermittent video blog/podcast supplement to this blog. Only two episodes are up so far
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: METTA: Loving Kindness – How to Feel It, How to Spread It
I peer at an x-ray of my spine. I’m looking at my neck bones, trying to figure out why my right arm is constantly numb or tingling… why my hand itches and sometimes I feel electric shocks in my shoulder. I know my lower back is shot. Disintegrating discs mean
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